The Voids
By: Ryan O’Connor
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night list…
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- poverty
- scotland
2. Marabou Stork Nightmares
By: Irvine Welsh
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspottingand The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been ha… read more
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- novels
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
3. The Cutting Room
By: Louise Welsh
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes across a collection of highly disturbing … read more
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4. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
5. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
6. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
7. There Are More Things
By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
4.03
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- audiobook
9. The Second Cut
By: Louise Welsh
3.96
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable.… read more
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- audiobook
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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- literary fiction
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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
11. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
12. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)
By: Callum McSorley
4.10
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- audiobook
13. Hare House
By: Sally Hinchcliffe
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
14. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
15. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- literary fiction
- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Room to Dream
By: David Lynch
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more
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- audiobook
"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."-David Lynch, Room to Dream
"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"-David Lynch, Room to Dream
18. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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- audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
19. The Young Team
By: Graeme Armstrong
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
20. The Long Knives
By: Irvine Welsh
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives
21. 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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- scotland
- fiction
"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
22. Ginger and Me
By: Elissa Soave
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
23. Boy Friends
By: Michael Pedersen
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more
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- audiobook
- scotland
- contemporary
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends
24. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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- audiobook
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
25. Luckenbooth
By: Jenni Fagan
3.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as maid for the Minister of Culture, a … read more
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- literary fiction
- scotland
- fiction
- audiobook
"Life is so much more than we can manage it to be, it is so much more sudden than we are able to understand."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"My ma said: only love a man who reads books and understands them properly. If they don't read books don't go their bed. Ever!"-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"Such is the way. It’s like a disease. Love: 80 per cent proof. Risk of death if you drink it. Can send you mad, bad, blind and delirious."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
"There is cheering out on the street. There is dancing. People meet and fall in love. Scuffles break out. They drink far too much. All of life is happening."-Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth
26. Wivenhoe
By: Samuel Fisher
3.19
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Never thought he would miss the mud: the gleaming, slickness of it. The slap and suck at the turnin… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
"It was a time in her life when she would seek out mirrors whenever she cried, finding comfort in being a witness to her own grief. A time from which every memory has a strange timeless lucidity."-Samuel Fisher, Wivenhoe
27. The Pharmacist
By: Rachelle Atalla
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to hea… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- contemporary
28. The Voids
By: Ryan O’Connor
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night list… read more
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- contemporary
- poverty
- novels
- audiobook
29. Let’s Pretend
By: Laura Vaughan
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is now … read more
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- contemporary
30. The Hotel Avocado
By: Bob Mortimer
4.21
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
31. Barrowbeck
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more
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