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Keeper of the Way

Keeper of the Way
  • Author(s): Patricia Leslie
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s to 1880s

Book one in a three book series: After news of grave robbing and murder in Dun Ringall, the ancient stronghold of Clan McKinnon on the Isle of Skye, Rosalie realises it is time to share her family’s secrets. Descendants...

Displacement

Displacement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The search for resolution after the upheaval of loss. A journey full of insight, forgiveness and love. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave Hebridean crofter, Rachel Campbell, grief-stricken, lonely and lost. Forced...

Time for the Dead

Time for the Dead
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Afghanistan, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contempoary

Time for the Dead is a gripping crime novel by Lin Anderson and sees forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod discover that a terrifying war is unfolding on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots...

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse
  • Author(s): Virginia Woolf
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century, WW1

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children’s perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult...

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
  • Author(s): Alexandra Fuller
  • Location(s): East Africa, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author’s mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its...

Finding Heather

Finding Heather
  • Author(s): Alison Ragsdale
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current time

Heather Forester is losing her grip on reality. She turns up at the airport to meet her pilot husband, Brett—and then she remembers: he’s not coming back. Brett died months ago, leaving her lost in the crippling, confusing maze...

I Saw Him Die

I Saw Him Die
  • Author(s): Andrew Wilson
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1913

Who saw him die? I, said the fly, with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful setting on the island of Skye. A gathering of fascinating guests at a hunting lodge set to enjoy abundant hospitality....

Settlement

Settlement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Can love truly heal old wounds? Can the past ever be put peacefully to rest? If you like a complex, grown-up romance with lots of raw emotion, dramatic and exotic settings, all mixed in with some international politics and...

Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon
  • Author(s): Bella Cassidy
  • Location(s): Aberfeldy, Covent Garden, Glastonbury, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tassie Morris is everyone’s favourite wedding photographer, famous for her photos of offbeat ceremonies and alternative brides. Yet commitment is proving impossible for Tassie herself, who cannot forget her first love. When she’s sent to photograph a ceremony on...

Star Gazing

Star Gazing
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne’s passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love...

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