Fiction from Stirling and the West Highlands

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    After A Dead Dog Colin Murray
    Iain Lewis is a complex man, a part-time poet hacking out a living writing the occasional TV script from his small isolated cottage in Kintyre. One of the many complications in his life is that he still carries a torch for his one-time sweetheart, Carole.
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    Boyracers Alan Bissett
    Boyracers is a fresh, savvy and honest take on being young, naive, hopeful, and the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad pop-culture world. Boyracers is Alan Bissett's first novel.
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    Chill Alex Nye
    Samuel is trapped by huge snow drifts in an old, remote house. And that's not the only thing causing a cold shiver to creep down his spine. He feels like the ghostly figure in the locked library has a message - but who is it for?
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    Dead Lovely Helen FitzGerald
    Krissie & Sarah have been best friends forever. Sarah is married to Kyle & they are trying for a baby. Krissie becomes pregnant after a one night stand on holiday & this upsets Sarah, who is having trouble conceiving. To ease the tension between them all, they go on a walking holiday in Loch Lomond, which has disastrous consequences.
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    The Droving Lad Kathleen Fidler
    11-year-old Colin is a cattle drover in the Scottish Highlands. It is 1813, and he's allowed to go to the Falkirk Tryst for the first time. The long journey to Falkirk is packed with danger and excitement, but Colin's relief at arriving soon turns to horror when he realises that their prize bull has been stolen.
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    Hamish McHaggis: And The Skirmish At Stirling Linda Strachan; Sally J. Collins
    Hamish and his friends discover what it was like to be a brave and daring knight.
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    Hamish McHaggis: And The Wonderful Water Wheel Linda Strachan; Sally J. Collins
    Angus is having trouble with his boats but a trip on the canal to the Falkirk Wheel gives him an idea.
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    Poverty Castle Robin Jenkins
    'Poverty Castle' is a novel set within a novel, in which the happiness of an idealistic family in Argyll is tempered inexorably by events, human nature, and the socialism of industrial Glasgow.
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    Seal On The Shore Lucy Daniels
    It's the summer holidays and Mandy's staying with her cousins on the Scottish island of Jura. Mandy is longing to visit the seal colony nearby, but on her first trip in the boat she discovers a seal pup in distress. Can she give it the special care it needs?
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    The Underground City: A New Translation Of The Complete Text With Illustrations Jules Verne
    Ten years after he left the exhausted Aberfoyle mine, the former manager - James Starr - receives a mysterious letter from the old supervisor. Intrigued, James returns to Aberfoyle and discovers that there is coal in the mine still to be excavated.
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    When Eight Bells Toll Alistair MacLean
    Millions of pounds in gold bullion are being pirated in the Irish Sea. Investigations by the British Secret Service, and a sixth sense, have brought Philip Calvert to a bleak, lonely bay in the Western Highlands. But the sleepy atmosphere of Torbay is deceptive.