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The Rewilders

The Rewilders
  • Author(s): Lindsay Littleson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Esme is annoyed and braced for boredom when she’s sent to stay with her gran for the weekend, until she discovers a terrible mistake. Cora, the abandoned kitten Gran found on the Rothiecraig Estate, is in fact a wild...

The Road from Belhaven

The Road from Belhaven
  • Author(s): Margot Livesey
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 19th century

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland Growing up in the care of her...

The Saffron Conspiracy

The Saffron Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Marilyn Baron
  • Location(s): Austria, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Botanist Andreas Bauer, passionate about saffron, plans to reintroduce organic farming of the world’s most expensive spice to a region of Austria now known for its wine. Meeting resistance from vintners, he does research in a local abbey and...

The Saved

The Saved
  • Author(s): Liz Webb
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nancy and Calder are moving from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. But, for Nancy, the fresh start is undermined by the stark surroundings, mysterious locals and the discovery of Calder’s dark past....

The Seagulls Laughter

The Seagulls Laughter
  • Author(s): Holly Bidgood
  • Location(s): Greenland, Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s on

1973. Malik has always been something of a misfit. Born to a Greenlandic mother and an English-Explorer father, he has one eye of black and one of watery-blue. As a child his mother’s people refused to touch him and...

The Search for Othella Savage

The Search for Othella Savage
  • Author(s): Foday Mannah
  • Location(s): Scotland, Freetown
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When one of their own is found unconscious in the boot of her car, Scotland’s Sierra Leonean community is cast into a state of shock. And the young woman’s death a few days later sparks a murder investigation. Though...

The Second Cut

The Second Cut
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life...

The Secret of the Purple Lake

The Secret of the Purple Lake
  • Author(s): Yaba Badoe, Gbolahan Adams (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ghana, Norway, Orkney Islands, Spain, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

The Secret of the Purple Lake is a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to Norway and Thailand. As a minor character from one story assumes a major role in...

The Secret To Falling in Love

The Secret To Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Victoria Cooke
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lifestyle journalist and thirty-something singleton Melissa hashtags, insta’s and snapchats her supposedly fabulous life on every social media platform there is. That is until she wakes up on her birthday, another year older and still alone, wondering if for...

The Secrets of Blythswood Square

The Secrets of Blythswood Square
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

You wouldn’t suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square… 1846. Glasgow is a city on the cusp of great social change, but behind the curtains, neighbours are watching, and rumours of improper behaviour spread like...

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