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  Dr David Hunter: Book 2

  Written in Bone

  by Simon Beckett

  “I took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set it on the stainless steel table. ‘Tell me who you are. . . .’ ” With this silent plea, forensic expert Dr. David Hunter ignites a harrowing murder investigation on a windswept Scottish island, and a tale of menace, sexuality, and revenge unravels—along with the chilling message that a killer has… Dr. David Hunter should be in London with the woman he loves... (more)
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  Dorothy Martin: Book 3

  Holy Terror in the Hebrides: A Dorothy Martin Mystery (Dorothy Martin Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Jeanne M. Dams

  Vacation can be murder... A peaceful vacation on the charming Scottish island of Iona sounds idyllic to sometime sleuth Dorothy Martin. But Dorothy soon finds that while Iona is charming, her vacation won't be peaceful. Thrown in with a bickering American church tour, she tries to keep her distance. But she can't stay away from murder. Everybody believes the unpleasant American's fatal fall from a cliff is... (more)
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  Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides

  by Adam Nicolson

  “No other book has given me as rich a sense of what makes a small island so revelatory of our life on earth.” —David Craig, London Review of Books In 1937, Adam Nicolson’s father answered a newspaper ad—”Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres . . . Puffins and seals. Apply . . .” In this radiant and powerful book, Adam describes, and relives, his love affair with these breathtakingly beautiful... (more)
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  Island of Wings

  by Karin Altenberg

  On the ten-hour sailing west from the Hebrides to the islands of St Kilda, everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil MacKenzie. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders and Lizzie, his new wife, is pregnant with their first child. Neil's journey is evangelical: a testing and strengthening of his own faith against the old pagan ways of the St Kildans, but it is also a passage to atonement.... (more)
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  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf

  TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is a haunting psychological portrait of the Ramsay family and their friends who gather for a brief vacation in the Ramsay summer home on the Hebrides Isle of Skye. There is talk of a boating trip to the lighthouse at the island's end. But the year is 1914, a World War intervenes, and it is a somber group that finally assembles to make the ritual journey.
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  The Spuddy

  by Lillian Beckwith

  A fisherman christened the abandoned dog the Spuddy. The grey-black mongrel is hardy, shrewd and loyal, but the only person to care for him in the village of Gaymal is a young boy, Andy. Andy is also an outsider, as much in need of companionship as the dog. The two of them enjoy each other's friendship, and when kindly skipper Jake arrives on the scene it seems as if their loneliness is over. But then events take... (more)
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  The Blackhouse

  by Peter May

  The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge. When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But... (more)
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  A St Kilda Handbook

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  Tales and Traditions of the Lews

  by MACDONALD ( Dr. Donald of Gisla)

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  Schottland. Mit Hebriden, Orkney- und Shetlandinseln.

  by Eckart Diezemann

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  St. Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World (Canongate Classic)

  by Charles Maclean

  A part of Britain but a world apart, St Kilda society existed almost completely isolated from the mainstream of civilization for more than 1000 years. Increased contact with the mainland during the 19th century brought about the downfall of what many once regarded as an ideal society. Missionaries and tourists brought money, disease and despotism. In 1930 the islanders, who could no longer support themselves, were... (more)
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  The People of the Sea (Canongate Classics S.)

  by David Thomson

  A magical book about an ancient legend-that the seal was once human, and can sometimes resume human form-and about the Celtic fishing families who still tell it, sing it, believe it. The People of the Sea is an incomparable evocation of the pagan Celtic world, where even today magic coexists with reality, and where ancient traditions, beliefs, and ways of life somehow endure. The late David Thomson, a Scotsman... (more)
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  The Hills Is Lonely

  by Lillian Beckwith

  When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: ‘Surely it’s that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it’s that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals…’ Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of... (more)
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  The Bay of Strangers

  by Lillian Beckwith

  In these eight short stories Lillian Beckwith packs in a rich cast of characters and seductive Highland settings. In the title story Catriona McRae embarks on married life and learns a closely guarded secret from her mother-in-law. 'The Banjimolly' features a witch - and two bottles of whisky. 'Because of an Elephant' concerns an eccentric laird's wife. A boy and his adored collie dog, Meg, are the subjects of... (more)
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  Dark the Night, Wild the Sea

  by Robert McAfee Brown

  Without warning, Jamie Stuart's life and work begin to crumble. Ordered by his boss to rehabilitate himself or else, he journeys to Erinsay, an island in the Hebrides. It is there, through the love of Moragh McPherson, he finds redemption. When her love is taken from him, Jamie goes on a quest to recover it.
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  Rhanna: Book 2

  Rhanna at War

  by Christine Marion Fraser

  To the tight-knit community of Rhanna, the little island in the peaceful Hebrides seemed remote from the horrors of war. For Shona McKenzie, coming home on leave would give her the chance to recover from the nightmare of the bombing and from her broken heart. Then the German bomber crashed.
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  From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides

  by Margaret Fay Shaw

  This autobiography is a remarkable testament to a remarkable woman as well as a powerful and moving plea in defense of a Gaelic culture and world under threat. It is written with a sharpness of observation, directness of humor, and zest for life that make it a marvelous record of the twentieth century. From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides was first published in 1993 and sold out in both hardback and paperback... (more)
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  The Western Isles of Scotland

  by Francis Thompson

  From the Butt of Lewis in the north to Barra Head in the south, the Western Islands form a unique part of Scotland: a rocky chain of islands 130 miles long, cut off from the Mainland by the Minch as effectively as the Channel separates Britain as a whole from the rest of Europe. Despite their diversity in history and landscape, Harris and Lewis, North and South Uist, Benbecula, Barra and the smaller islands have... (more)
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  Rhanna: Book 1

  Rhanna

  by Christine Marion Fraser

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  Journey To the Western Islands of Scotland

  by Samuel Johnson

  On the eighteenth of August we left Edinburgh a city too well known to admit description and directed our course northward along the eastern coast of Scotland accompanied the first day by another gentleman who could stay with us only long enough to shew us how much we lost at separation. (Excerpt)