Aberdeenshire Fiction and True Crime
Fiction and poetry set in and from Aberdeenshire and the Grampians
- 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess
Anna has a taste for perverse sex involving an older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Her sex life revolves around the stone circles in Aberdeen. The grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which she can act out her psychodramas. - Broken Skin
As February's leaden skies cast a grey pall over the granite streets of Aberdeen, DS Logan McRae is assigned a particularly unsavoury dead-end case - an unidentified body dumped outside a hospital by an unidentified motorist, showing signs of brutal S&M activity. - Cold Granite
It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four year old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. - Craiters - Or, Twenty Buchan Tales
Written in North East dialect as it has been used over the last 6 decades, this book contains 20 tales about animals, birds and other creatures, and about Buchan life seen through a boy's eyes - Dying Light
It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, & people are dying. It starts with a prostitute, stripped naked & beaten to death down by the docks. Despite DS Logan MacRae's best efforts, it's not long before another body turns up on the slab. This thriller is written by the author of 'Cold Granite'. - A Flame In The Mearns: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, A Centenary Celebration
This collection of essays celebrates the achievements of Lewis Grassic Gibbon in his own time, as well as emphasising his continuing relevance. It contains discussions of Gibbons' fiction, essays and poetry, together with analyses of his language and politics. - Flesh House
Panic strikes the Granite City. 20 years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the Uk until Grampian's finest put him away. But 11 years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again. - Glenesk: The Collected Poems Of John Angus
This volume is a collection of poems from well-known Montrose poet John Angus. - The Grampian Quartet
Nan Shepherd's three novels and her lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms are presented here in this omnibus edition. - The House Of Lyall
Marion Cheyne works as a maid, but when her employer leaves a large sum of money lying around, she seizes her chance and escapes. Eventually she rises higher than she could imagine, marrying the heir to Castle Lyall. - Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song
The 'Scotnotes' series is a collection of study guides on major Scottish writers and literary texts. This volume looks at 'Sunset Song' by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. - Monday Girl
After the death of her father, 10 year-old Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. An impressionable child, Renee grows up weaving romantic fantasies around both men. But when they are sent to fight in World War Two, the young woman's life is thrown into turmoil. - The Redemption Of Alexander Seaton
Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses, vomiting, over the two prostitutes who find him on that dark wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. - Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gribbon Anthology
This is an anthology of short works from one of Scotland's favourite novelists. Illustrating Grassic Gibbon's full range of work - with stories and poems, essays and polemics, this collection shows the range of Gibbon's literary skill. - Swithering
With its descriptive precision, and occasionally moving and disarming directness, 'Swithering' is a collection of poetry from Robin Robertson. - Touching Distance
'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. - Where The Apple Ripens
The stories in this volume draw heavily on Jessie Kesson's experiences of growing up in rural Aberdeenshire, and include tales of the mental hospital where Kesson was a patient, and of Christmas one year for some deprived children. - Winning Through
In 'Winning Through', Brian Irvine tells the truth about his life as a footballer. From family life in Airdrie we follow him as he realises his boyhood dreams. He becomes an international player with Aberdeen and Scotland. But he has to cope with bad times, and worse, when he is told he has a serious and possibly fatal illness. - The Winter Sea
When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the ruins of Slains Castle in Scotland to research her new book, she discovers that her ancestor, Sophia Paterson, had lived there in the early 18th century. Sophia's experiences give Carrie an immediate window into the past, and she realizes that they have much in common.
Aberdeen True Crime books
- Congratulations, You Have Just Met The Casuals
It was the look and the attitude that defined the UK in the 1980s. It was the Casual movement - a new breed of football fan, bringing with them a new way to terrorise the terraces. Aberdeen football club's Aberdeen Soccer Casuals became the most notorious, most feared and most copied mob in the country. - Hangman's Brae: True Crime And Punishment In Aberdeen And The North-East
'Hangman's Brae' is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters, and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths.
