Edinburgh


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
44 Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street, #1)
One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2)
The Sunday Philosophy Club (Isabel Dalhousie, #1)
Trainspotting
The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, #1)
One Day
When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie, #3)
The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)
Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, #2)
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Isabel Dalhousie, #2)
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (44 Scotland Street, #5)
Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street, #2)
The Deal by Elle KennedyThe Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana ZapataBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireDarkfever by Karen Marie MoningHim by Sarina Bowen
RARE20 EDINBURGH
695 books — 113 voters
There Was a Wee Lassie Who Swallowed a Midgie by Rebecca ColbyWhere the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughreanThe Secret of Roan Inish by Rosalie K. FryRemembrance by Theresa BreslinWee Gillis by Munro Leaf
Children's Books Set in Scotland
280 books — 28 voters

Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys by George C. Rogers Jr.Following Caesar by John KeaheyIstanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Bernard LewisCairo by Gaston WietBukhara by Richard N. Frye
Centers of Civilization series
34 books — 3 voters
Kidnapped by Robert Louis StevensonWinter Arrives by Roz MarshallWilliam Shakespeare's by Bruce CovilleFear of Falling by Roz MarshallThe Observations by Jane  Harris
Scotland
132 books — 44 voters

Robert Louis Stevenson
Into no other city does the sight of the country enter so far; if you do not meet a butterfly, you shall certainly catch a glimpse of far-away trees upon your walk; and the place is full of theatre tricks in the way of scenery.  You peep under an arch, you descend stairs that look as if they would land you in a cellar, you turn to the back-window of a grimy tenement in a lane:—and behold! you are face-to-face with distant and bright prospects.  You turn a corner, and there is the sun going down ...more
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

Willem van Keppel
A surprising, audacious and impudent attempt was made last Saturday by several people of this town to celebrate the birthday of the Pretender's son; the women distinguished themselves by wearing tartan gowns with shoes and stockings of the same kind, and white ribbands on their heads and breasts; dinners were bespoke at Leith with an intent to have balls afterwards. ...more
Willem van Keppel

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