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  • REAL BOYS
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    REAL BOYS
    THOMAS STEWART
    A remarkable debut from a promising new poet. In his debut collection, Real Boys, Thomas Stewart examines the death of his father and explores questions of grief, guilt, mental health, identity, sexuality and masculinity. As these poems unfold, a hallway of mirrors is created. Through the lens of father-son relationships, cinema, art and Welsh mythology are expanded and rethoug...

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  • UNWRITTEN WOMAN
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    UNWRITTEN WOMAN
    HANNAH LAVERY
    Hannah Lavery's Unwritten Woman is a bold and lavish call for us to see the woman in the stories we read and tell ourselves. From her search for the story, in her home city, Edinburgh, through her chilling re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde, elevating the women in that classic tale from being written between the lines, to the woman of colour, shouting from the...

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  • NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA
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    NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA
    JEN STOUT
    “Relentless in its narrative fortitude, the memoir Night Train to Odesa is filled with detailed reportage from the front lines of Russia’s war against Ukraine.” - Foreword Reviews When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland. J...

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  • THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF MADELEINE SMITH
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    THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF MADELEINE SMITH
    DOUGLAS MACGOWAN
    Discover the true story of Victorian Scotland's trial of the century. It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Emile L'Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine's father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was f...

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  • KILLOCHRIES
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    KILLOCHRIES
    JIM CARRUTH
    A verse novella by Glasgow Laureate Jim Carruth, Killochries tracks the relationship of two very different men working a remote farm over the course of twelve months. A young man is sent to work at Killochries, a farm belonging to a relative, after burning out in the city. He is appalled by the absence of his previous life’s essentials, by the remote strangeness of this new wor...

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  • BETWEEN MOUNTAIN AND SEA
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    BETWEEN MOUNTAIN AND SEA
    NORMAN MACCAIG
    Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It is here that he would spend many a summer on family holidays, walking the hills and fishing the lochs. MacCaig’s fresh eye saw remar...

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  • THE INHERITANCE
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    THE INHERITANCE
    SHEENA KALAYIL
    Ben Martin is charming and successful: an academic who has raised money for children’s charities and worked with women’s agencies in sub-Saharan Africa, a devoted husband. But when his brother Francois, an artist based in Lisbon, finds out about Ben’s affair with a student, Rita Kalungal, he finds himself feeling responsible both for his brother’s actions as well as Rita; and R...

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  • GREENMANTLE
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    GREENMANTLE
    JOHN BUCHAN
    November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top-secret mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Hannay must journey to Constantinople through war-torn Europe, recruiting three loyal friends – Peter Pienaar, John S Blenkiron and Sandy Arbuthnot – to help him as he un...

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  • MR. STANDFAST
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    MR. STANDFAST
    JOHN BUCHAN
    Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands and Islands in his search, which eventually ends in a spectacular climax above the battlefields of Europe. John Buchan’s inside know...

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  • THE SENSORIUM OF GOD
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    THE SENSORIUM OF GOD
    STUART CLARK
    It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley - dynamic adventurer and astronomer - seeks the help of Isaac Newton in unravelling the problem, but though obsessed with understanding the orbits of the pla...

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  • PRESTER JOHN
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    PRESTER JOHN
    JOHN BUCHAN
    After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent to South Africa to seek his fortune. A strange encounter on the voyage suggests that a tribal uprising is afoot, and David soon finds himself involved - at great risk to his life - with the charismatic leader, John Laputa. Prester John was John Buchan's first adventure story and is comparable in style and place to ...

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  • ALTERNATIVES TO VALIUM
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    ALTERNATIVES TO VALIUM
    ALASTAIR MCKAY
    Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year “A few years ago, I asked Tom Petty how his songs had been influenced by his life. As a rule, songwriters aren’t keen on unpicking their work, and Petty was no exception. He didn’t want to get into specifics. ‘Life is so difficult,’ he said. ‘And easy. It’s just a chain of spontaneous events.’” Alastair McKay grew...

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  • MRS BURKE & MRS HARE
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    MRS BURKE & MRS HARE
    MICHELLE SLOAN
    A dark historical thriller following the aftermath of Burke and Hare’s murders as surviving accomplices flee and secrets resurface. They got away with murder once . . .  In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all comp...

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  • TO PAY THE FERRYMAN
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    TO PAY THE FERRYMAN
    PAT BLACK
    A cold case in the city of the dead. D.I. Lomond is a devoted family man. A good detective. When the body of a young woman involved in the worlds of art and adult streaming is found in the River Clyde, Lomond believes there may be echoes of a cold case from the start of his career: an unsolved death on a rural Scottish estate in the 1990s. Then, a Swedish feminist activist, who...

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  • FRANKENSTEIN
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    FRANKENSTEIN
    MARY SHELLEY
    Tells the tragic story of ambition, creation, and the consequences of playing God in a cautionary tale. One of the best-known works of English literature, Frankenstein gave rise to the science-fiction and horror genres and has enthralled generations of readers since its publication in 1818. The book follows the story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster: the result of his des...

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  • DEFINITELY MAYBE
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    DEFINITELY MAYBE
    ANDY BOLLEN
    Oasis rose from humble beginnings to become Britpop icons, capturing 1990s youth with their music and legendary highs and lows. Ride the Oasis rollercoaster ahead of Live '25. Oasis were Artful Dodgers from a housing estate who created stadium anthems that connected with millions. They became the band of the people by giving the people what they wanted: rock 'n' roll. Ahead of ...

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