Millburn Publishing: 20 books

Ardrinish Bay, on the west coast of Kintyre, is well known for wild fowl, waders and sea birds.  Some of the locals have always exercised their rights to shoot wild fowl between low and high tide marks.  The bird population also attracts bird-watchers.  Inevitably, this led to a conflict...

Iain Findlater was a news editor on the Daily Courier in London. While covering a conference in Edinburgh, he arranged to stay in an hotel in Craigmouth  so that he could visit the nearby Craigmouth Bay to see the abundant bird life there.  It was hardly twenty miles east of Edinburgh, on...

Seven years on and the principal characters of Trespass are in the Scottish Borders at David Scott's home at Hyndlaw during the Second World War.   A Polish refugee and staff have become tenants of an adjoining estate and appear to be up to no good.  However, that is resolved to the...

After the Jacobite Rising of 1745, in which the Highland clans took part, the clan system was destroyed and the relationship between the Chief of the clan and the people changed from a communal one to that of landlord and tenant. The “Clearances” of the Highlands took place between 1785 and 1850...

John Thriepwood comes to Scotland in 1946 with his small son after inheriting the family estate. The now Lord Thriepwood finds a ruined and neglected estate. This absorbing and easily read story quickly captures the readers interest and sympathy, as it recounts the perseverance and willing hard work needed in the face of continued problems and the initial mistrust of the local people

Here is a simple tale of a simple man to whom simple circumstances---and his neighbours---proclaimed that he required a wife to look after his children, his cows and his goat.  Since most of the women on his native island were near relatives to himself, it seemed that he would have to go to look...

Set in the 1930's, this is the tale of a modern Highland Clearance.  Lord Holtby, a self-made Yorkshire woollen manufacturer and millionaire, bought a large West Highland estate from a descendant of the Stewarts of Monach.  His first action was to replace the factor, Mark Stewart who was,...

A humorous tale of a Chicago Trade Union boss discovering his “Scotch” roots and making his mark on his ancestral home in a Scottish island.

A gripping tale of two groups of tenants of adjoining Scottish Highland sporting estates in the 1930s who are in dispute over the boundaries and shooting rights of their respective grounds – it leads to deer poaching and perhaps girl poaching.

David Scott and his wife, Margaret, were well involved in the by-election for Central Peebles and the East March in the Scottish Borders - David, because a wartime comrade, Archie Butler, had been selected as the candidate for An Co-fhlaitheachd, a Scottish Republican party, and Margaret, because...

Alan Kinnear was on a working holiday, attempting to rejuvenate his writing skills, in the Cairngorm area of the Highlands.  He was unwittingly involved, on the side of the law, in deer poaching on an industrial scale which was seriously affecting a sporting estate, one of whose tenants he was...

In 1704 Colin MacColl of Ardcoll, the eldest son and heir to An Colin Mor, Chief of Clan Colin, returned to his father's castle, the castle of Duncolin in West Ross, after an enforced absence of three years. He found his father a caricature of his former self, having suffered an injury to his head,...

Erismore was an isolated small island in the Inner Hebrides and Finlay MacBride had been the Church of Scotland minister – but before he followed so many of the island's men to the colours, he had been aware that not all was well on the island. Aeneas Graham, serving as a doctor in Wellington's...

This captivating story is a pleasure to read.  After the strange events of the introductory chapters, starting with a death during the Clearances of 1817, which give an understanding of the background, the tale unravels with an unsophisticated but finely described momentum.  The reader is caught up in the events which unfurl and lead on to the satisfying culmination.