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A Leap in the Dark

A Leap in the Dark
  • Author(s): Justin Kerr-Smiley
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): late 18th century

The year is 1798. David Stoddart is a town councillor by day and a felon by night. After dark he wears a thief’s garb and prowls the streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town. But whatever the councillor steals he gambles...

A Winter Grave

A Winter Grave
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Kinlochleven, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2023 and 2051

A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey...

A Work of Beauty

A Work of Beauty
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

“I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day – traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade...

Colouring Scotland

Colouring Scotland
  • Author(s): Laura Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Adult colouring exploded onto the publishing scene with the huge, runaway international success of Scot Johanna Basford’s Enchanted Forest and Secret Garden books.Here, talented illustrator Laura Henderson takes us on a colouring journey across Scotland, covering all its most...

Dashboard Elvis is Dead

Dashboard Elvis is Dead
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Glasgow, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014,...

Echo of the Dead

Echo of the Dead
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glencoe, Ballachulish
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping 19th installment of the Sunday Times bestselling DSI Lorimer series (DSI William Lorimer) A consistent delight, wonderful’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH After a stressful winter, DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his...

Games People Play

Games People Play
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Scotland, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2016

When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later,...

Keeper of the Way

Keeper of the Way
  • Author(s): Patricia Leslie
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s to 1880s

Book one in a three book series: After news of grave robbing and murder in Dun Ringall, the ancient stronghold of Clan McKinnon on the Isle of Skye, Rosalie realises it is time to share her family’s secrets. Descendants...

Love is Blind

Love is Blind
  • Author(s): William Boyd
  • Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th & early 20th centuries

This is William Boyd’s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is...

Sealskin

Sealskin
  • Author(s): Su Bristow
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when magic collides with reality?Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous …and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives – not...

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