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One For Sorrow

One For Sorrow
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A breathtaking thriller with a devastating conclusion. I can’t stop thinking about it.’ – Bestselling author Susi Holliday One for sorrow, two for joy Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known: a lone bomber is...

One More Day of Us

One More Day of Us
  • Author(s): Shari Low
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990 /2025

1990: In a hot, humid Hong Kong summer, three young singers are loving life, performing to packed crowds every night in a swanky hotel bar. Twenty-three-year-old Scottish songbird, Moira Chiles is living the dream alongside Carina Lloyd and Lisa...

One More For Christmas

One More For Christmas
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgan
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gayle is a highly successful and motivated business woman, but her success has come at a price – she hasn’t spoken to her daughters, Ella and Samantha, for years. But when Gayle has an accident at work, she realises...

One Sweet Moment

One Sweet Moment
  • Author(s): Maggie Craig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1820s

A tale of young love and old Edinburgh. Kate works in an oyster cellar in the Old Town and dreams of escape with her young brother Andrew from their grasping and predatory aunt and uncle. Richard Hope is a...

Only Here, Only Now

Only Here, Only Now
  • Author(s): Tom Newlands
  • Location(s): Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1990s

Fife, in the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat’s mates don’t understand her, but then Cora Mowat doesn’t understand herself. She’s stuck on a seaside council estate full of dafties, old folk and seagulls, with a million dreams...

Orkney Twilight

Orkney Twilight
  • Author(s): Clare Carson
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

All families have secrets. But some have more secrets than others. Jim is a brilliant raconteur whose stories get taller with each glass of whisky. His daughter Sam thinks it’s time she found out the truth about her dad....

Our Hideous Progeny

Our Hideous Progeny
  • Author(s): C E McGill
  • Location(s): London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn’t know why or how… The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the...

Out of Darkness

Out of Darkness
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(DSI William Lorimer Book 21) DSI William Lorimer and his wife Maggie are taking their first extended holiday for the first time in years, and they’re looking for an adventure. What better place than Zimbabwe, with its bustling cities...

Outwalkers

Outwalkers
  • Author(s): Fiona Shaw
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Dystopian

The border’s closed, Jake said. No one can get into Scotland, just like no one can cross the Channel . . .This is England and it’s no longer a free country. The Government can track anyone, anywhere, from a...

Paperboy

Paperboy
  • Author(s): Callum McSorley
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled...

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