Alastair Macleod: 158 books

In 2016 in Darayya, Syria, a siege is about to be lifted. Two young men, unaware of the impending truce, continue to fight on in the rubble.

Ulla Flota á Fæti: Ulla, Fleet of Foot, the fourteen year old daughter of Helga Svan Hud and Harald Svartur Skegg, suddenly finds her peaceful life changed for ever when a blood feud from the past comes back to haunt her parents. It is 1014 and some of the Vikings, in the fleet bound from Orkney...

As fishing stocks dwindle the fight for the resources of the sea has become a war in areas where terrorism has taken root. "In 2012, against conservation rules, two large non-Mediterranean fleets were  spotted in some of the main Mediterranean fishing grounds. The substantial presence...

The Fated Prince How often does the reader get the chance to read a story from four thousand years ago? This is a story from the 18th/19th dynasty of Egypt of a prince under a curse. As he battles the magical forces against him, he undertakes a journey. By his own strength he...

A few degrees of extra warmth in the Ocean may lead to surprises.   Working in the Orkney Islands, a young female marine biologist, reeling from a recent break up finds a live GreenTurtle, a Goddess of the Sea, on the beach. This startling discovery about the  warming ocean, has deeper effects,...

"from the town below came the sounds of muffled voices, laughter then footsteps echoing in the paved narrow streets. Siesta was over. She could start work. At night, when it was cooler, human energy emerged renewed. During the day it evaporated away with the heat. For the cicadas it seemed the...

"As he got older Boyar Davidovitch got ill. He decided he was dying. He told his house serfs Boris and Ivan to go to the bank and take out all his money. Boris and Ivan came back with a great heavy sack. Boyar Davidovitch grabbed the sack and thrust his hands into it. "What's this?"...

The daughter of a Russian oligarch, living a jet set life on the French Riviera, finds her world turned upside down when her father's wealth slips away.

Red Deer have been in Scotland or at least 11,000 years. With the re-afforestation of Scotland underway there is conflict in the hills as one body wants to rapidly reduce deer numbers while sporting estates seek to maintain their stocks. Tempers run high and relationships suffer as locals find themselves on opposite sides of the fence.

How can the enchanted isles cope when six thousand people arrive as tourists and are some awakened to the charms of the mermaids? As cruise liners probe the north, like Jason and the Argonauts, their passengers discover cuisines and love.

Shock and Awe, the Mongol way of conquest and their love of fluid continuous war, are stemmed for a moment, not by the Great Wall but by the precepts of Buddhism, Confucianism and the settled organised minds of the Han Chinese. Kublai Khan, first Mongol Emperor of China, finds his own impulses for revenge put to the challenge as he deals with his younger brother.

""You see," said her mother, picking up another ball of wool, men think they are in charge but it is us women who weave the fabric of life just as I knit this yarn into a jumper so we spin the yarn into a bairn in our wombs. Then we spin the bairns into a family with threads you cannot...

"But, women remembered the land had been a garden and they made for themselves within their homes, a garden such as this, the courtyard garden, it's aim to recreate something lost but envisioned in the mind of women, a miniature of the lost paradise, a miniature of what the land had once been....

In 2017 Peru, bordered by the Pacific in the West and the high Andes in the East  was struck by exceptional torrential rains. Large mudslides carried away villages, parts of the roads, and towns were inundated. many people on the roads lost their lives. Although El Niño was expected this was an...