A romance set in Edinburgh, Russia and the Scottish Isles. Serena MacKenzie is haunted by a secret from her dysfunctional upbringing in the Hebridean village of Balvaig. Nowadays, she's a successful TV journalist, based in Edinburgh, but still in thrall to the obsessions that have held her since childhood: fairy tale heroes, and all things Russian. It's 1997, and she's newly divorced - though Fergus Learmonth, her ex-husband, continues to play a pivotal role in her life. He's keen to get her back; is she still under his spell too? When a friend persuades Serena to join a cruise to St...

Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in contemporary societies, their engagement with “hot” topics and their part in wider conversations in a networked public culture. Hot topics such as homosexuality, sexual, and racial violence, massacres, drugs, terrorism, GMO foods, H1M1 (swine flu) and climate change are now all part of museological culture. The authors in this collection situate cultural institutions in an increasingly interconnected, complex, globalising and uncertain world and...