The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I…
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1. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
4. Godmersham Park
By: Gill Hornby
3.69
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park
5. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
6. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
7. The Last Witch of Scotland
By: Philip Paris
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
8. Queen Macbeth
By: Val McDermid
3.77
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more
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- romance
- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
9. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
10. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
11. The Gardener
By: Salley Vickers
3.57
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmother… read more
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- fiction
12. Paper Cup
By: Karen Campbell
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more
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- fiction
- scotland
- unfinished
13. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)
By: Ambrose Parry
4.28
Format: 416 pages, ebook
1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
15. The Stargazers
By: Harriet Evans
3.90
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
16. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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- romance
- unfinished
- 19th century
- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- fantasy
17. The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
By: Ambrose Parry
3.94
Format: 409 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, from husband-and-wife wr… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Nor did he care for how McLevy used the term ‘females.’ He made it sound as though he were talking about some other manner of species; exotic and of interest, no doubt, but somehow beyond the human. …"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"James Matthew Duncan, he decided, was going to be insufferable. He had the bearing of a young man who had never been punched full in the face for an unguarded remark, and Raven instinctively felt he …"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"Sarah poured the tea, thinking how narrow Mina’s assessment of a woman’s role was, how restrictive. Why couldn’t a woman aspire to more? Why shouldn’t she? Why did Raven get to do whatever he wanted?…"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
"Sarah had been speaking the truth when she said she didn’t dislike him, but she did dislike his presumption of superiority over her, as she disliked it in all young men. Given the same chance, she wa…"-Ambrose Parry, The Way of All Flesh (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #1)
18. Music in the Dark
By: Sally Magnusson
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Hex
By: Jenni Fagan
3.85
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"-Jenni Fagan, Hex
"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."-Jenni Fagan, Hex
20. The Opposite of Lonely (Skelfs #5)
By: Doug Johnstone
4.14
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Even death needs company… The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
21. Nothing Left to Fear From Hell
By: Alan Warner
3.35
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
A BATTLE LOST. A DARING ESCAPE. A LONG WALK INTO OBLIVION. In the aftermath of the catastroph… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
22. The Botanist's Daughter
By: Kayte Nunn
3.90
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter
"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter
"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter
"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter
23. The Birdcage Library
By: Freya Berry
3.89
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
The answers to a puzzle lie hidden within an old book. Open The Birdcage Library and let the treasu… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
24. The Burial Plot
By: Elizabeth Macneal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
25. The Book of Secrets
By: Anna Mazzola
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more
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- historical
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. The Beholders
By: Hester Musson
3.62
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more
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- 19th century
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
27. Hear No Evil
By: Sarah Smith
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more
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- 19th century
- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
28. A Woman Made of Snow
By: Elisabeth Gifford
3.97
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeous, haunting and captivating novel of a century-long family mystery in the wilds of Scotlan… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. The King's Witches
By: Kate Foster
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The King’s Witches by Kate Foster is a gripping and beautiful historical novel, giving an unforgett… read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
30. Of Stone and Sky
By: Merryn Glover
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
After Highland shepherd Colvin Munro disappears, a mysterious trail of his possessions is found in … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. The Edinburgh Skating Club
By: Michelle Sloan
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
When you look at a painting, what do you really see? When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn … read more
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- historical
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
