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An Autumn Hideaway

An Autumn Hideaway
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She went looking for someone, but it wasn’t him. After a string of disappointments for chirpy city girl Autumn Elworthy, discovering her notoriously unstable mother has run off again is the last straw. When Autumn learns her mother’s last...

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...

Anthrax Island

Anthrax Island
  • Author(s): D L Marshall
  • Location(s): Gruinard Island, Inner Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day (2020s)

FACT: In 1942, in growing desperation at the progress of the war and fearing invasion by the Nazis, the UK government approved biological weapons tests on British soil. Their aim: to perfect an anthrax weapon destined for Germany. They...

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...

Daughter of the Tide

Daughter of the Tide
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): France, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

It is 1939 and the eve of the Second World War when the handsome sailor Ewan Mackinnon returns to his childhood home on the remote Hebridean island of Phetray. He was forced to run from the ignominy of a...

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull
  • Author(s): Andy Sutherland
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Children, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2018

Elgol, a young white-tailed eagle makes friends with a boy and two young otters all united in grief with the loss of parents. They form a strong bond of friendship from which they embark on a series of adventures...

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...

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...

How Far We Fall

How Far We Fall
  • Author(s): Jane Shemilt
  • Location(s): London, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect couple Meeting Albie gave Beth a fresh start – a chance to leave her past behind. Now she has her new husband; an ambitious, talented young neurosurgeon. The perfect marriage Their marriage gives Beth the safe haven...

I Am An Island

I Am An Island
  • Author(s): Tamsin Calidas
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north, despite having...

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