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The Peat Dead

The Peat Dead
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • Location(s): Islay
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day and 1944

Islay. Remote and peaceful. Until a spade finds a human hand, a pointer to a crime. And under the peat, five corpses, unnamed, executed. Inspector Angus Blue builds his team. The evidence leads them to a wartime base. And...

The Stolen Hours

The Stolen Hours
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Early 1920s

Wild Isle, Book 2 A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children,...

The Story Keeper

The Story Keeper
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1857

From the author of THE UNSEEING comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent’s BURIAL RITES or Beth Underdown’s THE WITCH FINDER’S...

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
  • Author(s): Sue Lawrence
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1732

The wronged lady finally has her say… One of the strangest and most disturbing stories to have emerged from Scotland’s Jacobite past.’ The Times Edinburgh, January 1732. It’s the funeral of Rachel, wife of Lord Grange. Her death is...

The Winds From Further West

The Winds From Further West
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives. Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they move to a lavish flat in Edinburgh. Everything seems...

To the Edge of the World

To the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Julia Green
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Imagine a tiny island far out in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. On some days, you can hardly see where the sea ends and the land begins, everything merged in a blue-grey mist of sea...

Under A Sicilian Sky

Under A Sicilian Sky
  • Author(s): Lisa Hobman
  • Location(s): Sicily, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Global box office sensation, Ruby Locke, is a long way from her Yorkshire roots. Together with her fiancé, movie heartthrob Tyler Harrison, they are Hollywood’s new glitterati. Overnight, Ruby’s life implodes when her social media accounts are hacked with...

Under a Summer Skye

Under a Summer Skye
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, The Sleat Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Scottish island. A stranger from the mainland. A summer of possibilities… ESCAPE TO THE ISLE OF SKYE THIS SUMMER WITH THE SUNDAY TIMES AND MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, AND LOSE YOURSELF IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SKYE SISTERS...

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...

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,...

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