18 Best scotland books like Sadie, Call The Polis by Kirkland Ciccone

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Sadie, Call The Polis

By: Kirkland Ciccone

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1976, a heatwave hot enough to melt concrete punishes Scotland. While everything burns, a woman …

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1. This House of Grief

By: Helen Garner

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three … read more

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2. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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3. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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4. 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

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

By: Billy Connolly

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more

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  • scotland
Cover of The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood

6. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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8. 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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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

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  • scotland
  • fiction
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10. 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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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • fiction
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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13. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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14. 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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  • scotland
  • fiction
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15. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

By: Paloma Faith

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more

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16. Pine

By: Francine Toon

3.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
"...she can’t shake the discomfort of last night. It has seeped into the daylight."

-Francine Toon, Pine

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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

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  • scotland
  • fiction
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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

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical 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

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20. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By: Sarah Langford

4.08

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more

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21. Slum Boy: One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever written

By: Juano Diaz

4.52

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

"This is a heart-breaking story, beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers". - Andrew O'H… read more

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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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  • scotland
  • fiction
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23. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

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  • scotland
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

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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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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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

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26. The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

By: C.S. Robertson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Death is not the end. For Grace McGill, it's only the beginning. When people die alone and undi… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
"Sure, we’re both on our own, but now we’re on our own together. Sometimes I wonder if I rescued him or if he rescued me. Maybe it doesn’t matter."

-C.S. Robertson, The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

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27. 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

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  • scotland
  • fiction
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28. 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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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. The Rabbit Girls

By: Anna Ellory

4.12

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, He… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Trials of Marjorie Crowe by C.S. Robertson

30. The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

By: C.S. Robertson

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you're guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, … read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Sadie, Call The Polis by Kirkland Ciccone

31. Sadie, Call The Polis

By: Kirkland Ciccone

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1976, a heatwave hot enough to melt concrete punishes Scotland. While everything burns, a woman … read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Karl Geary

4.16

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Zoe Thorogood

4.12

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3.90

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Michael Magee

4.06

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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C.L. Taylor

3.90

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The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

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