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Girl Meets Boy

Girl Meets Boy
  • Author(s): Ali Smith
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Girl meets boy. It’s a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith’s remix of Ovid’s most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of...

Glasdrum

Glasdrum
  • Author(s): Fiona MacBain
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Life is not easy for the women of Glasdrum. A skeleton is unearthed, too many walkers are falling to their deaths off mountain cliffs, and the local pub doesn’t know how to make a decent raspberry daiquiri. Single mother...

Glasgow Kiss

Glasgow Kiss
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 6 in Detective Lorimer Series Eric Chalmers is one of the most popular teachers at Muirpark Secondary School in Glasgow. So when precocious teenager Julie Donaldson accuses Chalmers of rape, the school goes into shock. With some students...

Golden Gate (City Spies)

Golden Gate (City Spies)
  • Author(s): James Ponti
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Bondi Beach, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for...

Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Calais, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Still reeling from a life-threatening experience on the coast of Calais, daredevil climber Jen Shaw finds herself in Glasgow for a funeral, devastated with grief and in search of answers. As her dogged determination propels her closer to the...

Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum

Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum
  • Author(s): Margaret Halliday
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Margaret Halliday’s second book, Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum, tells the poignant tale of her harrowing and often hilarious experience of unmarried motherhood in pre-Abortion Act Scotland. 17-year-old Margaret’s Glaswegian romance results in unplanned pregnancy...

Guardians of the Wild Unicorns

Guardians of the Wild Unicorns
  • Author(s): Lindsay Littleson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

‘Across the moor galloped a huge dark beast; a heavily muscled horse with a gleaming, rippling black mane. The animal reared up, its hooves cutting the sky, its silken tail streaming like a banner. Its spiralled horn glinted in...

Hag Storm

Hag Storm
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson, Elise Carmichael (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1771

In 1771, Robert Burns, future national poet and folk hero of Scotland, has big problems. 12-year-old Rab spends all of his time doing backbreaking work on his family’s farm instead of attending school, but when he finds a hag...

Hawkfall

Hawkfall
  • Author(s): George Mackay Brown
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality – a world set firmly between the sea and the sky – a collection of islands which are...

He Who Pays The Piper

He Who Pays The Piper
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Northern California, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ridge Walker is a hedonistic young Scot in a desperate race with the devil across Central America. He is consumed by guilt at his inability to save Orla, his beautiful and wild Irish wife, after their turbulent marriage went...

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