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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.

This is the overgrown and very creepy stump of Elphinstone Tower, not far from Dunmore Park and used first as a residence and then as a mausoleum. It is visited by the book’s young characters in the book.

Find out more:
http://www.kenlussey.com/h46c/index.html

The image shows the lowest level of a stone tower with trees growing close to and around it. The tower is in sunshine. There’s an arched doorway leading through to a dark interior and a wooden door is open and leaning at an angle. The upper floor is ruinous. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

Hello! Thought I’d give a brief intro as I am new to this space. I am a mom, wife, bookworm, baker, beginner urban homesteader, witchy curious, crocheter, outdoor enthusiast who also happens to have spent the past 18 years doing paid work in healthcare. I’m here for my own curiosity of what social media could be, to learn and connect with folks who share my interests and have a little fun.

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.

Find out more:
https://www.arachnid.scot/book-tsr/index.html

The image shows a modern view across the harbour of Stockholm’s Grand Hotel in sunlight. It’s eight storeys high and extends across most of the frame. There are two passenger vessels moored nose on to the quay, so with their rears facing the camera. The scene is in sunshine. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the bottom left corner.

The siege is over but the war goes on. ‘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 central characters cross from Kyleakin to Kyle of Lochalsh by ferry at the start of the story. This image shows two Skye ferries in 1992, nearly five decades after their much smaller predecessors feature in the book.

Find out more on my website:
http://www.kenlussey.com/eoh/index.html

This image shows two Skye ferries in 1992. In the foreground is “Loch Fyne” with its prow in the bottom right of the image. The ferry has a white structure above a black lower hull. The deckhouse is red and the vehicle ramp is being lowered. In the distance is a second ferry at the slipway in Kyleakin, with the village in the upper right of the frame and a hillside climbing behind it and in the upper left. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.

New review: How is the living world organized and classified? Encyclopaedic in scope yet compelling to read, the deeply researched Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains is an 851-page behemoth that surveys 26 centuries of our changing understanding.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/01/17/book-review-kingdoms-empires-domains-the-history-of-high-level-biological-classification/

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