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Love Match on the Road Home

Love Match on the Road Home
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Sometimes the hardest match is the one you never meant to play. After tennis star Georgie Porter retires at just thirty-one, she buys a campervan and returns to her hometown of Glenbriar, hoping to make amends for the hurts...

Love Song at the Music Festival

Love Song at the Music Festival
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

From Heartbreak to Harmony After young music teacher Mirren Elphinstone’s entitled boyfriend dumps her and walks out on local band Tavrach, Mirren has a score to settle. Despite her usually sunny, helpful nature, she decides auditioning for the vacant...

Luckenbooth

Luckenbooth
  • Author(s): Jenni Fagan
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement. The devil’s daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement...

Mad About the Marquess

Mad About the Marquess
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Essex
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Georgian (18th century)

Lady Quince Winthrop has been robbing from society’s rich and giving to Edinburgh’s poor for years. But everything changes the day she can’t resist the temptation to steal from the Marquess of Cairn. Alasdair, Marquess of Cairn, has come...

Maeshowe Murders

Maeshowe Murders
  • Author(s): B K Bryce
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Neolithic

Head back 4,500 years, to a time when Skara Brae was a modern, living village rather than an ancient monument. Meet village priest Jona, fiery fire maker Roben, and Marna, who lives in the village with her widowed mother...

Magnus

Magnus
  • Author(s): George Mackay Brown
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands, Flossenburg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 12th century and mid-twentieth century

Linking the martyrdom of the Earl of Orkney in the 12th century to the death of philosopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a Nazi concentration camp, Brown explores the questions of guilt, goodness, and sacrifice.

May God Forgive

May God Forgive
  • Author(s): Alan Parks
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser’s has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but...

Mayflies

Mayflies
  • Author(s): Andrew O'Hagan
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, Manchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1986 and 2017

A heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music,...

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.

Me Mam. Me Dad. Me.
  • Author(s): Malcolm Duffy
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love. Danny’s mam has a new boyfriend. Initially, all is good –...

Meantime

Meantime
  • Author(s): Frankie Boyle
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): 2015

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety’s best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to questions that he quickly forgets. In a haze of uppers, hallucinogens, and diazepam, Felix enlists the...

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