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The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London
  • Author(s): Henry Chebaane
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1864 - 2024

WILL HER STORY CHANGE HISTORY? Alex Campbell is a Canadian musician struggling with a conflicted identity, a tragic past and repressed supernatural abilities. Orphaned at a young age, life was never easy on her and is about to get...

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Present

It is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh’s favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Author(s): Muriel Spark
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being “in my prime,” as their teacher. Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in...

The Silent Daughter

The Silent Daughter
  • Author(s): Emma Christie
  • Location(s): Portobello
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Deceit runs in the family . . . Chris Morrison is facing his worst nightmare. His wife is in a coma. His daughter is missing. And the only thing more unsettling than these two events . . . is...

The Storytellers

The Storytellers
  • Author(s): Caron McKinlay
  • Location(s): Mondello, Edinburgh, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Trapped between life and the afterlife, three women meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives—and about themselves. Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki,...

The Things We Do To Our Friends

The Things We Do To Our Friends
  • Author(s): Heather Darwent
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
  • Author(s): Charlie Laidlaw
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Crete, East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is a modern fairytale of love and loss. It’s about the subtle ways in which we change, and how the small decisions that we make can have profound and unintended consequences. On...

The Trap

The Trap
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma...

The Unquiet Heart

The Unquiet Heart
  • Author(s): Kaite Welsh
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hope will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor, but when he is arrested for a murder...

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
  • Author(s): Sue Lawrence
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1732

The wronged lady finally has her say… One of the strangest and most disturbing stories to have emerged from Scotland’s Jacobite past.’ The Times Edinburgh, January 1732. It’s the funeral of Rachel, wife of Lord Grange. Her death is...

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