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The High Island

The High Island
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Hoy Island, Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When everyone knows your name, every case is personal . . . Meet DI Erling Flett in The High Island, the heart-racing crime thriller that you won’t be able to put down. From Lin Anderson, author of the acclaimed...

The Highland Falcon Thief

The Highland Falcon Thief
  • Location(s): London, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children

Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things are suddenly a...

The Highland Lass

The Highland Lass
  • Author(s): Rosemary Gemmell
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 18th Century

Eilidh Campbell returns to her Scottish roots from America with one main aim: to discover the identity of her real father. But her mother’s past in Inverclyde is a mystery with family secrets, a book of Robert Burns’ poems...

The House by the Loch

The House by the Loch
  • Author(s): Kirsty Wark
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

From the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, a novel of long-hidden family secrets that refuse to lie buried in the past . . . Scotland 1950s Walter MacMillan is bewitched by the clever, glamorous Jean Thompson...

The House of Hidden Wonders

The House of Hidden Wonders
  • Author(s): Sharon Gosling
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

Zinnie and her sisters live in the murky tunnels beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town. They keep out of the way of the authorities and remain undetected. Until, that is, rumours of a ghost bring unwanted visitors into the caverns they...

The Hunted

The Hunted
  • Author(s): Jo McCready
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

On the vast Buchanan Estate in the wilds of Scotland, tech billionaire James Sullivan dies a suspicious death. Rookie agent RJ Rox is drawn back to a homeland to which she’d sworn she’d never return. She soon realizes the...

The Incomers

The Incomers
  • Author(s): Moira McPartlin
  • Location(s): West Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966

Mission-raised Ellie Amadi expects to live a dream life when she and her son Nat leave home in West Africa to join her white, estate factor, husband James in the Fife mining village of Hollyburn. In 1966 Fife, mixed...

The Inheritance

The Inheritance
  • Author(s): Trisha Sakhlecha
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion… Raj, the patriarch and business tycoon, who has six weeks to decide how to split his petrochemicals empire between his three...

The Island Home

The Island Home
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lorna’s world is small but safe. She loves her daughter, and the two of them is all that matters. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote...

The Island Secret

The Island Secret
  • Author(s): Lorraine Kelly
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evie has come home to Orkney and finally found peace. She has rediscovered her passion for painting, mended broken friendships, and for the first time in a long time, truly feels a sense of belonging. But then a surprise...

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