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From the authors of the bestselling Coyle Trilogy comes a fantastic new title, its origins rooted in fact. At one time 17 Danube Street in the city's genteel New Town was the most notorious address in Edinburgh. Danube Street tells the fictional tale of Madame, Stella Gold and her mission to create Edinburgh's most exclusive brothel.

It is late 1942. Group Captain Robert Sutherland's first week in charge of Military Intelligence 11's operations in Scotland and northern England is not going smoothly. A murder at the Commando Basic Training Centre in the Highlands is being investigated by one of his teams, until events take an even darker turn that draws Bob in personally.

Everybody in the kingdom supports brave knight Leo in his battle against his fearsome dragons. They try lots of different things to help him defeat them but eventually Leo realises the most important thing to do is to believe in himself. Written by Gill White for her son Leo who suffers from Ohtahara Syndrome, an extremely rare form of epilepsy.

This third and final volume of The Sun Song Trilogy finds Sorlie and Ishbel working together in one last attempt to save Esperaneo. As The Prince's health deteriorates he hands over leadership of the Star of Hope's mission to Sorlie and Ishbel. But what is the Star of Hope? All they know is that it will free the native race from slavery.

Graham Morgan helped to write the Scottish Mental Health (2003) Care and Treatment Act. This is the Act under which he is now detained. His story addresses mental illness from a perspective that is not heard frequently: that of those whose illness is so severe that they are subject to the Mental Health Act.

Full Metal Cardigan is David Emery's first book and chronicles his adventures in social care, from enthusiastic volunteer to feral frontline worker. This is a humorous look at life as a social worker: in turns both laughout-loud funny and mind-boggling.

Third in the Connor Montrose series by Mark Leggatt. Ex-CIA technician Connor Montrose tracks two suspected terrorists to a deserted mountain village, where he witnesses an attack on a US Air Force plane. Montrose must uncover the group behind the attack before carnage is unleashed over the skies of Europe.

Wing Commander Robert Sutherland has left his days as a pre-war detective far behind him, or so he thinks. Set against a background of a country that is far from united behind Winston Churchill, Eyes Turned Skywards spans land and sea and air. This novel is based around true events, including the death of the Duke of Kent during World War II.

It's the year 2089. The revolutions of the early 21st century have created a world divided between the Privileged few and the Native (Celtic) underclass. Sorlie lives a Privileged teenage life until it is smashed apart by the cruel death of his parents and he is forced to live with his ice-cold grandfather at a mysterious island penal colony.

Augusta McAndrew lives on a remote Scottish estate with her grandmother, Rose. She hides from outsiders, as she has done her entire life. 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.

When his dad asks Zach to clean out the old garden pond he unearths something unexpected - a trapdoor leading down into darkness. He ventures down and discovers something amazing - a glowing egg-shaped stone. The stone belongs to a race of ancient creatures that dwell deep beneath the ground - and they want it back.

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The Caseroom follows the fortunes of Iza Ross as she joins the ranks as one of around 800 women who, for the first time, have been allowed to join Edinburgh's thriving print industry in the late 19th to early 20th century as typesetters: a male-dominated trade which stands resistant to changes in the industry.

Enter a world of empty orchestras, night butterflies, polite assassins, decadent TV celebrities and a pit-bull called Marvin. Tokyo Nights is a quest and an investigation into what we have become, a dark parable, a wake-up call to the dead 21st century.

A simple personal account of a child taken into local council care aged 2, and growing up happily and usefully.

The Studio Game portrays an art world in danger of imploding. The book makes light of how young artists struggle for recognition and discusses the contemporary art world's fascination for conceptual work. The Studio Game is a tale of young love and an insider's take on the eccentricities of our present-day art world.

Drew Selkirk, a young Border ploughman, falls out with the landed Drongans, joins the army, and finds himself in action in the Boer War. Selkirk is trapped in the besieged town of Kimberley. Seconded to a unit of irregular horse, Selkirk uses his knowledge of horsemanship to outwit the Boers, while struggling with conflicting romantic encounters.

From the dark and mean streets of Glasgow to the glamorous and decadent resort of Marbella. A family feud that spans the decades...

After his nightmarish adventures in Mary King's Close in Crow Boy, Tom Afflick is drawn back to Edinburgh. At the National Museum of Scotland, he sees the eight tiny coffins that were discovered on Arthur's Seat in 1836 - one of the city's most intriguing mysteries.Tom finds himself spinning back in time again to the year 1828.

From tedious blockhouse duty, Selkirk's Reivers take on another dangerous mission, and come against an irregular outlaw band, as well as Boer bitter-enders. Peace comes, and Selkirk returns to Scotland, where events take surprising turns, before resolving his tangled personal life with a peaceful and charming end to the story.