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Walking on Rum and the Small Isles

Walking on Rum and the Small Isles
  • Author(s): Peter Edwards
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A guide to walking and backpacking on the Small Isles in the Western Isles of Scotland – Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna, Coll and Tiree – including a tough 55km backpack around the coastline of Rum, a challenging round of...

Walking the Lights

Walking the Lights
  • Author(s): Deborah Andrews
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Recently graduated young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple’s meagre resources go on drink and drugs. Maddie and...

War of the Wind

War of the Wind
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a remote Scottish island, fourteen-year-old Max’s life changes forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life and finding it hard to adapt in school, he begins to notice...

Watch Him Die

Watch Him Die
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modn

ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAVE YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU DEAD.  The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel...

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me
  • Author(s): Daniela Sacerdoti
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Eilidh Lawson’s life is in crisis. Years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family have pushed her to the limits. At the end of her tether, she runs away to the one place she thinks...

Waves

Waves
  • Author(s): Jared A Carnie
  • Location(s): West of Scotland, Isle of Lewis, The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Alex is stuck. Stuck in Essex. Stuck in his childhood home. Stuck in a job he hates. The relationship he’d been counting on all these years has finally fallen apart. He’s run out of things to hope for. Anxious,...

Way Beyond A Lie

Way Beyond A Lie
  • Author(s): Harry Fisher
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Current

‘I know exactly what you’ve been going through.’ Ross McKinlay’s fairly ordinary life turns a somersault when his Italian wife, Carla, disappears from inside an Edinburgh supermarket. As the reasons for her disappearance emerge, his moods intensify from anxiety...

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Venice, Edinburgh, Greece, Ireland, Italy, London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval, Renaissance

Plague has no favorites. In this anthology, USA Today, international bestselling, and award-winning authors imagine a world where anyone—rich, poor, young, old—might be well in the morning and dead by sundown. Readers will follow in the footsteps of those...

We Fought For Ardnish

We Fought For Ardnish
  • Author(s): Angus MacDonald
  • Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
  • Era(s): WW2 and after

After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...

Wedding Games

Wedding Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, Inverness
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Say “I do” to Scotland’s wedding of the year! Wedding bells are finally ringing for Rory and Zoe! But setting a date and saying yes to the dress is a lot more complicated when their mothers are mortal enemies...

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