A cairn on a knoll surrounded by standing stones becomes intriguing to the archaeologist around whom this story revolves. Skeletons are found in a cist in the cairn, and then gold is discovered and later disappears. The search is on and the standing stone claims its sacrificial victim.
A timeless novel about the effect of the blitz in wartime London on a young Scotswoman who has returned to her native Highlands to recover from a nervous breakdown
Opening with a premonition of death, this is the story of a young man's conflict with the spiritual authority of his father, of a spirit of skepticism set against an authoritarian Calvinism. This conflict succeeds in bringing alive both the psychological and economic position of the Highlands in ...
A glimpse of wild geese proves to be a catalyst for a new way of thinking - social, political and psychological - for a journalist living in Glasgow in 1939.
When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead—but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money? These que...
George Marway, Sir John’s nephew, was not a natural hunter of wild game, his inclinations running rather towards racing engines and racing skis, so he lay abed, to breakfast later with the ladies and, in due course, act as their chauffeur. When Sir John left the breakfast table and went out to co...
It came about in a tragic manner, for his land was visited by what people called the plague, but which was, in reality, a form of cholera. Never had such a disease been amongst them before, and when the first rumours of it reached Dunster folk spoke of it in low voices. Their dread of it went bey...