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A Year at Honeybee Cottage

A Year at Honeybee Cottage
  • Author(s): Alexandra Wholey
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Year at Honeybee Cottage Love can blossom when you least expect it… Jilted on her wedding day, a surprise inheritance of Honeybee Cottage, her late grandmother Marianne’s home in the Inner Hebrides, gives Eilidh the chance of a...

A Year of Light and Shadows

A Year of Light and Shadows
  • Author(s): Helena Fairfax
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the heat of the Mediterranean…. When the Princess of Montverrier goes missing, Lizzie Smith takes on the acting job of her life. Alone and surrounded by intrigue in the Royal Palace, she relies on her quiet bodyguard, Léon....

Aarti & the Blue Gods

Aarti & the Blue Gods
  • Author(s): Jasbinder Bilan
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the Costa Award-winning Asha & the Spirit Bird and Tamarind & the Star of Ishta comes a atmospheric, magical adventure with a stunning twist … Aarti has lived on the island with Aunt for as...

After You’d Gone

After You’d Gone
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s and looking back

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief....

All That’s Dead

All That’s Dead
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas… The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone...

An Autumn Hideaway

An Autumn Hideaway
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She went looking for someone, but it wasn’t him. After a string of disappointments for chirpy city girl Autumn Elworthy, discovering her notoriously unstable mother has run off again is the last straw. When Autumn learns her mother’s last...

An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends

An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends
  • Author(s): Theresa Breslin, Kate Leiper (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Dark dragons, ghostly pipers, rude goblins and sly wizards — discover the legends that dwell within the ancient castles of Scotland. This highly anticipated book is the latest volume of much-loved Scottish tale treasuries by Carnegie-award-winning children’s author Theresa...

An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales

An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
  • Author(s): Theresa Breslin, Kate Leiper (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Slithering stoorworms, mischievious brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies — these are the creatures of Scottish folklore. Award-winning children’s author Theresa Breslin has collected the best-loved tales from all over Scotland. Retelling each in its own individual style, she...

An Island Christmas

An Island Christmas
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark – and incredibly beautiful. It’s a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram with the people you love...

Anna

Anna
  • Author(s): Lucy Strange
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every cloud has a silver lining. Doesn’t it? Anna is thirteen years old, lives in London with her father, and has Asperger’s syndrome. When her father dies she travels up to the Scottish Central Belt to live with her...

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