Outside the medical profession, for which he wrote several papers and publications, Balfour was also a keen writer of adventure novels.
In 1897, while still at Cambridge University, he completed and saw published, his first novel By Stroke of Sword.
Balfour's novels were mainly historical adventures, often set in Scotland and many having connections with his own medical background.
Balfour wrote three historical novels.
By Stroke of Sword is about Mary, Queen of Scots.
To Arms!
is about the Jacobite rising of 1715.
Vengeance Is Mine is about Napoleon during the Hundred Days period.
His final novel, The Golden Kingdom (1903) stands out as a lost race novel, described by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as being "under the influence of H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson".
Outside the medical profession, for which he wrote several papers and publications, Balfour was also a keen writer of adventure novels. In 1897, while still at Cambridge University, he completed and saw published, his first novel By Stroke of Sword. Balfour's novels were mainly historical adventures, often set in Scotland and many having connections with his own medical background. Balfour wrote three historical novels. By Stroke of Sword is about Mary, Queen of Scots. To Arms! is about the Jacobite rising of 1715. Vengeance Is Mine is about Napoleon during the Hundred Days period. His final novel, The Golden Kingdom (1903) stands out as a lost race novel, described by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as being "under the influence of H. Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson".
Andrew Balfour