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  • THAT WAS A SHIVER
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    THAT WAS A SHIVER
    JAMES KELMAN
    “Thought-provoking” short stories from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late and Kieron Smith, Boy (Scotsman).   A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man look...

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  • DARKE
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    DARKE
    RICK GEKOSKI
    This critically acclaimed debut novel offers “an original and bleakly funny portrait of grief” in the singular mind and solitary life of its protagonist (The Economist).   Shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize and The Author’s Club Best First Novel Award Cranky and reclusive, ageing and widowed, Dr. James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his ...

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  • A NOTABLE WOMAN
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    A NOTABLE WOMAN
    JEAN LUCEY PRATT
    A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean’s diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess” (The Pool).   In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait o...

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  • YOUNG WINSTONE
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    YOUNG WINSTONE
    RAY WINSTONE
    Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his generation. But how do these uncompromising and often haunting performances square with his off-duty reputation as the ultimate...

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  • ROBERT THE BRUCE, KING OF SCOTS
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    ROBERT THE BRUCE, KING OF SCOTS
    RONALD MCNAIR SCOTT
    “A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times” (Kirkus).   Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England. Its people lived in abject poverty. But on...

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  • A GIFT FROM NESSUS
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    A GIFT FROM NESSUS
    WILLIAM MCILVANNEY
    A dark, psychologically compelling story of grift, greed, and a salesman in trouble, from “the finest Scottish novelist of our time” (Telegraph). Winner of a Scottish Arts Council Book Award Eddie Cameron is a thirty-five-year-old salesman for Rocklight Ltd., an electrical equipment firm in Glasgow, who feels like he’s lived thirty-five years with little to show for it: a job a...

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  • SAFE AS HOUSES
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    SAFE AS HOUSES
    SIMONE VAN DER VLUGT
    “Two women experience near-death waking nightmares in this lean, edgy crime novel . . . a thriller that should not be read alone at night” (Publishers Weekly).   Home should be the safest place to be. But when a man forces his way into Lisa’s house, taking her and her young daughter hostage, there is nowhere to hide. Who is this brutal man? And what does he want from an innocen...

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  • LILY VANILLI'S SWEET TOOTH
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    LILY VANILLI'S SWEET TOOTH
    LILY JONES
    From the British baking sensation, stylish dessert recipes that are “fashionable and fun without being forbidding” (Mail on Sunday). Since she started out selling her cakes at a market in East London, Lily Jones (aka Vanilli) has gone on to become one of Britain’s best-loved artisan bakers. With a star-studded client list and a thriving bakery, she’s famous for her unique flavo...

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  • HER LIVING IMAGE
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    HER LIVING IMAGE
    JANE ROGERS
    A novel that delves into “the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended” (Library Journal).   What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become?   Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to...

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  • GIANT STEPS
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    GIANT STEPS
    KENNY MATHIESON
    A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane. In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Da...

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  • COOKIN'
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    COOKIN'
    KENNY MATHIESON
    The music journalist and author of Giant Steps offers a history of modern jazz evolutions pioneered by Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and other greats. Following his earlier volume, Giant Steps, which gives readers a comprehensive overview of Bebop and free jazz from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, Kenny Mathieson now explores the later years of the modern jazz era in greater depth. In ...

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  • POOR ANGUS
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    POOR ANGUS
    ROBIN JENKINS
    Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. His privacy is invaded by Janet, a visitor with relatives on the island, who has decided that an affair with an artist would be the simplest way to incense and recapture her husba...

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  • THE COMPLETE BRIGADIER GERARD STORIES
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    THE COMPLETE BRIGADIER GERARD STORIES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Mon Dieu! The extraordinary, sabre-rattling adventures of Gerard, a young French cavalry officer in the time of the Napoleonic wars, introduce a hero who will be adored by fans of Flashman and Sherlock Holmes alike. Gathered here in one edition are both volumes of Conan Doyle’s much loved tales, which will delight modern readers with their absurdist humour, infectious warmth an...

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  • IMAGINED SELVES
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    IMAGINED SELVES
    WILLA MUIR
    The collected novels and cultural commentary of one of Scotland’s greatest literary talents and an early twentieth century feminist pioneer.   The author of two classic novels as well as numerous translations of Franz Kafka, Hermann Broch, and others, Willa Muir was one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of the early twentieth century—even as she was overshadowed by her h...

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  • A TWELVEMONTH AND A DAY
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    A TWELVEMONTH AND A DAY
    CHRISTOPHER RUSH
    This novel of boyhood on the Scottish seaside is “powerful, vivid, evocative, funny, awesome, loving and so assured in its writing it catches the breath” (Glasgow Herald, UK).   One of The List Magazine’s 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time   In A Twelvemonth and a Day, Christopher Rush delivers a loving lament for the “slow old tuneful times” of St. Monans, the Scottish fishin...

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  • GILLESPIE
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    GILLESPIE
    J. MACDOUGALL HAY
    “One of the great novels in the Scottish canon . . . that asks profound questions about how our narratives, personal and national, ought to be made” (Scottish Review of Books).   A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a public benefactor, and the fisherman’s friend; such is Gillespie Strang in this remarkably powerful Scottish novel. Gillespie is the harsh prophet of th...

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  • A CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND
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    A CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND
    CHRISTIAN MILLER
    This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—“like stepping through the looking glass into another world” (Glasgow World, UK).   “When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…” So begins Christian Miller’s fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Mil...

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  • A BELEAGUERED CITY
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    A BELEAGUERED CITY
    MARGARET OLIPHANT
    A haunting collection of short stories of the living and the dead by the Victorian Era Scottish author of Hester and Miss Marjoribanks.   Margaret Oliphant’s stories “of the seen and the unseen” are now considered some of the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. A prolific novelist, Oliphant said she could produce her supernatural tales...

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  • QUEEN OF SCIENCE
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    QUEEN OF SCIENCE
    MARY SOMERVILLE
    The complete memoirs of the 19th century scientist, public intellectual, and first female member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Born in Jedburgh in 1780, Mary Fairfax was the daughter of a captain in Lord Nelson’s navy. In common with most girls of her time and station, she received an education that prized gentility over ability. Nevertheless, she taught herself algebra in...

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  • LISTEN TO THE VOICE
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    LISTEN TO THE VOICE
    IAIN CRICHTON SMITH
    This collection of the best of Iain Crichton Smith's short fiction brings together not one but many voices, both public and private. Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, these stories display the peaks of Smith's wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in re-tel...

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  • THE MAN WHO WANTED TO SMELL BOOKS
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    THE MAN WHO WANTED TO SMELL BOOKS
    ELSPETH DAVIE
    Twenty-eight short stories by the Katherine Mansfield Prize–winning author: “a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination” (Observer, UK).   Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most unjustly overlooked short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionat...

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  • PRIVATE ANGELO
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    PRIVATE ANGELO
    ERIC LINKLATER
    This satirical novel of a young innocent caught in the fascist machinery of WWII offers “the drollest medley of muddle and misadventure” (The Sunday Times, UK).   A private in Mussolini’s ‘ever-glorious’ Italian army, Angelo may possess the virtues of love and innocence, but he lacks the gift of courage. And yet, due to circumstances beyond his control, he ends up fighting not ...

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  • THE NEW TESTAMENT IN SCOTS
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    THE NEW TESTAMENT IN SCOTS
    WILLIAM L. LORIMER
    This “majestic work of scholarship” by the renowned classicist is “a notable contribution to [Scottish] literary and linguistic heritage” (The Times, London).   The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life translating the New Testament into the native language of Scotland. It was a passion project that would become his posthumous masterwork. Translated...

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  • A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
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    A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
    SUE ARMSTRONG
    True tales of microscopic detective work that catches killers both human and pathogen: “More fascinating than fiction. Forget CSI, this is the real thing” (Val McDermid).   A Matter of Life and Death profiles some of the world’s most eminent and pioneering pathologists. This is a hidden world, yet one we will all inevitably encounter at some time in our lives, for pathology lie...

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  • ORPHANS OF ELDORADO
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    ORPHANS OF ELDORADO
    MILTON HATOUM
    This reimagining of the Amazon’s greatest legend by the prize-winning Brazilian author of The Brothers “does what every good telling of a myth should” (Financial Times). The setting for this fable is Eldorado, the Enchanted city that inhabited the fevered dreams of European navigators and conquistadors, but eluded all attempts to find it on the map. Some have linked it to Manau...

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  • THE GATHERING NIGHT
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    THE GATHERING NIGHT
    MARGARET ELPHINSTONE
    A “vivid tale” of prehistoric Scotland: “rival kin groups, loyalty, love and betrayal, salted by dangerous hunts and equally risky shamanistic ceremonies” (Adam Thorpe, The Guardian, UK).   In the Mesolithic period, Alaia and her family live off the land between Grandmother Mountain and the cold sea. But when one of her brothers goes hunting and never returns, the fragile balan...

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  • ONE MOONLIT NIGHT
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    ONE MOONLIT NIGHT
    CARADOG PRICHARD
    WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world. One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most sign...

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  • CHOCOLATE AND CUCKOO CLOCKS
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    CHOCOLATE AND CUCKOO CLOCKS
    ALAN COREN
    A hilarious anthology of comic treasures written by Britain’s “comic genius”—the former editor of Punch and beloved regular on BBC’s Radio 4 (The Times).   Alan Coren was one of contemporary Britain’s most prolific humorists. Over his forty-year career, Coren wrote comic and satirical pieces for The New Yorker, The Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and Punch,...

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  • HY BRASIL
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    HY BRASIL
    MARGARET ELPHINSTONE
    An “ingenious, gripping, thoughtful’ novel of island adventure and psychological depth by the acclaimed author of The Sea Road (Boyd Tonkin, Independent, UK). After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic whose very existence has been a mat...

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  • BORN FREE
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    BORN FREE
    LAURA HIRD
    Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award: “this bleak tale” of a month in the life of a family struggling with addiction “is a work of considerable force” (The Scotsman, UK). Punchy, sharp-witted and acutely observed, Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and dealing with their troubles in an all-too ordinary way: each member is trying to esc...

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