MacIntyre, Colin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:29:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png MacIntyre, Colin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 When the needle drops https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/when-the-needle-drops/ Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=40159 It’s the run-up to Christmas, 1998. On the Isle of Mull, Sergeant Ivor Punch is losing himself in his vinyl collection, a tragic anniversary and too much single malt whisky. But news of a missing child soon brings him back to his senses. And as word spreads of more strange disappearances, an aircraft vanishing from the sky and a famous classical musician gone with it, it seems a sinister plot holds the island in its grip.Punch thought he knew the secrets of this place, its people and stories. Yet as a grisly trail of effigies and clues are discovered, he struggles to untangle past mysteries and find out what’s really happening right under his nose. And time is fast running out for the policeman that locals call ‘The Clock’.The first book in The Mull Mysteries Series from multi-award-winning musician, producer, author and playwright, Colin MacIntyre.PRAISE FOR COLIN MACINTYRE’A storyteller with a unique imagination and clarity of style’ – THE SCOTSMAN

]]> Hometown Tales Highlands & Hebrides https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/hometown-tales-highlands-hebrides/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/hometown-tales-highlands-hebrides/ Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction – they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home

In these pages on the Highlands and Hebrides, you’ll find two unique tales. ‘The Boy in the Bubble’ is a bright, intensely funny and deeply felt memoir about growing up on the Isle of Mull from award-winning musician, the man behind Mull Historical Society, and author of The Letters of Ivor Punch, Colin MacIntyre. ‘A9’ is a captivating piece of short fiction about a girl torn between her love in Inverness and the chance to spread her wings, by Ellen MacAskill.

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