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Biography & True Accounts
Helena Mary Bella Lane was born into the fledgling Irish Free State, a country that was recovering from the ravages of its recent War of Independence against Britain and its more recent and even bloodier Civil War; a country... See More
Biography & True Accounts
South Queensferry - the Ferry, it is called by those who live there - sits on the southern shore of the River Forth. The main part of the town nestles between the approaches to the road bridge across the river and that... See More
Literary Fiction
This is my seventh collection of short stories. The stories inside are as down-to-earth, punchy and poignant as in my earlier collections. As is also the case in the earlier collections, almost all the stories are based on... See More
History
In the third week of June 1859, Charles George Gisby was coaxed, squalling, into this world in the prosperous Victorian seaside resort of Margate. But young Charlie was not born into that prosperity. His birthplace was a... See More
Biography & True Accounts
When Corporal George Thompson of The Buffs was walking to freedom from Stalag IVB after the camp's liberation in April 1945, he most probably stopped for a moment, looked up at the sky and thanked his lucky star again. That... See More
Biography & True Accounts
? As the images unwind, like the circles that you findIn the windmills of your mind ? - Legrand/Bergman The title of this anthology is borrowed from that most wonderful song The Windmills of Your Mind, which was a big hit... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and thereby unforgettably marked the passing of an otherwise insignificant character in the movie "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid". Brendan Gisby has written this... See More
Literary Fiction
"Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell." So wrote Sir Walter Scott in the seventh of his Waverley Novels, The Heart of Midlothian. Here in this collection, served straight from hell's... See More
Literary Fiction
THE PERCENTAGES MEN chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional market research agency based in the good City of Glasgow. Its central characters include a trio of the agency's directors. One is an alternately charming and... See More
Anthologies
This is my sixth collection of short stories. Virtually all the stories in those earlier collections are true, describing incidents from my life, memories that have stayed with me . This latest collection is no different. It... See More
Action & Adventure
His novel was called "The Olive Branch". It was a sort of futuristic Cold War thriller. He had written it more than three decades ago when he was a young Turk, full of ambitions and principles and politics. But, like many a... See More
Biography & True Accounts
South Queensferry - the Ferry, it is called by those who live there - sits on the southern shore of the River Forth. The main part of the town nestles between the approaches to the road bridge across the river and that... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
No-one knows for sure when or why the Burryman ceremony in South Queensferry began, although many say it celebrates the granting to the town of Royal Burgh status by James VI in 1588. Whatever its origins, the ceremony was... See More
Travel & Tourism
La Serenissima, Venice, the most beautiful city in the world, is visited every year by many thousands of tourists; too many, it's often said. But few tourists ever see beyond the Grand Canal, the Rialto and the sights around... See More
Fantasy
In 1975, at the height of the Cold War, Brendan Gisby was in his mid-twenties. Spurred on by a press report on "The warming of relations between the Republic of China and the USSR", he put his imagination and his prowess... See More
Travel & Tourism
Have you ever looked back and wondered if you had achieved anything worthwhile in your life, anything worth remembering? In this light-hearted, long short story, a man recalls a journey he took forty years earlier. It was a... See More
Fantasy
RICHARD ADAMS meets GEORGE ORWELL in this story of a colony of rats living on an island under the world-famous Forth Rail Bridge. Ruled over by an Inner Circle of evil fat rats, and in fear for their lives, a group of lowly... See More
Literary Fiction
When I was at secondary school in the 1960's, I had a teacher of English called O'Hanlon. His nickname was Pud, but I don't know why. He was a dishevelled, cantankerous and bitter man with silver hair, and I think he drank a... See More
Anthologies
In October 2010, we launched McStorytellers, a website dedicated to showcasing the work of Scottish-connected short story writers. A year later, our little site provides free access to close to 200 stories by three dozen... See More
Anthologies
McStorytellers is a website (http://www.mcstorytellers.com) dedicated to showcasing the work of Scottish-connected short story writers. By August 2013, almost three years after our inception, we had published for free in... See More