There are many ‘dubh lochs’ on the Isle of Lewis in The Outer Hebrides. The island is studded with lochs which are coloured dark by the underlying peat. One of the civil parishes on the island is even called Lochs. This book is a follow-up to The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May (Peter May author

Ann Cleves (Ann Cleeves) has been delighting readers with her mystery crime fiction since 1986. She has given us the characters Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn. The author is in fine form with The Long Call (2019), and the summary is as follows: It’s North Devon where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and

Our media, ‘legacy’ and contemporary, saturate us with crises: the cost of living crisis, the illegal migrant crisis, the Ukraine war crisis, the US tariff crisis, the epidemic of thieving crisis, the Scottish drug death crisis, the housing shortage crisis, the terrrorist threat crisis, the environmental damage crisis. Listen to all the dire warnings and