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PUBLISHER: Scotland Street Press

ISBN: 9781910895733

RRP: £24.99

PUBLICATION DATE:
December 1, 2023

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10 Scotland Street

Leslie Hills

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. -Sara Sheridan

As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination. -Val McDermid

About the book

10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two centuries across the globe.

Leslie Hills

Leslie Hills is a film producer. This is her first book.

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