Sweeping love story plays out amid the Jacobite Rebellion

SINCE bursting on to television screens in 2014, Outlander has become a Golden Globenominated and Bafta Scotlandwinning phenomenon.

Based on a series of eight (soon to be nine) novels by American author Diana Gabaldon, the sweeping epic follows Second World War combat nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe).

In the days after the war she heads to the Highlands to rekindle her romance with her husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies). But while exploring the region, she is transported back in time to 18th Century Scotland after touching a set of mystical standing stones.

Stranded centuries in the past, she soon finds herself cornered by the fiendish Captain ‘Black Jack’ Randall, her husband’s ancestor. But hope arrives in the form of a rescue by charming and strapping Scots warrior Jamie Fraser (played by Sam Heughan, from New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire).

It is set in the years before the battle of Culloden in 1746 and Claire soon realises that despite wanting to return home, only her knowledge of the impending bloodbath can help save the Jacobite army.

Part epic love story and part sword-wielding action piece, Outlander tracks Claire and Jamie’s passionate romance through daring rescues and steamy scenes, as they try to rewrite history.