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*Number #1 Bestseller**BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings...

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerSelected by Dua Lipa for Service95's Bookclub Recommendations'Another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates . . . If [his] first novel announced Stuart...

WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH'A truly original, brilliant novel' Daily Mail'Very special indeed . . . your world will be a better place for reading this story' Joanna CannonEveryone deserves a second chance.You just have to take the first step...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738527410Author A.K. NairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Broken Man BooksPublisher Broken Man Books

*** PRE-ORDER ZERO DAYS, COMING IN PAPERBACK SPRING 2024 *** THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' LUCY FOLEYEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten...

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063260566Author Jenny ColganFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down...

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Mark Renton from Trainspotting is back - and he's finally a success An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken...

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesIn Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime...* PRE-ORDER IRVINE WELSH'S NEW NOVEL, RESOLUTION, NOW *Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated...

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a...

An investigative reporter gives up her job when her young twins are killed in a fire, but when she stumbles across the body of a missing teenager, she's thrust into a chilling investigation that will leave no one unscathed... 'Bloody good read' Val...

*** PRE-ORDER ZERO DAYS, COMING IN PAPERBACK SPRING 2024 *** 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' Lucy FoleyEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah...

The number one Sunday Times bestseller'A touching, tender tale of boy meets boy in the bleak tenements of Glasgow . . . Superb' - The Times 'Best Summer Reading''Love and hope across the religious divide in a fervent, gritty and emotionally engrossing...

*** Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award***'COMPELLING AND COMPULSIVE' Victoria Selman'GRIPPING' Claire McGowan'EXHILARATING AND DARKLY THRILLING' J A Corrigan'KEPT ME GLUED TO THE PAGES' Zoe Lea________Laura has a husband,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book'GuardianSammy's had a bad week.Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes,...

Discover the compelling and addictive adventure from one of the nation's favourite historical writers, perfect for fans of Game of Thrones 'A brilliant storyteller, The Lymond Chronicles will keep you reading late into the night' The Times Literary...

At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But...

While WW2 rages, Elsie must battle for her familyElsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow with her mother and little sister, Jessie, isn't easy - not least because her mother spends most days in a...

'An emotional, fast-paced thriller' Heat'One of the freshest and most exciting writers' The Sun'Exceptional' Catherine Cooper, author of The ChaletA pulse-pounding and gripping crime thriller, for fans of B A Paris and Fiona Barton ___________WHERE IS...

A fast-paced, totally unputdownable crime thriller that fans of Mandasue Heller and Kimberley Chambers will absolutely loveKat Denton is a woman running away from her past. For the past sixteen years, her life has been a living hell as Jimmy, the man she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739556839Author Beatrice BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Jessica Beatrice WagenerPublisher Jessica Beatrice Wagener

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2024 Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance. She will be Queen. Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king. Descendant of powerful druids. Destined to take her place in history. As a child,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639390Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read'Antony BeevorIvan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds...

'A storming debut' The Sun Perfect for fans of JP Delaney and C.L. Taylor, this is a complex thriller about the secrets we keep and the damage they do. ___________ SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLIST BEST SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT 2021...

In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was there that terrible night. He was on board HMY Iolaire when it smashed into rocks and sank, killing some 200...

Luci LaBang is a star: for decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she's the leading lady in a smash hit pantomime. When Luci's co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene, and...

Discover five short stories from the bestselling author of Trainspotting.In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive by armed Mexicans; in 'The DOGS of Lincoln Park', a mysterious Korean chef may or may not...

'Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that Isabelle Schuler conjures up where only the most ruthless can survive' - Jennifer Saint 'Dazzlingly clever and difficult to put down' i Power...

For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast...

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE'Superb' The Times Crime Book of the Month'A hardboiled gem' Guardian'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermidAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788409579921Author David ImrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Divers NovelsPublisher Divers NovelsWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

'Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent.'Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of...

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny's violent ex-husband present the Skelf women with their most challenging - and deadly - cases yet... Book THREE in the...

1567, Scotland: no place for a woman. Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son. She can rely only on the loyalty of her ladies-in-waiting, chiefly Marie Seton. Meanwhile the political turmoil in the country is mirrored...

What if going back means you could begin again?Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she doesn't believe in serendipity, but a rare moment of kindness and a lost ring conspire to call her home...

A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022 FOR BBC, i-D MAGAZINE, AND FOYLES An unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humour and humanity. In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, the final occupant, a young man uplifted by angels and...

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE'I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae BurnetAuctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble,...