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The Walk Home

The Walk Home
  • Author(s): Rachel Seiffert
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern ad 1990s

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a labourer not so far from his childhood...

The Wallace

The Wallace
  • Author(s): Nigel Tranter
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 13th Century

At the end of the 13th century Scotland was suffering under the tyranny of the English and Edward Plantagenet. The eponymous hero swears to rid his land of their cruelty and to restore Robert the Bruce to the throne.

Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Belfast, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nominated for a Saltire Award, Truth or Dare is a comic, compassionate and powerful tale of friendship, secrets & premeditated murder. Belfast-born architect, Libby & her sassy sidekick Becka are happy squatting in bank-employee, Lorna’s London flat till they...

Ushig

Ushig
  • Author(s): Annemarie Allan
  • Location(s): East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy

Ellen whistled again and repeated the old rhyme Aunt Marian had taught her. ‘I call you once. I call you twice. I call you three times over’. Surely in a place as beautiful as this, anything that answered her...

Buddha Da

Buddha Da
  • Author(s): Anne Donovan
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In her hugely acclaimed debut Anne Donovan tells an endearing, humorous yet unsentimental story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers Buddhism, rejects old habits and seeks a life more meaningful, only to alienate his immediate family in the...

Isolation Island

Isolation Island
  • Author(s): Louise Minchin
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IT’S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN… Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling – and lucrative – reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the...

Change of Life

Change of Life
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Be careful what you wish for… Wife to heart surgeon and control freak, Tom and mother to four adolescent children, Rosie feels taken for granted as she juggles family life and her work as a teacher. She longs for...

Hox

Hox
  • Author(s): Annemarie Allan
  • Location(s): Appin, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Faced with a cold Saturday afternoon stuck at the Institute for Animal Research, Robbie is angry and frustrated at yet another weekend ruined by his father’s job. Then a disturbing encounter in the animal house thrusts him into a...

In The Shadows

In The Shadows
  • Author(s): Anna Smith
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Billie Carlson takes on a thrilling new case in the next instalment of this gripping series. YOU CAN’T ESCAPE THE PAST. The future is looking bright for Billie Carlson. With her child safely home and a new relationship on...

Never Somewhere Else

Never Somewhere Else
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When three young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer. Frustrated by a lack of progress in the investigation, Lorimer is forced to enlist the services...

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