Alastair Macleod: 158 books

In modern day Arabia, great wealth and conspicuous consumption has brought pressure to bear on the natural world as suppliers seek to meet the demand for luxury products. Omar, is employed by his Sheik to seek out the most expensive perfume in the world, but finds himself facing the violent underworld which has emerged to meet this demand.

In 2015 the wave of migrants steadily crossing the Mediterranean to Europe hit the headlines as many of the craft carrying people sank with great loss of life. This is the story of one little family, and in particular Hadi, aged seven.

In the rural Icelandic community it was and still is common for the artist to make his main living, not from his art, but  from the soil and the sea. Over time  change has been steadily coming to those traditions. Now the pace quickens with the arrival of the internet. Yet some things are eternal, for still young women seek love and a young man pursues his calling.

Four stories; In "The Living Cave," Sgithac, the legendary warrior priestess, trains young men on the Isle of Skye in the arts of war and also in the arts of life. Feargal faces one last challenge before he joins the warrior band; it is to do with his own fears and the mystery of life and...

On the small island of North Ronaldsay things were not going well.The storms were increasing and sea level was rising. The last inhabitant was contemplating a bleak future. Then the pods appeared.

The culture of the Middle East contains a vast repository of stories. Circulating for hundreds of years in oral form, and  often told by professional storytellers in the marketplace, the West became aware of them initially through Bible stories, and later through versions of the Arabian Tales in...

In the year 1588; with the blessing of the Pope, the Spanish Armada sets out from Iberia to invade England. This is the story of a young man's coming of age. Of first love in Lisbon, as he prepares to sail with his father on the huge fleet of ships assembled by King Phillip II of Spain, then a close...

"he climbed to the hard packed cone where the fence had been then with a bound cleared the tiny remnant of chain link protruding from the top and leapt down the other side into the forest. He was free. Caught from the wild he had all his instincts intact and he was hungry. His coat was superb...

The high priestess of the temple of Maat, Goddess of Order, Balance, Harmony and Justice sends her next in line to warn the Pharoah of a dangerous idea coming from the Kingdom of Punt that threatens the order and stability of Egypt. But she does not realise there is another internal threat, from within...

set in Hong Kong : a young woman on the brink of love and unhappy with her university course finds herself challenging the Wild Horse Triad to save her brother and the family face.

A small Scottish knitwear firm begins to introduce Fembots; advanced humanoid robot women to the production line. Attractive, skilful and very lifelike, will these Fembots be accepted by the women workers in the workplace? What happens when the women are encouraged to take them home and what affect do they have on their men? Is this the real challenge of the future?

"The Galicians were decidedly masculine and brim full of energy and walked with the confidence of athletes. Each day they practiced the arts of war in the palace grounds where they were watched with admiration from the balconies. Their leader Gaythelos was a handsome man, a round face with a...

"In the beginning Orkni was a young, beautiful and voluptuous goddess. Orkni's hair was the seaweed and her eyes were the colour of the ocean. Her father was Hekli god of volcanoes, fire and lava. Her mother was Mara goddess of the deep ocean. Orkni fell in love with the god of the wind Yarpha....

In the summer of 2015 a great slaughter of pilot whales took place on the Faroe Islands. About 150 of the sea mammals were trapped and killed in a shallow bay. This is a story arising from that event.