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44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)

44 Scotland Street (#1 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

First in the series. The stories are centred around the residents of a house in Edinburgh, and offer slices of life through the different characters who live there and whose lives overlap. (A note in the introduction that this...

A Kettle of Fish

A Kettle of Fish
  • Author(s): Ali Bacon
  • Location(s): Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Ailsa has just left school and should be living it up on a summer trip, but her plans are scuppered by her needy and secretive mother. In desperation she takes up with local fishmonger Ian. He’s good for her...

A Summer at Sea

A Summer at Sea
  • Author(s): Katie Fforde
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She has a career as a midwife that she loves . She enjoys living on her own as a single woman. But she’s also feels it’s time for a change and a spot of some sea air. So when...

Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): London, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the...

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are...

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)

Blue Lightening (Shetland #4)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Fair Isle
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

With the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder . . . A woman’s body is discovered at...

Breaker

Breaker
  • Author(s): Annemarie Allan
  • Location(s): East Lothian, North Berwick
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Science Fiction/Future

Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his...

Breakers

Breakers
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A toxic family … a fight for survival… Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and...

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
  • Author(s): Alexandra Fuller
  • Location(s): East Africa, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author’s mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its...

Cold Granite

Cold Granite
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead....

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