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  • The Fall Of The Stone City

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    Ismail Kadare
    Hardback

    1943. German soldiers advance on Gjirokastr͡, Albania, the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But the troops are taken aback by an act of rebellion that leaves the citizens fearful of a bloody counter-attack. Soon rumours circulate that the Nazi Colonel was a school acquaintance of a local dignitary - then he and his army disappear.

  • Flight

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    Adam Thorpe
    Hardback

    Pilot Bob Winrush worked for years as a 'freight dog', flying consignments of goods - and sometimes people - to all corners of the world. Until, one day, he walked away from a deal that didn't smell right - something a freight dog should never do. Now working as a private pilot, he finds that moment of refusal catching up with him.

  • The Good Muslim

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    Tahmima Anam
    Paperback

    One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram arrives for Maya Haque. Eight years before, a devastating war tore Maya's country - and her family - apart. Now Maya realises it is time to return home at last. She arrives to find that everything has changed.

  • Highland Avenger

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    Hannah Howell
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    Once, Arianna Murray Lucette believed she'd met the man she could always rely on. She was wrong. Now she is fleeing for her life, and when her enemies attack a ship bound for her only refuge, she believes all hope is lost - until she wakes on Scotland's shore to a pair of the most entrancing blue eyes she has ever seen.

  • Leda

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    K. C. Murdarasi
    Paperback

    Albania, 1991. The Communist government falls and Leda, an ordinary Albanian girl, hears about Jesus Christ for the first time. Over the years that follow, Albania will see many changes and Leda will have to question what she believes, and why.

  • Master Of Sin

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    Maggie Robinson
    Paperback

    Historical romance at its most wickedly inventive and shamelessly sexy. In the fourth and final novel, an expert in the art of pleasure tries to reform himself but finds one woman impossible to resist.

  • The Panopticon

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    Jenni Fagan
    Hardback

    Anais Hendricks is once again off to The Panopticon, a prison so constructed that it allows the inspector to see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. Looking up at the watchtower that looms over the residents, Anais knows her fate - she is part of an experiment, and that experiment is now closing in.

  • Rob Roy

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    Sir Walter Scott
    Paperback

    Banished from his father's house, Frank Osbaldistone becomes involved in the conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty and some unlikely friends.

  • There but for the

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    Ali Smith
    Paperback

    Imagine you have a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough. Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out. Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.

  • What Dies In Summer

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    Tom Wright
    Paperback

    Jim Beaudry is a teenage boy trying to stay out of trouble. But trouble has a way of finding him. When he finds his cousin, L.A., on his porch one morning, bedraggled and shaking and unable to speak, he knows this can only mean bad news. Then Jim and L.A. discover the body of a girl in the wilderness.

  • The 39 Steps

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    John Buchan
    Paperback

    May 1914 and Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy.

  • Apocalypse Cow

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    Michael Logan
    Hardback

    When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation.

  • Bertie Plays The Blues

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    Alexander McCall Smith
    Paperback

    Can Edinburgh's most deliciously dysfunctional residents forsake discord and learn to dance to the same happy tune?

  • The Coming Of The King

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    Manda Scott
    Paperback

    AD 65. Sebastos Pantera, spy to the Emperor Nero, has undertaken the most dangerous of missions. Hunting often alone, with few he can trust, he must find the most dangerous man in Rome's empire, and bring him to bloody justice. Against him is Saulos.

  • The Deep Dark Sleep

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    Craig Russell
    Paperback

    Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for 18 years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow's most successful and ruthless armed robber.

  • The Jaguar

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    T. Jefferson Parker
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    Erin McKenna, a beautiful songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, is kidnapped by Benjamin Armenta, the ruthless leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel. But his demands turn out to be as unusual as the crumbling castle in which Erin is kept.

  • Pack Men

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    Alan Bissett
    Paperback

    In 2008 Rangers reached a major European final. It was held in Manchester, a short hop from Scotland into England. Cue a colossal invasion. 'Pack Men' is the story of three pals and one child trapped inside this powderkeg. In a city rocking with beer, brotherhood and sectarianism, the boys struggle to hold onto their friendship.

  • Reality, Reality

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    Jackie Kay
    Hardback

    At the beating heart of 'Reality, Reality' are moments of reaching out to family, friends and lovers. These are stories about food, sex and memories, about sharing them, or yearning to, or seeking solace in being alone.

  • Rebel

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    Jack Whyte
    Paperback

    In the pre-dawn hours of August 24, 1305, the outlaw William Wallace waits to be executed. He is visited by a priest who has come to hear his last confession. Packed with action, heroism, and vibrant historical detail, this is the Braveheart story as never told before.

  • The Road To Lisbon: Two Men, Two Fates, One Dream

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    Martin Greig
    Paperback

    2012 represents 45 years since Celtic's historic triumph over Inter Milan in the 1967 European Cup final in Lisbon. This is the first fictionalised account of that momentous season.

  • Rome: The Eagle Of The Twelfth

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    Manda Scott
    Hardback

    They are known as the Legion of the Damned. Throughout the Roman Army, the Twelth Legion is notorious for its ill fortune. It faces the harshest of postings, the toughest of campaigns, the most vicious of opponents. For one young man, Demalion of Macedon, joining it will be a baptism of fire.

  • Testament Of A Witch

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    Douglas Watt
    Paperback

    Set in the 17th century against the backdrop of political and religious conflict, the second of Watt's 'John MacKenzie' series is as historically gripping as the last. MacKenzie investigates the murder of a woman accused of witchcraft and he must act quickly when the same accusations are made against the woman's daughter.

  • Another Home, Another Love

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    Gwen Kirkwood
    Hardback

    Unimpressed with her daughter's blossoming relationship, Catherine Palmer-Farr extracts a promise from Sam Caraford calculated to keep the young couple apart. Throwing Rosemary into the company of eligible young gentlemen, Catherine is dismayed to find that her daughter yearns only for Sam's love.

  • The Deadman's Pedal

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    Alan Warner
    Hardback

    It is the early 1970s and, for 16-year-old Simon Crimmons, there's really not much to do in the Highlands of Scotland. The only local drama and romance is the West Highland Line, so Simon joins up as a train driver. But that summer he is introduced to a world far more glamorous and strange than the railways can provide.

  • Funeral Note

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    Quintin Jardine
    Hardback

    After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural causes, so, case closed? Indeed was there ever a case? But Chief Constable Skinner and his people keep on digging. Who was the man, why was he buried so reverentially, and by whom?

  • Humphry Clinker

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    Tobias George Smollett
    Paperback

    Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter.

  • The Impossible Dead

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    Ian Rankin
    Paperback

    Malcolm Fox and his team from Internal Affairs are back. They've been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. But what should be a simple job is soon complicated by intimations of conspiracy and cover-up - and a brutal murder.

  • The Lonely Furrow

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    Pamela Kavanagh
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    Disaster strikes the Drummond family when the Glasgow Bank collapses, resulting in them losing their business and - subsequently - their respected place in society. An unexpected inheritance saves the day, but there are mixed feelings for the family as they relocate to a run-down farm in Shropshire.

  • Mystery In Prior's Ford

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    Evelyn Hood
    Paperback

    Famous cookery writer Laura Tyler arrives in Prior's Ford determined to become immersed in village life - and the village drama group's forthcoming production. It's just a pity that her husband lacks her enthusiasm. Soon the play's director is found murdered and Constable Neil White is called in to investigate.

  • Son Of Blood

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    Jack Ludlow
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    Under Robert Guiscard, the de Hautevilles have grown in importance and power throughout Italy and, through the Papacy, all of Christendom. Now it is Robert's son Bohemund's turn to take up arms - the opportunity to fight under the papal banner in the Holy Lands could bring him the glory and riches he desires.