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The Two Families of Jack Singh is an Indian saga set on the island.
When a father’s double life is discovered after his death, huge emotions are experienced by his family. Peace and understanding are the watch words for the deceived wife who contemplates the enormous burden and strain keeping his secret life hidden must have been. But how can the children deal with this?
“The tale combines the issues that arise from the merging of different cultures across generations, resulting in a potent clash of emotions from anger and division through to hope and optimism,” says author Dr Sunil Angris, the son of first generation Hindu immigrants to Britain, and member of the Stromness Writers’ Group. He has lived in Orkney since 2019.
“The storyline draws from the author’s experiences as the son of immigrants from India, facing up to racial tensions in his youth and in supporting patients as a GP who had faced similar familial upheavals.”
Sunil, whose book is published by Tim Saunders Publications, is keen to see it in local bookshops. He is available for readings and book signings.

About Sunil
 
Sunil was raised in the industrial Black Country area of the West Midlands. He studied medicine at Nottingham University, spent most of his professional career as a GP in The Peak District. He moved to Orkney after visiting and falling in love with the islands some twenty years before. Sunil never lost his love of writing and regularly wrote for the medical press as well as being the motoring correspondent for the UK’s leading General Practice magazines for ten years. After semi-retiring from medicine and moving to Orkney he joined the Stromness Writers’ Group and began writing in earnest again. He writes mainly poems and short stories, and had a poem published in an anthology of Scottish poetry and short stories in 2022 (Tim Saunders Publications). This is his first novel.

As part of the Dumfries and Galloway Library Service events programme during Crime writers' month (June 2026) MA Carr, author of Mr Manderson Investigates, will be giving a reading, plus a Q&A session at Castle Douglas Library between 2pm and 4pm on Wednesday, June 24.  

In The Girl in the Yellow Dress by award winning Irish writer Margaret Kiernan, the body of a boy is discovered by two women in a garden in Northern Ireland.
Who committed this dreadful crime?
A new friendship is shattered.
Is the past catching up?
Not all is what it seems in this atmospheric story.
"I am a little short of words, it is emotional to read my story from another perspective," says Margaret. "I re-entered into the drama, and it is affecting me. I love the cover image, very modern too. I am very pleased with the finished editing."

Creative Kiwi Linda Liddicoat has had two books published by Tim Saunders Publications.
The first is a really delightful and extremely well illustrated children's picture book entitled Casey's Cooking where Casey's love of food is explored in rhyme. It is illustrated by Yulia Potts.
Linda is quite the poet and her second book is What's All This? - a great collection of poetry about everyday life. 
"Thanks for taking on my work," says Linda. "And thanks for all your efforts and assistance - certainly a quick process overall."

Surface Tension by Neil Stevenson from Ferryhill, County Durham has been published by Tim Saunders Publications.
“Librarians are often thought of as quite dull people,” says Neil of his debut novel. “But the protagonist of my thriller is anything but. Over the course of a week he loses his job, tries to end a friend’s marriage, gets caught in a scam involving foreign students, offends a crime lord’s son and looks to run away with half a million pounds.”
Publisher Tim Saunders adds, “Aside from the gripping plot there’s much descriptive writing and I’ve enjoyed reading it.”
Surface Tension is available in all good bookshops and online and Neil is keen to see his book in local bookshops and libraries. He is happy to give talks and book signings.

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An anonymous note. A writer who blacks out. Four schoolchildren in detention. A poet among graves. A run-in with the Petulant Universe.
 
Lives out of balance, in transition.
 
The Great O: We Tell Ourselves Stories offers these and other tales of grief, longing, fracture, and revelation, where ordinary settings lead to unexpected emotional and psychological terrain.
 
Read separately, each story is its own world. Together, they suggest a hidden architecture shaped by memory and imagination—a space for recurring visions and dreams.
 
Written by Mel Schwarz and available here: Amazon.com: The Great O: We Tell Ourselves Stories eBook : Schwarz, Mel, Saunders, Tim: Kindle Store