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EDINBURGH'S GREATEST HITS

JIM BYERS / JONATHAN TREW

Explore Edinburgh's hidden music heritage, plus a few of its more tuneful tall tales, with this eye-opening guide of the city's music milestones, famous gigs, infamous incidents and colourful characters. From folk to funk, pop to punk and past to present, this collection of bite-sized stories traces the people, venues and gigs that made the city's music scene. From Bowie to the...

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THE LIBERATION'S CHILD

LUCY CRUICKSHANKS

Set in a Britain of the near future, haunted by its past in which the traces of genocide lay just below the surface, two survivors, Thea and Dom, are on a journey to uncover the truth behind an illegal adoption ring and to find a missing baby. Their search for the truth puts both of their lives in danger and uncovers that new Free and Equal Britain is not just a memory. As Dom ...

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MEMO FOR SPRING

LIZ LOCHHEAD

The 50th Anniversary Edition of the debut collection from "an inspirational presence in British poetry—funny, feisty, female, full of feeling" (Carol Ann Duffy, first woman poet laureate of Great Britain). Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut collection, published in 1972, was a landmark publication. Writing at a time when the lands...

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OF STONE AND SKY

MERRYN GLOVER

A Scottish Highland shepherd's family grapples with the mystery of his disappearance in sweeping family saga. After Highland shepherd Colvin Munro disappears, a mysterious trail of his possessions is found in the Cairngorm mountains. Writing the eulogy for his memorial years later, his foundling-sister Mo seeks to discover why he vanished. Younger brother Sorley is also haunted...

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BLOOD SALT SPRING

HANNAH LAVERY

From Edinburgh's Makar, poetry that "speaks to and for the conflicted conscience of Scotland . . . with a power and authenticity like perhaps no other" ( The Scotsman). In a moment that is demanding you to constantly choose your side, how do you find your humanity, your own voice, when you are being pushed to find safety in numbers? Blood Salt Spring is a meditation on where we...

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THE PEOPLE'S CITY

ANNE HAMILTON / NADINE AISHA JASSAT / ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH / IAN RANKIN / SARA SHERIDAN

"Five engrossing, resonant stories" set in Edinburgh, written for this collection by Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, Sara Sheridan, and more ( The Herald). Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It's the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, and the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pav...

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TALES FOR TWILIGHT

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Fifteen chilling ghost stories from two centuries of great Scottish writers. Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the traditi...

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MURDER IN THE MERCHANT CITY

ANGUS MCALLISTER

In Glasgow, a single mom with a secret life gets caught up in murder: "A gripping whodunit [with] a good measure of comedy" ( Scottish Field). Annette Somerville, a young single mother, earns her living giving men massages—along with a few extra services—at a high-class Glasgow sauna, scrupulously keeping her respectable home life separate from her professional activities. Th...

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DARK ENCOUNTERS

WILLIAM CROFT DICKINSON

"A collection of outstanding ghost stories" from a Scottish historian who "tell[s] a beautifully chilling story" ( Undiscovered Scotland). Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland with an air of historic authenticity—often re...

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MEMPHIS 68

STUART COSGROVE

Second in the award-winning soul music trilogy following Detroit 67—featuring Memphis artists Isaac Hayes, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding, and others. In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launchpad for musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green, and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968, it was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a d...

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OYSTER

MICHAEL PEDERSEN

The second poetry collection from the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow and author of Play With Me—with illustrations by Scott Hutchison. From festive nights in Grez-sur-Loing, France, to sizzling summers stretched out in the Edinburgh Meadows, Michael Pedersen's unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery and a disputation of characters. It is narrated with an intense honesty and...

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DETROIT 67

STUART COSGROVE

First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others. Detroit 67 is "a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City" during the year that changed everything ( Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 ...

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FRIEND & FOE

SHIRLEY MCKAY

From the author of the bestselling Hue & Cry . " Fans of C. J. Sansom and Shona MacLean will find much to admire in this gripping mystery" ( Historical Novel Society). St Andrews, 1583. The young king, James VI, is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his "lord enterprisers," and between the separate factions ...

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TROUBLED WATERS

GILLIAN GALBRAITH

Alice Rice—"a strong female detective on the Scottish crime scene"—must stem the tide of murder in a new thriller from the author of The Road to Hell ( The Bookbag). A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is...

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THE ROAD TO HELL

GILLIAN GALBRAITH

Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career—and life—on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die ( Scottish Field). When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of...

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THE BOOK OF LOST BOOKS

STUART KELLY

A " clever and highly entertaining" look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written ( The New York Times). In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story,...

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HUE & CRY

SHIRLEY MCKAY

Introducing sixteenth-century Scottish lawyer and amateur sleuth Hew Cullan in "a gripping mystery that holds the reader to the very last page" (John Burnside, prize-winning poet and novelist). 1579, St Andrews. A thirteen-year-old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St Andrews, and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas C...

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THE 44 SCOTLAND STREET COOKBOOK

ANNA MARSHALL

"A lovely Christmas gift for Alexander McCall Smith fans." — Sixtyplus Surfers With a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith 'That which is uncooked is destined to be cooked, if has been prepared with cooking in mind' – The Enigma of Garlic Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels are loved and enjoyed by readers throughout the world. In each book there are countless scen...

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BURNT OFFERINGS

DANIELLE DEVLIN

How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can't set you free? Scotland, 1589. Besse Craw is a young mother whose husband has mysteriously vanished. And in a time when women were powerless, she is accused of witchcraft, abused by her employer, and destined to lose her daughter, her freedom and her life. Set during the infamous North Berwick Witch Trials, that saw many...

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ANAMNESIS

IONA LEE

Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth and tale telling. Characterised by a deep love of language, its music and its magic, these poems reflect on memory, the future...

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NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR FROM HELL

ALAN WARNER

A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure… In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today as Bonnie Prince Charlie. He had come to the country to take the throne. Now ...

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THE HIDDEN FIRES

MERRYN GLOVER

Merryn Glover’s The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is remarkable' – Sir John Lister-Kaye Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and g...

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AN ORKNEY TAPESTRY

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN

First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a unique perspective and went on to produce a rich fusion of ballad, folk tale, short story, drama, and environmental writing. T...

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THE ONLY GAIJIN IN THE VILLAGE

IAIN MALONEY

In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the village. Even after more than a decade living in Japan and learning the language, life in the countryside was a culture shock. Due ...

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THE WILD WIND

SHEENA KALAYIL

"An emotionally resonant, semi-autobiographical story about growth and change and coming to terms with loss" from the Writers' Guild Award-winning author ( The Herald). Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside of Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becom...

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THE END OF THE LINE

GILLIAN GALBRAITH

From the author of the Alice Rice mysteries, an Edinburgh bibliophile uncovers an unsettling mystery surrounding the death of a late professor. After the death of leading hematologist Professor Anstruther, antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparrow is tasked with clearing out his mansion of its books and papers. He soon begins to question the real circumstances of the old man's de...

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THE RAGGED LION

ALLAN MASSIE

From the author of Caesar and The Sins of the Father, a fictional memoir of the celebrated Scottish Romantic writer and historical novelist. Allan Massie recreates the life and times of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland's greatest writers, convincingly capturing Scott's humor, stoicism and eccentricity. Combining imaginative plausibility with his own deep knowledge of and love ...

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THE SOUND OF MY VOICE

RON BUTLIN

A novel of an ordinary family man trying to fill the void inside with drink: "One of the greatest pieces of fiction to come out of Britain in the Eighties." —Irvine Welsh Morris Magellan is thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed. By day he is an executive. After six and on weekends he is the husband of an understanding wife and the father of two. At all times he...

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APPOINTMENT IN AREZZO

ALAN TAYLOR

A Scottish journalist offers rare insight into the life and mind of the renowned expat author in this "beguiling, fascinating memoir" ( The Guardian, UK). In 1990, Alan Taylor traveled to Arezzo, Italy, to interview one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. That interview evolved into a close friendship between Taylor and Muriel Spark that lasted until her death in 2...

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THE DIARY OF ARCHIE THE ALPACA

KEVIN MACNEIL

MacNeil's alpaca shares a diary full of wisdom and humor, that also promotes mindfulness while giving you a laugh. If you haven't yet met Archie the Alpaca now's your chance. Prolific writer, social observer, grassiccino drinker, occasional dancer, and loyal friend, Archie sees the world like no-one else. Gathered here are his thoughts, feelings, loves, hates, and everything in...

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