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The Valley at the Centre of the World

The Valley at the Centre of the World
  • Author(s): Malachy Tallack
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him, but where he abides only...

The Way The Light Bends

The Way The Light Bends
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Folklore, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Sometimes hope is the most dangerous thing of all. When their brother dies, two sisters lose the one thing that connected them. But then a year after her twin’s death, Tamsin goes missing. Despite police indifference and her husband’s...

The Weather Weaver

The Weather Weaver
  • Author(s): Tamsin Mori
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if you could befriend a cloud? What weather would you choose? What if the weather matched itself to your mood, whether you wanted it to, or not? 11-year-old Stella has returned home to Shetland to spend the summer...

The Weekenders

The Weekenders
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century / 1960s

Glasgow, 1966: Stevie ‘Minto’ Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at...

The Wilderness

The Wilderness
  • Author(s): Sarah Duguid
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

A beautifully observed, wry novel of the dislocation of family life and a marriage, and of loss and love, set on the western coast of Scotland. Once it was a family home. Now they are all at sea…. When...

The Winds From Further West

The Winds From Further West
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives. Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they move to a lavish flat in Edinburgh. Everything seems...

The Wise Witch of Orkney

The Wise Witch of Orkney
  • Author(s): Anna Caig
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 1500s

1593, Scotland. King James VI launches a bloody witch hunt across the length and breadth of the country. But the women he fears most are already within his court. Elspet is a spae-wife, a wise woman and healer from...

The Witch’s List

The Witch’s List
  • Author(s): Andrew Cairns
  • Location(s): France, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Horror, Mystery, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 80s to present day

Sandy Beech doesn’t believe in witches and the supernatural. However, certain strange events occur which put his scepticism to the test: a burning book, a falling crucifix, a mysterious illness, and a fire in a convent which kills all...

The Wolf Tree

The Wolf Tree
  • Author(s): Laura Mccluskey
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A gripping and atmospheric debut crime thriller set on an isolated Scottish island… A mysterious death On a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of...

The Wronged

The Wronged
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2017

A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow’s deadly underworld. Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue,...

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