Gordon M Burns: 15 books

Five years ago, Asa was a happy child but now she teeters on the brink of self-destruction. At seventeen, she worries about her obsessive pebble collection and a hidden secret past. Asa gathers evidence, which points conclusively to one fact - Asa will become another one of a line of notorious and...

Following the success of Scotfree Tales From Scotland, Scotfree2 is now available for downloading. However, instead of nine tales, this time only six. How mean is that?

Why anyone should kick against her self-perceived societal illusions was inexplicable to all that knew Lucy, but she had. She never fathomed the why herself, bringing as it had, a hard-knock existence to the young, single mother of a challenging child. All changed for the better when Katrazyne moved...

Short strores inspired in Scotland in which, people discover universal truths about themselves.

In a future world, confident teenager Eska is not the average, fun-seeking teenager she appears. Instructed by her teacher, Saurin, to help Lyking to achieve a step at school, she discovers a malevolent force intent to destroy her. Torn by an attitude of why-bother, Saurin leads her towards to search...

“No? Not true, Malachias, that by fate of accident long ago, drifting essence became duped to life on Earth? Moreover, once here, split apart onto this azure globe devoid of pity, to wander lost and helpless through a weird entanglement of wordless description and forever kept apart?” In...

Following on from the successful Scot-free 1 and 2, more short stories, inspired in modern day Scotland with universal characters and situations.

Disillusioned with police work in an Edwardian spa town, in highland Scotland, Duncan Gow’s renewed but unlikely relationship with the unorthodoxly stunning Haldane sisters has made him confident. Margaret, Eupheme and Sibylla are the daughters of a local laird, girls he once met as a young boy...

Arianwyn has turned her back on the crass Occidental world, returning home to seek the peace she desires. Along with her are devoted followers, who have all hope in her vision. Yet, this dream is not clear to her. Facetted by events both light and dark, hope and despair led them towards their utopia...

Nursed from the addiction caused by Petrus, Arianwyn now faces fresh challenges from a range of people who have joined her disparate group. Each skilful but flawed in their own way, they appear to place their hope in Arianwyn and her goal to return to her homeland. Arianwyn, now in late adolescence,...

With a 1st in Mechanical Engineering, Asa has turned her back on Scotland for a successful career in Calgary. Leaving her friends to the prosaic life of Orkney, an undefined incident at Birsay with Roddy has appeared to sever her wish to ever return. Her close friends, Rosie and Julietta, have sent...

Hypolite Corrillon views life as a fiasco to share any fleeting pleasures with others without rancour, recrimination or painful regret. This outlook has led him into affairs that do not go without pejorative questioning which, he feels, point more towards misunderstanding on the part of others, rather...

A few more Short Stories from a Scottish slant and a couple of poems in the mix. As to what constitutes a Scottish slant on things I could not quite say. Hard knocks shake the bloom of all others around the world but we have forty ways to describe degrees of rain.

In Waggle Dancer, the nature and meaning of Arianwyn’s life through the purpose of Grainne clarifies - horned upon misogyny, perfection cannot be realised yet what alternative can femininity provide? Questions which, Arianwyn - increasing idolised by a close band of mainly young women - fights to...