Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Title: The Monastery
Description: Caxton Publishing Co, 1909, reprint. Cloth, G. 332pp, colour frontis, 8 b/w plates, fore edges & a few pages foxed, but generally a good solid reading copy. The Melrose Edition of the Waverley Novels. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Scott's novel set in the 1550s at the start of the the Scottish Reformation and which features supernatural elements in the form of the White Lady of Avenel.

Keywords: fiction, literature, historical fiction, reformation, supernatural fiction