New novel, March 2027
The Heron Year
A ferry captain on the Firth of Forth keeps a logbook of every bird she sees for one year after her brother disappears. The entries start to answer back.
Quiet, strange and completely gripping. I missed my stop twice.
The Scotsman
Lindqvist writes water better than anyone working today.
Books of the Month, BBC Radio 4
A ghost story with no ghost in it. Superb.
The Observer
Earlier novels
Salt Ledger
2025
Two sisters inherit a failing smokehouse and a debt nobody will explain. Shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Award.
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Low Tide Hours
2022
A night porter at a seaside hotel starts finding letters addressed to guests who checked out forty years ago.
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The Orchard Accounts
2019
A debut about a family orchard, one bad harvest and the summer everyone stopped talking.
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About Mara
Mara Lindqvist grew up in Leith, worked for eleven years as a ferry deckhand and wrote her first novel on night shifts. She now lives in Edinburgh with a partner, a lurcher and far too many tide tables.
Her books have been translated into nine languages. Salt Ledger was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Award and adapted for BBC Radio 4.
She teaches a summer fiction workshop in Orkney every June and answers every letter, eventually.
Represented by Hollis and Kerr Literary Agency.