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  • THE BERLIN GAMBIT
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    THE BERLIN GAMBIT
    DAVID O'DONNELL
    "[a] pacy debut set in 1941 Berlin and based on real Second World War events...Riveting." — Sunday Post The Reich will protect its secrets.  1942, Berlin. After Police Chief Investigator Rolf Schneider is summoned to a meeting with Himmler and tasked with investigating the assassination of Heydrich, he exposes a web of corruption and secrecy involving the highest-ranking figure...

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  • A HANDSEL
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    A HANDSEL
    LIZ LOCHHEAD
    Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. Her debut collection, Memo for Spring (1972), was a landmark publication. Writing at a time when the landscape of Scottish poetry was male dominated, hers was a fresh, new voice, tackling subjects that resonated with readers – as it still does. Her poetry paved the way, and inspired, countless new voices includi...

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  • THE 44 SCOTLAND STREET COOKBOOK
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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
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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
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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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  • THE HIDDEN FIRES
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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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  • THE BONE LIBRARY
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    THE BONE LIBRARY
    JENNI FAGAN
    These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout. In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved. Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author’s time as writer-in-re...

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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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  • THE ONLY GAIJIN IN THE VILLAGE
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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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  • 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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  • MURDER IN THE MERCHANT CITY
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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. The...

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  • DETROIT 67
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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 a...

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  • HUE & CRY
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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 ROAD TO HELL
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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
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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, p...

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  • TROUBLED WATERS
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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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  • FRIEND & FOE
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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 of ...

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  • TALES FOR TWILIGHT
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    TALES FOR TWILIGHT
    ALISTAIR KERR
    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 tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems an...

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