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  • Location: Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides

The Visitors

Destination: Hebrides   Departure Time: 2000s This book brings the mythical and creepy nature of the Scottish islands to life.

  • Location: Edinburgh, Fife

Dead Men’s Bones (Inspector McLean 4)

2000s: They say that politics can be a dangerous game, but this is a side to Scottish politics which turns out to be deadly…

  • Location: Edinburgh

Exit Music (Rebus 17)

2006: Is Rebus retiring? Not if the Russians have anything to do with it…

  • Location: Glasgow

Laidlaw

Destination: Glasgow  Departure Time: 1970s William McIlvanney’s Glasgow is a city worth exploring – with care.

  • Location: Isle of Harris

Secrets of the Sea House

1860s, 1990s: Based on a real nineteenth-century letter to The Times in which a Scottish clergyman claimed to have seen a mermaid…

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Under a Summer Skye

2024: A Scottish island. A stranger from the mainland. A summer of possibilities…

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