Fiction from the Highlands of Scotland

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    Another Time, Another Place Jessie Kesson
    Jessie Kesson's Another Time, Another Place movingly portrays the tragic consequences of a clash of cultures in a haunting tale of love and war. A young farm-worker's wife has forbidden feelings for an Italian prisoner of war billeted in her village.
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    The Battle Of The Ferry Alex Mabon
    The lads and lassies who grew up during the Second World War in the Ferry district of Inverness went their various ways - some to petty crime with little success, some to 'proper' jobs. Some did better than others, but they all retained one thing in common: a friendship and loyalty for the area in which they grew up.
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    The Big J Andrew Murray Scott
    When US artist Xanthe Pritchard-Benz comes to spend the summer in a coastal town in North-East Scotland, teenager Robbie Strachan looks forward to meeting her again. But this summer, there's another new arrival, 'Big J', a young man with a motorbike and the poise of a born leader.
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    Blood Lines Grace Monroe
    A woman is lured to a lonely ruin in the Scottish Highlands and strangled almost to the point of death. As she prays for mercy, her hopes are shattered when her unseen assailant begins to carve her face, and she is left alone to bleed her life's blood into a shallow grave.
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    Butcher's Broom Neil M. Gunn
    Butcher's Broom with the poignant background of the early nineteenth-century Highland clearances is one of the jewels in Gunn's crown. It is to be cross-promoted with other Neil Gunn titles in the series: Morning Tide, Young Art and Old Hector.
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    Consider The Lilies Iain Crichton Smith
    The Highland Clearances have become a dominant theme and potent myth in Scottish fiction. In this work, award winning Iain Crichton Smith focuses on an old woman whose eviction from her croft forces her to reappraise her entire world.
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    The Credit Draper J. David Simons
    'The Credit Draper', an original debut novel by J. David Simons, is more than just an immigrant's story about the search for identity in an alien land - it is also a book about whisky, football and waterproof clothing.
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    Crisis of Conscience Mary Withall
    The remote, self-sufficient Highland community, accustomed to fending for itself, begins to feel the effects of the rise of the NHS. At first the changes are generally agreed to be for the common good, but as the consequences become apparent they soon lead to deep divisions which could tear the local families apart.
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    Cross Stitch Diana Gabaldon
    Claire Randall, a wartime nurse is transported back to the dangers of life in Jacobite Scotland, leaving behind her husband and finding herself in a state of desire for a courageous renegade.
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    Dancing In A Distant Place Isla Dewar
    When teacher Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Highland village, she's still in a state of shock - not just from her husband's death, but from the massive debts he concealed from her. The locals are heartened by her support for the children of her school, but shocked by her feisty approach to life.
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