Arachnid Press

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Arachnid Press is an independent Scottish publisher.

Website: https://www.arachnid.scot

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2024-10-11 10:56:47

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.
Dunmore is a model village developed by the Dunmore estate from the mid-1800s. The novel’s young characters live close to the village and use it as a base for their exploration of the area.
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2024-10-09 07:25:45

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
This modern image shows the west side of Edinburgh Castle. The book’s central character visits the army headquarters that was housed at the time in the castle as the story develops.
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2024-10-07 16:00:58

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
In the book the fictional Sarclet Castle on the east coast of Caithness has a great hall based on that at Eilean Donan Castle, show here. The central character dines in it when he stays at Sarclet Castle.
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2024-10-05 10:25:24

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
This modern photograph shows the Dockmaster's House on the small shipbuilding island of Beckholmen in Stockholm. The house is used as the venue for an important meeting in the book.
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2024-10-03 06:53:43

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling new murder mystery set in northern Scotland.
Sarclet Haven can be found on the east coast of Caithness south of Wick. It forms a focal point for the story and does exist, unlike nearby Sarclet Castle and Sarclet Broch which are both fictional.
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2024-09-29 10:55:43

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.
These atmospheric - or creepy - stone steps can be found in the north range. They have an important role as the book’s young characters find themselves cast ever further adrift from their everyday realities.
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2024-09-27 06:51:55

The siege is over but the war goes on. Ken Lussey’s new novel ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.
Portree on the Isle of Skye is visited by the two central characters at the start of the story. Many of the buildings seen in this modern photograph of part of Portree harbour would have been here at the time.
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2024-09-25 15:45:32

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.
Sandwood Bay in Sutherland has an important part to play in the story as it develops, and the book reaches its dramatic climax nearby.
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2024-09-23 12:54:02

A game of secrets and lies. ‘Bloody Orkney’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland, mainly in Orkney, during World War Two. It uses many real settings.
Ness Battery near Stromness helped guard the western entrance to Scapa Flow during the war and can still be visited today, as it was by the book’s characters in November 1942. This modern image shows the battery observation post and fire command.
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2024-09-21 07:01:26

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland.
Dornoch, on the east coast of Sutherland, features in the book several times as the story develops and an important meeting takes place in the graveyard of Dornoch Cathedral, shown here at dusk.
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2024-09-19 16:12:40

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
This modern image shows Spean Bridge railway station, where trainee commandos arrived en route to the wartime Commando Basic Training Centre at Achnacarry Castle. It is visited by the central character as the story moves towards its conclusion.
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2024-09-17 09:48:05

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
The wartime British Embassy in Stockholm is amongst the Swedish locations used in the book. It was in the Bünsowska villa, which has since become one of the city’s finest residences. This is a modern photograph of the villa.
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2024-09-14 11:43:25

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. We will be publishing Ken Lussey’s latest novel tomorrow.
Helmsdale on the east coast of Sutherland is visited by the two central characters at several points in the book, though they are here in the depths of winter.
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2024-09-12 06:51:36

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west.
St Monans in Fife is one of the lovely villages strung out along the Firth of Forth shore of the East Neuk of Fife. It seems rather less attractive to the book’s central character when he finds himself being shot at here after efforts to trap a killer go badly wrong.
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2024-09-10 12:51:44

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
During the war the Nether Bailey at Stirling Castle was used by the army to house the castle’s guardhouse and a firing range. It is visited by the book’s central characters as the story develops.
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2024-09-08 07:12:01

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland which we are publishing on 15 September.
The fictional Sarclet Broch on the east coast of Caithness south of Wick is the hub around which much of the story revolves and it is where all three of the murders in the book take place. It is closely based on the Broch of Gurness in Orkney, shown in this image.
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2024-09-07 07:18:11

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 rather spooky Clootie Well on the Black Isle has an important part to play in the book. It is seen here – and visited in the book – after someone cleared away most of the offerings that had previously hung thickly from every branch and clustered around the outlet of the well.
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2024-09-01 17:09:32

How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure story for younger readers involving a two-century-old family mystery and the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland.
The Dunmore Pineapple is one of Scotland's most remarkable buildings. It stands not far from Dunmore Park and is visited by the novel’s young characters as they get to know their new home in the nearby village.
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2024-08-30 08:13:01

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
This is the memorial to the men who died when a Short Sunderland flying boat crashed into a remote hillside in Caithness in August 1942. The real-life mystery surrounding the crash is the starting point for the story told in the book.
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2024-08-28 15:43:38

The siege is over but the war goes on. Ken Lussey’s new novel ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.
The two central characters are staying in Kyle of Lochalsh at the beginning of the story, having travelled there by rail from Edinburgh. This modern photograph shows Kyle station, which has not changed greatly since then.
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2024-08-26 06:53:40

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
RAF Grangemouth, once the Central Scotland Airport but now long gone, is amongst the Scottish locations used. This modern photograph shows the replica Spitfire at the RAF Grangemouth memorial.
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2024-08-24 06:59:40

When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
The busy port of Mallaig lies at the end of the ‘Road to the Isles’. This modern photograph shows it in beautiful weather: quite unlike the stormy day on which a deadly manhunt reaches its climax here in the book.
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2024-08-23 11:22:17

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.
This modern photograph shows the Lydmar Hotel, which occupies a superb waterfront location in Stockholm. During the war this building housed the German legation and its presence is important as the story builds towards its dramatic climax.
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2024-08-22 15:39:28

The siege is over but the war goes on. Ken Lussey’s new novel ‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta.
This modern wide-angle view shows the Osborne Hotel in Valletta. The two central characters stay here while in Malta and although two storeys have been added to the building since 1943, it would be very recognisable to them.
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2024-08-03 10:23:21

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. It uses many real settings transported back in time.
Stockholm’s Grand Hotel was known during the war as ‘the listening post of Europe’ and is visited by Bob and Monique. This modern photograph shows a building that, though in some ways changed since they were here in 1943, would be recognised by them.
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