Alastair Macleod: 158 books

"A new age began, of Welsh rule under the Gryphon. To celebrate this new alliance, Afon, princess of the Llew married Gwalchgwyn prince of the Brynwi. The druids of the conjoined tribes said that the power of the Gryphon was in the two forces united and balanced within it; the wisdom and all...

"Inga had never been to the Wednesday class until today. It was the school holidays and her husband was watching the kids. Although Lin Chan was probably about twenty-eight, she was small, and moved with a natural grace. She was dark and very slim. She had the body of a child, thought Inga. Lin...

"Grandmother said, "Something is about to happen; a baby is going to appear." "Where will it come from grandmother?" "They come from the sea." And so I found myself looking each day by the shore"

The chronicle of the Great Mother; her power pervades us and, as this story opens, she is worshipped. Slowly she and her followers are forced into retreat and hiding, by male dominance; yet her wisdom could guide us all to a better world.

"Once, long before Buddha, long before Allah, long before the Christ, the peoples on either side of the Pentland Firth worshipped Mara, the Green Goddess of the sea. Mara gave them food, seals, birds, shellfish. She also gave them life; the tides of women's courses that brought on the passion,...

This story, set in modern day Hong Kong, is the fourth in a series based round the life of Yiulan, a young woman making her way in that busy city of 7 million inhabitants. Many of the characters from the earlier stories continue. Finding herself now rich and cossetted, boredom creeps in. The beauty...

In the harsh environment of The Altiplano, the high plains of Peru, a young man and woman, divided by wealth and race, face challenges to their love.

Today some fantasise about the wolf but in the past the wolf was seen as an ever present danger and especially in the winter. These three stories highlight what it was and still is like for some living close to wolves. The first two are set in Russia where the vast conifer forest called the Taiga...

The time is 1200 AD. In the Pre-Columbian Caribbean, conflict between two ethnic groups on the islands, the Caribs and the Taíno, has been ongoing for some time. On one island this conflict comes to a head and leads to an extraordinary event; the crossing of the Atlantic, west to east, following...

People snatching was a thing that happened at different times round the British Isles. The first raiders, the Vikings, in the eighth and ninth centuries took women and men as slaves, but later from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century there are recorded incidents from Southern Ireland and Cornwall,...

"Conall had a daughter, Orla by name, a beautiful girl, nearing sixteen, auburn hair worn long, green eyes, already a shapely figure. The foster son Uisde had coveted her for some time. She was of the caher people and so he reckoned she should be his. But Orla, her mother had remarked, was like...

"A white sow, the Haen Wan, had been seen in the wooded hills above the Dun. The white sow had great power it was a sacred animal to all, not to be harried. The Druids said it linked the world we lived in with the Anwan , the other world. Hwuw was not a deep man. He thought if he killed the Haen...

A sequel to the story Rhino. This modern day story, Elephant Ghosts, is set in East Africa where rhino and elephant populations are under extreme threat from poachers. In the last few years hundreds of rhino and elephant have been killed and their horns and trunks sold at very high prices...

"She had liked the outward look of Ewan, but he was a little older than the type of man she thought she should go for. She had made presuppositions, cast him in a mould. Dismissed him. Perhaps he had sensed that. Now, when she was curious, changing her mind, she only had this slender information...