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Fray

Fray
  • Author(s): Chris Carse Wilson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife. Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and...

From Paella to Porridge

From Paella to Porridge
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the fifth and final book in Peter Kerr’s award-winning pentad of fun-filled Mallorcan travelogues, which also includes Snowball Oranges, Mañana Mañana, Viva Mallorca! and A Basketful of Snowflakes.After three years of hard work, the Kerr family say...

From Shetland, With Love

From Shetland, With Love
  • Author(s): Erin Green
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Jemima loses her beloved grandfather, keeping his allotment alive seems like the ideal way to feel close to him. She’s never fitted in before – is this her chance to find where she really belongs? Finally Melissa has...

From Shetland, with Love at Christmas

From Shetland, with Love at Christmas
  • Author(s): Erin Green
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Verity is embarking on a better-late-than-never gap year now that her sons have flown the nest, and dreams of turning a lifetime’s hobby of knitting and crocheting into a profitable new enterprise at Lerwick Manor’s gallery. Nessie has returned...

From the Ashes

From the Ashes
  • Author(s): Deborah Masson
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the house burns, the hunt for a killer begins… In the dead of night someone starts a fire in a home for underprivileged children in Aberdeen. The flames spread quickly, and one person doesn’t make it out alive....

Garnethill

Garnethill
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It is, of course, the stuff of nightmares. Maureen comes home late and drunk and wakes up next morning with a hangover, and her boyfriend in the next room with his throat cut, and something nasty in the cupboard...

Ghost

Ghost
  • Author(s): Helen Grant
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Gothic, Romance

Langlands House is haunted, but not by the ghost you think. Augusta McAndrew lives on a remote Scottish estate with her grandmother, Rose. For her own safety, she hides from outsiders, as she has done her entire life. Visitors...

Ghost Story

Ghost Story
  • Author(s): Elisa Lodato
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Off the windswept coast of Scotland lies Finish Island, rugged and remote. Once a home, it now stands abandoned, a place of dark history and deep memory, a place that holds its stories close. Unable to write since her...

Ginger and Me

Ginger and Me
  • Author(s): Elissa Soave
  • Location(s): Uddingston
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her mum died,...

Girl in the Castle

Girl in the Castle
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Wester Ross, Portnacroish
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Her academic career in tatters, Dr Henriette Bruar needs somewhere to lay low, plan her comeback and restore her tarnished reputation. Fate takes her to a remote Scottish castle to auction the contents of an ancient library to pay...

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