12 best-selling scotland books like Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

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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…

If you liked the scotland plot in Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

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

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Bookseller of Inverness book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. 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

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. 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

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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6. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • fiction
Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

8. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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9. 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

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) by Ambrose Parry

10. 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

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

12. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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13. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Burnings

By: Naomi Kelsey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Ma… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kelsey's The Burnings book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

15. 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

Similar categories in Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Secrets of Blythswood Square

By: Sara Sheridan

4.19

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Secrets of Blythswood Square book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Forgotten Shore

By: Sarah Maine

4.34

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the spellbinding new novel from Sarah Maine, author of the Waterstones Scottish Book of th… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Maine's The Forgotten Shore book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
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19. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

Cover of The Edinburgh Skating Club by Michelle Sloan

21. 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

Similar categories in Michelle Sloan's The Edinburgh Skating Club book and Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21 Top fiction books like Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson

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S.G. MacLean

4.08

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Kate Foster

4.05

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Val McDermid

3.77

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Anne Enright

3.55

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