Product Description: The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll. Slate has been taken from these shores from their earliest recorded history and the richness and quality of the deposits meant that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate quarrying was one of the most important industries in Scotland...read more

Product Description: New faces and old friends return to Eisdalsa. Elizabeth Duncan, new assistant teacher at the Eisdalsa school, arrives with a crash on board the Lord of the Lorn. Dr David Beaton returns to face old demons just as newly appointed quarry engineer, William Whylie, and the handsome First Officer Gordon McIntyre start their lives on the island...read more

Product Description: When Dr. Hugh Beaton dies of pneumonia, his son Ian decides to leave his new position in Edinburgh to take over his father's medical practice on Eisdalsa. As July 1948 approaches, the remote self-sufficient community of Eisdalsa in Argyll anticipates great changes in the provision of its health services...read more

When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh's distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. This work talks about the life and times of an inspirational man, and it illustrates the history of one of the most beautiful parts of Argyll.

Product Description: It is 1990. The Argyll villages of Seileachan and Eisdalsa are threatened with a takeover by developers. Will the promised influx of overseas investment bring prosperity to the islands, or destroy their unique character forever? Initially, the proposals create division between friends, neighbours and even within families, but when the full extent of the plan is revealed, old adversaries band together to undermine the plans of their scheming landlord...read more