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The Hidden Ways
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its...- $ 500.00
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Poor Things
Alasdair Gray’s wildly inventive reimagining of Frankenstein, set in Victorian Scotland. Blending dark humor, political satire and surreal storytelling, this modern classic is both a biting social commentary and a deeply human story of reinvention. The novel centers on Bella Baxter, a woman brought...- $ 350.00
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Time on Rock
With great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing and the developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber, she shows us how...- $ 500.00
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John of John
After struggling to find success following art school, John-Calum Macleod returns to his childhood home on the Isle of Harris, hoping to regroup and rediscover his place in the world. Back on the family croft, Cal reconnects with the people who shaped him: his...- $ 550.00
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Trainspotting
Trainspotting is the novel that launched Irvine Welsh’s explosive career — a raw, relentless, and darkly exhilarating portrait of lives lived on the edge. Told in sharp, episodic bursts, it captures a world of addiction, rage, and survival with unflinching authenticity. For its time...- $ 350.00
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The Tower
A bold, feminist reimagining of Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour—her confinement in a remote island fortress, surrounded by a few loyal women and sustained by a dangerous dream of escape and reclaimed power. Scotland, 1567. Pregnant and deposed, Mary is seized by rebel...- $ 400.00
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A Kind of Spark
This moving debut follows a neurodivergent girl determined to give voice to the forgotten. When twelve-year-old Addie learns that her small Scottish town once put women on trial for witchcraft, she can’t let it go. The witches weren’t magical—they were different. Different like her....- $ 200.00
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Lanark
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal...- $ 550.00
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art school. An elderly man is healed by...- $ 450.00
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split...- $ 300.00
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Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have...- $ 400.00
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The Heart of Things
Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words...- $ 350.00
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The Edge of the Plain
Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. Beginning with the earliest known example, Crawford travels to many borders old and new: from a melting glacial landscape to the conflict-torn West Bank and the fault-lines of the US/Mexico...- $ 600.00
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The Outrun
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming...- $ 500.00
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A Fire Endless
Elements of Cadence #2 East and west. Humans and spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has long survived on a fragile balance—but that harmony is now shattered. Bane, the merciless spirit of the North Wind, has risen to claim dominion over both...- $ 350.00
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A River Enchanted
Elements of Cadence #1 A Scottish-inspired fantasy rich with elemental magic, ancient spirits, and a simmering enemies-to-lovers romance. Jack Tamerlaine’s return to the island of Cadence begins with a summons he cannot ignore and a perilous crossing over dark, restless waters. A decade after...- $ 350.00
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Bring the House Down
Alex Lyons knows exactly what rating a show deserves so on the opening night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he doesn’t hesitate to give Hayley Sinclair’s performance a brutal one-star pan… nor does he hesitate when the chance arises to have a one-night stand...- $ 450.00
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Raven Black
Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries Basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. On a bitter January morning, the island of Shetland lies silent under heavy snow. As Fran Hunter walks home, a jolt of color in the white landscape...- $ 350.00
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Love Is Blind
When Brodie Moncur, a gifted young piano tuner, is offered the chance to work for a renowned pianist, he steps into a world far removed from his modest Scottish roots—a life of travel, refinement, and artistic brilliance. As he follows his employer on an...- $ 350.00
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True North
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of...- $ 450.00
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The Secret History of Here
The story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before. But...- $ 500.00
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The Outrun
At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming...- $ 550.00
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Every Short Story
Every Short Story (1951-2012) The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection....- $ 500.00
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1982, Janine
Jock McLeish – a divorced, alcoholic, middle-aged security installer– spends a night in a Scottish hotel room drinking, fantasizing about violent sex and contemplating suicide. As his fantasies spiral, memories of personal failures and political disillusionment surface, forcing him to confront the emotional wreckage...- $ 400.00
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The Lost World
When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange prehistoric beasts on a remote plateau in South America, he expects to be given short shrift by the researcher, notorious for man handling nosy enquirers. But...- $ 350.00
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The Art of Dying
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks...- $ 500.00
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Bobby March Will Live Forever
Harry McCoy #3.Who is to blame when no one is innocent?The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost. July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just...- $ 450.00
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February's Son
Harry McCoy #2.Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control of Glasgow’s underworld and it seems that Cooper, McCoy’s oldest friend, is caught up in it all. Detective Harry McCoy’s first day back at work...- $ 450.00
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Bloody January
Harry McCoy#1. When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. This was not a random act of violence. McCoy must enlist the help of his criminal...- $ 250.00
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May God Forgive
Harry McCoy #5. Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high. When three youths are charged the city goes wild. A crowd gathers outside the courthouse but as the police drive the...- $ 500.00
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards...- $ 300.00
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McGrotty and Ludmilla
Mungo McGrotty's career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and deadly) Harbinger Report, he realises he can blackmail his way to the very top.This twisted Grayian retelling of the Aladdin story under the Thatcher regime sees our hero rise...- $ 250.00
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Girl Meets Boy
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled...- $ 320.00
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