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The Calling

The Calling
  • Author(s): Philip Caveney
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemoporary

A boy wakes up on a train to Edinburgh.He is shocked to discover that no idea who he is or how he came to be on the train – and once off it, he finds himself immersed in the...

The City in Flames

The City in Flames
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Camden Town, Berlin, Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his...

The Diary of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller
  • Author(s): Shaun Bythell
  • Location(s): Wigtown
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of...

The Guest House

The Guest House
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Ardnamurchan, West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft had just pieced her life back together after her husband left. On a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, she kept her successful guest house going and even met a new man, Bishop. But it turned...

The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Inverness-shire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year. The beautiful one The golden couple The volatile one The new parents The quiet one The city boy The outsider The victim. Not...

The Innocent and the Dead

The Innocent and the Dead
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One woman found dead. Another kidnapped. Two cases. Two books. One overworked Scottish detective. When the body of an attractive young woman is found in woodland on Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that she had...

The Skylark’s Secret

The Skylark’s Secret
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Loch Ewe
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary

Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird’s son falls in love...

The Spy Across The Water

The Spy Across The Water
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, The Spy Across the Water is the third instalment in James Naughtie’s brilliant spy series, woven around three brothers bound together forever through espionage. We live with our history, but it...

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Flora Carr
  • Location(s): Perth and Kinross, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1560s

They are imprisoned, but not contained. Three women cross a loch. It is 1567, one of them is pregnant, two of them fretful. The boat takes them to Lochleven castle in the middle of the water. Awaiting them are...

This Bright Life

This Bright Life
  • Author(s): Karen Campbell
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He’s a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really...

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