Glimpses of the Middle East

Moberly, Patience

Scotland Street Press

9 Months in Tibet is about overcoming the fear of travelling alone, getting ajob in Lhasa, riding a horse through Eastern Tibet, falling in love withItalian women, witnessing a violent protest between Buddhist monks andthe Chinese police and getting expelled from the country for nothelping the police with their enquiries.

9 Months in Tibet

Travel

Murray, Rupert Wolfe

Travel Writing

Eamon Ansgar has fought in Afghanistan and failed in The City. Now he wants to shut himself away in Duncul Castle, his childhood home in the Scottish Highlands. But a boy has been murdered in the local village and the people investigating are not the police. The castle is being watched. The local drug dealer wants him dead. And the girl he has tried to forget is still beautiful and living next door. Meanwhile, on the other side of Europe, a beggar guided by voices and a billionaire scientist on a stolen super-yacht are heading in his direction. This novel is the first in a series set in and around the Highland village of Duncul.

Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Peterson, C. F.

Mystery

What was it like to be married to Scotland's most famous prisoner? Sara Trevelyan was independent, clever, and privileged. She was a qualified doctor who campaigned for penal reform. She fell in love with and in 1980 married Jimmy Boyle, a convicted murderer who had become a famous writer and sculptor. For the first four years of their marriage he was in jail, visits were few and their life lived under the scrutiny of the media. In this intimate memoir, we learn why Jimmy admits, "If it hadn't been for Sara's courage, I would still be in prison." She is a sure-footed guide through the extraordinary life they were called to lead. Her description of their eventual divorce is without bitterness or resentment, rather a tale of forgiveness and compassion. As a doctor and therapist, a spokeswoman for prisoner rehabilitation, and a wife and mother Sara is a courageous voyager. She realised what a journey it took to understand and to live into the quotation from Blake, "We are put on earth a little space, That we might bear the beams of love." For the past twenty-seven years Sara has worked as a psychotherapist and counsellor between Edinburgh and Findhorn.

Freedom Found: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Trevelyan, Sara

Memoirs

Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realise that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities, adopting three homeless children on the way. Originally refused publication in London because it was deemed critical of the English,&nbsp;Auntie Robbo&nbsp;was first published in the U.S. in 1940. After success in print it was taken on by Constable in 1959 and later was published in India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Germany.

Auntie Robbo (Ann Scott Moncrieff Children's Series)

Romance

Moncrieff, Ann Scott

Historical

Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. "Sandy had never felt so wide awake. He contemplated the vast milky blue pond of the sky. The crescent moon, he thought, writhed in it like a little silver fish. How he would like to pin it down with his strong beak." "Firkin and the Grey Gangsters" was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America - Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrel invaders from America. Firkin speaks in Scots. "The Sheep Who Wasn't a Sheep" is about the thoughts going through the head of a sheep, swimming between one Outer Isle and the other. "The White Drake" is a farmyard drake in Perthshire learning about flying.

Firkin and the Grey Gangsters: And Other Stories (Ann Scott Moncrieff Children's Series)

Children's Books

Scott-Moncrieff, Ann

Animals

It is 1934. Five children run away from a cruel orphanage, steal a magical steamship, and go on many marvelous adventures around the Hebridean Islands. A wild and rollicking tale where children take hold of their destinies. As timely now as it was when it was first published, climb Aboard the Bulger&nbsp;and sail out into uncharted waters,&nbsp;facing mysterious witches and harnessing your courage in the face of the unknown. This is the resurrection of a successful children's adventure story. The&nbsp;book had a huge print run from Methuen, however, the books were lost in December 1940 when&nbsp;tens of thousands of incendiary bombs famously missed their target, St. Paul's&nbsp;cathedral, only to destroy&nbsp;more than five million books in the storage offices of four publishers. Consequently, there were very few copies in circulation.

Aboard the Bulger (Ann Scott Moncrieff Children's Series)

This is a story about hope overcoming evil, written with satisfying moral complexity. Ruth's devastation breaks apart time. She sees that her hopes and dreams are a visceral halo of rainbow colours spinning to white... and that evil dream thieves are severing these halos from sleeping victims, many of whom she knows. Those disturbing dreams of black snow lead Ruth to a perilous discovery: one dream thief is connected to her grandfather and the candle-maker's bou Jude from long ago.

Black Snow Falling

Science Fiction & Fantasy

MacWhirter, LJ

Fantasy

Mrs Winchester's Gun Club

Literature & Fiction

Bruton, Douglas

Literary

66 The House that Viewed the World

Fulton, John D. O.

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