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Madam

Madam
  • Author(s): Phoebe Wynne
  • 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...

Meredith, Alone

Meredith, Alone
  • Author(s): Claire Alexander
  • 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,...

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • 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 )

Picture Her Dead (#8 Rhona MacLeod )
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • 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...

Sign of the Times

Sign of the Times
  • Author(s): Susan Buchanan
  • 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...

Tales of a Midwife

Tales of a Midwife
  • Author(s): Maria Anderson
  • 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...

The Birds That Never Flew

The Birds That Never Flew
  • Author(s): Margot McCuaig
  • 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...

The Black Dog

The Black Dog
  • Author(s): Kevin Bridges
  • 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...

The Blue Horse

The Blue Horse
  • Author(s): Philip Miller
  • 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...

The Bullet Trick

The Bullet Trick
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • 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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