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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 –...

The Book of I

The Book of I
  • Author(s): David Greig
  • Location(s): Iona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 9th Century

A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year.   The year is 825 CE. In the aftermath of a vicious attack by raiders from the north, an unlikely trio...

The Chessmen

The Chessmen
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill...

The Crofter and the Laird

The Crofter and the Laird
  • Author(s): John McPhee
  • Location(s): Colonsay
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1969

In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in the land of his forefathers, the island of Colonsay seventeen square miles of dew and damp twenty-five miles off the coast of Scotland....

The Cursing Stone

The Cursing Stone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): London, Glasgow, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Fergus Buchanan has led a charmed life: a doting family, a loving sweetheart and the respect of his neighbours. All is as it should be and nothing stands between him and the limitless happiness that is his destiny. But...

The Dead of Jura

The Dead of Jura
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern

(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...

The Garden of Little Rose

The Garden of Little Rose
  • Author(s): Suzanne Snow
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding....

The Haunting of Kulah

The Haunting of Kulah
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1940s and present day

1946: far out in the Atlantic a boatload of men returning from war are shipwrecked within sight of their homes on the remote Scottish island of Kulah – and the wailing of the women could be heard across the...

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 Lost Lights of St Kilda

The Lost Lights of St Kilda
  • Author(s): Elisabeth Gifford, A D Garrett
  • Location(s): Europe, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

1927: When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda, little does he realise that he has joined the last community to ever live on that beautiful, isolated island. Only three years later, St Kilda will be evacuated,...

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