Fiction
New Fiction for July
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Angel With Two Faces
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HardbackInspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in 'An Expert in Murder'. However, Josephine's hopes of rest are dashed when her arrival coincides with the funeral of a young man from the village who had drowned when his horse leapt into the nearby lake.
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Crime
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PaperbackA novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, 'Crime' is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.
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Jessie Gray
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PaperbackThe first time Jessie laid eyes on Tommy McBride was in November 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain. But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change - and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs.
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La's Orchestra Saves The World
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PaperbackWith a failed marriage behind her, La (short for Lavender) moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, she is encouraged to bring the villagers and the men from the local airbase together by forming an amateur orchestra. Soon her feelings are stirring again.
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Lennox: A Man For Hire, But Not For Sale
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HardbackShady private investigator Lennox is a hard man in a hard city at a hard time: Glasgow, 1953, where the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just beginning. It's a place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive.
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Life Of Pi
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PaperbackPi lives in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns the city's zoo. The family decides to immigrate to Canada, but tragedy strikes at sea. In the lifeboat are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan & a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
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Ménage
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Paperback'Menage' is a tale of heroin chic, fake moustaches, shoplifted sherry, pot noodles and a love so powerful that it constantly threatens to destroy the lovers.
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Missy
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PaperbackCalifornia, 1862. Dol, an irrepressible young girl, hitches a wagon with a gaggle of friends, headed east for new adventures. But on the road an act of kindness saving a man from suicide invites her own destruction. The man is a murderous pimp, who resents being rescued, and decides to take revenge. Dol has problems aplenty.
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A Proper Education For Girls
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PaperbackSet in 1857 between England and India, 'A Proper Education for Girls' is a novel about feisty women, the devotion of sisters and the Victorian obsession with empire, experiments and photography.
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Reheated Cabbage: Tales Of Chemical Degeneration
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HardbackMost of the stories in 'Reheated Cabbage' originally appeared in fugitive form in magazines and long out-of-print anthologies. Finally collected together, they show all Irvine Welsh's trademark skills.
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Saturn's Children
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PaperbackFreya Nakamachi-47 has some major existential issues. She's the perfect concubine, designed to please her human masters - hardwired to become aroused at the mere sight of a human male. There's just one problem: she came off the production line a year after the human species went extinct.
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Warrior Daughter
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PaperbackDaughter of an Iron Age warrior queen, Skaaha is wild, headstrong and revered. But she is also a child, and when a chariot race leaves her mother dead and the queen's rival Mara in her place, Skaaha's charmed life lies in ruins. Vulnerable, her future imperilled, Skaaha seeks to forge a life beyond the new queen's reach.
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Blue Lantern
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PaperbackThis is a story of sex and corruption in Hong Kong. A young police recruit from Glasgow is torn between his love for a beautiful Chinese woman doctor and a sexy but expensive bar girl. To get money, he succumbs to a police 'squeeze' racket. He can't get out. His love life in tatters, he has to run or be arrested for corruption.
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The Chapel At The Edge Of The World
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HardbackEmilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy.
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The Fire Gospel
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PaperbackWhen Theo Griepenkerl finds the fifth Gospel in a war-torn Iraqi museum, he can't believe his luck. He capitalises on his find by publishing it. His book is a sensation. But he can hardly imagine the incendiary consequences his discovery will have for Christians, Arabs, homicidal maniacs and Amazon customers alike.
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God Of Clocks
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HardbackWar, rebellion, betrayal - but the worst is still to come. For in the cataclysm of the battle of the gods, a portal to Hell has been opened, releasing unnatural creatures that were never meant to be and threatening to turn the world into a killing field.
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The Last Watch
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PaperbackWhen a Russian tourist is murdered while visiting the Edinburgh Dungeons, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton is detailed to the investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realise that there is much more to this story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder.
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Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes
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PaperbackSet against the backdrop of an ever changing China, this novel tells a compelling story of childhood, family and ambition.
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Lux The Poet
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PaperbackAmid the chaos of the Brixton riots in the early 1980s, Lux is searching for Pearl - the love of his life. As she and her friend, Nicky, seek sanctuary, the two are relentlessly pursued by mad scientists. Lux is helped in his quest by a castaway from Heaven - and sets out to proclaim his love for Pearl.
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Nellie Wildchild
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PaperbackGlaswegian Nellie Thompson had been born into a poor city divided by religion and class, where appearences meant more than the truth. Nellie had held onto her dreams, however, and was determined to leave the grey and violent streets behind her.
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This Is How
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PaperbackWhen his fiancé breaks off their engagement, Patrick Oxtoby leaves home and moves into a boarding house in a remote seaside town. But in spite of his hopes and determination to build a better life, nothing goes to plan and Patrick is soon driven to take a desperate and chilling course of action.
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Touching Distance
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Paperback'Touching Distance' is a historical novel which explores the wider issues of the age: the abolition of the slave trade, civil unrest in America and the French Revolution. It tells of the tensions between reason and passion and of the corruption underlying the heart of a prosperous city.
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Trick Baby
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Paperback'Trick Baby' charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the con. With his partner, Blue, White Folks becomes one of the Chicago underworld's top hustlers.
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Dreams Of Home
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HardbackFollowing the war, Steven Caraford longs to return to Scotland to a farm of his own. Then he meets Megan, his best friend's little sister, and discovers that she has grown into a lovely young woman with admirers who could give her far more than he could. Should he sacrifice his ambition to farm for a far more lucrative career?
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Duplicity And Other Stories
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PaperbackA collection of 20 short stories from the author of 'Time Shall Reap' and 'A Gift from the Gallowgate'. Storylines include: two men spend Christmas Eve in supernatural company; a young family make a tense cross-channel trip; and an old man contemplates suicide at the thought of being evicted from the house he has lived in all his life.
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Fatal Last Words
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HardbackIt's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. The world of books is focused on Charlotte Square Gardens, so it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers, and key Member of the Scottish Parliament is found dead. DCC Bob Skinner investigates.
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Gotrek & Felix: The Third Omnibus
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PaperbackWould-be poet Felix Jaeger accidentally signs up for a lifetime of adventure after swearing a drunken oath to the dwarf, Gotrek Gurnisson. Now the trollslayer is wandering through the Old World, seeking an honourable death in combat to redeem his honour. This is a collection of three stories from the Gotrek & Felix series.
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Highland Fling
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PaperbackCombining physical humour and verbal sharpness, 'Highland Fling' captures with precision the mode de vivre of the upper classes in the decades immediately before and after World War II.
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Inhuman Remains
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PaperbackOz Blackstone has died and his ex-wife - the feisty, tough-talking Primavera Blackstone - takes over as investigator in a thrilling new series.
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Joseph's Box
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PaperbackZuleikha MacBeth wades into the Clyde one morning and recovers a large box with which she becomes obsessed. The discovery of the box brings her together with Alex, a lute-playing clerk, and they manage to open the box only to find six further boxes inside which they can only open once they have followed cryptic clues.
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The Song In The Green Thorn Tree: A Novel Of The Life And Loves Of Robert Burns
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PaperbackAlthough he died at the age of just 37, Robert Burns had an extraordinary life. This is the second book in James Barke's quintet of novels about Robert Burns, following 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'.
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The Steel Remains
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PaperbackRingil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap, is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteran of the wars against the lizards, he makes a living from telling travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade.
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Translated Accounts: A Novel
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PaperbackThis novel is set in an unnamed country that appears to be under military rule. The language used is an atypical English form, but akin to the basic translation that might appear within a department of an overseas foreign office.
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The Burn
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PaperbackPassionate, exhilarating and darkly humorous, 'The Burn' is an extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist.
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Claudius
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HardbackIn Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop as the scarlet cloaks of a Roman army spread across his land like blood. Among them is Rufus, keeper of the Emperor's elephant, an unwilling participant in the invasion of Britain.
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Death Of A Ladies' Man
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HardbackBy day, Charlie Bain is the school's most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie journeys further into hedonism, unable to see the destruction his desires are leading everyone towards.
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Death Of An Addict
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PaperbackRecovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the village of Drim. When he turns up dead, apparently of an overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise particularly fishy.
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The Fingers Of One Foot
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HardbackIn a gentle village in the Scottish borders, Roland Fox, a young aspiring writer, moves next door to Jane Highsmith, a newly qualified veterinary surgeon. But the growing attraction between them is muted by the mystery surrounding the recent death of her great-grandfather, who apparently fell off a narrow bridge into a stream.
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The Good Times
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PaperbackThese narratives portray ordinary people in a language that makes glory of their lives. The narrators are men and boys who come face to face with uncomfortable truths, whether musing on mortality or struggling to understand women and work.
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The Kilt Maker
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HardbackKilt maker Kirsty Muir is left broken hearted when fiddler Jake MacIver disappears off on tour. However, her heart is mended by Fraser Gilmour, owner of the kilt shop. That is, until the day when she finds Jake waiting outside her door, full of apologies and claims of love.
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Lockdown
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HardbackIt may be Christmas in New York, but for ex-soldier turned elite bodyguard Ryan Lock it's business as usual - his mission is to protect one of Americas most ruthless businessmen. Suddenly gunshots ring out. Amid the chaos, Lock's hunt for the killers turns into an explosive game of cat and mouse.
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Tell Me No Secrets
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PaperbackThis is a highly commercial psychological suspense novel with a domestic backdrop that feels chillingly close to home.
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