Books from Local Authors

Molly Arbuthnott
Oscar the Ferry Cat
Oscar is an ordinary cat until, one day, his life is turned upside down. When he finds himself alone on a ferry, he begins to search for a new friend. How will he cope being on his own and will he ever find somewhere he can call home? An inspirational story about friendship and coming to terms with loss.
Target Audience- 6 to 11 year olds.
People can buy the book through my website - www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk or from the Birnam Reader.

Ann Lindsay and featuring flower arrangements by Eric Bremner
Forever Flowers
Learn how to grow and dry flowers, plants and herbs to create dried floral arrangements that will breathe fresh life and style into your home without breaking the This excellent source of practical advice is explored through an encyclopaedic list of flowers and foliage with specific information on how to grow, cut and dry them to best effect. From coffee table posies and large arrangements to hand tied-gift bunches and wedding bouquets, beautiful photography accompanies guidance to creating arrangements with your newly dried flowers. Suitable for both experienced professionals and hopeful newcomers to the art of drying flowers. Anyone can create everlasting arrangements for friends, home or occasions that can be cherished for years to come.

Linda Cracknell
Writing Landscape
RRP: £8.99 (also an ebook & audiobook)
This pocket-sized collection of essays opens in Birnam, where readers are invited to refresh steps along the riverside path. Reading on will take you to islands, up mountains and to solitary bothies, opening your eyes to the world, and suggesting ways to inspire your own attentive looking or journaling. “wonderfully intense … a small book, but a mighty one.” Scotsman
Available from Aberfeldy Watermill, all good bookshops, and https://saraband.net/sb-title/writing-landscape/

Fiona Ritchie
Wayfaring Strangers (a New York Times Best Seller)
Paperback second edition with new Afterword by the authors and additions to book resource pages.
Foreword by Dolly Parton
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr (one of our contacts with the Asheville, NC twinning group) guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.
A Spotify playlist (23 songs) was curated by Fiona Ritchie to accompany this second edition. (Search: Wayfaring Strangers: the Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia).

James Jauncey
Don Roberto
It would be impossible to invent Don Roberto today – a fantastic combination of Don Quixote and Sir Gawain, Indiana Jones and the Lone Ranger. He was so multi-faceted, so complex, that every chapter in his story reveals some new and contradictory aspect of his personality. He is best known as the co-founder, with Keir Hardie, of the Scottish Labour Party, and later as the founding president of the Scottish National Party. But in a long and extraordinary life he was many other things besides "A wonderful biography.” Sunday Times

Fiona Valpy
The Cypress Maze
A story about love, loss and hope in the hardest of times, set in a forgotten corner of Tuscany. The gardens of the Villa delle Colombe have offered a refuge to many. But they also hold dark secrets at their heart, which unfurl as two women – generations apart – navigate the tortuous paths of grief.

Mark Bridgeman
Perthshire’s Pound of Flesh
Sometimes the most beautiful of places can hide the darkest past. Discover some tragic tales of revenge and retribution in this collection of true stories from Aberfeldy, Dunkeld, Pitlochry, Blairgowrie, Crieff, and Perth. Read about the notorious serial killers that left their grim calling cards in the county, infamous unsolved murders, tragic killings, and sad tales of man’s cruelty to man, in this Waterstones' Book of The Year.

Available from all good bookshops.

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