Janis MacKay: An Entrancing Evening

Janis has brought pleasure and inspiration to countless children through her Magnus Fin and Time Traveller series and storytelling sessions in many classrooms across Scotland. Her first book won her the Kelpies prize in 2009 and she was also winner of the Scottish Children’s Book Awards in 2013.

She has now published her first adult novel, On a Northern Shore, steeped in Selkie folklore:

This far north, they say the dead are with us…

Hogmanay, the far north of Scotland. Alone on the shoreline, lobster fisherman Rob Sinclair pours a dram into the freezing waters of the North Sea. An offering to the sea spirit, the Selkie.

That same night, a stranger arrives in Rob’s village. A young woman, Mairi, charged by her dead mother to fulfil three acts of vengeance; bitter payback for deeds done before she was born.

Rob is beguiled by her, but she is elusive, frustrating, her personality shapeshifting. The only certainty is that Mairi is not who she says she is…

From Portobello to Currie by way of France, Palestine, Greece, London, Sussex, and the far north of Scotland, Janis will make this an enthralling evening.