Tony Compton: 3 books

James Tuthill takes a superb photo from a cliff but then falls off, mortally wounding himself and the camera. 12-year old Timothy Maddox, whose mother rescues Tuthill, sees the photo but cannot remove the image card. Mike Angleby, photographic society president, learns from Tuthill just before he...

Nervous, shy, plain, unfashionable, impecunious, ordinary? There are loads of people like that, but surely not hero material? Jayne Muffatt is all of these, seventeen years old, suppressed at home, ignored outside, and certainly no hero when she turns up for her first job after an undistinguished...

(Hampshire and Edinburgh accents and a little Scots dialect appear.) Hampshire-born carpenter and loner Johnny Pförtner decides to return to his (partly) Scottish roots, so he moves to the remote island of Mingulay and sets up home. He decides to announce his presence by flying a huge saltire (Scottish...