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The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Present

It is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh’s favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it...

The Piper’s Lament

The Piper’s Lament
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Pakistan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this explosive thriller, Ridge Walker is plunged into an exotic world, 4000 miles away in the humid hills of Northern Pakistan. During his daring quest to rescue a friend he is held captive by merciless terrorists and with...

The Piper’s Promise

The Piper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When his best friend Thad is arrested for a series of murders he didn’t commit on the wrong side of the planet, the young Scottish adventurer, Ridge Walker, must find the real killer in order to prove his innocence....

The Postscript Murders

The Postscript Murders
  • Author(s): Elly Griffiths
  • Location(s): West Sussex, Aberdeen, Shoreham
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

PS: Thanks for the murders. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death. But when...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Author(s): Muriel Spark
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

In 1930s Edinburgh, six ten-year-old girls, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, Monica, and Eunice are assigned Miss Jean Brodie, who describes herself as being “in my prime,” as their teacher. Miss Brodie, determined that they shall receive an education in...

The Pure Heart

The Pure Heart
  • Author(s): Trudi Tweedie
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter’s companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious young charge and the house’s...

The Race

The Race
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): China, France, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two (1944)

Get ready for the race of your life… This is what it feels like when I’m running. When I’m running fast, I feel free. 12-year-old Lili is determined to defeat her arch rival in front of the Queen during...

The Raiders and the Cross

The Raiders and the Cross
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): London, Malta, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Jox may have survived the Battle of Britain, but this war isn’t over yet… Winter, 1940 Enemy raiders are bombing Britain’s cities relentlessly. Casualties are high and morale is at an all-time low. Jox McNabb and the rest of...

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
  • Author(s): S G MacLean
  • Location(s): Banff
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery

Banff, Scotland, the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess...

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Inverness
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1746

There it is again, hope. The defeat and the despair I can stand, but it’s the hope that kills me, as if the Cause wasn’t lost, as if Father hadn’t died in vain. As if any one of us...

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