Ken Lussey

This modern image shows the Pend in Whithorn in Galloway, once the gatehouse to Whithorn Priory, which can be distantly glimpsed through it. A run of two-storey white buildings with grey slate roofs stretches across the width of the frame, taking up most of it. There is a stone arch built into the central building, with an elaborate crest set into the wall above it. On the building to its left is a sign saying ‘Pend Books’, in front of which is a black pedestrian finger post. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Whithorn in Galloway has a background role in the book as the hunt for a spy gathers pace.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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Maybe we need a parallel scheme to the Human Authored one, but for books that are actually written by the people whose names are on the front. Perhaps we could call it "Author Authored".

#peanuts #library

Ray Harryhausen's marvelous 2004 statue of David Livingstone in the grounds of the house where he was born in Blantyre just to the south of Glasgow (now home to the David Livingstone Centre).

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#glasgow #blantyre #statue #sculpture #davidlivingstone

The image shows a view across a sunlit graveyard to a small honey-coloured church. We are seeing it end on, with the transepts projecting from both sides. The church is topped off with a tower and spire and there’s a low stone wall on the right with a street of stone buildings beyond it. There are trees on both sides. The sky is blue. The front cover of ‘Thicker Than Water’ is shown in the top right corner.

One broch, two millennia, three murders. ‘Thicker Than Water’ is a compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Dornoch Cathedral is visited as the hunt for two killers builds towards its climax.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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#TombTuesday
Little is left of the cairn at Pierowall, Westray #Orkney, due to quarrying, but this ornately carved lintel stone did survive. Discovered in 1981 by a digger driver, it has similar carvings to those in the Boyne valley tombs, #Ireland. It is on display at the Westray museum 📸 mine.

This is undoubtedly one of the most ridiculous and inaccurate examples of AI I have ever seen (and that is saying something). Honestly, there should be a law against this sort of bilge.

I am one of nearly 10,000 authors who have signed this otherwise empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.

Read more here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#DontStealThisBook

The image shows a modern view of Edinburgh Castle rising above the city’s Grassmarket in bright sunlight, contrasting with deep shadows in the foreground. The sky is blue. The front cover of 'The Stockholm Run' is shown in the bottom right corner.

A city at peace in a world at war. ‘The Stockholm Run’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland and Sweden during World War Two. A secret beneath Edinburgh Castle features in the Scottish strand of the story.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple:
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Looking down at a very fancy entrance to the Crown Bar. The multicoloured tiling has 'Crown Bar' placed centrally with a depiction of a golden crown sat surrounded b a wreath.

Here's a treat for #MosaicMonday. This beautiful tiling can be found at the entrance to The Crown Bar, Great Victoria Street, Belfast.

📷John Hammond

Golden mountains.

Early sunlight on Beinn Alligin.

Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.

Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).

Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.

Citizens; heroes.

Cruggleton Church near Garlieston in Galloway. This modern image shows a view up a sloping field that has a tall green crop growing in it. Set within the field across the lower central portion of the frame is a stone walled enclosure with a gate on the side facing us. Within the enclosure are mature trees in leaf and within them the gable end of a stone church is visible. The scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the top right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. The spooky Cruggleton Church near Garlieston is visited by the book’s two central characters.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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The Angry Corrie: No.79 February 2026 : Val Hamilton, Perkin Warbeck, Grant Hutchison : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Dave Hewitt Memorial Edition Contents: The Angry Corrie Origin Story TAC goes AI ‘Big Dave’ Hewitt – 1961 to 2025 Totally Useless Equipment: The...

The final issue of 'The Angry Corrie', in memory of Dave Hewitt:

BrewDog sold Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

To mark International Women's Day, here's a celebration of four of pioneering women with Glasgow connections. They are: Margaret Easton Anderson, a graudate of Glasgow University and the first woman to practice law in the UK;

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#glasgow #internationalwomensday #glasgowhistory

This image shows a view along a river. On the near, left, bank is a quay with a small motorboat under a crane and a row of white cottages beyond it on the side of a slope that climbs a hillside. A pedestrian suspension bridge crosses to the far bank of the river on the right of the frame where there are more cottages with a hillside above them and a stony beach beneath them. The river narrows as it reaches the centre of the frame in a wooded valley. The front cover of ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is shown in the top right corner.

How many deaths to end a war? ‘Eyes Turned Skywards’ is a fast-paced thriller set in northern Scotland during World War Two. The search for answers reaches its dramatic conclusion at Berriedale.
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Snowy hills and blue skies, with footsteps showing on a snowy track

A woman hiker walking through snow up a hillside, blue skies overhead

Just when it felt like spring was actually underway, winter returned yesterday. Though with no wind it was T-shirt weather.
Stunning day in the Scottish Borders.

Edinburgh's folly, from Holyrood park

Love these old-fashioned cast-iron road signs in the Carmunnock area of Glasgow, and especially the precision used for the distances

#glasgow #carmunnock #roadsign #oldsign #oldroadsigns #scotland

The image shows a view of a harbour in bright sunlight. The water is calm and extends from the bottom of the frame to a dozen or so small boats moored at pontoons across the centre of the frame, with a quayside and buildings on the right. In the background a rocky shoreline rises from the water and there are hills in the distance in the left centre of the frame. The front cover of ‘The High Road’ is shown in the top right corner.

When the hunter becomes the prey. ‘The High Road’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in central Scotland and the far north-west. Kinlochbervie, seen here, has a central role in the story.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo, Apple or audiobook. Find out more:
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The audacity of #Scotland to look this good on a Friday morning! #NoFilters

Interior of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, showing historic wooden bookcases and a decorated ceiling. In the foreground, a sign displays the traditional Bodleian Oath, which readers must read aloud before being admitted to use the library. The oath reads: 'I hereby undertake not to remove from the Library, or to mark, deface, or injure in any way, any volume, document, or other object belonging to it or in its custody; not to bring into the Library or kindle therein any fire or flame, and not to smoke in the Library; and I promise to obey all rules of the Library'

The traditional Bodleian Oath, which every reader is required to read aloud on seeking admission to the Bodleian Libraries 📚

#WorldBookDay

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Forgotten
📍Kilbride, Scotland, UK
📷Pete Rowbottom, Wigan, UK
#landscapephotography #landscape #photography
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Castlebay on the Isle of Barra. This modern image shows the village of Castlebay stretching in a narrow strip across the centre of the frame. It includes a grey stone church and one or two storey buildings finished in stone or white. The bottom half of the frame is blue sea and there is the rear of a small blue and white boat across the foot of the frame. The sky is mainly blue. The front cover of ‘Friend or Foe?’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

‘Friend or Foe?’ is a fast-paced new thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. Castlebay on Barra is visited by the two central characters at the end of the book.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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The former Glasgow Corporation Public Baths and Wash House on Tollcross Road in the Parkhead area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was built in 1904.

#glasgow #parkhead #architecture #architecturephotography

Did ancient Greek priestesses brew a mind-bending potion drunk by Cicero and Marcus Aurelius? Researchers found the psychedelic elixir would have been possible to make using ingredients and techniques available in ancient Greece

i love science

"Still, just because the scenario could have happened doesn’t mean it did"

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I’ve made it into Private Eye!

This modern image shows the Great Hall at Stirling Castle. It is shown end-on from a high vantage point and the beige harling is very striking in bright sunlight. There is an external wooden staircase leading up to a door in one corner and the roofline is highly decorated. A dark stone building can be seen on the left and another smaller one on the right. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the top right corner.

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and across Scotland during World War Two, when the Great Hall was used as a barracks.
Available as a paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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The memorial cairn at Culloden battlefield. The image shows a large cylindrical cairn made of large rocks in the centre of the frame which has gorse growing on top of it. There are three people standing on this side of the cairn and looking at a stone plaque which identifies the site. There is vegetation in the background. The sky is blue and the scene is in sunlight. The front cover of ‘A Tangled Web’ is shown in the top right corner.

You can’t ask a dead man who pulled the trigger. ‘A Tangled Web’ is a fast-paced contemporary thriller set in northern Scotland. The battlefield at Culloden is visited by the central character as the story builds.
Available as a Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more:
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