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James Robertson
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
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2006
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18 editions
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And the Land Lay Still
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2010
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5 editions
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The Professor of Truth
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2013
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8 editions
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Joseph Knight
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2003
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3 editions
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The Fanatic
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2001
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3 editions
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To Be Continued
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2016
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4 editions
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Scottish Ghost Stories
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1996
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5 editions
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365: Stories
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2014
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2 editions
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Republics of the Mind
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2012
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3 editions
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Michael Marra: Arrest This Moment
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2017
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| Jenni Daiches's second novel is a quiet but powerful portrait of Ruth, a woman of middle age, and her relationships - with her ex-husband, her now dead parents, her siblings and her children, and perhaps most of all with the various lodgers with whom ...more | |
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| Excellent wee debut novel about the angst and agony of being a teenager. Lewis Gordon captures it all in stripped down, no waste language, as his main character, Nicky, negotiates his way through that terrible time of hormones, bullying boys, disdain ...more | |
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| Waugh was undoubtedly witty, often cruelly so, and there are some very funny moments in this his first novel, but the satire has worn a little thin in the intervening 85 years. | |
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| Wonderful opening and premise for this thriller: a man wakes up in hospital with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, then overhears that he may have killed a policeman. He also has a strong sense that there is something vital he must do to ...more | |
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| This is the best Margery Allingham I've read so far. It is strange, gripping, beautifully written, and above all humane. Is it genre fiction? Perhaps, but it is also so much more than just a crime novel. Great characterisation, sharp observation and ...more | |
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| Matthew Zajac, a playwright and actor, first told the story of his father's amazing life in an award-winning play, The Tailor of Inverness, which has toured the world since its original performance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009. Now he has written ...more | |
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| Neil Gunn was an excellent and prolific 20th century Scottish writer, who wrote historical and contemporary novels almost all of which are set in the Highlands. This one, from 1948, is a late novel about a middle-aged archaeologist who arrives in a H ...more | |
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| I didn't think that the notion of linked encounters between famous individuals would hold my attention and interest for long, but about 50 pages in I found I was completely hooked, and read rapidly and keenly to the end. A dazzling and at times very ...more | |
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| Another classic crime novel from the Fifties (published in 1951, a year before Allingham's The Tiger in the Smoke. This is different, though, in that it is really an exploration of the mystery of the 'princes in the Tower', who according to legend an ...more | |
“There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.”
― And the Land Lay Still
― And the Land Lay Still
“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”
― The Testament of Gideon Mack
― The Testament of Gideon Mack
“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.”
― And the Land Lay Still
― And the Land Lay Still
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