The Road Dance
By: John Mackay
4.15
Format: 210 pages, None
Life in the Scottish Hebrides can be harsh - the edge of the world some call it. For Kirsty MacLeod…
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1. The Book of Fires
By: Jane Borodale
3.66
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Reminiscent of Year of Wonders, a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman'… read more
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"So much of what we do in life stays unexplained"-Jane Borodale, The Book of Fires
"Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full."-Jane Borodale, The Book of Fires
2. Summer in February
By: Jonathan Smith
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to la… read more
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3. The Penguin Lessons
By: Tom Michell
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
"I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name,… read more
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4. After You'd Gone
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she… read more
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5. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)
By: Peter May
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more
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6. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)
By: Peter May
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more
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7. Coffin Road
By: Peter May
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beac… read more
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8. The Kraken Wakes
By: John Wyndham
3.76
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more
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"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
9. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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10. Close Knit
By: Jenny Colgan
3.98
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more
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11. 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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"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)
12. In Dark Water (Detective Shona Oliver #1)
By: Lynne McEwan
4.27
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Beneath the surface lie deadly secrets... DI Shona Oliver agreed to move to Dumfries with her ex… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8)
By: Marion Todd
4.34
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suic… read more
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15. The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
By: Ambrose Parry
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying al… read more
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- fiction
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"Louis XIV of France said that only the small man desires always to be right. It struck Raven that the route to discovery and knowledge lay not in the desire to be right, but in one's preparedness to …"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Raven wondered how many enduring misapprehensions in medicine (and other fields, for that matter) were down to ambition and the desire to be vindicated. How many proud men had only sought out the evi…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
"Men often talked about a woman's intuition. Ostensibly it sounded complimentary and yet its intention was usually patronising and dismissive: a term for irrational flights of fancy that these silly c…"-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)
16. Motherwell: A Girlhood
By: Deborah Orr
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to universi… read more
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"Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?"-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
"When the letters came, offering me places at university, that was when it all blew up - for ever."-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
"Narcissism is not self-love. It's the opposite of that. It's a nagging horror that you are, deep down, unloveable. A narcissist needs the love, attention and admiration of others to survive because h…"-Deborah Orr, Motherwell: A Girlhood
17. The Memory of Lavender and Sage
By: Aimie K. Runyan
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more
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18. 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
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"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
19. This Savage World
By: Anna Housego
4.43
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
What happens when you're cast out from everything you love and know?From the moment London midwife … read more
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20. The Road Dance
By: John Mackay
4.15
Format: 210 pages, None
Life in the Scottish Hebrides can be harsh - the edge of the world some call it. For Kirsty MacLeod… read more
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