An Creanaiche

An Creanaiche
Author: Roddy MacLean
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910124796

Many people won't believe this story. That's the way it is, and I understand that. The first time I met M?iri NicEachairne, I didn't believe it either. But her story is so astonishing and so important for the whole world that I couldn't ignore it. Little by little, I was drawn in by what M?iri had to say. I came to understand that her account of what happened when JFK was murdered in Dealey Plaza was true. M?iri knew Lee Oswald (she never called him 'Harvey') in Dallas in the autumn of 1963. She knew things about the murder of President Kennedy that no-one else knew, at least outside of the gang that was involved in the murder. For that reason, she had to flee the United States. She was in fear of her life. Perhaps she still is. But now she has cancer and hasn't much longer to live.

Cho Snog's a tha thu

Cho Snog's a tha thu
Author: Alison Lang
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910124818

Naomi was always the geeky hanger-on at uni, but now her social networking app Snog has taken the internet by storm and suddenly she's rich and famous and running a huge company. It's more than her jealous friend Jeni can bear, and it's all too easy to set up a fake online profile and start making mischief. Gaelic text: Eil fhios agad cò tha a bruidhinn riut air an eadar-lìon? Eil e gu diofar cho fad s a tha iad snog? Bidh Naomi a cur cus earbsa ann an daoine, agus anns an app a chruthaich i, Snog, a tha a brosnachadh modh is coibhneas air-loidhne. Tha tòrr aice ri ionnsachadh. Lasag s series of Gaelic readers offers young adults a range of engaging, easy-to-read fiction, with English chapter summaries and glossaries to assist Gaelic learners.

Closed For Winter

Closed For Winter
Author: Jorn Lier Horst
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908737506

WISTING: THE MAJOR TV SHOW NOW ON BBC FOURWinner of the Norwegian Bookseller's PrizeOve Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is something new. Against his wishes, his daughter Line decides to stay in one of the summer cottages at the mouth of the fjord. Wisting's unease does not diminish when they discover several more corpses on the deserted archipelago. Meanwhile, dead birds are dropping from the sky.

An Uinneag don Iar

An Uinneag don Iar
Author: Michael Klevenhaus
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910124877

Theich Marie Schmidt à Berlin an Ear leis an nighinn òig aice, ach chaidh a duine is a mac fhàgail air taobh eile a' bhalla. Cha robh fios aig Caitrìona gun robh bràthair aice mus do leugh i na seann litrichean a lorg i ann an taigh a màthar. Às dèidh nam bliadhnaichean uile, an urrainn dhi a lorg, agus dè eile a tha i a' dol a dh'fhaighinn a-mach mu a teachlach? Marie Schmidt escapes from East Berlin with her baby daughter just as the wall is going up, but her husband and son are left behind. Years later, Marie's daughter finds a box of letters in her mother's house and sets out to find the brother she never knew she had, but her investigations uncover some unpleasant truths about the compromises her mother was prepared to make with the Communist regime in exchange for a new life in the west.

The Stillman

The Stillman
Author: Tom McCulloch
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908737689

Jim Drever is a man apart. Twenty years a Stillman at a Highland distillery, his closest relationship is with the machinery he monitors, the movies he's obsessed with. It's the worst winter in years and the world is closing in. A strike is looming and his daughter is about to get married. His son's ever-weirder behaviour is becoming a worry and his marriage has disintegrated into savage skirmishes with a wife he barely knows. Then the emails start to arrive from Cuba, sending him letters from his dead mother, and Jim can't stay on the sidelines any longer.

The Last Wolf

The Last Wolf
Author: Jim Crumley
Publisher: Birlinn
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-12-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0857905201

In 1743, according to legend, the last wolf in Scotland was killed by a huntsman near Inverness. At the time the extinction of wolves in Scotland was celebrated. But since then deer have multiplied in the Highlands, destroying the vegetation on which an array of wildlife depends and creating a barren, treeless landscape. Gradually it has become clear that the entire eco-system has been thrown out of balance by the elimination of a top predator. Now there are calls for a limited reintroduction of wolves into Scotland as a way of healing the damaged land. The wolf has been the victim of black propaganda since ancient times. By tellers of folk tales and historians alike it has been described as a slayer of babies, a robber of graves, a devourer of battlefield dead. In this passionate polemic, Jim Crumley argues that these stories are pure fiction, a distortion of reality which prevents people from thinking rationally about the huge benefits the presence of wolves could bring to Scotland. Now is the time for myths to be dispelled, and for the wolf to return to its old home in the highlands.