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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...

Island Wife

Island Wife
  • Author(s): Judy Fairbairns
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 20th century onwards

ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way she bears...

Just Another Mountain

Just Another Mountain
  • Author(s): Sarah Jane Douglas
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Nepal, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s/2010s

‘This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are times when there is nothing for it but to scale that mountain’ – The Herald Best Summer Reads 2019 In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her...

Keep Me Safe

Keep Me Safe
  • Author(s): Daniela Sacerdoti
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Can a tiny Scottish island bring a heart back to life.. and offer a second chance at love? When Anna’s partner walks away from their relationship, she is shattered. But it is her little girl Ava who takes it...

Morbid Relations

Morbid Relations
  • Author(s): Jonathan Whitelaw
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Robert Argyll is a failing stand up comedian. To make matters worse, he drinks too much, can’t hold down a relationship and is going nowhere fast. When he gets the news of his mother’s death, he reluctantly makes the...

Murder on the Isle of Arran

Murder on the Isle of Arran
  • Author(s): Norman Deeley
  • Location(s): Isle of Arran
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Andrew Fullerton, a wealthy businessman, is found dead in a burn on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Suspicion immediately falls on a group of amateur writers who stand to benefit from the prizes...

Natural Causes (Inspector McLean 1)

Natural Causes (Inspector McLean 1)
  • Author(s): James Oswald
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly...

Night Waking

Night Waking
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dr Anna Bennett, together with her husband Giles and two young sons, Raphael and Moth, have come to fictional Colsay in the Western Isles, so he can monitor the puffin population and she can finish her book on 18th-century...

Night Watcher (Dundee Crime Series)

Night Watcher (Dundee Crime Series)
  • Author(s): Chris Longmuir
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Two stalkers -One target A mysterious stranger arrives in Dundee, with a mission to find a new Chosen One to punish. He selects Nicole, a woman with a weakness for men. One of Nicole’s paramours is found hanged and...

On Dublin Street

On Dublin Street
  • Author(s): Samantha Young
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well – until she moves into...

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