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Woodlands have dominated much of the British landscape for thousands of years since the recession of the last ice age, and yet so few of us spend enough time in them to understand how much of our native wildlife is adapted to live with trees. The inspiration of naturalists, poets and artists, woodlands have often been removed, changed or marginalised to make way for 'progress', and from within our suburbs and garden plots we rarely spend time ...

Now ill, and for a time presumed dead, the limitations of Sol's life at Bothan Faobhar throw him back to the bright lights of London. What is he prepared to compromise in his new found world on the northern limits of the UK's mainland to regain the relationships he had in the past? Is that much compromise even possible? And then there are the differing protocols for living in the city and for life in a rural community, not to mention Sol's fo...

Finale for B This is the final story in the Symphony for G series set on the far North West coast of Scotland in the Faobhar glen. Finding the support of friends and working out a future for himself and that part of the estate he owns, Sol realises that like in all good communities it is the pulling together that finally counts. There are unexpected allies, beasts in the woods, visitors from across Britain interested in the past, the prese...

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Every day things happen as they do every other day. We become comfortable with the routines that determine our lives accepting the characters we meet on a daily basis. The bus ride commutes into town, the quiet man who always reads to himself, and the acceptance that he was nobody special: a man of no consequence. That was every day.Written off by the two loud women who dominated the back seat at the end of the bus, how could he be anyone impo...

It is one thing to buy a house in a new place, but another to be accepted into a new area, especially when you are so different to everyone else.This is the continued story of Sol's life at Bothan Faobhar, a house that offers little except for the very basics for life. Can he make a life for himself here where everything is so much at odds with his urbanised life?And when will he meet G, the previous occupant who still writes to him once a mon...

One year in and Sol's life at Bothan Faobhar has settled into one where he can both survive and flourish despite the cottage's limitations. What could possibly be missing? But then he is reminded of his past life by the visitation of his old flame Sue and he realises quickly that no man is an island when he needs the comfort and love of another. But what compromise would he be prepared to undertake in order to make their very different lifesty...

Life seems idyllic at Bothan Faobhar until Sol receives an invitation to the wedding of his ex-partner who still lives back in the city of London. Only then does he realise that there is little chance for him to find a life partner of his own out in the wilderness of the estate. With mounting pressure from a hostile bid for the land by a global oil giant capable of changing the fortunes for the locals, and the will of the people to contend wit...

What could be simpler than buying a house in the country? When Sol, a city financier, purchases Bothan Faobhar on a whim, he discovers a world where the neighbours are both distant and at odds with his urban ideals. With no mobile signal, no electricity, water that runs brown, it is an existence that he quickly realises he is ill-prepared for. Can someone like Sol survive here? And then there is the mysterious previous occupant, G, who seems n...

What could be simpler than buying a house in the country?When Sol, a city financier, purchases Bothan Faobhar on a whim, he discovers a world where the neighbours are both distant and at odds with his urban ideals. With no mobile signal, no electricity, water that runs brown, it is an existence that he quickly realises he is ill-prepared for. Can someone like Sol survive here?And then there is the mysterious previous occupant, G, who seems not...