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In the Blink of an Eye

In the Blink of an Eye
  • Author(s): Ali Bacon
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

He had Edinburgh at his feet, but who would be by his side? In 1843, Edinburgh artist David Octavius Hill is commissioned to paint the portraits of 400 ministers of the new Free Church. Only when he meets Robert...

In The Shadow Of The Hill

In The Shadow Of The Hill
  • Author(s): Helen Forbes
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An elderly woman is found battered to death in the common stairwell of an Inverness block of flats. Detective Sergeant Joe Galbraith starts what seems like one more depressing investigation of the untimely death of a poor unfortunate who...

Island of Dreams

Island of Dreams
  • Author(s): Dan Boothby
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After...

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
  • Author(s): Patrick Barkham
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are...

It Ends At Midnight

It Ends At Midnight
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

t’s New Year’s Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh’s best postcodes. It’s a moment for old friends to set the past to rights – and move on. The night sky is...

Jessamine

Jessamine
  • Author(s): Shani Struthers
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

“The dead of night, Jess, I wish they’d leave me alone.” Jessamin Wade’s husband is dead – a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him ‘alive’ in her imagination...

John of John

John of John
  • Author(s): Douglas Stuart
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where...

Johnnie Quiet

Johnnie Quiet
  • Author(s): Iain Sykes
  • Location(s): Stornoway
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

A mysterious stranger, Johnnie, arrives on the Hebridean island of Lewis in 1963 and saves Calum, a 17 year old schoolboy, from drowning. He is very reticent about his background but the boy’s mother gives him lodgings as a...

Just Friends at Thistle Lodge

Just Friends at Thistle Lodge
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

One romantic getaway. Two friends. Seven days just pretending… When Nina Copeland’s mates try to match her with the guy next door, she needs a plan. Because Matthew’s just a friend, and Nina has a secret she doesn’t want...

Kidnapped

Kidnapped
  • Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put...

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