17 Top contemporary books like Daisy on the Outer Line by Ross Sayers

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Daisy on the Outer Line

By: Ross Sayers

4.35

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Life, Death & Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway. After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at he…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Daisy on the Outer Line by Ross Sayers , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Hings

By: Chris McQueer

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the streets of working class Scotland, and on occasion, a little beyond our solar system, come… read more

Similar categories in Chris McQueer's Hings book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Maggie & Me

By: Damian Barr

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Winner of the Stonewall Award and The Sunday Times Memoir of the Yea… read more

Similar categories in Damian Barr's Maggie & Me book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
"There's no place like home. No place safer. No place scarier."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Maggie, tou made it possible -but not probably for me to be the man I am now."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

3. Quite Ugly One Morning (Jack Parlabane, #1)

By: Christopher Brookmyre

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Quite Ugly One Morning is the book that made Christopher Brookmyre a star in his native Britain, es… read more

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4. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… read more

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5. Shuggie Bain

By: Douglas Stuart

4.31

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

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6. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

Similar categories in Karl Geary's Juno Loves Legs book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

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9. 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

Similar categories in Frankie Boyle's Meantime book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
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10. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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11. 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

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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12. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

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13. 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 Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

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15. Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

By: Irvine Welsh

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York T… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5) book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them"

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

"I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs."

-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)

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16. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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

Similar categories in Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. 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

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Fair Botanists book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
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19. A Glasgow Kiss

By: Sophie Gravia

3.86

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Zara, a young, single girl struggling her way through life in the bustling city. She has almos… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gravia's A Glasgow Kiss book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's funny how I searched my entire life for someone to complete me, and in the end, the only person I needed was myself."

-Sophie Gravia, A Glasgow Kiss

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20. Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3)

By: Richard Coles

3.87

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement Mystery #3) book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
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21. The Cliff House

By: Chris Brookmyre

3.79

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Seven women. Seven sins. One night of judgment. Jen Dunne is forty-two and getting married for the … read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cliff House book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Memory Library

By: Kate Storey

4.40

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s b… read more

Similar categories in Kate Storey's The Memory Library book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Glasgow Boys

By: Margaret McDonald

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • scotland
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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24. There's Only One Danny Garvey

By: David F. Ross

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, … read more

Similar categories in David F. Ross's There's Only One Danny Garvey book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
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25. Duck Feet

By: Ely Percy

4.52

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more

Similar categories in Ely Percy's Duck Feet book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • scotland
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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26. The Black Dog

By: Kevin Bridges

3.60

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Bridges's The Black Dog book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There’s too much pressure on folk nowadays to try and fully eradicate any form of sadness…"

-Kevin Bridges, The Black Dog

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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

Similar categories in Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Daisy on the Outer Line by Ross Sayers

28. Daisy on the Outer Line

By: Ross Sayers

4.35

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Life, Death & Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway. After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at he… read more

Similar categories in Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • time travel
  • young adult
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
Cover of Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations by Jessie Ware

29. Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations

By: Jessie Ware

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Are you hungry darling, shall I make you an omelette?" My mother's omelettes are slightly overd… read more

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30. What Happens in Dubai

By: Sophie Gravia

3.86

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

THE TOP TEN AMAZON BESTSELLEREveryone's favourite Glaswegian girl is back!After having her heart we… read more

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31. Only Here, Only Now

By: Tom Newlands

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new talent writing from lived experience makes his debut with this irresistible and ori… read more

Similar categories in Tom Newlands's Only Here, Only Now book and Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line

  • scotland
  • fiction

22 best-selling fiction books like Daisy on the Outer Line by Ross Sayers

Transform Your Habits

Hings

Chris McQueer

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Juno Loves Legs

Karl Geary

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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9 must-read fiction books like Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5) by Irvine Welsh

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La sombra del ciprés es alargada

Miguel Delibes

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Straight White Male

John Niven

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Meantime

Frankie Boyle

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Kill 'Em All

John Niven

4.07

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