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Scordril

Scordril
  • Author(s): Kelsey Drake
  • Location(s): East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in 1950 in East Lothian, Scotland, this title tells the tale of an ancient magic that has imprisoned the dragons of Traprain Law.

Shadow of Sounds

Shadow of Sounds
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra’s leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show...

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
  • Author(s): Fiona Gibson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Can any woman ever grab back a piece of her younger self? For one weekend only, Hannah, Sadie and Lou are determined to give it their best shot. Hannah’s getting married… and has serious pre-wedding jitters. She adores Ryan...

The Holiday Home

The Holiday Home
  • Author(s): Daniel Hurst
  • Location(s): Glencoe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect holiday or the perfect nightmare… I sit sipping champagne in the warm water, bubbles frothing around me as I admire the breathtaking view of gorgeous blue skies and mountains. I can’t believe I’m here, at this stunning...

The Last Days of Disco

The Last Days of Disco
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. From birthdays to...

The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Sunday Philosophy Club
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

For those of us who know Edinburgh, this is a wonderful book that takes the reader past all the familiar streets and shops, and this really gives pleasure. Isabel Dalhousie is an academic, and much given to musing about...

Winchman

Winchman
  • Author(s): Chris Murray
  • Location(s): Stornoway
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the life story of Chris Murray from Stornoway. As a winchman on Search and Rescue helicopters, for 22 years he was involved in the rescue of many people from the seas and mountains around the north of...

22 Dead Little Bodies and Other Stories

22 Dead Little Bodies and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say ‘small is beautiful’, but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So pour yourself a wee dram, curl up on the sofa and enjoy...

A Bad, Bad Place

A Bad, Bad Place
  • Author(s): Frances Crawford
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): 1979

Everyone’s talking about Janey Devine… Glasgow, 1979. While walking her dog, twelve-year-old Janey finds a murdered woman on an abandoned railway – and her innocent childhood ends in a shocking moment of trauma. When the victim is named as...

A Bird in Winter

A Bird in Winter
  • Author(s): Louise Doughty
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Birmingham to the Isle of Noss…. Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she’s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she’s walking out on her job, her home, her life. It’s...

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