Douglas Bruton

Kelpies

The Chess Piece Magician (Nov-2009)

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  The Chess Piece Magician
  

  • Nov-2009
  • / Fantasy
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  Kelpies
  

  When Corrie’s family returns to Uig Bay on the Isle of Lewis for yet another miserable summer holiday, he has no idea of the incredible adventure that lies ahead. He finds a strange figurine on a windswept beach, which looks very like the ancient c...

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  Mrs Winchester's Gun Club
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  One day there was a message from my dead grandmother. I knew the crack and clack in her voice, and I passed what she said on to her daughter, my mother.'A gripping novel based on the true tale of an old woman's conscience. Left a fortune by her husba...

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  Blue Postcards
  

  • Oct-2021
  • / Literary
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  Once there was a street in Paris and it was called the Street of Tailors. This was years back, in the blue mists of memory.Now it' s the 1950s and Henri is the last tailor on the street. With meticulous precision he takes the measurements...

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  Just Like Him To Die
  

  • Dec-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  Just Like Him To Die by Douglas Bruton tells of the last days of Dylan Thomas as he lies unconscious and dying far from his Welsh home in a hospital bed in New York's Saint Vincent Hospital.
  Dylan Thomas was a womanizer, a drunk, a bad husba...

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  With or Without Angels
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / Literary
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  'The thought in my head does not yet have shape or form, only direction, one picture leading into another.'An ageing artist, faced with his own mortality, embarks on one final artwork. As he battles to complete the project, working with an enigmatic ...

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  Woman in Blue
  

  • Jun-2025
  • / Literary
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  ‘You will live beyond one lifetime and beyond even two in the painting he makes of you.’ In the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, there is a painting called Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Each day a man visits to gaze at it. He is irresisti...

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