A Dark and Distant Shore Author:Reay Tannahill Reay Tannahill's great bestseller is the story of an extraordinary woman's determination to win back her birthright -- the remote and beautiful West Highland castle of Kinveil -- sold by her father to a Glasgow merchant when she was seven years old. It is also the intricate picture of a family in the heyday of the British Empire, an epic... more » story spanning almost 100 years and stretching from Edinburgh to the Crimea, from an expanding America to the India of the Raj. « less