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Revenge

Revenge
  • Author(s): N S Brooks
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will Slater had hoped that the terrifying experience in helping to break up a terrorist arms gang was buried in the past. However, a newspaper article questioning the disappearance of the terrorist money awakened old memories and hatred. Hiding...

Rizzio

Rizzio
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1566

Longlisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award It’s Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She’s hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn’t know that...

Rose Nicolson

Rose Nicolson
  • Author(s): Andrew Greig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Dundee/St Andrews, The Scottish Borders
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under...

Ruse

Ruse
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder and a series of heists test Police Scotland (Detective Inspector Munro murder mysteries Book 13) Detectives are led up the garden path when a clever scam turns fatal. Down-on-his-luck businessman Tam McDonnell thinks he may have rescued...

Scotch on the Rocks

Scotch on the Rocks
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS Where the men wear kilts and women are glad of it! ISHABEL STUART is at the crossroads of her life. Her wealthy industrialist father has died unexpectedly, leaving her a half-share in a ruined whisky...

Scotland – A Literary Guide for Travellers

Scotland – A Literary Guide for Travellers
  • Author(s): Garry MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Various

With its vibrant cities and breathtaking landscapes, Scotland has captivated writers and visitors for centuries and inspired a diverse range of literature, from the religious poems carved on the rocks of its sacred monuments to the seedy urban novels...

Scotland Beyond the Bagpipes

Scotland Beyond the Bagpipes
  • Author(s): Helen Ochyra
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2017

Like so many people who live south of the border in England, Helen thought that she knew all about Scotland. It was a part of Britain after all, a place that was surely more the same than it was...

Sea Babies

Sea Babies
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s — present

Lauren Wilson is travelling by ferry to the Outer Hebrides, about to begin a new job as a social worker. When somebody sits opposite her at the cafeteria table, she refuses to look up, annoyed at having her privacy...

SeaBEAN

SeaBEAN
  • Author(s): Sarah Holding
  • Location(s): Scotland, St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 2018-2118

Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when the strange C-Bean Mark 3 shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole...

Seasons of the Past

Seasons of the Past
  • Author(s): Carole Lehr Johnson
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th century, 20th century, contemporary

Eight inspirational short stories offering hope through the seasons . . . A Chance in Time – 1614 England Young orphaned Bertie escapes the London plague and ends up at a manor. Can she truly belong? Heritage of Hope...

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