The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories

The collection gathers short tales set among remote sheilings and woodland hamlets, tracing musicians, wanderers, and rustic families as they negotiate tradition, superstition, and daily survival. Stories range from a piper's quest for a fabled pibroch to portraits of an itinerant chief and his clan, mixing comic anecdote, local dialect, and uncanny folk beliefs. Recurring motifs include music and memory, clan loyalty and exile, encounters with the supernatural, and the comforts and constraints of close-knit rural life. Narrative voices shift between affectionate humour and melancholic reflection, offering vivid sketches of landscape, custom, and the emotional textures of small-community existence.