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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...

Walking on Rum and the Small Isles

Walking on Rum and the Small Isles
  • Author(s): Peter Edwards
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A guide to walking and backpacking on the Small Isles in the Western Isles of Scotland – Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna, Coll and Tiree – including a tough 55km backpack around the coastline of Rum, a challenging round of...

Walking the Lights

Walking the Lights
  • Author(s): Deborah Andrews
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Recently graduated young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple’s meagre resources go on drink and drugs. Maddie and...

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