Donald McDonald

A U-boat disappears in the North Atlantic in October 1942 and mysteriously re-surfaces in 1988. Gradually, the Kapitan and crew come to realise they have been propelled through time when radio silence is broken.The story explores the strengths, weaknesses and delicacies of the human condition as the men struggle to come to terms with the situation.U-116 returns to West Germany to a hero's welcome but the ordeal for most of the submariners is only just beginning as they set about tracing their erstwhile families in a divided country.

The book is mainly about the author's life at the sea in the Merchant Navy. There is a brief account of my childhood days at the beginning, and a brief account of my Harris Tweed weaving days at the end, but the main course concerns my life at the sea.

A murky tale of arson, tortoises, insurrection,moral turpitude, legends, myths, freemasonry and bloody murder set in the idyllic, peaceful glens of the Highlands of Scotland.

An unlikely armed robber, Joe Gorman sticks up a Glasgow bookies. He fires his luger pistol in the air to deter an assailant. This has sinister and unexpected consequences. From then on he is GBP9000 richer but becomes a fugitive from gangsters, the Glasgow police and Basil Billings, the famous London private eye. Read on to discover how Gorman fares as he is assisted by his trout obsessed companions, the Hill Fishers of Kilpatrick. Forget Rebus and Taggart for a while, and step into the angst-ridden world of Detective Inspector McCutcheon. Join Gorman in his quest to resolve the conundrums of his existence, in relation to his various obsessions: quarks, cosmology and chaos theory, and buses.