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Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
A celebration of the irreplaceable magic of language, and the wit and wisdom of 1,000 Scottish words. The Scots language is an ancient and lyrical tongue, inherently linked to the country’s history and identity, its land and culture. In...
- Location(s): Shetland Islands
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Since the...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine’s outstanding cop series. It’s August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing....
- Location(s): England, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
In 1994, Dodson, a contributing editor and columnist for Golf magazine, visited the major courses of England and Scotland, an unusual trip because he was escorting his father, a man in his 80s, a diabetic who had recently been...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Dark Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’re the housemates from Hell… When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O’Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a...
- Location(s): Ayr, Ayrshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to early 2000s
She’s missing, and her mother knows who to blame. But nobody’s listening. When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, however, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl’s cold gaze and her mother’s hurt, the...
- Location(s): Argyll and Bute
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern and Various
Something strange is going on at the Hereuse Nursing home on the Isle of Bute. One of the residents, Jessie McAdam, thinks her life is in danger. Alison Cameron, who is reluctantly arranging a college reunion on the island,...
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This fast paced novel, set in the modern Scottish Highlands, is a thriller with faintly ghostly echoes. Recently retired from the Special Boat Service, James Gray is involved in seismic exploration of the sea bed. His training, experience and...
Love Over Scotland (#3 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and...
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