MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£4.99At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe...
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£12.00From the author of the award winning The Sound of My Voice After being sacked from his day job as a business executive, Morris Magellan has cashed it all in – the house, the car, family life – to be free at last to pursue his true passion:...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£8.99
Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris at...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Nov 2023£17.99Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene – his place of escape. But how will he respond to the news of the proposed merging of Edinburgh and Glasgow? A new member of Bertie’s...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024£6.99
One of the Guardian’s novels everyone must read. This new edition of Stevenson’s renowned gothic masterpiece has a specially written introduction by Denise Mina. In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London lawyer Gabriel John...
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Hardback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025£12.00
‘Everything about this book is alive’ – Maria Sledmere It’s a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£9.99‘Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!’ Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99June 1940. German troops pour across France. As the Nazi invasion rolls towards Paris, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In the French capital an individual code named ‘Roland’ has...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2025£9.99
A cold case in the city of the dead. D.I. Lomond is a devoted family man. A good detective. When the body of a young woman involved in the worlds of art and adult streaming is found in the River Clyde, Lomond believes there may be echoes of a cold...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jul 2025£8.99
Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly all share: you have all...
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E-Book | Pub: 11 May 2017£5.99
London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John’s Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret’s meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Aug 2014£2.99
For a gentleman seeking more prestigious company amidst the bawdy houses of an eighteenth-century city, the House of Masques provides the perfect no-touch escorts. Girls, highly educated and socially trained, are geisha-like status symbols for...
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Paperback | Pub: 29 Jan 2015£9.99
Large measures, dark hearts. When the body of a young woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the west coast of Scotland, D.C.I. Jim Daley is despatched from Glasgow to lead the investigation. Far from home, and his troubled marriage, it seems...
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E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016£0.99
Whitsunday is the second instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. When a Lord Justice is found dead within the grounds of St Leonard’s College an unfortunate...
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Hardback | Pub: 01 Aug 2024£16.99‘A call to arms for a better society’ – BBC Radio 4 Often a small and seemingly insignificant event can change the course of our lives. Not long after starting a new job, Neil meets Chrissie. Romance soon blossoms and together they...
