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The Lost Lover

The Lost Lover
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Paris, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of the 1930s

(The Wild Isle Series, 3) An epic, sweeping historical novel of second chances and lovers reunited . . . Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she...

Island of Wings

Island of Wings
  • Author(s): Karin Altenberg
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1830

1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save the souls of the pagan inhabitants: his pregnant wife speaks no...

Child of St Kilda

Child of St Kilda
  • Author(s): Beth Waters
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over four thousand years, developing...

SeaBEAN

SeaBEAN
  • Author(s): Sarah Holding
  • Location(s): Scotland, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 2018-2118

Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when the strange C-Bean Mark 3 shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole...

The Lost Lights of St Kilda

The Lost Lights of St Kilda
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Gifford, A D Garrett
  • Location(s): Europe, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

1927: When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda, little does he realise that he has joined the last community to ever live on that beautiful, isolated island. Only three years later, St Kilda will be evacuated,...

The Stolen Hours

The Stolen Hours
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Wild Isle, Book 2 A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children,...

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
  • Author(s): Sue Lawrence
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1732

The wronged lady finally has her say… One of the strangest and most disturbing stories to have emerged from Scotland’s Jacobite past.’ The Times Edinburgh, January 1732. It’s the funeral of Rachel, wife of Lord Grange. Her death is...

To the Edge of the World

To the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Julia Green
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Imagine a tiny island far out in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. On some days, you can hardly see where the sea ends and the land begins, everything merged in a blue-grey mist of sea...

Where the World Ends

Where the World Ends
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Children, Autobiography/Memoirs

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they’ve...

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