[5] A British corporation creates a Time Tube back to the 16th Century Scottish-English border, initially planning to exploit its untouched mineral resources.

The Sterkarm Handshake deals with a British corporation, the FUP, who create a Time Tube back to the 16th Century Scottish-English border, initially to exploit its then untouched mineral resources of gold and oil, though they later plan a tourist resort.

A local clan, the Sterkarms, are welcoming at first, regarding the 21st-century travellers as magical Elves because of their medicine and technology, but increasingly refuse to cooperate.

Publishers Weekly wrote that "Price's gripping time-travel adventure cleverly imagines a startling collision of 21st-century technology and 16th-century mores.

"[6] Covering the Carnegie Medal shortlist for the Times Educational Supplement, Geraldine Brennan wrote,[4] The Sterkarm Handshake in libraries (WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US edition