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Diana Jackson

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  • Seal Mother by Rose English

    Seal Mother ~ A Selkie Tale in Verse is a delightful book telling a familiar story in a unique way. The illustrated poetry is a pleasure to read and reread. The legends about seals coming to life in human form have inspired and seduced me ever since we moved to Scotland and Seal Mother is so beautiful.…

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  • A Boy from the Streets by Maria Gibbs

    I have just finished reading this powerful book, perfect for a wet and windy Sunday when I was self indulgent and read for a few hours. Twins were born in a hospital in Brazil as their parents had to flee their homeland escaping to England. Carolina was distraught as she left them behind even though…

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  • Book Review ~ The Chessmen by Peter May

    I bought the paperback of The Chessmen by Peter May at the Kildonan Museum in South Uist, a perfect place to pick up a novel set in the bleak but stunningly beautiful landscapes of The Outer Hebrides. Fin and his mates grew up together in the close knit communities of the island of Lewis, the…

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  • I’m excited to share with you a Scottish Poet ~ Pauline Prior – Pitt

    Having just returned from a memorable trip to the Outer Hebrides ~ the island of Barra via Oban, then on to South Uist and back from Lochboisdale to Mallaig ~ I am excited to share with you Pauline Prior – Pitt. I bought ‘be an angel’ in the new Kildonan Centre. This is an interesting…

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  • Karma Lawyer: Courage and Love by Nigel Lesmoir Gordon

    Maitland Fairweather is rich, successful, ruthless and good looking ~ but pretty cheesed off. He has discovered that his wife Sarah, of only a year, is having an affair. He decides to arrange to have her murdered without trace by a hit squad of three women. This gripping tale is of Maitland, an unscrupulous lawyer…

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  • The Glass Knight by Julia Colbourn

    The Glass Knight by Julia Colbourn The stage is set for The Glass Knight at a time a few decades after a world apocalypse. The small surviving communities struggle to maintain a civilised world. Andelantos, for example, forbids guns and any forms of communication from the old world, trying to learn from past mistakes. Saffy…

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  • A Salt Splashed Cradle by Chris Longmuir

    I met Chris in the craft tent at Glamis Castle Vehicle Extravaganza and after a chat I bought a signed copy of this book. It was a thoroughly enjoyable read, all the more so because I am gradually exploring Scotland and will be heading to Montrose in a few weeks. Chris’s colourful description of the…

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  • Scottish Author Book review ~ A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

    This is a multi layered crime / mystery, with flashbacks to the time of the tumultuous miners’ strike in Fife, as DI Karen Pirie works to solve two seemingly very different cold cases. Meanwhile Bel Richmond, a freelance journalist, finds a sinister poster and some blood stains in an abandoned villa near where she is…

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