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The Gateway on the Sands

The Gateway on the Sands
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Barra
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

What if love is right there, waiting for the opening? On the Hebridean island of Barra, young single mum Catriona Griffin is doing everything she can to keep her family farm alive. Life is hard, the weather unforgiving, and...

The Gathering Night

The Gathering Night
  • Author(s): Margaret Elphinstone
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mesolithic Period

Between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea, Alaia and her family live off the land. But when her brother goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balance of life is upset. Half-starved and maddened with grief, Alaia’s mother follows...

The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath

The Gauntlet and the Fist Beneath
  • Author(s): Ian Green
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): The Middle Ages

Fight the Storm. Protect your people. The endless rotstorm rages over the ruins of the Ferron Empire. Floré would never let the slavers of the Empire rise again. As a warrior of the Stormguard Commandos, she wrought horrors in...

The Ghost Tree

The Ghost Tree
  • Author(s): Sara Bain
  • Location(s): Dumfries and Galloway
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Five years after the death of his wife, MacAoidh Armstrong moves into a smallholding in southern Scotland with the intention of living a self-sufficient existence. Although he’s heard the steading has a reputation for being haunted, the pragmatic Highlander...

The God of All Small Boys

The God of All Small Boys
  • Author(s): Joseph Lamb
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1917, WW1

James is sent away to live with his mill-town relatives in this nostalgic, coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Dundee during WW1. Some summers were made for growing up…Dundee, 1917. When his father goes to fight in the...

The Hanging Garden

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

DI John Rebus is hard at work on multiple cases. Not only is he on the trail of a WWII war criminal – he’s also become entangled in a dangerous battle between two rival gangs. But when his daughter...

The Haunting of Kulah

The Haunting of Kulah
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): 1940s and present day

1946: far out in the Atlantic a boatload of men returning from war are shipwrecked within sight of their homes on the remote Scottish island of Kulah – and the wailing of the women could be heard across the...

The Health of Strangers

The Health of Strangers
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix of seconded Police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a...

The Heretic

The Heretic
  • Author(s): Liam McIlvanney
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

Glasgow 1975 A deadly fire An arson attack on a Glasgow warehouse causes the deaths of a young mother and child. Police suspect it’s the latest act in a brutal gang warfare that’s tearing the city apart – one...

The Hidden Ways

The Hidden Ways
  • Author(s): Alastair Moffat
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern?

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland – its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads – in a bid to understand how...

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