Gordon MacLeod is a Caithness-based author who was brought up on the Isle of Arran.

His first novel, a best seller, ‘Silicon Glen’, was published in July 2009.

His second novel, ‘76’, was made available from Amazon for Kindle and other applications in July this year.

It is about the Clearances that affected communities across Scotland, and starts out by looking at the Clearances at one township on the Isle of Arran.

A fast gripping adventure tale takes us across parts of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, as part of an ancestral trail, but leads to a far more sinister conclusion.

Gordon’s first novel was compared by his publisher to ‘Whisky Galore’.

This, his second novel, is far more serious in tone, but is still interspersed with his characteristic humour.

It gives us an insight into what happened to groups of displaced communities, and how one man intends to mark those events.

Uniquely, the author has also written a song about the Clearances on Arran, the lyrics and notation of which can be found in the text.

You can also read a recent interview he gave about this novel on

http://www.simplyscottish.com/2011/MacLeod.html

Source: Gordon MacLeod