Heartland

John MacKay

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Edition: Paperback

ISBN 9781910021903

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Large Print Edition Publishing January 2025

About the Book: 

Where indeed do you seek sanctuary when your past has changed irrevocably, your memories are false and your future is uncertain? A gripping plot full of credible characters... set in a convincing background.  SCOTS MAGAZINE

A man tries to forge a new future for himself by reconnecting with his past. Iain Martin hopes that by returning to his Hebridean heartland and embarking on a quest to reconstruct an ancient family home, he might find a new purpose. But as he begins work on the old blackhouse, he uncovers a secret from the past which forces him to question everything.

Reviews: 

A fine, rewarding read. THE SUNDAY HERALD

A combination of Changing Rooms and Agatha Christie, Mackay’s Heartland demonstrates the Scotland Today presenter has a readable easy-going prose style. SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS

About the Author:

JOHN MACKAY is a Scottish broadcast journalist and STV News presenter.  John is co-anchor on STV News at Six and presenter on Scotland Tonight, the country's most popular news and current affairs programmes.  A highly-respected journalist with over 30 years’ experience, John has covered many of the biggest news stories in Scotland in recent times and has been witness to Scotland’s transformation as a society and a nation which he charts in non-fiction title, Notes of a Newsman

John’s fiction writing draws upon the oral traditions of his Hebridean background with a trilogy of bestselling novels set in the Isle of Lewis, the first of which has been adapted for the big screen.  His fourth novel, a sweeping Hebridean story, Home, follows the stories of one family over 100 years.