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What Happens in the Highlands

What Happens in the Highlands
  • Author(s): Kelsey McKnight
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Nairn
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Match made in heaven or maid of dishonor? Tight-laced Rose Hensel arrives in Scotland for her best friend’s wedding with a plan—to be the greatest maid of honor ever, let loose for the first time in years, and find...

Where the World Ends

Where the World Ends
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Children, Autobiography/Memoirs

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they’ve...

WHERE WOLVES PROWL

WHERE WOLVES PROWL
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): Nairn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Where wolves prowl… there be sheep… A spellbinding mystery from a huge talent! Jason has put his past life behind him and is living and working in Nairn, way up in the Scottish Highlands, when he becomes fascinated by...

Whistleblower

Whistleblower
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case. Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he’s missing. It’s just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until...

Who is She? A Viv Fraser Mystery

Who is She? A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Doune, Stirling
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intelligent, sassy PI. Special Services can’t live with her but can they live without her? Who is She? No one knows that the past is a strange country more than Scottish sleuth Viv Fraser. In this, the fifth...

Wilderness Wars

Wilderness Wars
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if nature fights back? Still in a daze, I take it all in: the wind, the leaden skies, the churning moody sea. And, far in the distance, a misty outline. Skelsay. Wilderness haven. Building-site. Luxury-retreat-to-be. And now, home....

Winter Tales

Winter Tales
  • Author(s): George Mackay Brown
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

These short stories are set in the winter in the Orkney Islands but range over time. They are filled with memorable characters and draw the reader into life in these isolated islands north of the Scotland mainland.

With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s

With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s
  • Author(s): Catherine Berry
  • Location(s): Australia, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s and 70s

Does looking back help you move forward? Not always. But, like Catherine’s first two memoirs, writing With bare feet and sandy toes: Growing up in Australia in the 1960s and 70s, came at the right time for her after...

Women of the Dunes

Women of the Dunes
  • Author(s): Sarah Maine
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In AD 800 there is Ulla, lost in a foreign country after her lover is brutally killed. Ellen, a servant-girl in the 1800s, catches the unwanted attentions of the master of the house’s lascivious son. And, in the present...

Work Trip

Work Trip
  • Author(s): Chloe Ford
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say you should keep your enemies closer… For Fliss, the prospect of a team building work trip fills her with dread. Mostly because she cannot stand her pushy colleague James, who often attempts to derail her brilliant plans....

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