Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Book Characters I Wish Were Real People. However, in honour of Reading Scotland Month hosted by Joanne at Portobello Book Blog, ‘Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road’ to Books Set on Scottish Islands, real or imagined.
Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.
- Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Benbecula)
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (Orkney)
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Isle of Skye)
- Clear by Carys Davies (unnamed island beyond Shetland)
- The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford (St Kilda)
- The Dark Isle by Clare Carson (Hoy)
- Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (Shetland)
- The Blackhouse by Peter May (Isle of Lewis)
- Whisky Galore by Comprton Mackenzie (inspired by Barra and Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides)
- Sleep by C. L. Taylor (Rùm)
Have you read any other books set on Scottish islands?
