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A Fresh Start on the Bridle Path

A Fresh Start on the Bridle Path
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

A missed path. A lost love. And a second chance to get it right. James Charlton may be second-in-command at his father’s lucrative business, but, according to his parents, he’s just not ‘posh’ enough for the kind of woman...

A Gathering Storm (The Weather Weaver Adventure)

A Gathering Storm (The Weather Weaver Adventure)
  • Author(s): Tamsin Mori
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The second book in the thrilling Weather Weaver trilogy. Once a year, weather weavers from all over the globe come together at the Gathering, to trade weather magic and stories. Stella and Nimbus can’t wait to meet others like...

A Handful of Ash

A Handful of Ash
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Liveaboard skipper Cass Lynch is busy with student life at the marine college in Shetland’s ancient capital of Scalloway – until she finds a dead girl, whose hand is smeared with peat ash. Is this part of some strange...

A Heart Full of Headstones

A Heart Full of Headstones
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars. How does a hero turn villain? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke tackles...

A Hidden Gem

A Hidden Gem
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She has a secret past. He has an uncertain future. Together, can they unlock them both? After being framed for embezzlement by her ex, career-driven Rebekah needs a break to nurse her broken heart and wounded soul. When her...

A Kind of Spark

A Kind of Spark
  • Author(s): Elle McNicoll
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A Kind of Spark tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there’s more to the story of these ‘witches’,...

A Life Unexpected

A Life Unexpected
  • Author(s): Alison Ragsdale
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews, Braemar, Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current time

This book won a 2018, IPPY Bronze Medal in the Popular Fiction category Eve Carruthers is caught off guard when her newly married daughter, Jess, asks if the cystic fibrosis gene runs in the family. Eve must admit that...

A Matter of Time

A Matter of Time
  • Author(s): Claire Askew
  • Location(s): Kelso, The Scottish Borders
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At 8am the first shots are fired. At 1pm, the police establish the gunman has a hostage. By 5pm, a siege is underway. At 9pm, DI Helen Birch walks, alone and unarmed, into an abandoned Borders farmhouse to negotiate...

A Matter of Trust

A Matter of Trust
  • Author(s): Robin Pilcher
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire Barclay has returned to the home in Scotland where she spent her teenage years. After the sudden death of her mother, Claire is concerned about the welfare of her much-loved and now frail stepfather, Leo. But his own...

A Message From the Other Side

A Message From the Other Side
  • Author(s): Moira Forsyth
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Catherine moves several hundred miles away from her sister, Helen says, Phone calls aren’t enough, but they make it easier to edit the truth. Helen can dismiss Gilbert and his enchanted Factory as weird when she’s never met...

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