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Ken Lussey
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Author, photographer, traveller, husband, father, grandfather and lover of Scotland and all things Scottish.
Website: https://www.kenlussey.com/
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‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland – where the mountains of the Isle of Skye form a backdrop - via Gibraltar to Malta.
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The mountains of the Isle of Skye are shown distantly in this modern image taken from the neighbouring island of Raasay. There’s a narrow road in the left foreground and then the land drops away towards water on the right. Beyond the water and shrouded in haze are the shapes of high mountains with a skyline cutting across the middle of the frame. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Galloway House near Garlieston in Galloway served as a hospital during the war and features in the book.
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This modern image shows the west front of Galloway House near Garlieston. There is a lawn at the foot of the frame that meets a curving drive in front of the house, which we are seeing from near one corner, with the right-hand end nearer us than the left. The house extends out of both sides of the frame and is made of grey stone with red stone facings. It comprises a central section with wings that project forwards of it. Part of a tree is visible in the top left of the frame. The scene is in muted sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced new thriller set in northern Scotland. The remote Croick Church in Sutherland is visited by the two central characters.
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The image shows a view over two green fields with stone walls to the end of a white-painted church that has a sagging grey slate roof and a bellcote at the far end. There are tall trees in leaf to both sides of the church and in the background the land rises to a skyline near the top of the frame. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. Achnacarry Castle was home to the Commando Basic Training Centre during the war.
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The image shows a view across a pasture that has two trees in it that are just starting to leaf. The nearest, on the right, has a fence surrounding it. In the background, through the trees and beyond hedges, are glimpses of a grey stone mansion which is two storeys in height. The ground rises behind it to a skyline at the top left of the frame. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the top right corner.
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Barra’s beach airport is used by the two central characters at the end of the book.
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This modern image shows Barra Airport in the Western Isles, the only beach airport anywhere in the world to be used by scheduled airline services. A beach of white sand with lines of seaweed covers the bottom of the frame and extends into it, curving to the right. To its left and above it is a fringe of marram grass, and in the middle left of the frame is an airport control tower and attached small buildings. In the middle right of the frame a twin propellor aircraft is taxying towards us along the compacted wet sand below the curve of the beach. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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How far would you go to right a wrong? ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is a spooky adventure for younger readers involving the haunting of Dunmore Park in central Scotland. The cellars play an important part.
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The image shows the view along the main cellar corridor running the length of the south range of the house. Tall stone walls rise on both sides, linked by overhead arches. There are dark doorways on both sides. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top right corner.
December 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta, whose French Creek dockyards are shown in this modern view.
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French Creek, Malta. This modern image shows the view down from Senglea to the dockyards that line both sides of French Creek, one of the creeks on the south-east side of the Grand Harbour. There’s part of a wall in the bottom left of the image with sports courts at a much lower level, then a dry dock with a large private yacht in it. On the far side of the creek are a grey ship and a cruise liner, with cranes visible all around. The sky is almost blue. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top left corner.
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. The Red Lion Inn in Wigtown, now a house, is visited by the central characters while at RAF Wigtown.
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This modern image shows a view across a street of a beige-painted two-storey terraced house with three windows on the upper floor and two on the ground floor, set either side of the sage green front door. There is a second, beige, door on the left side of the property. The roof is slate and there is a dark SUV parked on the right side of the frame. The houses on either side are stone. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top left corner.
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The settings used include Kirkwall harbour and the Kirkwall Hotel, both shown here.
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This modern image shows Kirkwall harbour and the Kirkwall Hotel. The buildings extend from the middle right of the frame, which is the end nearest the camera. The largest is the Kirkwall Hotel, which is four storeys in height. There’s a fishing boat in the foreground with a blue and black hull and white upper parts. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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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. Stockholm’s Grand Hotel, ‘the listening post of Europe’, has an important role.
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The image shows a modern view across the harbour of Stockholm’s Grand Hotel at night with a similar 1940s postcard view added in the top left for comparison. The hotel is brightly lit in both photographs. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Galloway House near Garlieston in Galloway served as a hospital during the war and features in the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows the east side of Galloway House near Garlieston. There are terraced mown lawns in the lower right of the frame and the house, made of grey-brown stone and up to four storeys in height, extends across the centre of the image. It has protruding wings at the ends and the central portion bows out. Chimneys and balustrading can be seen on the roof. The sky is blue and the house is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top left corner.
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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‘The Eye of Horus’ is an atmospheric World War Two thriller with settings that move from the Highlands of Scotland via Gibraltar to Malta. Valletta has a central part to play in the story.
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Valletta, seen across the Grand Harbour. This modern image shows the stone ramparts, bastions and other buildings that rise in tiers above the Grand Harbour on the south-east side of Valletta in Malta. The water of the harbour at the foot of the image is blue and the stone that dominates the picture is all a light honey colour. A crane is in the top right of the frame and a tall lift stands on the left. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Wick, on the east coast of Caithness, has a central role in the story.
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The image shows a view along a street in Wick. The buildings are in grey stone and the largest is on the right of the street, occupying much of the right side of the frame. It is two storeys in height and has a clock tower with a cupola on top of it. There’s an old-style streetlamp on the left of the frame with a pedestrian sign to Wick Riverside on it. A grey car waits at a junction on the right. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Cairnryan in Galloway plays an important part as the search for a spy builds towards its conclusion.
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This modern image shows part of Cairnryan in Galloway. A road crosses the frame from the bottom left corner to the lower right. On its near side is a grassy area that fills the bottom right of the frame. On the far side of the road is a line of houses and cottages mainly finished in white, with some houses on a higher level at the near end. Behind the buildings is a wooded hillside. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in northern Scotland during World War Two. The main character dines in the great hall at the fictional Sarclet Castle.
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This modern image shows the great hall at Eilean Donan Castle, on which that at the fictional Sarclet Castle is based. It is a large and imposing stone-walled room with a blue and green tartan carpet and an exposed-beam wooden ceiling. There’s a large dining table in the centre of the room and a stone fireplace occupies much of the right-hand wall. Lights are suspended from the ceiling. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. The main characters also visit a secret military base at Gruinard Bay in Wester Ross.
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This modern image shows a view from amongst trees over a bay to a shoreline of sand and rocks beyond which is a large white-harled house in the centre of the frame comprising a tower house with a large lower extension to its left. In the background, wooded and rocky slopes climb out of the picture. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. A relic of the D-Day harbour trials featured in the book can still be seen at Garlieston Bay in Galloway.
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This modern image shows Garlieston Bay in Galloway. In the foreground is a stony shoreline which has a large concrete structure lying on it. This has four holes through it and the concrete is heavily discoloured through exposure to the sea. Beyond the shoreline is water sparkling in the sunlight and then, in the distance, part of a pier and land with modern apartments built on it. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom left corner.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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‘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 Xara Palace in Mdina has a role as the story develops.
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This modern image shows the interior of the Xara Palace Hotel in Mdina, Malta. A broad corridor with sumptuous red rugs extends out to the middle of the frame. It has light stone walls that extend upwards over two floors to a sloping glass roof. There are tables and rattan chairs at intervals along the sides of the corridor and large displays of green plants. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Sarclet Haven on the east coast of Caithness forms a focal point for the story.
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The image is looking down into a natural harbour formed by grassy cliffs on the right of the frame and sweeping round on the left to a headland that protects the harbour entrance. At the head of the harbour is a sandy and then rocky beach with a grass shelf below the viewer at the foot of the frame. A roofless stone building stands in the bottom left of the frame. The sea beyond the harbour is blue. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. RAF Wigtown has a central role in the book as the search for a spy builds towards its dramatic conclusion.
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www.kenlussey.com/fof/index.html
This modern image shows some of the surviving buildings at the long disused RAF Wigtown in Galloway. The gable end of a large concrete building occupies the upper left of the frame, with a second building appearing to its right. This has large, blocked vehicle doorways on the side facing us. In the foreground is a concrete road from the bottom left of the frame to the middle right, with grass and fence posts to its lower right. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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When the past comes back to haunt you. ‘The Danger of Life’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. The ancient graveyard at Murlaggan on Loch Arkaig is visited by the central character.
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The image shows a stone cairn with a plaque in the lower left of the frame standing on rough grassy land with some bare trees behind it. One of the trees also has a plaque on it. Beyond the trees is the water of a loch that stretches across the centre of the frame. Beyond the loch the land rises to hills. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘The Danger of Life’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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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 the haunting of Dunmore Park, a ruined house in central Scotland; and these steps.
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The image shows a flight of ten stone steps which climb between grey stone walls before turning back on themselves and simply stopping. They are heavily overgrown with ferns and other vegetation and there is debris on the floor. The front cover of ‘The House With 46 Chimneys’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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‘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 Skye is visited at the start of the story.
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This modern image shows part of the harbour at Portree on the Isle of Skye. There’s a stone quay in the bottom left of the frame which continues round past a moored boat to a stony beach and a line of mainly white or stone two and three-storey buildings. There are more buildings above and behind them and at higher level above a slope in the upper right of the frame. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘The Eye of Horus’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Stranraer railway station has a role as the spy hunt moves towards its dramatic climax.
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This modern image shows Stranraer railway station. A platform extends into the frame from the bottom left corner with a chain link fence and potted plants to its left. To its right are four railway lines. The platform and left-hand line are enclosed by a crinkly shed which occupies the middle left of the frame. The sea can be glimpsed on the left and the sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. The ruined Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is visited in the hunt for a murderer.
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The image shows a view across a narrow grassy valley to a fin of rock, on top of which is a ruined castle made from brownish stone. There’s a large tower in the right centre of the frame partly covered in scaffolding and there are other ruined structures to the left of it. Beyond the ruins is an expanse of sea, with land in the distance. The light is grey. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the top left corner.
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM