Set in 1956 in an isolated village in the Scottish Highlands, Scott's slow-paced debut centers on the death of eight-year-old Jamie Fraser, who's found in a canal ...

Glasgow gangster Gerry Dochery is threatening the life of Jimmy McPhee, a childhood friend of newspaper editor John McAllister, in Scott’s talky fifth novel set in the 1950s Scottish Highlands (after ...

Many of the lochs we see while travelling through the Scottish Highlands are man made, created as part of vast hydro electric schemes in the 1950s and 60s. As the water level drops in many of these ...