Crossing the Sound

Peter Irvine author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Publishing:30th Sep '26

£10.99

This title is due to be published on 30th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Crossing the Sound cover

It’s the opportunistic eighties and Thom Lloyd is working in London’s hottest ad agency. He feels the zeitgeist, but he’s stuck in corporate accounts and his career is going nowhere. Making an escape, he finds himself on a remote Scottish island where he encounters Eliot, a charismatic young guitar player with a phenomenal talent. And Rhona, an artist who intuitively realises that together Thom and Eliot could forge a brilliant future.


Thom’s audacious ploy is to take on and outplay the music and media machine. Eliot will be the key. Naïve and idealistic, Eliot doesn’t want to compromise his musical gift, but goes along with Thom which means leaving the wildly beautiful island he loves for rock’n’roll London, New York and whatever comes.


Thom excels at marketing and manipulation. But how can he keep driving the game-plan forward when Eliot doesn’t want to be famous?

One of the best novels I’ve encountered on music and musicians. IAN RANKIN

A page-turning, gut-grasping, quicksilver quest of a novel. MICHAEL PEDERSEN

Nobody tells it better. DAILY EXPRESS on Scotland The Best

The only guide worth a damn. THE SCOTSMAN on Scotland The Best

ISBN: 9781804253472

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm

Weight: unknown

368 pages