<p>In August 1956, a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. "Isolation Shepherd" is the moving story of those years. More than simply a sensitive and richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the season, Iain Thomson's book also vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland's most awesome landscapes, and depicts the numerous incidents that shaped the family's life there before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.</p>

Isolation Shepherd

Travel

Iain R. Thomson

Travel Writing

Birlinn Ltd.

SDEMore than a chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands and a family portrait of the clan Fraser of Lovat, with whom the author enjoys a close connection, this work is also a collection of stories which reflect the changes of both attitude and affluence which have revolutionized Highland life and dramatically affected its natural environment over the centuries. Using the background to the Fraser clan chiefs as a central theme, from the cunning Red Fox, and infamous Fraser chieftain, through to the sudden death of the Master of Lovat which set in train the sale of the Fraser empire around Beaufort Castle, Iain Thomson weaves a narrative that shows how the effects of history have such a profound effect on what happens today.

The Long Horizon

History

Europe

Birlinn Limited

Nuclear meltdown, capitalist greed and human folly combine the duplicity of politicians, bankers and the menace of an undercover agent.  Particle physicist, Hector MacKenzie, alerts the Prime Minister and his Chief Scientific Advisor to major dangers in the storage of uranium waste. Vivid eye contact, a golden haired woman and a tube train bomb draw him to subsistence living on an abandoned Hedridean island.  Ancestral roots, love, and the birth of their son links Viking saga to the supernatural mystery of particle 'entanglement'. A powerful environmental theme warns of the perils to a nuclear world where the Sun is Master.

Sun Dance

Literature & Fiction

Grosvenor House Publishing Lim

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