Crossing the Sound
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Luath Press Ltd
Published:23rd Sep '26
Should be back in stock very soon

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
In Pete Irvine’s novel, his love of music and landscape makes for a sensory experience and an absorbing read. KIRSTY WARK
A page-turning, gut-grasping, quicksilver quest of a novel. MICHAEL PEDERSEN
I read Crossing the Sound in one of its earliest drafts, saw its potential and hoped Pete Irvine would have the courage and tenacity to complete it. He so did. Here it is.JAMES ROBERTSON
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
288 pages