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Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

They call him the Wolfman – because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End’s lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector...

Trains and Lovers

Trains and Lovers
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly...

Trainspotting

Trainspotting
  • Author(s): Irvine Welsh
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a...

Tuesday’s Socks

Tuesday’s Socks
  • Author(s): Alison Ragsdale
  • Location(s): Pitlochry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current time

Founder and sole employee of Mere Accounting, Jeffrey Mere is a solitary man. He has spent his entire life close to home, in the picturesque Scottish town of Pitlochry. After sixty-four years of playing it safe, with retirement looming,...

Turpitude

Turpitude
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Detectives Munro and West get more on their plate than they bargained for in this clever murder mystery DI Charlie West is investigating a series of incompetent moped robberies when three fingers are found in a refuse site. The...

Two’s Company at the Forest Light Show

Two’s Company at the Forest Light Show
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

One night, one second chance, and a love story waiting to happen Vivacious forestry worker Cha Gilchrist doesn’t usually have flings with buttoned-up guys who dress like her old geography teacher, no matter how secretly attractive she finds them....

Two-way Split

Two-way Split
  • Author(s): Allan Massie
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2007. Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping with a fellow gang member....

Under A Sicilian Sky

Under A Sicilian Sky
  • Author(s): Lisa Hobman
  • Location(s): Sicily, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Global box office sensation, Ruby Locke, is a long way from her Yorkshire roots. Together with her fiancé, movie heartthrob Tyler Harrison, they are Hollywood’s new glitterati. Overnight, Ruby’s life implodes when her social media accounts are hacked with...

Under a Summer Skye

Under a Summer Skye
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, The Sleat Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Scottish island. A stranger from the mainland. A summer of possibilities… ESCAPE TO THE ISLE OF SKYE THIS SUMMER WITH THE SUNDAY TIMES AND MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, AND LOSE YOURSELF IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SKYE SISTERS...

Voyager

Voyager
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Scotland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1740s /1960s

Outlander 3 Jamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Either prospect pales beside the pain of loss – his wife is gone. Forever. But sometimes forever is shorter...

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