166 Ebooks por Alastair Macleod
Alastair Macleod: The Black Dragon Ghost
The Black Dragon ‘She had imagined many things about Li Ban but she shuddered at his death. He had tried to outrun the Black Dragon and failed. Each year young men ran before the great wave that swee …
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Alastair Macleod: Relaciones
Granada 2006’Madrilena sighed and breathed in the evening air. As she did some of the emotion of the discussion with Arancia evaporated. She could hear her tidying and washing up in the …
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Alastair Macleod: The Hunter and the Hunted
‘he climbed to the hard packed cone where the fence had been then with a bound cleared the tiny remnant of chain link protruding from the top and leapt down the other side into the forest. He was …
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Alastair Macleod: Tide In Her Kitchen
‘She felt angry, how could this happen, couldn’t we stop it? The water crept higher and higher – strangely there was no wind. A strong wind would have had it crashing over, sweeping along the stone p …
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Alastair Macleod: Pomona
‘Italo era passato di lì alcune notti – la chiesa in fiamme. Attraverso le finestre in alto lo avevano raggiunto le grida selvagge di donne. Lui aveva affrettato il passo. E tuttavia lì il prete era …
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Alastair Macleod: IL Castello
‘E cosa mi dici di te, chi ti terrà stretta di notte, chi ti bacerà?” Ma non appena lo disse, Flavia vide Carlotta stringere il neonato e baciarlo e poi vide un bambino un po’ più cresciuto, o una ba …
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Alastair Macleod: La DONNA NELLO SPECCHIO
“Ogni giorno sento che quello che stiamo facendo qui è tanto meraviglioso quanto straziante. Ci sono momenti in cui senti la presenza delle persone che hanno vissuto e sono morte qui”. Il dottore des …
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Alastair Macleod: Comfort Zone
‘The polished mahogany counter gleamed, light bounced from the glass mirror through the bottles on the wall behind the bar. Yvette, a flaming red head, tarty in black top and short green skirt was po …
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Alastair Macleod: Below Sea Level
‘Anna Goosens, his second in command, was positive about the coming changes. Her father owned a business exporting Dutch water technology. He was expecting plenty of work in the future; building sea …
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Alastair Macleod: Negative Externalities
‘They hadn’t been together long. Danica felt she hadn’t mapped Arusha yet, wasn’t familiar with her patterns and rhythms. That was always part of the excitement – exploring the routes of …
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Alastair Macleod: The Greenland Prophecy
‘Lions tended to be bossy, unfaithful and short tempered but did look magnificent. That had been Cato, Afro Caribbean, very good looking but she’d dumped him when she found out he was double dating …
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Alastair Macleod: Druid
‘That night there was talk in the Dun, of strangers.A traveler had brought word of the great metal army, like a snake, wending its way north. It was nearing the Dee. ‘Rhodri’s spies say they are …
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Alastair Macleod: The Tale of a Northern Atlantis
photocredit – Richard Stonier – ‘bittern in flight’ ‘The queen was young, her face pale her feature fine. Vlado had never been in her presence and her beauty struck into his heart. She was clad in a …
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alastair macleod: The Beekeepers
‘From each of his seven hives, worker bees fanned out each morning to seek out fragrant flowers, welcomed by neighbours as friends and pollinators. They were nature’s midwives ensuring the next …
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Alastair Macleod: The Ebonist
‘At dawn my father rose, washed and said his prayers. I too. When we had dressed we ate pitta. He drank black coffee, I pomegranate juice. My mother said it killed all the bugs that Cairo was infeste …
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Alastair Macleod: Lalla Rocca
‘A bird called in the darkness, a weak plaintive call.A moth fluttered near the lamp and a bat flitted near her head making her jump with fright. Here on the terrace, within the cloak of darkness, …
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alastair macleod: A Woman From The Sea
‘He saw footsteps in the soft sand leading to the shore.There she was, completely naked and supple, not hard. He ran, for she was nearing the water. He reached out and grabbed her by her arm – it was …
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Alastair Macleod: Blue Rush
‘For the professional young women of Orkney, this influx of engineers and scientists was a godsend. It opened up the choice and here were men on good salaries, men with prospects. The selection of fa …
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Alastair Macleod: Bennibister
‘Charles Learmonth lay in bed wide awake. He was thinking of Isobel, her eyes, her hair. He was attracted. Outside the rain rattled against the window. Was he ready for a new relationship? Usually de …
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alastair macleod: Moschii
‘Signora Luchiese broke off another little piece of cantuccini and leaned down. At her feet stood a tiny brown dog with a pair of extra large eyes looking up appealingly at her; from his small head …
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Alastair Macleod: A Pharaoh’s Daughter
‘She rubbed her arms – goose pimples. She stroked her long hair, fingering the ringlets and stared at her sandals; a slight girl, slender brown in a fine white garment that reached her ankles. Gold r …
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alastair macleod: Alberto and the Tiny Teacher
‘ one night the kitten heard little voices singing from the mouse hole, it crept closer.The mice were singing their Pizza Song; “We have tiny feeta, And whiskers so neata, And we like to eata, De …
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Alastair Macleod: Wedded To The Land
‘Nuala had recently left Dermot for Tomas Crowley, a local Pharmacist and fellow horse enthusiast, and now the ‘D’ word was being spoken.Father and son continued to look out over the fields below, …
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Alastair Macleod: The Little Beauty of the Beauties
‘The Galicians were decidedly masculine and brim full of energy and walked with the confidence of athletes. Each day they practiced the arts of war in the palace grounds where they were watched with …
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Alastair Macleod: Pomona
‘He knew these symptoms. These were the physical manifestations of a suppressed desire. In Guiliana’s case it was clear the desire to have children was surfacing in her dreams. Italo had described …
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Alastair Macleod: The Castle of Allure
‘Signora Grimaldi introduced her friends as they met with Flavia in the hall, “this is Signora Cassani and this is Signora Altieri. And this, ” she said turning to the dark haired woman “is my …
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Alastair MacLeod: El Ombligo
‘He watched her as she walked off – the thick black hair, the green top, then the brown midriff, then the blue jeans, then the black boots. Black, green, brown, blue, black.That night he set to work …
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alastair macleod: Love In a Cold Climate
‘She walked back across the grass to the little stone cottage. Erland was still asleep in his basket on the kitchen table his face calm and serene. She opened the door of the Raeburn and poked the …
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alastair macleod: Batool
‘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 …
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alastair macleod: The Falcon
‘Marco noticed her right hand, it was covered in shallow red scars. She followed his gaze. “Sharp talons, ” she laughed, “my glove came off! By the way, I’m Antonietta Cristaldi, I run the place. …
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Alastair Macleod: The Choosing
‘the sun was fierce outside but a gentle breeze lazily teased the filmy curtains. Hypnotically they moved to and fro. She dozed and slipped into a dream. She was standing in the corner of the …
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Alastair Macleod: Flood
‘She knew him vaguely. He lived up the valley on a small hill farm which he worked with his dad. Sheep mostly. “We’ve lost a few lambs in the wet, ” he said, his voice warm and steady. Things had bee …
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alastair macleod: Steady and Reliable
‘A tiny dot of light grew into an ever expanding half circle as the tunnel end approached. His tension eased – soon he would be out in the sunlight.He hadn’t expected her to leave, but that she had …
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alastair macleod: Love in The Gobi
“Go into the morning sun on the river, into the reflections, the shimmer and the shadows, see the camel graze and the perching steppe eagle; he flies now, enter him and go into the wind. Melt into …
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Alastair Macleod: Illegal
‘A fantasy – the cycle of their days and weeks locked them in – they never met any young British men. At the farm they collected on trailers and were tractored out to the fields. The ground was wet, …
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alastair macleod: The Green Man of The Pentland Firth
‘Once, long before Buddha, long before Allah, long before the Christ, the peoples on either side of the Pentland Firth worshipped Mara, the Green Goddess of the sea.Mara gave them food, seals, birds, …
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Alastair Macleod: The Orkney Weather
‘to be a resident or a visitor to Orkney is to be struck by many things – everywhere, loch, sea, and peaty burn separate the land with fingers of sparkling water. Dressed in a hundred greens and bonn …
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alastair macleod: Jade
“This…., ” said Meg with a flourish “is the Chinese Orchestra.”Jade stared in fascination as Meg took out each little parcel and laid it on the downie. She carefully unwrapped each piece.Little …
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alastair macleod: Orkni
‘In the beginning Orkni was a young, beautiful and voluptuous goddess. Orkni’s hair was the seaweed and her eyes were the colour of the ocean. Her father was Hekli god of volcanoes, fire and lava. …
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alastair macleod: Minimalist Heaven
‘There was a plop in the water beside the houseboat – a spent rocket stick. The fireworks continued to blaze away, magnificent bursts and showers of light, heralding in 2005. They seemed to go higher …
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alastair macleod: The Red Violin
‘David found before him a striking redhead with shoulder length hair dressed in a long black dress and black waist length jacket. She strode in boldly and seeing the open fiddle case lifted the …
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alastair macleod: The Bridegroom and The Elf Maiden
‘He played his fiddle in the woods as well as in the open glades. His work in the forest took him deeper and deeper each day away from the hut till one day he said to himself “Why do I walk so far …
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Alastair Macleod: The Mighty Harp that Protects
‘A white sow, the Haen Wan, had been seen in the wooded hills above the Dun. The white sow had great power it was a sacred animal to all, not to be harried.The Druids said it linked the world we …
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alastair macleod: Beauty and The Prince
‘At first the forest was green and light with wide clearings between the trees. She saw many little birds and deer, who told her the way. The forest started to get darker with bigger, older trees. …
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Alastair Macleod: GUANXI
‘Attaining Guanxi depends on all the principles being in place. The key is the concept of harmony; without harmonious relationships, for example where there are competing or conflicting relationships …
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alastair macleod: Threads
‘“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 …
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alastair macleod: Keepers of The Forest
‘He was about to start on a new set when he discovered he was low on wood. There was a little piece of African blackwood but all the ebony was gone on the last set. He was pleased about them – they …
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alastair macleod: THE EAGLE AND CHILD
‘Along time ago there were more birds, and animals, but the few people there were, were increasing.In a mountain glen a woman was out reaping barley with a sickle. She had her baby with her but …
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alastair macleod: Beauty from the Sea
‘She watched as the water stilled. In ancient Egypt, the goddesses presented symbolic mirrors representing the sun and the moon to Ra in temple rituals. They believed he had authority over light.None …
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alastair macleod: The Blue Man
‘This night the sea was calm and still, just right for a visit of the finn men.So close to the sea the house invited such a happening. In the past when the cottage lay empty, they often came, stayed …
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alastair macleod: when shamans meet
‘But the women did not realise Hero was really clairvoyant, he could see into the future. Because of this skill, in Nigeria he had studied to be a shaman and could travel in a trance.He saw his own …
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alastair macleod: Boyar Davidovitch
‘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 …
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alastair macleod: Talking with Elfgifu
‘and this beech he called Elfgifu the Emerald Princess.In the summer light she did seem like a princess to him- the sun slanting through her small soft downy green leaves dappling the glade in an …
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Alastair Macleod: Ninfa Montana
‘Maria stopped after a little while and looked back. He was out of sight. She moved her hand to her hair band to adjust it. Only her mama had called her pretty before. She felt a little flustered. Sh …
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Alastair Macleod: Body Balance
‘Inga had never been to the Wednesday class until today. It was the school holidays and her husband was watching the kids. Although Lin Chan was probably about twenty-eight, she was small, and moved …
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alastair macleod: Strip of Light
‘He paused “You know, some say that “woman” is the most powerful force in the world. For the most part I would say that analysis is right, but for people like me, ” he went on, “she has a rival, the …
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Alastair Macleod: The Girl With The Roman Coin
‘The seal was close now, swimming parallel to the shore.“Enter, ” it said, “Enter”.She watched in amazement as, starting at her toes her feet, then legs, began to turn silver. She could feel under …
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Alastair Macleod: Embrace of the Sea
‘The tourist to the islands is to be forgiven for imagining that island life is an escape, an idyll where life is easy. It is far from the truth. Winning a living from sea and soil is hard, sometimes …
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alastair macleod: A Place to Work
‘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 …
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alastair macleod: MORGANA
‘they talked of the perilous journey they had undertaken, past the swilling whirlpool near the Katness shore, then the ripping tides of the Pictland Firth, then the journey past the symbol of the …
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alastair macleod: Broadband
‘She had liked the outward look of Ewan, but he was a little older than the type of man she thought she should go for. She had made presuppositions, cast him in a mould. Dismissed him. Perhaps he had …
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Alastair Macleod: Sleepy Lion and Dark Lotus
‘the Chinese empire was vast and so was the Chinese army. In Bejing the Imperial Palace was enormous with many rooms, for the royal court, for courtiers, cooks and servants.But the emperor had …
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Alastair Macleod: Patterns of Espionage
‘As she knelt concernedly by the ashen-faced sailor taking his pulse, Captain Stewart noticed her hands, neat slim white fingers, almost translucent; no ring on the left hand. ‘Married? he asked, as …
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Alastair Macleod: Salt Spray
‘At home, Jean his mother listened as they talked about the yacht.“It was the sea water, “said Callum.She began to mash the tatties. First she put in a lump of butter then some pepper. She reached …
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alastair macleod: North Atlantic Drift
‘We were like the jellyfish she mused. They surrounded the boat, all pink and filmy, like upturned translucent pudding bowls, each pulsing slowly.Incapable of strong directional swimming they were at …
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alastair macleod: The Return of the Sun
‘Tell the ‘copter to go away, ” said the guerilla leader, a woman. He recognised her, Ernesta Arnel; one of the “most wanted’. Her hair was cut short, the high cheek bones denoted tribal ancestry. In …
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alastair macleod: La Poverta
‘The neighbours soon knew about her husband’s disappearance. And they were not slow in offering opinions of him. “Best without him, ” said Roberta from the flat above. “Too lazy.” “What a pity, to …
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alastair macleod: El Regreso del Sol
‘Dile al helicóptero que se vaya -dijo la líder guerrillera. Él la reconoció, era Ernesta Arnel, uno de los ‘más buscado’. Llevaba el pelo pómulos denotaban su ascendencia tribal. En otras …
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Alastair Macleod: The Amorous Jacket
‘Each day as he delivered a subpoena, or a will, the jacket grabbed him as he sought the stairs.At last after a week he asked, to the whole front office, “Whose is the black jacket in the hall?There …
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Alastair Macleod: The Carers
Nunia talked this over with her father. He said that this was the most difficult test, to love where nothing is given back, when the subject makes themselves unlovable, rejecting even. ‘But should …
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Alastair Macleod: The Traveller’s Tale
As he spoke the young photographer reappeared. ‘This is the girl you wanted?’ The photographer nodded. For this shot he needed someone young. She was not unattractive, even in that crazy outfit. Good …
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alastair macleod: The Seven Princesses
‘The seventh princess, who lived in a remote castle, in a mountain region, met no real young men; the only young men she encountered were in the stories that she read. Her hero from her book was a …
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Alastair Macleod: The Wooing of Orla
‘Conall had a daughter, Orla by name, a beautiful girl, nearing sixteen, auburn hair worn long, green eyes, already a shapely figure. The foster son Uisde had coveted her for some time. She was of th …
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alastair macleod: The Hebridean
‘The wind was from the sea and the smoke drifted over the links to the land beyond. He had noted the wind. The air never seemed still here. He had learned his bride’s name from Morfor. She was called …
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alastair macleod: The Fertile Rock
‘Don Petrosile sighed. Such a woman had never entered his ambit or if she had, he had been asleep, his antennae had not been working, he had not picked up on the flaming desire that Aldo had …
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Alastair Macleod: The Last Wolf in Scotland
‘near the ancient Scots Pine, a remnant of the great Mirkwood, that dense Caledonian Forest that once strode these lands, he passed the wolf stone, a large irregular granite boulder where the inscrip …
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Alastair Macleod: The Power of the Protecting Veil
‘Valentina made the coffee then disappeared for a moment to the loo. She checked herself in the mirror. Hmm, Nikolay was nice. Very very nice. Now she might make an exception for him. She liked his m …
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Alastair Macleod: Shells on the Strand
‘On the island of North Ronaldsay; the sea was calm, there was no wind and the island was wreathed in mist’ She is moist, secret, cool breath of the sea Her soft touch Nature’s moisturiser On the nak …
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alastair macleod: Ivar The Shadowless
‘The Voluspa, the shamaness, had foretold he would gain his vengeance but lose something precious.He had thought long on this. What was most precious to him? His hound? His horse, His boat ? His …
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Alastair Macleod: Relaciones
‘Madrilena suspiró y respiró el aire de la tarde. Mientras lo hacía la emoción de la discusión con Arancia se evaporaba. Arancia y Tomás se habían comprometido el mes anterior. Su compañera de piso …
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Alastair Macleod: The Mystery of Loch Tromlee
‘Colin Mackenzie wore a tan half-length jacket, light green trousers and ankle length, lumberjack lace up boots. Even from a distance his wavy black hair seemed vital. ‘Those eyebrows, ‘ thought Fion …
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alastair macleod: The Merbaby
‘Grandmother said, “Something is about to happen; a baby is going to appear.”“Where will it come from grandmother?”“They come from the sea.”And so I found myself looking each day by the …
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Alastair Macleod: Carta Marina
In the year 1588; with the blessing of the Pope, the Spanish Armada sets out from Iberia to invade England. This is the story of a young man’s coming of age. Of first love in Lisbon, as he prepares …
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alastair macleod: Myrina
‘while modern Greece is in turmoil, it still has its ancient myths, and its young people still experience love and joy in the summer mountains ‘ Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden …
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alastair macleod: Flight of the Soul
A story of geese and men. In 2012 and 2013 a massive cull of wild geese was approved by the Scottish Government after pressure from a small group of farmers.This was happening in Orkney but it could …
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alastair macleod: LA PROFECÍA DE GROENLANDIA
una joven mujer infeliz con su elección de los hombres hasta el momento, experimenta una profecía inusual en que su futuro amante será, entonces él se reúne en …
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Alastair Macleod: Arethusa
A young girl of ancient Greece is suddenly faced with the prospect of a forced marriage to a man she does not even know. In desparation she swims out to sea and her adventure …
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Alastair Macleod: The Living Cave
Four stories;In ‘The Living Cave, ‘ Sgithac, the legendary warrior priestess, trains young men on the Isle of Skye in the arts of war and also in the arts of life. Feargal faces one last challenge …
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Alastair Macleod: The Gryphon of Gwydr
‘A new age began, of Welsh rule under the Gryphon. To celebrate this new alliance, Afon, princess of the Llew married Gwalchgwyn prince of the Brynwi.The druids of the conjoined tribes said that the …
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Alastair Macleod: The Light of Isis
The chronicle of the Great Mother; her power pervades us and, as this story opens, she is worshipped.Slowly she and her followers are forced into retreat and hiding, by male dominance; yet her wisdom …
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Alastair Macleod: Arethusa
Una giovane ragazza dallo spirito libero fugge dalla minaccia di un matrimonio forzato. Lei scappa via nave a Ortigia, l’isola del tiranno Gerone. …
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Alastair Macleod: The Wedding at Bennibister
This novella is sequel to Bennibister. In that story, set in the Orkney Islands, a man searching for his emotional self finds it, only to have it plucked from him. A son remains as evidence of that p …
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Alastair Macleod: The Third Norn
The saga of Bennibister continues. There are tensions in the marriage of Isobel and Charles as the the land loses its total grip on him and the sea beckons. Near death brings love and new blood. Ente …
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Alastair Macleod: Tigre
Quién es el mejor cazador, el hombre con la pistola o el tigre? Un cazador encuentra cazados cuando un tigre Siberiano escapa de un parque de animales …
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Alastair Macleod: Return of The Salmon
It is around 400 AD. Rome is still paramount in Britain. From behind Hadrian’s Wall forays are still made into the north. But Roman power is being undermined; on the continent of Europe German tribes …
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Alastair Macleod: Flight of the Skimming Bird
In 1917 Ronald Copeland is one of the first pilots to fly a seaplane out of the Royal Navy base in Scapa Flow, spotting for enemy submarines. There are many islands; he becomes confused in the fog …
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Alastair Macleod: Incitement to Battle
Set in WW1, the story of two Scottish brothers, drawn into the Gallipoli conflict, with devastating consequences for their family and succeeding generations.Most of this story is factually correct, …
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Alastair Macleod: The Turkish Princess
In 1553, a young Turkish princess is kidnapped and held captive by a Christian Knight.Her father sets out to rescue her but when his mission becomes one of revenge the princess …
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Alastair Macleod: The Crack of Doom?
Fracking threatens the small country of Scotland at the very time it is making a bid for nationhood.How will it cope and how do the good people of the land react? An unusual fact intervenes to skew …
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Alastair Macleod: The White Yacht
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 …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan
set in Hong Kong : a young woman on the brink of love and unhappy with her university course finds herself challenging the Wild Horse Triad to save her brother and the family face. …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and the Search for Beauty
A sequel, set in modern Hong Kong, of the story of Xiulan, a young girl finding her way in love and life, and all the while searching for beauty. …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and The House of Surprises
This is the third in a series of novellas set in modern day Hong Kong. A young woman , now a mother, grapples with ghosts, and messages from the past to succeed in a male dominated world through her …
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Alastair Macleod: The Courier
The British have ruled India over two centuries, but as the Japanese close in through Burma, the Muslim separatist movement on the Northern Frontier is putting additional pressure on the Raj as it …
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Alastair Macleod: Orkni
Orkni; Al largo, della costa a nord della scozia si trova un altromondo. Questo e il mito della creazione di Orkney, un arcipelago di isole dal clima vigoroso e straripante di vita Morgana; Se la …
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Alastair Macleod: Ulla Flota á Fæti,
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 co …
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Alastair Macleod: Daughters of the Volcano
Against the backdrop of an impending volcanic eruption a young Icelandic woman living on a remote farm struggles with her violent mood swings. Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden …
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Alastair Macleod: Rooibos
In the Cedarberg Mountains of South Africa, surrounded by the beauty of the Fynbos wild flower National Park, a young astrobiologist finds herself in the midst of controversy. …
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Alastair Macleod: The Night Class
‘Resentfully the women pulled on hats and gloves. Always after class they wanted to talk, to sit and drink tea, to let the session reach a natural end. This abrupt turfing out thrust them back to a r …
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Alastair Macleod: The Ligurian Affair
Little would seem to escape the attention of the inhabitants of the fishing village of Porto Venere. Yet here, with links to international events, unfolded a plot that brought personal tragedy to the …
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Alastair Macleod: Pudding and Bird
A Christmas Story For many , the proposed closure of a certain specialist New York restaurant threatens the equivalent of a gastronomic power cut in the city.What is going on?The answer lies in that …
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Alastair Macleod: Waitukubuli
The time is 1200 AD. In the Pre-Columbian Caribbean, conflict between two ethnic groups on the islands, the Caribs and the Taíno, has been ongoing for some time. On one island this conflict comes to …
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Alastair Macleod: Slender Moon
Having achieved success, a a thirty six year old millionaire Chinese business woman, turns her focus to finding a husband.Strangely the death of her sister brings her close to her …
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Alastair Macleod: Cazanaro
In 16th century southern Italy, a noble woman loses her husband and finds herself under pressure to marry her husband’s creditor. She struggles with her unwillingness to do so and with the Catholic r …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and The Master Game
This story, set in modern day Hong Kong, is the fourth in a series based round the life of Yiulan, a young woman making her way in that busy city of 7 million inhabitants. Many of the characters from …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and Typhoon Feng
This is the fifth book in a series set in modern day Hong Kong . A young woman, Xiulan Ling, against the backdrop of the forces of nature, finds herself at the heart of cyber and cultural warfare. Wh …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and The Ghosts of Ma
This story, set in modern day Hong Kong, is the sixth in a series based round the life of a young woman making her way in that busy city of 7 million inhabitants. Many of the characters from the earl …
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Alastair Macleod: Painted Out of The Veil
A young Muslim woman travelling to London for medical treatment is challenged by different cultural beliefs and makes a startling discovery about herself. …
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Alastair Macleod: The Magic Carpet
In 2015 the wave of migrants steadily crossing the Mediterranean to Europe hit the headlines as many of the craft carrying people sank with great loss of life.
This is the story of one little fam …
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Alastair Macleod: Back Currents
A young doctor arrives from the sea to take up post in a remote island in the Orkney Archipelago. Escaping city life, he encounters a new reality – the powerful surge of elemental forces. …
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Alastair Macleod: The Zeno Brothers
Who were the Zeno brothers? How and why might they have led an expedition to America in 1398, well before Chistopher Columbus? Why were Knights Templar involved? And the young King Erik of Norway? …
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Alastair Macleod: The Waters of Life
It is 290 AD. The Islands of Orkney are Pictish and pagan and ruled by rival Cènels or clans grouped in certain ancient sites.
One clan seeks dominance and tries to use their powerful sorceress t …
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Alastair Macleod: Xiulan and The Missing Master
In this seventh story, Xiulan, a young Chinese woman living in Hong Kong, is now using her special skills in the police department. She encounters the dangerous world of art forgery, with its big mon …
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Alastair Macleod: The Mirror of the Shamaness
It is Pictish Orkney, before the Christian period. A Shamaness seeks a powerful aid in her work as the spiritual guide and seer of her people. …
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Alastair Macleod: Gormlaith
A royal princess of Ireland tires of being a chattel traded between powerful men as they struggle for power. What can one woman do? As the Valkyries in the North weave on their loom, Gormlaith also w …
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Alastair Macleod: Wild Swimming
In the summer of 2015 a great slaughter of pilot whales took place on the Faroe Islands. About 150 of the sea mammals were trapped and killed in a shallow bay. This is a story arising from that event …
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Alastair Macleod: Rhino
The Rhino is being hunted mercilessly for its horn which the Chinese mistakenly believe is an aphrodisiac.
Many dedicated people are struggling against the tide of killing and poaching going on i …
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Alastair Macleod: Elephant Ghosts
A sequel to the story Rhino.
This modern day story, Elephant Ghosts, is set in East Africa where rhino and elephant populations are under extreme threat from poachers.
In the last few years h …
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Alastair Macleod: The Tyrant
The Aeolian islands, in the Tyrrenhian Sea, have seen many invaders and many cultures, but the Greek period is seen as of one of halcyon days when the arts, community life and trade prospered. Yet th …
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Alastair Macleod: The Swordfish Wars
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 …
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Alastair Macleod: From This Earth
Set in Lipari, the Aeolian Islands, off Sicily. The tensions of an impending wedding build like a Mediterranean thunderstorm. But love conquers all in this tale of modern Italy where the past a …
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Alastair Macleod: Leaving
On the small island of North Ronaldsay things were not going well.The storms were increasing and sea level was rising. The last inhabitant was contemplating a bleak future. Then the pods appeared. …
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Alastair Macleod: IL CACCIATORE E LA PREDA
Scaló la dura superfice conica dove un tempo vi era il recinto poi, con un balzo coprì il piccolo residuo di recinzione che sporgeva dalla parte superiore e saltó giù dall’altra parte nella foresta.E …
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Alastair Macleod: The Return
This story is a sequel to ‘Leaving, ‘ in which Alanna, a visitor from Zarthon lands on a North Ronaldsay, a small island threatened by rising sea levels. Alanna leaves with Callum, the last remaining …
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Alastair Macleod: Priestess of Maat
The high priestess of the temple of Maat, Goddess of Order, Balance, Harmony and Justice sends her next in line to warn the Pharoah of a dangerous idea coming from the Kingdom of Punt that threatens …
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Alastair Macleod: The Price of Oud
In modern day Arabia, great wealth and conspicuous consumption has brought pressure to bear on the natural world as suppliers seek to meet the demand for luxury products.
Omar, is employed by his …
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Alastair Macleod: The Last Journey
In the very old, time becomes confused but often the soul indicates it is preparing for its last journey.
Set in pre-revolututionary Russia, Sofya Andreyevna, now ninety two, seeks a time …
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Alastair Macleod: Eternal Blue Sky
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 organis …
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Alastair Macleod: My Lovely Desert
A young female ethnobotanist researching in the Libyan mountains finds herself caught up in events during the fateful year of 2011, when many forces moved against Colonel Ghaddafi.
Drawn at …
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Alastair Macleod: Altiplano Daughter
In the harsh environment of The Altiplano, the high plains of Peru, a young man and woman, divided by wealth and race, face challenges to their love. …
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Alastair Macleod: Conversations with Concrete
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. Das E-Book Conversations with Concrete wird angeboten von …
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Alastair Macleod: Thallers
Der leads a little band of Neanderthals facing the challenges of a tough climate and fierce predators; when they collide with a different band of hominids, modern humans, how do they interact? Today …
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Alastair Macleod: Red Stags
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 …
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Alastair Macleod: Olivia of Tropea
This story takes place in the final chapter of the second Punic war of Rome against Carthage. For years Hannibal had rampaged over Roman territory but he is confined now to Bruttium, modern day Calab …
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Alastair Macleod: Il Forno
A young pizzeria owner feels the heat of his ovens and the pressure from his parents to get married.
Love swirls around him in the beautiful town of Tropea. Which girl will win out? …
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Alastair Macleod: Lo Scricciolo
When in ancient times the Queen of the Sila forest in Calabria alloted her forest to her two daughters little did she realise what would ensue. A tale of nymphs and talking birds and the magic …
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Alastair Macleod: The Tánaiste
In the period after the Battle of Largs, (1263) the West Highlands of Scotland could still be a dangerous place; a patchwork of clans fought for ascendancy. Even within these clans there were smoulde …
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Alastair Macleod: The Three Herons
Five modern folktales from Orkney; The Three Herons, The House Elves of Breck, The Trolls of Trolla Vatn, Horda and Junka, The Elvar Wedding. Das E-Book The Three Herons wird angeboten von und wurde …
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Alastair Macleod: John Telyn and other tales
In this first tale, in a collection of predominantly Welsh stories, a harper has a strange encounter on a lonely road that deeply affects his love life and leads to an interestesting arrangement. …
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Alastair Macleod: A Flower Blooms
Wildflowers are resilient. In this political satire the author imagines what might happen to the nations of the UK in the turmoil of 2016/17 following the Brexit vote.
The United Kingdom: is just …
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Alastair Macleod: The Pirates and the Orkni Island Girl
People snatching was a thing that happened at different times round the British Isles. The first raiders, the Vikings, in the eighth and ninth centuries took women and men as slaves, but later from t …
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Alastair Macleod: Spirit Bear
Spirit Bear
Kee.á, a Native American girl, sets out on a spirit journey to seek her father in the wilderness of the Pacific North West.
The Huldu Woman
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Alastair Macleod: Bright Shining Woman
It is 1696 and three young men from the Orkney Islands set out on what proves to be a life changing journey into a different land and a different culture.
The fur trade draws European men into th …
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Alastair Macleod: Fembots
A small Scottish knitwear firm begins to introduce Fembots; advanced humanoid robot women to the production line. Attractive, skilful and very lifelike, will these Fembots be accepted by the women wo …
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Alastair Macleod: The Wrath of Pachacuti
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 …
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Alastair Macleod: Kara Grimsdottir and the Indifferent Suitor
In the rural Icelandic community it was and still is common for the artist to make his main living, not from his art, but from the soil and the sea. Over time change has been steadily com …
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Alastair Macleod: Green Turtle
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 Green Turtle, …
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Alastair Macleod: Mermaids and Cruise liners
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, …
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Alastair Macleod: Tai Kleendo
Divorce, wives out to work, single life style, redundancy, gay partners, there are many reasons why men find themselves doing house work.
I don’t mean washing up occasionally, no I mean full on in …
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Alastair Macleod: The Hall of Wisdom
The culture of the Middle East contains a vast repository of stories. Circulating for hundreds of years in oral form, and often told by professional storytellers in the marketplace, the West be …
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Alastair Macleod: The Mermaid and the Golden Comb
There is, they say, a mermaid in all women. Others say mermaids are the creation of the mind of men. But that is for others to debate. Mermaids have existed now in fable and legend for millenia …
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Alastair Macleod: The Fated Prince
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 …
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Alastair Macleod: The Golden Octopus
While the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean rages on, a war between the rival organised crime syndicates is inevitable.
Peppino Spada finds himself caught in the tentacles of his own organi …
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Alastair Macleod: Morganna Königin der Orkney Inseln
Eine Auswahl von Folktales von den Orkney Inseln, hier treffen sich zwei Ozeane.
Morganna war eigentlich Königin der Orkney Inseln; Lies von ihrer Wahl
In Meerkind finden wir wo Babys herkomm …
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Alastair Macleod: Jago The Saw
Three short stories on crucial issues for the environment;
In Jago the Saw a young environmentalist is violently kidnapped by loggers.
In Late Swallow a young bird nearly makes a fatal mistak …
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Alastair Macleod: Wolf Stories
Today some fantasise about the wolf but in the past the wolf was seen as an ever present danger and especially in the winter. These three stories highlight what it was and still is like for some livi …
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