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Strip Jack

Strip Jack
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Gregor Jack, MP, well-liked, young, married to the fiery Elizabeth – to the outside world a very public success story. But Jack’s carefully nurtured career plans take a tumble after a ‘mistake’ during a police raid on a notorious...

Summer Hours

Summer Hours
  • Author(s): Alessandra Thom
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve. When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a...

Summer Nights at Hillview Farm

Summer Nights at Hillview Farm
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Some rules were made to be broken… especially when it comes to love. After a tragedy left her heart shattered, deputy headteacher Adele Robson has rebuilt her life in Glenbriar, keeping her grief hidden behind a polished, no-nonsense exterior....

Summerwater

Summerwater
  • Author(s): Sarah Moss
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater is a devastating story told over twenty-four hours in the Scottish highlands, and a searing exploration of our capacity for both kinship and cruelty in these divided times. On the longest...

Sunny Stays at the Shetland Hotel

Sunny Stays at the Shetland Hotel
  • Author(s): Erin Green
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pippa has long felt like the odd one out in her family. Taking a job driving a mobile bakery van around Shetland’s villages gives her a sense of freedom and purpose, but also makes her realise how much she...

Swansong

Swansong
  • Author(s): Kerry Andrew
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. Polly Vaughan is trying to escape the ravaging guilt of a disturbing incident in London...

Sword Dance

Sword Dance
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 19th century

Book Three in the Dancing for the Devil trilogy Cape Wrath, Scotland, November 1847. Bruce McGunn, laird of Wrath in the far North of Scotland, is as brutal and unforgiving as his land. Discharged from the army, haunted by...

TALION

TALION
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): West of Scotland, Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

A young boy finds a body on a deserted Scottish beach. DS West searches for absconded DI Munro to help track down the killer. Left to her own devices Detective Sergeant Charlie West struggles with the responsibility of a...

Talk of the Toun

Talk of the Toun
  • Author(s): Helen MacKinven
  • Location(s): Bonnybridge
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland.   Lifelong friends Angela and Lorraine are two...

Tall Dark and Kilted

Tall Dark and Kilted
  • Author(s): Lizzie Lamb
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, London, Wester Ross
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Notting Hill Meets Monarch of the Glen Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream...

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