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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...

Mission: Find Mum

Mission: Find Mum
  • Author(s): Jo Somerset
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Children, Adventure
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Isla and Lac’s mum is missing, but has left clues and an emergency credit card. The children travel from Birmingham to Mora, a Scottish island, camping and tracking their mum. Hampered by challenges and unsure of who to trust,...

Sea Babies

Sea Babies
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s — present

Lauren Wilson is travelling by ferry to the Outer Hebrides, about to begin a new job as a social worker. When somebody sits opposite her at the cafeteria table, she refuses to look up, annoyed at having her privacy...

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...

Settlement

Settlement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Can love truly heal old wounds? Can the past ever be put peacefully to rest? If you like a complex, grown-up romance with lots of raw emotion, dramatic and exotic settings, all mixed in with some international politics and...

SHIABA

SHIABA
  • Author(s): Willie Orr
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850

SHIABA SYNOPSIS In the winter of 1846, the potato crop in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland turned to slime. Thousands, dependent on the crop for survival, faced starvation, eviction and death. The remote township of Shiaba on the...

Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon
  • Author(s): Bella Cassidy
  • Location(s): Aberfeldy, Covent Garden, Glastonbury, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tassie Morris is everyone’s favourite wedding photographer, famous for her photos of offbeat ceremonies and alternative brides. Yet commitment is proving impossible for Tassie herself, who cannot forget her first love. When she’s sent to photograph a ceremony on...

Sleep

Sleep
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides, Rum
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a...

Star Gazing

Star Gazing
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne’s passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love...

The Black Loch

The Black Loch
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY’S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY. A MURDER The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh –...

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