Ciaron Kelly
Heart-warming tale of an old man whose wife has just passed away. With his free local bus pass, he travels to the other end of the UK, to where they originally moved from, using only local buses. He heads out on a nostalgic trip whilst also carrying his wife's ashes in a small suitcase, and in doing so, he meets local people. By the end of the trip, he's a celebrity.
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
