The Backstreets of Purgatory by Helen Taylor (12 July 2018).
Finn Garvie’s life is one spectacular mess. He spends most of his time in a makeshift Glasgow studio, failing to paint his degree
portfolio, while his girlfriend Lizzi treats him like one of her psychology patients. To top it all, Finn is worried that someone
is hanging around, spying on him, laughing at him and eating his leftover curry. Things take a turn for the strange when he finally
encounters the person who’s been bugging him, and it seems to be none other than Caravaggio himself, Finn's all-time hero.
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Eyes Turned Skywards by Ken Lussey (31 May 2018).
Wing Commander Robert Sutherland has left his days as a pre-war detective far behind him. Or so he thinks. On 25 August 1942 the Duke of Kent, brother
of King George VI, is killed in northern Scotland in an unexplained air crash; a second crash soon after suggests a shared, possibly sinister, cause.
Bob Sutherland is tasked with visiting the aircraft's base in Oban and the first crash site in Caithness to gather clues as to who might have had reason
to sabotage one, or both, of the aircraft.
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After He Died by Michael J Malone (20 September 2018).
When Paula Gadd’s husband of almost thirty years dies, just days away from the seventh anniversary of their son's death, her world falls apart.
She is stunned when a young woman approaches her at the funeral service, and slips something into her pocket. A note suggesting that Paula’s
husband was not all that he seemed. When the two women eventually meet, a series of revelations challenges everything Paula thought they knew,
and it becomes immediately clear that both women’s lives are in danger.
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The Secret Life of the Mountain Hare by Andy Howard (18 October 2018).
Among the most captivating of creatures, the mountain hare has inhabited Britain's upland landscape since the last major ice age.
Andy Howard fell in love with mountain hares on first sight and they have been at the centre of his successful career as a wildlife
photographer. Here he introduces them not only as a species to be held as precious within the great wheel of nature, but also as
individuals with their own, delightful personalities.
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Russian Doll by Lucy Lloyd (8 May 2018).
A smart, romantic novel, set in an alternative contemporary independent Scotland. Shortly after independence, Russia lays claim
to a remote part of Scotland. As Russia attempts to manipulate the media, a Scottish radio producer fights back.
Despite her best intentions, she falls in love with a Russian diplomat tasked with delivering Scotland into Moscow's hands. As the country progresses
towards war, her love affair pits her against Russia, and tests her belief in the man she loves.
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Ghost by Helen Grant (19 February 2018).
Langlands House is haunted, but not by the ghost you think. Augusta McAndrew lives on a remote Scottish estate with her
grandmother, Rose. For her own safety, she hides from outsiders, as she has done her entire life. Visitors are few and far
between - everyone knows that Langlands House is haunted. One day Rose goes out and never returns, leaving Augusta utterly alone.
Then Tom McAllister arrives - good-looking and fascinating, but dangerous. What he has to tell her could tear her whole world apart.
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As the Women Lay Dreaming by Donald S Murray (8 November 2018).
In the small hours of 1 January 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was
there. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200 servicemen on the
very last leg of their long journey home from war. Two decades later, Alasdair and Rachel are sent to the windswept Isle of Lewis
to live with Tormod in his traditional blackhouse home, a world away from the Glasgow of their earliest years.
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Along the Divide: Walking the Wild Spine of Scotland by Chris Townsend (20 September 2018).
Chris Townsend embarks on a 700-mile walk along the spine of Scotland, the line of high ground where fallen rain runs either
west to the Atlantic or east to the North Sea. Walking before the Independence Referendum of 2014, and writing after the EU
Referendum of 2016, he reflects on: nature and history, conservation and rewilding, land use and literature, and change in
a time of limitless potential for both better and worse.
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The Restless Wave: My Two Lives with John Bellany by Helen Bellany (19 April 2018).
John Bellany was one of the most innovative 20th century British artists, a man whose work was described by the "Guardian" as "at once realist,
expressionist and surrealist". Helen Bellany married him twice. This beautifully-written book is the story of their turbulent lives together. At once
biography and autobiography, this is a searingly, sometimes shockingly, honest account of a relationship that encompassed both the sublime joy of true love
and the utter despair of failure, rejection and the fear of imminent death.
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The Abbey Close by Steven Veerapen (29 June 2018).
As the armies of Henry VIII and James V prepare for battle, Catholic exile Simon Danforth must decide his loyalties. Cast out of England,
he is drawn by private grief to a secretive Scottish abbey, and the mystery of a missing girl who worked there. Though Paisley and its
Abbey refuse to give up their secrets, they do give up their dead. In the tense and suspicious atmosphere of a nation at war, Danforth
uncovers murder, madness, and sexual desire infecting the sacred house and its neighbouring town.
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The Cyber Puppets by Angus McAllister (15 May 2018).
His life was like a soap opera, but that was only the start of his troubles... Scott Maxwell was worried. Not about his wife Fiona's
unfaithfulness, or about his brother-in-law Wilson Laird's scheming. Scott was more concerned about his lack of free will, his
frequent memory lapses, and the fact that no-one noticed when his father-in-law Hector was replaced by an imposter. And when the
reality around him collapsed, plunging him into a devastated future world, it was time for Scott to be seriously alarmed!
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Walk This Way by Gary Sutherland (10 May 2018).
Gary Sutherland could never fathom hillwalkers and had always managed to ignore the West Highland Way despite living on the doorstep of
Scotland's most famous trail. Then one day he decided to tackle it... and go further still. Much further. He would consecutively walk the
West Highland Way, Great Glen Way and Speyside Way to complete a hat-trick of iconic Scottish treks. This despite the fact that hills gave
him the heebie jeebies, moors made him tremble, and forests frightened him.
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By Sword and Storm by Margaret Skea (31 July 2018).
The eagerly-awaited third volume in the Munro saga. 1598. The French Wars of Religion are drawing to an end, with the Edict of Nantes
establishing religious freedom everywhere but in Paris. The exiled Adam and Kate Munro are looking forward to a new life free from past
troubles, despite their nostalgia for Scotland and the friendship of the Montgomeries. But when the family are called
to court they find that religious tensions remain high, and Paris holds dangers as well as delights.
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Calton Hill: And the plans for Edinburgh's Third New Town by Kirsten Carter McKee (6 September 2018).
Calton Hill stands on the eastern edge of Edinburgh's centre. Development began in the late eighteenth century with the intention of
changing the rural periphery into the new urban core of the city. This book considers how the architectural expression of Calton Hill
has been perceived, accepted and rejected as ideas surrounding cultural identity, governance and nationalism have changed over the last
200 years.
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Stitch Up by William McIntyre (16 August 2018).
Everything is good for Robbie Munro, newly married and living in the country with wife and child. Until his wife takes up employment
abroad just as old flame, Jill Green, asks him to investigate the unexplained death of her partner. Another killer on the loose is
child-murderer Ricky Hertz, whose twenty-year-old conviction is under scrutiny. Did Robbie's father fabricate evidence at the trial?
The only way to prove ex-Police Sergeant Alex Munro, is innocencent is for Robbie to show there was no miscarriage of justice.
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The Janus Run by Douglas Skelton (20 September 2018).
When Coleman Lang finds his girlfriend Gina dead in his New York City apartment, he thinks nothing could be worse... until he becomes the
prime suspect. Desperate to uncover the truth and clear his name, Coleman hits the streets. But there's a deranged Italian hitman, an intuitive
cop, two US Marshals, his ex-wife and the mysterious organisation known only as Janus on his tail. And trying to piece together Gina's murky
past without dredging up his own seems impossible.
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