Discover books rooted in Scottish folklore, history, modern fairytales, fantasy and storytelling ...
Emma is a novelist and editor whose work blends atmospheric settings, emotional depth, and threads of Scottish folklore. Her stories explore the tension between history and the present, the seen and the unseen, and the quiet moments where characters are changed forever.
Order signed copies and Browse her books below and step into worlds shaped by mystery, memory and the landscapes of Scotland.
Folklore & Fairy‑Tale Books
Broomhill House
A modern gothic mystery set in rural Scotland, where the past refuses to stay buried. In 1982 Ivy McNeil returns to Broomhill House with a skeleton key and a fragmented memory.
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A Gypsy’s Curse
Mairead is a Romani storyteller who dreams of finding a place to belong. But when she marries Lachlan, a Scottish fisherman, she enters a world she doesn’t understand.
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The Cult of the Secret Miners’ Library
Amidst rising complaints about the library’s morally questionable books, Minister Laurie becomes an unwilling witness to the Duke’s dark secrets surrounding the Miners’ Library
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Shattered Roses
A retelling of Beauty & the Beast. When Megan volunteers at a residential home she meets Lady who tells a fragmented and confusing story of a duke who never aged. His fate tied to the roses that grew in his garden. [Learn more]
Fantasy & Other Fiction
A Friendship of Thistles
Fran and Heather have been best friends since childhood, but a year ago they stopped talking. Now, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in Edinburgh, Fran’s husband Hector shows up at Heather’s door, coughing up a secret that could change everything.
Temptation & Mozzarella
In an unknown location in Scotland is a small, surreal village where the locals love to eat pizza. [Learn more]
Short fiction
Step into a world where myth meets the everyday, imagination bends reality, and every story offers a spark of wonder.
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About Emma
As an introvert haunting the corners of storytelling festivals, it’s incredibly difficult to track Emma down. She’s best known for writing Scottish fiction about working-class women and communities and their misrepresented lives. Emma is a British-Scottish author of contemporary fiction, whose writing has been featured on Radio 2, and won second place in the Just Imagine short story competition with her story A Traveller’s Daughter (now the first chapter of the book A Gypsy’s Curse).