Scotland

Orkney Islands. 1941. 500 Italian prisoners of war arrive to fortify the wild and desolate islands. Orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance volunteer to nurse the wounded. While beautiful, damaged Constance remains wary of the men, Dot finds herself drawn to a young man broken by the horrors or battle and on the wrong side of the war. When a tragic mistake from Con’s past return to haunt them, Dot must make a choice. Protect her sister no matter what, or protect the man who has captured her heart.

Outer Hebrides, 2010. Following the death of her last living relative Hetty leaves her strained relationship and London for her ancestral home in Scotland, now in ruins. As she dives headlong into the repairs she discovers a shocking secret protected by the house for a hundred years.

Scottish Highlands. Thriller. Old friends gather for New Year in a remote lodge. Events take a sinister turn when a body is found and everyone becomes a suspect. Not an accident.  Murder among friends.

Scottish Highlands. It is the summer solstice, but in a faded cabin park, the rain is unrelenting. 12 people on holiday with their families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey. A woman goes running up the Ben as though fleeing; a teenage boy chances the dark waters of the loch in his kayak; a retired couple head out despite the downpour, driving too fast on familiar bends. But there are newcomers too, and one particular mother and daughter, with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners start to draw attention Who are they? Where are they from? Should they be here at all? As darkness fall, something is unravelling…

Glasgow. 17 year old Lenni knows only too well that life is short. Living in hospital, she’s about to discover that it not only what you do with your life that counts, it’s who you share it with. Lenni joins art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted 83 year old. Their bond is instant and soon they realise that together they have lived an astonishing 100 years. To celebrate they begin to paint their stories – of growing old and staying young, of giving joy and receiving kindness, of losing and finding the person that is everything.

Edinburgh. Historical fiction. Craiglockhart War Hospital, 1917, where an army psychiatrist is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior who is only able to communicate with pencil and paper. His job is to make the men healthy enough to fight again. Yet the closer he gets to mending their minds the harder the decisions to send them back to the horrors of the front.