Fiction and Poetry from the Outer Hebrides

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  The Chess Piece Magician - Paperback - Douglas Bruton
  When Corrie's family returns to Uig Bay on the Isle of Lewis for yet another miserable summer holiday, he has no idea of the incredible adventure that lies ahead.
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  Beacon On The Shore - Paperback - Mary Withall
  A small, sheltered quarrying community in Eisdalsa, one of the Western Isles, has three new inhabitants to get used to. Their relationships with each other are sensitively depicted against the backdrop of the island's triumphs and tragedies.
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  Written In Bone - Paperback - Simon Beckett
  Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favour to a beleaguered police officer, he undertakes a rough sea crossing to the remote Hebridean island of Runa, where a grisly discovery awaits him.
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  Devilweed - Hardback - Bill Knox
  While searching for a missing lobster boat, Chief Officer Webb Carrick sees the 40ft Thrift, the floating branch of the Bank of Central Scotland. The Thrift is adrift in Hebridean waters, her decks awash, her three main staff missing. Carrick finds all the hallmarks of an apparent robbery - only the ship's safe is untouched.
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  Written In Bone - Hardback - Simon Beckett
  Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favour to a beleaguered police officer, he undertakes a rough sea crossing to the remote Hebridean island of Runa, where a grisly discovery awaits him.
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  The Santa Maria - Paperback - Kenneth C. Steven
  A Hebridean boy lives with his grandfather. All his life he has heard whispers of a Spanish galleon that is supposed to have gone down off the island's coast with its promised treasure. The story culminates in a great storm, and the hunt for The Santa Maria begins in earnest.
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  Uan The Little Lamb - Hardback - Sandra Klaassen
  On a remote Scottish island, two children find an abandoned lamb and take her home. They call her 'Uan', which in Gaelic means 'little lamb'. Slowly the lamb grows up and they love playing with her and taking her everywhere - but what will happen when she becomes a sheep?
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  The Stornoway Way - Paperback - Kevin MacNeil
  This novel chronicles the misadventure of an idiosyncratic young Scotsman cartwheeling further and further into a Hebridean hell, railing against the constraints of his extraordinary but vanishing island culture as well as Western civilisation in general.
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  Far Inland - Paperback - Peter Urpeth
  As a young man, Sorley McRath turned his back on Hebridean Island life for life in Glasgow where, ultimately, he runs an antiquarian bookshop. But events soon prove to him that his inherited powers are far greater than he knew. Set on the Isle of Lewis and in Glasgow, this book draws on Gaelic and Inuit mythology and spirituality to inform a contemporary tale.
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  Whisky Galore - Paperback - Compton Mackenzie
  It is 1943, and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean Islands. It looks like the end of the world when the whisky is about to run out, and the locals are about to despair when a ship with a cargo of whisky is wrecked.

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  Carmina Gadelica: Hymns And Incantations - Paperback
  This is a collection of lyric poems and prayers from the Gaelic tradition of oral poetry, gathered from the highlands and islands of Scotland.
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  Eilein na h-Oige: The Poems Of Fr Allan McDonald - Paperback - Allan McDonald
  With a substantial introduction, followed by an ample biographical note by the late John Lorne Campbell, this book brings together some 60 poems, translated and fully annotated, among which five are printed for the first time.
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  Homers - Paperback - Iain F. MacLeod
  1967. Alex and Mary are 'homers', sent from care homes in Glasgow to the islands to live with a new family. They are thrown into the kaleidoscope of island life: the teacher who barks in a strange language; the Minister and his penchant for Elvis; Andrena with her fetish for Hebridean delicacies.