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Sandy Mackay

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I've worked hard all my life, very hard, physical work but while I was working, I was dreaming, conjuring scenes that entwined my experiences with my imagination and from it came stories, vivid stories of heartache, joy, adventure and ultimately inner peace. Now semi retired I can get all my thoughts and the pictures in my mind down in print. My first book "2012: When the Earth Moved" is here for all to see. Others are flowing swiftly from my keyboard. If you choose to do so, what you'll read is a piece of me, grafted onto the lives of others. They live the dreams I had and I hope so will you.

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1850: Decision Time

Sandy McKay

The McDonalds are robbed of loved ones by the fever. The Highland Clearance is in full swing. Can they survive as a family?


Neil McDonald is desperately worried about his family. Can he control the mutinous young man who is his eldest son? Will he be able to hold the family together. It's his greatest test since he lost his wife ten years ago. Then his own wild temper leads him into an act of fury that greatly reduces his options.

 

The Journey

Sandy McKay

This is the second book in the Far Flung Scots series.
It follows the McDonalds and their friends as they sail to Australia.


The year is 1851 and Neil Mcdonald takes his family aboard the sailing ship Alexander the Great for the epic voyage to Port Philip near Melbourne, Australia. There are around seven hundred other people aboard and they all have a story to tell.
This book charts the adventures and problems of a few of them as they travel across the oceans, sometimes becalmed sometimes in storms but always in danger.
Fist fights, dog fights, gambling and carousing are all part and parcel of their daily existence. On top of all that the captain is an ambitious bully who wants to break the record for the journey time between the old world and the new.
Will he succeed and how many of his passengers will survive to tell the tale?

 

2012: When The Earth Moved

Sandy McKay

In 2012 as America struggles to recover from natural disaster dark forces take advantage of her plight and humanity plunges to the brink of extinction.


New Zealand born farmer’s son Callum McDonald wants to see the world and in particular, Scotland, the land of his forefathers. Using his skills he joins a band of sheep shearers making their way from Wales through England and into Scotland, drawn irrevocably towards his destiny on Mull.

Here he encounters the beautiful Joanne who has returned to her roots and after an inauspicious start, they fall in love. Love doesn’t run smoothly but after much personal tragedy they find themselves facing the future together on the beautiful island of Mull which has survived the cataclysmic events that reshaped the world in 2012 and 2013.

Meanwhile, a soulless dictator from across the world and a brutal arms dealer steal an atomic submarine planning to take it across the Atlantic to cripple America, already reeling from recent events.

As events unfold, the forces of good and evil converge on Mull and Callum is called on to play his part.

Will this simple farmer find the courage to fight for survival?

Callum digs deep but can he pull the trigger when the chips are down and a familiar face is at the other end of the gun barrel?

 

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Kenneth Edward Lim wrote 29 days ago

Sandy, You might want to click on www.scribd.com/dloganw whereby Dav....

Lenny Banks wrote 47 days ago

Dear Supporter, Thank you for any comments, any encouragement and f....

miacia7 wrote 47 days ago

I am done! My book has been edited! Read it, find yourself in my situ....

Ronnie Mcpherson wrote 49 days ago

Hi there.. I am an independent literary agent, and I’ve been contr....

Emma.L.H. wrote 99 days ago

Thanks, Sandy. Your encouragement and support mean a lot :-) x

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I wrote 214 days ago

Hi Su Dan, Thank you very much for your support of 1850: Decision Time. It is much appreciated. If you get the chance have a look at the second book in the Far Flung Scots series "The Journey" which follows the family as they travel south to Australia. I am at present writing the third book whic... view book

I wrote 216 days ago

Hi Sharda, Sorry to be so long getting back to you. Thank you for your constructive comments. I have done no editing to these books as yet as I am in the middle of writing the third in the series. When it is done I will go back to the comments I have had on Authonomy and edit them all at once. Poss... view book

I wrote 230 days ago

Hi Di. I have W/L " Leo & Rover The Purple Marble, and will try to read ASAP. Thank you for your kind comments on "2012: WTEM. I hope you will read some more of it and maybe give it some shelf time. All the best. Sandy. view book

I wrote 238 days ago

Hi Jane. Thanks once again for your comments. It is much appreciated. I am spending very little time on Authonomy at present as I am putting most of my efforts into the third book in the series. When I finish that I will have to review the situation regards editing all my various works and trying to... view book

I wrote 259 days ago

Thanks for your comments and I am sorry that the book was not to your taste. Like many others your comments are helpful and constructive. However as you point out I have not done the edits that would have improved this sorry first attempt but have tried to incorporate the lessons into my follow up w... view book

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