Dumfries & Galloway Fiction and Poetry

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  After The Armistice Ball - Paperback - Catriona McPherson
  Dandy Gilver is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1922 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long though, the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway.
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  Cold In The Earth - Paperback - Aline Templeton
  Death is all around for the people of Galloway when a catastrophic virus devastates the countryside, killing cattle and ruining lives. But the stench of death becomes even stronger when, amidst the smoking pyres, human remains are discovered. For DI Fleming, this is just the beginning.
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  The Darkness And The Deep - Paperback - Aline Templeton
  The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat with the loss of all three of its crew is a hard blow for the small Scottish town. But it's harder still when DS Tam MacNee discovers that it isn't simply a tragic accident.
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  Dead In The Water - Hardback - Aline Templeton
  A murdered girl haunts DI Marjory Fleming when she is asked to investigate a cold case, the shameful details of which her father struggled to keep secret. Restless ghosts are brought back to life too when the TV crew of a popular crime series arrives in Galloway bringing excitement and disruption to a small market town.
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  Dead In The Water - Paperback - Aline Templeton
  A murdered girl haunts DI Marjory Fleming when she is asked to investigate a cold case, the shameful details of which her father struggled to keep secret. Restless ghosts are brought back to life too when the TV crew of a popular crime series arrives in Galloway bringing excitement and disruption to a small market town.
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  Dreams Of Home - Hardback - Gwen Kirkwood
  Following 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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  Five Red Herrings - Paperback - Dorothy L. Sayers
  Lord Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident, or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death - five were red herrings.
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  Great Dumfries Stories - Paperback - Giancarlo Rinaldi
  This volume contains 20 fascinating stories concerning the Scottish town of Dumfries. Stories include notorious murders, the town at war, haunted Dumfries, famous Doonhamers, and a story of the town's shops.
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  The Highwayman's Curse - Paperback - Nicola Morgan
  On the run from the redcoats, the two young highwaymen, Will and Bess, find themselves in Galloway, Scotland, blamed for a murder they did not commit. Here they are captured by smugglers and become embroiled in a story of hatred and revenge that goes back for generations, to the days of the Killing Times.
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  Lamb To The Slaughter - Hardback - Aline Templeton
  A sunny evening, a tranquil garden - and an old man brutally gunned down on his doorstep. When a second victim is killed, DI Fleming will not accept that the crimes are motiveless.
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  The Lantern Bearers: A Novel - Paperback - Ronald Frame
  This novel is based around observed flashbacks about the oppressive youth of a homosexual musician in Edinburgh. Frame is a distinguished novelist and playwright and his television work has, among other awards, won the Samuel Beckett Prize
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  Ostrich Boys - Paperback - Keith Gray
  Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway.
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  The Thirty-Nine Steps - Paperback - John Buchan
  Richard Hannay's ennui comes to an abrupt end when a murder is committed in his flat. Only a few days before the dead man had revealed to him an assassination plot which would have terrible consequences for international peace.
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  Three Men In A Minor - Paperback - D. E. Harker
  Three stressed out 30-somethings - an architect, fund manager and school teacher - head to Galloway in a vintage Morris Minor, in an attempt to recapture the innocent pleasures of their boyhood friendship.
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  Where The Whaups Are Crying: A Dumfries And Galloway Anthology - Paperback
  This anthology of Scottish writers and writing includes work by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, James Boswell, Daniel Defoe, John Welsley, J.M. Barrie and John Keats. Also included are a range of anecdotes and non fiction concerning the area.

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  Burning Whins And Other Poems - Paperback - Liz Niven
  'Burning Whins' concerns itself with relationships and ownership. Describing the Scottish Parliament, plane travel in the Western Isles, and the destruction wrought by the recent Foot and Mouth epidemic with equal familiarity and fluidity, these poems depict the many faces of contemporary Scotland with grace and intimacy.
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  Burns-Lore Of Dumfries And Galloway - Paperback - James A. Mackay
  James A. McKay offers a glimpse of the last eight years of the life of Robert Burns, when he was resident at Ellisland and in Dumfries.