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‿In pencil-written and drawing-spattered notebooks intended for her Australian granddaughter, an elderly woman, now in Edinburgh, remembers and relives her Hebridean childhood. The community thus recreated is one where modernity ‿ its emblem the Electricity of Angus Peter Campbell‿s title ‿ collides and overlaps with all sorts of linguistic, cultural and other continuities. But this is no sentimental or elegiac excursion into a long-gone past....

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A precious golden souvenir has disappered from Kismuil Castle in the Island of Barra. Murdo set outs to find who dunnit. Help comes from smart officers from the mainland, whose most difficult challenge is Murdo himself. PC Murdo would find himself at home in both Whisky Galore and in Para Handy.

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After finally acknowledging to himself that he is an a hopeless rut, Archie decides to set off on a quest for knowledge and self-improvement as he seeks the source of the North Wind.

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When his enquiry turns personal he's forced to ask whether his ownlife is an artificial mask. It fuses the glass and steel of our increasingly controlledalgorithmic world with the memory and straw of our forebears' worldcontrolled by traditions and taboos, the seasons and the elements.

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year 2017A face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. Delving into family stories and his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face, `uniquely sprung from all the faces that had been'.

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Vividly evoked Scottish tale of chance encounters and of family memories, regret, love and loss.

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