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Discovery: Razor-Sharp Urban Fantasy Blurs the Lines Between Conspiracy and Reality

Discovery: Razor-Sharp Urban Fantasy Blurs the Lines Between Conspiracy and Reality
  • Author(s): Louise McLaughlin
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gods, witches and politicians all enjoy the daily tug-of-war for control. In a world of constant scheming and manoeuvring, their peaceful world of ruining each other’s day was truly disrupted. What if it was all just a distraction...

DON’T CRY, DARLING

DON’T CRY, DARLING
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team...

DON’T CRY, DARLING

DON’T CRY, DARLING
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Newcastleton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team...

Dragonfly in Amber

Dragonfly in Amber
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, Inverness, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1740's and 1960's

This follow-up to the author’s first book ‘Outlander’ (‘Cross-stitch’ in the UK) visits the 1960’s before returning to time travelling English nurse Claire and Jaime, her Scottish warrior husband, in 18th century Edinburgh, Paris, and the Scottish Highlands. This...

DUPLICITY

DUPLICITY
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): Ayr, Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

When a foreign worker casually admits to the murder of a local businessman, detectives in a small Scottish town guess that the victim’s violent death points to a more complex cause. Money appears to be a motive, but will...

Dying Light

Dying Light
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Even the darkest crimes will come to light… ‘Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James It’s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying… It begins with Rosie...

Eagle Warrior

Eagle Warrior
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): Scottish Lowlands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bobbie is thrilled that a golden eagle has settled in the forest near her family’s farm. She loves to walk the hills with her granny and watch the bird soar through the sky. But not everyone shares Bobbie’s awe...

Edge of the Grave

Edge of the Grave
  • Author(s): Robbie Morrison
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1932

Winner of The Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year (Jimmy Dreghorn series Book 1) Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2021 and the CWA Historical Dagger 2022 Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law...

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull
  • Author(s): Andy Sutherland
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Children, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2018

Elgol, a young white-tailed eagle makes friends with a boy and two young otters all united in grief with the loss of parents. They form a strong bond of friendship from which they embark on a series of adventures...

Elsewhere, Home

Elsewhere, Home
  • Author(s): Leila Aboulela
  • Location(s): Khartoum, Aberdeen, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018 From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home offers us a...

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