Alastair Macleod: 158 books

This is the third in a series of novellas set in modern day Hong Kong. A young woman , now a mother, grapples with ghosts, and messages from the past to succeed in a male dominated world through her committment to beauty.

When in ancient times the Queen of the Sila forest in Calabria  alloted her forest to her two daughters little did she realise what would ensue. A tale of nymphs and talking birds and the magic of the trees. A hapless hero wanders in to this mysterious realm and, pursuing love, finds himself bound over to protect the trees.

"This night the sea was calm and still, just right for a visit of the finn men. So close to the sea the house invited such a happening. In the past when the cottage lay empty, they often came, stayed the night and left. You see, the house was on the edge of the in-between, the magic zone, the...

"At dawn my father rose, washed and said his prayers. I too. When we had dressed we ate pitta. He drank black coffee, I pomegranate juice. My mother said it killed all the bugs that Cairo was infested with. Then we went through the bead curtain. Here was the workshop. It smelt of cedar wood and...

In the Cedarberg Mountains of South Africa, surrounded by the beauty of the Fynbos wild flower National Park, a young astrobiologist finds herself in the midst of controversy.

This is the fifth book in a series set in modern day Hong Kong . A young woman, Xiulan Ling, against the backdrop of the forces of nature, finds herself at the heart of cyber and cultural warfare. Why is this original manuscript so important to China and the Warriors of Dao?

Wildflowers are resilient. In this political satire the author imagines what might happen to the nations of the UK in the turmoil of 2016/17 following the Brexit vote. The United Kingdom: is just that, a unity of four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Southern Ireland...

"He paused "You know, some say that "woman" is the most powerful force in the world. For the most part I would say that analysis is right, but for people like me," he went on, "she has a rival, the sea and I've thought about this a lot. When I'm at sea I can feel safe,...

*Der leads a little band of Neanderthals facing the challenges of a tough climate and fierce predators; when they collide with a different band of hominids, modern humans, how do they interact? Today we know from genetics there was some interbreeding but why then did Neanderthals die out? Recent evidence suggests a darker violent past for our species. *    

While the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean rages on, a war between the rival organised crime syndicates is inevitable. Peppino Spada finds himself caught in the tentacles of his own organisation. How can he free himself from the Octopus?

Orkni; Al largo, della costa a nord della scozia si trova un altromondo. Questo e il mito della creazione di Orkney, un arcipelago di isole dal clima vigoroso e straripante di vita Morgana; Se la riva è una zona magica le numerose isole di Orkney sono sicuramente cinte con la magia , un potere invisibile...

"The Voluspa, the shamaness, had foretold he would gain his vengeance but lose something precious. He had thought long on this. What was most precious to him? His hound? His horse, His boat ? His sword? Did she really mean something solid; or something more elusive, his boldness, his courage?...

Divorce, wives out to work, single life style, redundancy, gay partners, there are many reasons why men find themselves doing house work. I don't mean washing up occasionally, no I mean full on in the captain's seat responsible for it all, running a household, doing washing, cleaning, cooking. We...

There is, they say, a mermaid in all women. Others say mermaids are the creation of the mind of men. But that is for others to debate. Mermaids have  existed now in fable and legend for millenia, but there likely was a  time when mermaids did not have a golden comb nor a mirror; they made do, as...