David Mowat

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

' I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare.' Those are the words of 16-year-old Janie as she comes to the end of a seven-year stay at an Aberdeenshire orphanage. (BBC Genome)

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...

A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.

When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.