Fiction

  • Berlin Noir

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    Philip Kerr
    Paperback

    Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. This omnibus contains the novels 'March Violets', 'The Pale Criminal' and 'A German Requiem'.

  • Blood Tears

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    Michael J. Malone
    Paperback

    A body is discovered: the terrible mutilations spell out the wounds of the Stigmata. For Glasgow DI Ray McBain, the killings are strangely familiar - and then the dreams begin.

  • Bloody Flies

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    Andrew J. Keir
    Paperback

    'Bloody Flies' is a sequence of episodes that offer glimpses of expat life in the opening decade of the 21st century, and the shifting morals that occur when Middle East meets West. After the death of Leo's father, Leo and Diana Hunter move to materialistic Abu Dhabi in search of the best future that money can buy.

  • Blow On A Dead Man's Embers

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    Mari Strachan
    Paperback

    In the aftermath of the Great War, Non Davies wakes one morning to find her husband crouching underneath the kitchen table in a cold sweat, shouldering an imaginary rifle. What has changed her Davey so completely?

  • Dead Men And Broken Hearts

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    Craig Russell
    Hardback

    November, 1956: while the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising boil away, Lennox is more concerned with getting back on track. When a woman asks Lennox to follow her husband, whom she suspects of leading a double life, it seems like the perfect job. But as he digs deeper, Lennox soon realises that this is no ordinary case.

  • The Invisible Ones

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    Stef Penney
    Paperback

    Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, Stef Penney's eagerly awaited second novel is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.

  • Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes: A Novel

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    Betsy Woodman
    Paperback

    Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family.

  • Justinian: The Sleepless One

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    £6.79
    Ross Laidlaw
    Paperback

    The culmination of Ross Laidlaw's epic trilogy on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Nephew of a semi-literate peasant, Justinian I was one of the most fascinating of the Roman emperors. His wife, Theodora, was his partner in an extraordinary love story.

  • Lost Causes

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    Ken McClure
    Paperback

    Ex-Special Forces medic Dr Stephen Dunbar investigates the sudden and mysterious deaths of a number of people, including a former health minister who had introduced a new healthcare scheme some years before in the north of England.

  • Rule 34

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    Charles Stross
    Paperback

    But that's OK, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits? So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more

  • Stone Arabia

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    Dana Spiotta
    Paperback

    'Stone Arabia', Dana Spiotta's moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.

  • Ultramarines: The Second Omnibus

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    Graham McNeill
    Paperback

    This omnibus follows the adventures of Space Marine Captain Uriel Ventris and the Ultramarines as they battle to destroy the enemies of mankind.

  • When The Devil Drives

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    Christopher Brookmyre
    Paperback

    Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way.

  • When The Turaco Calls

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    Gisela Hoyle
    Paperback

    Drawing on the author's own experiences of living in Africa, this novel paints a striking picture of cultural and racial prejudice, the relevance of which spans continents, while also powerfully evoking recent history.

  • An Absolute Deception

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    Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
    Hardback

    Known as 'The Ice Queen', Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. Anneliese never talks about her past - not even to her only daughter, Callan. She's worked hard to leave it all behind her and it's a time and place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks.

  • But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

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    Geoff Dyer
    Paperback

    In this text Geoff Dyer captures the beating heart of jazz. In a series of fictional portraits he examines its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction.

  • Dubliners

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    James Joyce
    Paperback

    In 'Dubliners', James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. From short, lyrical stories to the novella-length masterpiece which concludes this collection, 'Dubliners' is as alive with feeling as it was when first published.

  • The Duke's Perfect Wife

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    Jennifer Ashley
    Paperback

    Having inherited his father's dukedom, Hart Mackenzie must find himself the perfect wife to advance further among Britain's elite. When fate reunites him with his ex-fiancée, Lady Eleanor Ramsay, who jilted him years ago, she is merely after a job, however Hart has other plans.

  • Final Days

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    Gary Gibson
    Paperback

    It is 2225 and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth. But this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks.

  • Harry Lipkin, Private Eye: The Oldest Detective In The World

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    Barry Fantoni
    Paperback

    He might not be the fastes PI in Miami, but Harry Lipkin is definitely the oldest. Harry's specialty is taking on the cases the police just aren't interested in - an his latest case is doozy. Someone on the staff of wealthy widow Norma Weinberger is stealing from her. Nothing fancy, but enough to rattle her.

  • Incidents In The Life Of Markus Paul

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    David Adams Richards
    Paperback

    An intricate story about the miscarriage of justice in the case of one man's death in a shipping yard in New Brunswick in 1985. The novels is a meticulous study of the various half-truths, political machinations and outright lies that led to the incrimination of one man, Roger Savage, in the death of Hector Penniac.

  • Paris Trance

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    Geoff Dyer
    Paperback

    In Paris, two friends and their lovers meet and become inseparable, finding an elusive happiness amidst the clubs and bars of the 11th arondissement.

  • Ragnarok: The End Of The Gods

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    A. S. Byatt
    Paperback

    Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War II raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.

  • Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

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    P. G. Wodehouse
    Book with sound disc

    It is the stuff of nightmares for Bertie as he is hauled back to Totleigh Towers and the whole loony crew of Madeline, Gussie, Roderick Spode, Stiffy Byng and the dog Bartholomew - stiff upper lip, Jeeves.

  • The Thousand Emperors

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    Gary Gibson
    Hardback

    Luc Gabion has finally achieved his life's goal: bring down Winchell Antonov, head of the Black Lotus terrorist organisation. When he finds himself investigating the murder of one of the Tian Di's ruling clique, he knows he's in real trouble.

  • War In Heaven

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    £7.64
    Gavin G. Smith
    Paperback

    The sequel to 'Veteran' sees an unlikely hero make an even more unlikely return to take the reader back into a vividly rendered bleak future. But a bleak future where there are still wonders: man travelling out into the universe, Bladerunneresque cities hanging from the ceilings of vast caverns, aliens that we can barely comprehend.

  • Above Suspicion

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    Helen MacInnes
    Paperback

    Nazi Germany, 1939. Von Aschenhausen sat on the edge of a large desk, his eyes fixed on the man standing over the girl roped to a chair ...'Above Suspicion' was Helen MacInnes's breakthrough espionage novel, published in 1941 and made into a movie with Joan Crawford in 1943.

  • Angel Of Fire

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    William King
    Hardback

    At the dawn of the 41st millennium, Lord Commander Macharius and his forces embark upon the re-conquest of over 1000 worlds. A man of steel and fire, Macharius is the only one with the will to lead the massed armies of the Imperium to victory.

  • The Black Glove

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    £19.54
    Grant Morrison
    Hardback

    Gotham City is plagued with crime and corruption and the Dark Knight finds himself called to a mysterious island as the League of Batmen - heroes from around the world, all inspired by Batman - hold an extraordinary meeting - that ends in murder.

  • Cold Grave

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    Craig Robertson
    Paperback

    Even the coldest case will eventually crack. November 1993. A young man and woman walk across ice to the island of Inchmahome. Only the man comes back. In the spring the unidentifiable remains of the body of a girl, her skull crushed, are discovered. Detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime.

  • Eighteen Couper Street

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    £6.79
    Millie Gray
    Paperback

    Anna Campbell's life is dedicated to raising her six foster children. A pillar of the community, her door at 18 Couper Street is always open, for advice, treatment for all sorts of ailments or for a cup of tea and a chat. But despite caring for those around her, she is soon embroiled in family problems.

  • The Flower Reader

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    Elizabeth Loupas
    Hardback

    With her dying breath, Mary of Guise entrusts a silver casket containing explosive secret papers to the young Scottish heiress, Rinette Leslie. She makes Rinette promise to keep the casket hidden and only to give it to Mary, Queen of Scots, now on her way home from France to ascend the throne.

  • Indian Summer

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    Maureen Reynolds
    Paperback

    There are lots of changes happening at Molly McQueen's Agency. Biggest of all is that Molly herself must decide whether or not she should move to Australia. Before she decides, she enjoys a trip to Pitlochry Festival Theatre. But when she goes for a walk through the hills at Killiecrankie, she comes across a frightening scene.

  • The Inn At The End Of The World

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    Alice Thomas Ellis
    Paperback

    Five strangers gather at Eric's inn on a remote Hebridean island after he advertises in the London weeklies for 'Christmas at the edge of the world'. Each has their own reasons for escaping the usual festivities.

  • The Island House

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    £16.99
    Posie Graeme-Evans
    Hardback

    Posie Graeme-Evans' novel plunges the reader into a past that never dies and a love that reaches out across a thousand years, as a young archaeologist unearths ancient secrets and Viking treasure on a remote Scottish island.

  • Picture Her Dead

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    Lin Anderson
    Paperback

    When art student Jude Evans vanishes on a photographic visit to a derelict Glasgow cinema, her friend Liam enlists the help of his birth mother - forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod - in the search. Throughout the investigation, Rhona must deal with the news that a face from her past is literally back from the dead - but for how long?

  • Pray For A Brave Heart

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    Helen MacInnes
    Paperback

    Nothing can shake William Denning's resolve to leave the army and return to the States. Then, in the Swiss mountains, he discovers not only a jewellery robbery at stake, but a ruthless world of espionage and international conspiracy.

  • San Carlos

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    Neil Forsyth
    Paperback

    It is 1989 and under the searing heat of the Ibizan sun two people look for answers amongst the throng of the island's holiday-makers. Over the course of a week the lives of these two strangers are pulled together with explosive consequences.

  • Seven Soldiers Of Victory

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    Grant Morrison
    Paperback

    A genre-blending tale of seven unusual characters who find themselves in a new army for a dark age - with a surprising twist: they will never meet each other.

  • Shot Of Snuff

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    Cary Smith
    Hardback

    Gavin Madden, a young ex-banker, arrives of the Isle of Stone in 2010, charged by the British government with an unusual task: to find out if it would be possible to transform a small, remote Scottish island into an important recovery centre for injured war veterns.

  • The Silver Stain

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    Paul Johnston
    Paperback

    Hired by a Hollywood film company to trace a missing employee in Crete, private investigator Alex Mavros is plunged into a vortex of hatred dating from the Second World War. The company is shooting a movie about the invasion of Crete by the Germans in 1941 - and their activities are stirring up old resentments among the islanders.

  • So It Is

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    Liam Murray Bell
    Paperback

    'So It Is' is a suspenseful debut that reflects the factions and fractures of the Troubles period, culminating in the choice between violence and personal morality.

  • Too Hot To Handle

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    £17.00
    Katie Agnew
    Hardback

    Ever dreamt of escape? That's what Paradise promises: an ultra-exclusive hotel on the Caribbean island of St Barts. There, a retired actor from Hollywood's golden age has brought together a glittering selection of guests. But why are they there - and what are they hiding?

  • The Unkindest Cut

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    Gerald Hammond
    Hardback

    Life is good for Jane Highsmith and Roland Fox - Jane is planning on taking over the local veterinary practice in the small rural Scottish community in which they live, Roland's second novel has been accepted for publication, and they are soon to be married. However, their wedding day is rudely interupted.

  • Waterline

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    Ross Raisin
    Paperback

    Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder in the Glasgow docks. He returned from Australia 30 years ago with his beloved wife Cathy, who longed to be back home. But now Cathy's dead and it's probably his fault. Soon Mick will have to find a new way to live - get a new job, get away, start again, forget everything.