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Coffin Road

Coffin Road
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2012

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does...

Emotional Geology

Emotional Geology
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): North Uist
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories...

I’ll Keep You Safe

I’ll Keep You Safe
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris. WHATEVER HAPPENS Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business...

Secrets of the Sea House

Secrets of the Sea House
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Gifford
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s, Modern

Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson, naïve and newly-ordained, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time on the island will irrevocably change the course of his life, but the white...

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...

The House Between Tides

The House Between Tides
  • Author(s): Sarah Maine
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautiful debut novel set in the Outer Hebrides, The House Between Tides strips back layers of the past to reveal a dark mystery. In the present day, Hetty Deveraux returns to the family home of Muirlan House on...

The Lewis Man: Book Two of the Lewis Trilogy

The Lewis Man: Book Two of the Lewis Trilogy
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A MAN WITH NO NAME. An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog: the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. A MAN WITH NO MEMORY. But this islander, Tormod...

An Island Christmas

An Island Christmas
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark – and incredibly beautiful. It’s a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram with the people you love...

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...

Hebridean Storm

Hebridean Storm
  • Author(s): Libby Patterson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matt Macaulay, a young Royal Marine, has been invalided out of the service and finds himself back home in South Uist disillusioned and without a purpose. He encounters an enigmatic stranger on the Uist hills and becomes enmeshed in...

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