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Sunset Song

Sunset Song
  • Author(s): Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her...

The Good Left Undone

The Good Left Undone
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Viareggio, Marseilles (Marseille), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had...

The Keening

The Keening
  • Author(s): Margaret Pinard
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

The Keening takes you to a rapidly changing Scotland and into the lives of the MacLean family. Her vivid depictions of life and landscape on the Isle of Mull and in urbanizing and industrializing Scotland allow you to be...

The Last Girl to Die

The Last Girl to Die
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Fantastic. Excellent. Incredible. I could not put this one down for the life of me.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘A stunner! I guarantee you’ll put everything on hold until you arrive at the shocking final scenes. Without a doubt, one...

The Legacy of of Elizabeth Pringle

The Legacy of of Elizabeth Pringle
  • Author(s): Kirsty Wark
  • Location(s): Isle of Arran
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Born just before the First World War, Elizabeth Pringle has been a familiar yet solitary figure on the Scottish island of Arran. A dutiful daughter, an inspirational teacher, a gardener. But did anyone really know her? When Elizabeth dies,...

The Legend of Lady MacLaoch

The Legend of Lady MacLaoch
  • Author(s): Becky Banks
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A legendary love, an unforgiving curse, and the discovery of a lifetime . . . Centuries ago a vengeful curse buried itself deep into the history of the MacLaoch clan and become a legendary tale told by all those...

The Lifeline

The Lifeline
  • Author(s): Deborah Swift
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1942 World War Two

From the heart of Norway to Shetland in Scotland, one couple fight to overthrow the Nazis… 1942, Nazi-occupied Norway Schoolteacher Astrid Dahl has always kept out of trouble. But when she is told to teach the fascist Nazi curriculum,...

The Locked Away Life

The Locked Away Life
  • Author(s): Drew Davies
  • Location(s): Northamptonshire, Great Yarmouth, The Trossachs
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the grand old age of eighty-two, Esther Saul has just one regret in life. Since her heart got blown to smithereens decades ago, Esther has never been the same. She has barricaded herself in a vine-covered manor house,...

The Outrun

The Outrun
  • Author(s): Amy Liptrot
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As...

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh
  • Author(s): Ambrose Parry
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1847

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 McILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. In the city’s Old Town a number of young women have been found dead, all having...

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