MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Showing 21–40 of 102 results
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022£8.99
‘An immersive and entertaining read’ – Alistair Mabbot, The Herald The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£3.99Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£9.99
Stolen whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters. And Robbie Gould is caught in the middle. 1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made – the legendary Dalziel Double Proof – goes missing. 2023. Albie,...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£9.99
Emma Propeller is trying to swerve the wreckage of her marriage. When her husband returns from rehab with a new lover, Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. A job as a live-in driver for a glamorous...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£5.99
Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiancee, Laura Johnstone, in the capital of his home country. Having met while Abdul was a student at Manchester University, the couple are eager to settle...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022£9.99
When you look at a painting, what do you really see? When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh’s all-male skating club, little...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022£17.99It’s the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob’s wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own success. The lure of those famous bacon...
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Feb 2027£12.00Across the globe, language is being used to control and to harm; politicians wield it like a weapon. Far away, deep in a silent cave, the Creature awakens, and soon words begin to disappear from the world. Tired of being immortal Victor...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£5.99
The world, in Iain Crichton Smith’s vision is a field full of folk; and one Scottish village is its microcosm. Here, the Minister wrestles with his loss of faith, and his cancer, concealing them even from his wife, but she had divined them....
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£9.99
A SUNDAY POST TOP PICK FOR SUMMER READING ‘This latest DCI Daley thriller is deftly plotted and peopled with sympathetically drawn local characters and satisfyingly nuanced local wrongdoers’ – Irish Independent When a light aircraft...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
One of the List‘s Best Scottish Books of All Time Peggy is sixteen, ambitious and wants to get a job to help her rise above her current predicament. Soon, she is employed at Willie Roper’s corner shop. But before long, her situation goes...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
Gentlemen of the West, Agnes Owens’ debut novel, was first published in 1984 to wide critical acclaim. The novel follows the humorous exploits of Mac, a young bricklayer, who, along with a colourful cast of characters, seeks solace and escape in...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Discover two of the 20th Century’s most important novels from the legendary George Orwell. First published in 1945, Animal Farm – the history of a revolution that went wrong – is Orwell’s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£9.99
Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018£8.99Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021£8.99
Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people’s emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His father...
