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The Christmas Cafe

The Christmas Cafe
  • Author(s): Amanda Prowse
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Bea does not believe in second chances. A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has...

44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)

44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

First in the series. The stories are centred around the residents of a house in Edinburgh, and offer slices of life through the different characters who live there and whose lives overlap. (A note in the introduction that this...

A Kettle of Fish

A Kettle of Fish
  • Author(s): Ali Bacon
  • Location(s): Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Ailsa has just left school and should be living it up on a summer trip, but her plans are scuppered by her needy and secretive mother. In desperation she takes up with local fishmonger Ian. He’s good for her...

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are...

Breakers

Breakers
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A toxic family … a fight for survival… Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and...

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
  • Author(s): Catriona McPherson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1920s

No 5 in the Dandy Gilver series. Set against the back drop of the general strike in the 1920`s,Catriona McPerson has used her impeccaable research of the period detail in the world of below stairs. Dandy gets a letter...

Espresso Tales (#2 44 Scotland Street)

Espresso Tales (#2 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

From the back cover: Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat Macgregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica Macdonald, finds herself invited to...

Exit Music: An Inspector Rebus Novel

Exit Music: An Inspector Rebus Novel
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in...

Find Her First

Find Her First
  • Author(s): Emma Christie
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Portobello
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WHERE IS STEF CAMPBELL? AND WHO CAN BE TRUSTED TO BRING HER HOME?  Paramedic Andy Campbell has a secret he can’t tell anyone, not least the police. But when his missing wife’s image is found at the home of a suspected killer,...

Natural Causes (Inspector McLean 1)

Natural Causes (Inspector McLean 1)
  • Author(s): James Oswald
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A young girl’s mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly...

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