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- Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
- Genre(s): Gothic, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1992
Five friends. One deadly obsession. The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. This is a place where only privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder....
- Location(s): Firth of Forth
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Rachel is at crisis point. A series of disastrous decisions has left her with no job, no home, and no faith in herself. But an unexpected job offer takes her to a remote Scottish island, and it feels like...
- Location(s): Glasgow, West Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1992
‘Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Sydney
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Bea does not believe in second chances. A widow at fifty-three, Bea knows she must accept that she will be alone forever. She buries her grief in hard work, and soon the deli she runs in Surry Hills has...
44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
First in the series. The stories are centred around the residents of a house in Edinburgh, and offer slices of life through the different characters who live there and whose lives overlap. (A note in the introduction that this...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1934
A mesmerising historical novel about a notorious true crime case A Granite Silence is an exploration – a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives...
- Location(s): Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Fife
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
Ailsa has just left school and should be living it up on a summer trip, but her plans are scuppered by her needy and secretive mother. In desperation she takes up with local fishmonger Ian. He’s good for her...
- Location(s): Argyll and Bute, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You need to know who your husband really was… When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost thirty years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son, Christopher’s death, her world falls apart. Grieving and bereft, she is...
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