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The Enigma Game

The Enigma Game
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II. Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of the world to look after an old lady with a dark past. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart is a...

The Enigma of Garlic

The Enigma of Garlic
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob’s wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own...

The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She’s not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There’s almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there’s more...

The Father-Daughter Club

The Father-Daughter Club
  • Location(s): Scotland, Athens, Hydra, Lake Garda
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This book won an IPPY Bronze Medal in 2016, in the Best Regional Fiction Europe, category. David and Elizabeth Fredericks are spending a month away from their home in Eastern Scotland. Traveling through Greece and Italy, they plan to...

The Festival Killer

The Festival Killer
  • Author(s): Jo McCready
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Agent RJ Rox is in charge of her first case for the clandestine organization known as Kingfisher. A ticking clock and a colleague who could make the whole assignment blow up in her face, pile on the pressure in...

The Figure in the Photograph

The Figure in the Photograph
  • Author(s): Kevin Sullivan
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1898

1898. When Juan’s father is killed while working as a photographer in Cuba, the young man is left with nothing but his last photos amid the chaos as the war between Spain and America escalates. But the images reveal...

The Fisherman’s Gift

The Fisherman’s Gift
  • Author(s): Julia Kelly
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

The sea stole him from her. Could it bring him back? The spellbinding story of a lost boy, a tragic love affair and a seafaring community’s buried secrets finally coming to light. Winter, 1900. A little boy washes up...

The Forest of Moon and Sword

The Forest of Moon and Sword
  • Author(s): Amy Raphael, August Ro (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

Twelve-year-old Art lives in a small village in Scotland. Her mother has always made potions that cure the sick, but now the townspeople say she is a witch. One cloudless night, Art’s mother is arrested and taken to England....

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she’s lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new...

The Garden of Little Rose

The Garden of Little Rose
  • Author(s): Suzanne Snow
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For love to grow, Flora will have to first dig up the past. At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger to be her plus-one for the wedding....

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