Arachnid Press

This image shows a view along a river. On the near, left, bank is a quay with a small motorboat under a crane and a row of white cottages beyond it on the side of a slope that climbs a hillside. A pedestrian suspension bridge crosses to the far bank of the river on the right of the frame where there are more cottages with a hillside above them and a stony beach beneath them. The river narrows as it reaches the centre of the frame in a wooded valley. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set in northern Scotland during World War Two. The search for answers reaches its dramatic conclusion at Berriedale.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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Love these old-fashioned cast-iron road signs in the Carmunnock area of Glasgow, and especially the precision used for the distances

#glasgow #carmunnock #roadsign #oldsign #oldroadsigns #scotland

Edinburgh's folly, from Holyrood park

Snowy hills and blue skies, with footsteps showing on a snowy track

A woman hiker walking through snow up a hillside, blue skies overhead

Just when it felt like spring was actually underway, winter returned yesterday. Though with no wind it was T-shirt weather.
Stunning day in the Scottish Borders.

The image shows a view of a harbour in bright sunlight. The water is calm and extends from the bottom of the frame to a dozen or so small boats moored at pontoons across the centre of the frame, with a quayside and buildings on the right. In the background a rocky shoreline rises from the water and there are hills in the distance in the left centre of the frame. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top right corner.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in central Scotland and the far north-west. Kinlochbervie, seen here, has a central role in the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/thr/index.html

Forgotten
📍Kilbride, Scotland, UK
📷Pete Rowbottom, Wigan, UK
#landscapephotography #landscape #photography
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Interior of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, showing historic wooden bookcases and a decorated ceiling. In the foreground, a sign displays the traditional Bodleian Oath, which readers must read aloud before being admitted to use the library. The oath reads: 'I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library'

The traditional Bodleian Oath, which every reader is required to read aloud on seeking admission to the Bodleian Libraries 📚

#WorldBookDay

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The audacity of #Scotland to look this good on a Friday morning! #NoFilters

Castlebay on the Isle of Barra. This modern image shows the village of Castlebay stretching in a narrow strip across the centre of the frame. It includes a grey stone church and one or two storey buildings finished in stone or white. The bottom half of the frame is blue sea and there is the rear of a small blue and white boat across the foot of the frame. The sky is mainly blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Castlebay on Barra is visited by the two central characters at the end of the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-fof/ind...

I’ve made it into Private Eye!

#WishawLib had a very busy #WorldBookDay with nursery and school visits. Kids from Kiddieshack Nursery enjoyed a Bookbug session before Wishaw Academy visited to pick some books and hear stories.

Happy World Book Day! Celebrating Alasdair Gray—novelist, artist and champion of Scottish and Glaswegian identity. Here is his self-portrait aged 16 (1951) writing at his desk, from his illustrated autobiography A Life in Pictures (2010).

This modern image shows the Great Hall at Stirling Castle. It is shown end-on from a high vantage point and the beige harling is very striking in bright sunlight. There is an external wooden staircase leading up to a door in one corner and the roofline is highly decorated. A dark stone building can be seen on the left and another smaller one on the right. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the top right corner.

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and across Scotland during World War Two, when the Great Hall was used as a barracks.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/has/index.html

The memorial cairn at Culloden battlefield. The image shows a large cylindrical cairn made of large rocks in the centre of the frame which has gorse growing on top of it. There are three people standing on this side of the cairn and looking at a stone plaque which identifies the site. There is vegetation in the background. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the top right corner.

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland. The battlefield at Culloden is visited by the central character as the story builds.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-atw/ind...

Dry loch.

Full loch.

Two weeks ago. Now. (After some proper rain)

Chetham's Library, Manchester - rich wooden bookshelves, floors, railings, and ceiling beams

Another in my series of libraries
Chetham's Library, Manchester, a library in continuous use for over 350 years
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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The image shows a view down onto a river that flows into the bottom left of the frame and continues to a harbour in the centre right of the frame. It is crossed by a footbridge and there is a farmstead on the right bank. On the left bank is a row of houses with a road running in front of them and a stone warehouse at the far end. The land rises behind the houses to higher level fields. The sea can be seen beyond the harbour. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Dunbeath in Caithness features as the hunt for a murderer builds towards its climax.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/ttw/index.html

An old French no parking sign in a back lane in the Broomhill area of the city. Why? Because that's Glasgow for you.

#glasgow #keepglasgowweird #broomhill #sign #roadsign

Valley parks with ampitheatres in Edinburgh have a precedent! threadinburgh.scot/2025/02/04/t...

Free Library of Philadelphia - very long room filled with bookshelves on two levels, coffered white ceiling, high windows

Another in my series of libraries
Free Library of Philadelphia
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

The image shows a faded yellow door standing open on the left, with part of its doorframe on the right. Beyond is a stone hallway with debris on the ground and closed doors on both sides. Dirty white wooden panelling provides a doorway to the further part of the hall, and to a set of steps leading upwards into darkness. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top left corner.

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure for younger readers involving the haunting of Dunmore Park in central Scotland. What lies beyond the yellow door?
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.arachnid.scot/book-h46c/in...

Mountain landscape with snow banks and boulders under a blue sky

Mountain landscape with snow banks and boulders under a blue sky with low clouds covering distant hills

Mountain landscape with cliffs, boulders, and brown hills with a forest in the background

Hilly landscape with a band of mist between two lochs under a cloudy sky

Images from a walk in the Cairngorms on the last day of February. #Cairngorms #hiking

Standing up for what you believe in is important, noble, and necessary.

Torbreck; a circle, SW of Inverness, with nine almost evenly spaced monoliths with the largest at 1.2m #StandingStoneSunday .... The southern R Ness catchment has the remains of five #ClavaCairns & this one circle.

More pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

Loch Ryan lighthouse. During the war this was the focal point of the huge military port built at Cairnryan in case traditional ports on the Clyde or Mersey were destroyed by enemy bombing. This modern image shows a view along a rocky shoreline that comes in from the bottom right and extends across the bottom of the frame. There are two derelict concrete structures in the bottom middle. Above them is a short white lighthouse with beige trim and black top surrounded by a white wall. On the right is a length of fence with a ‘keep out’ sign and a brick building beyond it. In the distance there is more water and then the land rises to a low ridge with a field and trees. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top left corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. The hunt for a spy leads the book’s central characters to the military port at Cairnryan.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html

This is a great ghost sign on Blythswood Street in Glasgow. It's a throwback to a time when people needed tailor-made gowns, everyone wore hats and fur was acceptable. It's part of an advert for G.S. Nichols at 186 Bath Street.

#glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory

Busy schedule for Helensburgh Book Festival Helensburgh’s big literary event of the year is back this month with two days of authors, discussions and workshops. Organised jointly by Helensburgh Community Hub, Jean’s Bothy and Helensburgh and Lomond Carers, Helensburgh Book Festival ‘Reading Minds’ is back for its fourth year. Once again, the festival will be in various locations across town, including two sessions at The Hill House.

There will be writing workshops as well as talks from authors in venues across the town

The morning calm before the readers arrive. 📚

Duke Humfrey's Library, 8.30am

The fictional Sarclet Castle, partly based on the real Castle of Mey. The image shows a path leading through a rose garden with a high stone wall on the right and a low flagstone wall and trees on the left. At the far end of the garden is a five-storey stone tower house topped off by battlements and a flagpole. The side facing us is in shadow and the sky is light blue. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top left corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. The fictional Sarclet Castle, south of Wick, plays an important part in the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
www.arachnid.scot/book-ets/ind...