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- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope. A boarding school for girls, it promises that its pupils will emerge ‘resilient and...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2018
Meredith Maggs hasn’t left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn’t alone. She has her cat, Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There’s her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favourite recipes,...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. Seventeen-year-old Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland has led a sheltered existence in rural Dorset, a life entirely bereft of the romance and...
Picture Her Dead (#8 Rhona MacLeod )
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Picture Her Dead is Lin Anderson’s eighth novel in the Rhona MacLeod series, which follows a Scottish forensic scientist as she navigates brutal murders and family drama in the criminal underworld of Glasgow. As ever, the vibrant characterisation of...
- Location(s): Italy, Scotland, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Twelve people. Twelve star signs. Sagittarius – Holly, a travel writer, visits Tuscany to research her next book. Seeking help when her car breaks down, she gets more than assistance when Dario, a vineyard owner, puts temptation in her...
- Location(s): England, Scotland
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over twenty years. After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Battered and bruised, Elizabeth has taken her daughter and left her abusive husband Patrick. Again. In the bleak and impersonal Glasgow housing office Elizabeth meets the provocatively intriguing drug addict Sadie, who is desperate to get her own life...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain’s most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It’s a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life – going through the motions...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National Gallery who becomes increasingly obsessed with a lost minor Dutch masterpiece, The Blue Horse by Van Doelenstraat. The painting’s provenance is disputed and many...
- Location(s): Berlin, Glasgow, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
The protagonist here is a Glaswegian conjurer who has seen better days. Those who know their literature of the Gothic (and Louise Welsh is certainly of that number!) will no doubt spot that the author has christened her anti-hero...
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