9 Ergebnisse.

A remote Scottish estate. A missing teenager. Archaeologist Laura, ex-detective Callum MacGarvey and Robbie's grandmother investigate, while Robbie's sister, the silent Ruthie, remains haunted by her childhood flashbacks. Though an arrest is made, the dark truth remains buried.

Even the Birds Grow Silent is a collection of narrative fragments told by Death. Death feels she gets a bad press nowadays, and is keen to tell her side of the story. Over afternoon tea in the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh, the editor of A Class Act magazine gets to know the other side of Death, as she's never been seen before.

Keine Beschreibung.

This is the story of Hani, a refugee who escapes from war-torn Syria with his sister, Reena, and his unlikely friendship with a girl who helps him flee across Scotland, into uninhabited Flow Country, to the northern most tip of Britain, looking for his abducted sister.

The year is 1839, and Mary Shelley - the author of Frankenstein - is alone. Sorting through her husband's scattered papers she is reminded of their past: the half-ruined villas in Italy, the stormy relationship with Shelley and her stepsister Claire, the loss of her children, and finally, her husband's drowning on the Gulf of Spezia.

Keine Beschreibung.

Two children, a brother and sister, wait in a lonely inn in Glencoe for their parents to come home, while a storm closes in and the ghosts of the recent past mingle with the dark events of 1692, when the leader of Clan Campbell authorized the genocide of a whole community All is not what it seems.

The year is 1586, and Mary Stuart is sitting in an English prison cell at the end of her life, stitching her tapestries, haunted by the ghosts of her past - only she can tell the true version of events, whilst quietly stitching her braid and entertaining the apparitions which visit her.

Samuel is trapped by huge snow drifts in an old, remote house. And that's not the only thing causing a cold shiver to creep down his spine. He feels like the ghostly figure in the locked library has a message ... but who is it for? Set on bleak Sheriffmuir near Stirling, this is a spooky tale of the past returning to haunt the present. (Ages 9?12)