Billy Boyd Newton is a passionate author exploring the intricate dynamics of family and the depths of love and romance. With a keen eye for detail and a heartfelt approach, he delves into the complexities of relationships, offering readers insights that resonate deeply. His work reflects a blend of personal experience and universal themes, making his stories relatable and poignant. When not writing, Billy enjoys connecting with others, drawing inspiration from the world around him.

Billy Newton Boyd is a passionate author of juvenile fiction and chapter books, captivating young readers with imaginative tales and relatable characters. With a knack for storytelling, Billy weaves adventures that inspire curiosity and creativity. Drawing from his own childhood experiences, he crafts narratives that resonate with kids and encourage a love for reading.

Most families have their share of stories and folklore. In the case of author Billy Boyd Lavender, one of the most intriguing of these stories revolves around a murder mystery from 1905the deaths of two of his ancestors and the mob lynching that soon followed those deaths.Told from information provided by Lavenders mother, Ruby Neal Hardigree Lavender, and with support from historical documentation, Honorable Heritage recalls events that occurred on a forty-one-acre tract of land i...

The Legend of Mordekai Hagg is a wonderful tale for children and adults to share and enjoy, A fantastic tale of ogres and dwarves, witches, Kelpies and Sylkies and all the mythical creatures of Scotland. Told in verse with a stunning soundtrack, narrated by Billy Boyd (Pippen in Lord of the Rings) and featuring the voices of Jimmy Chisholm #Braveheart and Jimmy Comso, #GameofThrones.Leaving his home in Crooked Spyre, Mordekai Hagg takes a secret pathway through Hackenbark Forest se...

Billy Newton Boyd is a passionate author of juvenile fiction and chapter books, captivating young readers with imaginative tales and relatable characters. With a knack for storytelling, Billy weaves adventures that inspire curiosity and creativity. Drawing from his own childhood experiences, he crafts narratives that resonate with kids and encourage a love for reading.

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently novels.In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakeable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved i...

Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? In an unlikely twist of the democratic process, he had been elected Rector of Glasgow's Kelvin University, taking over the post from the celebrity psychic Gabrielle Lafayette. Lafayette's tenure had one unexpected outcome - the establishment of a chair to investigate, using rigorous scientific controls, the causes of paranormal activity: mind-reading, levitating objects, speaking to the dead, all that sort of woo-woo.Due to his highly honed skills a...

Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has lost everything. A call from an old friend offers a chance for redemption - but only if he can find out what happened to Heike. From Berlin to Barcelona, from the streets of Milan to remote Scottish islands, Parlabane must find out what happened before it's too late, all while the walls are closing in...

Sam Morpeth is left to fend for her younger sister when their mother goes to prison. But when a stranger begins to blackmail her online, she’s drawn her into a trap she may not escape alive. Reporter, Jack Parlabane, is indebted to a volatile source and now that debt is being called in, it could cost him everything. Thrown together by a common enemy, Sam and Jack are about to discover they have more in common than they realise - and might be each other's only hope.

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell?A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller,...

From Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Theakstons and McIllvanney awards for Black Widow, comes a standalone psychological thriller full of twists, lies and betrayal.One family, two holidays, one devastating secret. To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions. Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interv...