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Espedair Street
Iain Banks - Paperback - Abacus
Danny used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At 31, he realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.
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The Emergence Of Judy Taylor
Angela Jackson - Hardback - Canvas
Judy doesn't seem to have a care in the world, until the day she discovers a hard lump. Following a series of nerve-wrecking tests, Judy discovers that 'everything is absolutely normal'. But instead of the anticipated wave of relief, Judy realises that 'absolutely normal' is absolutely not what she wants. She decides to stop taking the path of least resistance and faces up to the reality of what it means to change. She leaves the dependable and heartbroken Oliver for a life of uncertainties in vibrant Edinburgh, just as it emerges into summer festival mode.
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An Exquisite Sense (of What Is Beautiful)
J. David Simons - Paperback - Saraband
Sir Edward Strathairn returns to the Japanese hotel where he wrote his renowned novel 'The Waterwheel', which accused America of being in denial about the Hiroshima bombing. But as we learn about Sir Edward's earlier life and his marriage to an American artist, we realise that he too may be in denial. And that past is now catching up with him.
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Entanglement
Douglas Thompson - Paperback - Elsewhen
Providing a philosophical take on the science fiction genre, 'Entanglement' explores our assumptions about such constants as death, birth, sex and conflict, as the characters in the story explore distant worlds and the intelligent life that lives there.
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Every Short Story By Alasdair Gray, 1952-2012
Alasdair Gray - Hardback - Canongate
This title collects 64 short tales from Gray's earlier books along with ten new stories, with illustrations and information to amuse curious readers.
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The Edinburgh Edition Of The Collected Fiction Of Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
The resurgence of interest in Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) in recent years has grown to the extent that she is now perceived as 'the most emblematic woman writer of her time'. The Edinburgh edition of her stories is a truly complete collection of the author's fiction writing.
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The Edinburgh Edition Of The Collected Fiction Of Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
The resurgence of interest in Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) in recent years has grown to the extent that she is now perceived as 'the most emblematic woman writer of her time'. The Edinburgh edition of her stories is a truly complete collection of the author's fiction writing.
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Everywhere
- Paperback - Cargo
This is a collection of short stories by some of the best known writers in the world in which 'here' is explored through experiences of 'elsewhere'.
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Enlightening Delilah
M. C. Beaton - Paperback - Canvas
Stunningly beautiful, the dazzling Delilah has had plenty of marriage proposals but having once been spurned by Sir Charles Digby, the only man she has ever loved, she is now a hardened heartbreaker who toys with all her suitors. And so it is up to the eccentric Tribble sisters to teach her the meaning of true love again.
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The Element -Inth In Greek
Alison Fell - Paperback - Sandstone
In a small holiday village on the coast of Crete, Ingrid Laurie is researching a biography of the neglected linguist Alice Kober, who laid the basis for the decipherment of the ancient Cretan script Linear B, but died too young to reap the rewards of her work.