Dumfries & Galloway Fiction and Poetry

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  After The Armistice Ball Catriona McPherson
  Dandy Gilver is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1922 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long though, the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway.
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  Cold In The Earth Aline Templeton
  Death is all around for the people of Galloway when a catastrophic virus devastates the countryside, killing cattle and ruining lives. But the stench of death becomes even stronger when, amidst the smoking pyres, human remains are discovered. For DI Fleming, this is just the beginning.
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  The Darkness And The Deep Aline Templeton
  The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat with the loss of all three of its crew is a hard blow for the small Scottish town. But it's harder still when DS Tam MacNee discovers that it isn't simply a tragic accident.
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  Five Red Herrings Dorothy L. Sayers
  Lord Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident, or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death - five were red herrings.
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  The Highwayman's Curse Nicola Morgan
  On the run from the redcoats, the two young highwaymen, Will and Bess, find themselves in Galloway, Scotland, blamed for a murder they did not commit. Here they are captured by smugglers and become embroiled in a story of hatred and revenge that goes back for generations, to the days of the Killing Times.
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  The Land Of The Leal James Barke
  This novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway. Its title refers to the Scottish peasant's heaven.
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  The Lantern Bearers: A Novel Ronald Frame
  This novel is based around observed flashbacks about the oppressive youth of a homosexual musician in Edinburgh. Frame is a distinguished novelist and playwright and his television work has, among other awards, won the Samuel Beckett Prize
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  Ostrich Boys Keith Gray
  Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway.
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  Other People's Rules Julia Hamilton
  A girl disappears from her family's Scottish estate after her birthday ball. Her celebrity parents offer rewards but find nothing, until a local serial killer confesses to the murder.
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  The Raiders: Being Some Passages In The Life Of John Faa, Lord And Earl Of Little Egypt S. R. Crockett
  Set in the reign of George I, after the 1715 rebellion, this swashbuckling tale, placed in Crockett's native Galloway countryside, contains overtones of superstition, smuggling and more than a hint of sinister evil doing.
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  The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan
  Richard Hannay's ennui comes to an abrupt end when a murder is committed in his flat. Only a few days before the dead man had revealed to him an assassination plot which would have terrible consequences for international peace.
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  Where The Whaups Are Crying: A Dumfries And Galloway Anthology
  This anthology of Scottish writers and writing includes work by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, James Boswell, Daniel Defoe, John Welsley, J.M. Barrie and John Keats. Also included are a range of anecdotes and non fiction concerning the area.

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  Burning Whins And Other Poems Liz Niven
  'Burning Whins' concerns itself with relationships and ownership. Describing the Scottish Parliament, plane travel in the Western Isles, and the destruction wrought by the recent Foot and Mouth epidemic with equal familiarity and fluidity, these poems depict the many faces of contemporary Scotland with grace and intimacy.
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  Burns-Lore Of Dumfries And Galloway James A. Mackay
  James A. McKay offers a glimpse of the last eight years of the life of Robert Burns, when he was resident at Ellisland and in Dumfries.
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  Sparks! Diana Hendry
  'Sparks!' is the record of a two-year creative correspondence between friends and fellow poets Diana Hendry and Tom Pow, during which they set each other challenging poetic problems, resulting in the 24 poems collected in this book.