CATEGORY: True Crime
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Heist: The Inside Story of Scotland’s Most Notorious Raids
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Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire
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Lighting candles: A Paramilitary’s War with Death, Drugs and Demons
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Still Breathing: The True Adventures of the Donnelly Brothers
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The Glasgow Curse
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Peterhead: The Inside Story of Scotland’s Toughest Prison
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Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer
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Scottish Murders
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The Irish Game: A True Story of Art and Crime
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Murder on the Bluff: Carew Poisoning Case
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The Ferris Conspiracy
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Dark Heart: Tales from Edinburgh’s Town Jail
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The Black Widower: The Life and Crimes of a Sociopathic Killer
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Armed Candy: A True-life Story of Organised Crime
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Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
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Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter
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Killer Doctors: The Ulitimate Betrayal of Trust
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The Trial of Jack the Ripper: The Case of William Bury (1859-89)
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Burke and Hare: The Year of the Ghouls
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The Wicked Mr Hall
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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‘An Odious Campaign’ by Rob McInroy – Why a 1936 By-Election Still Resonates
‘This enraged the locals and he came close to being run out of town on several occasions.’
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‘‘That’s right, Bobby,’ he growled. ‘I haven’t seen you in – well, since you decided to kill me.’ ‘
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David Robinson Reviews: Solitary Agents by David Goodman
‘This is very much an up-to-the-minute story of spycraft, positively revelling in all the things tha …
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The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
‘It is their resistance to the intrusions of the outside world − culturally, economically, environme …
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The Shortest History of Scotland: A Q & A with Murray Pittock
‘We need to be better aware of that to understand the challenges and achievements of the past, and t …
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David Robinson Interviews: John Lister-Kaye
‘I enjoy stillness. It creeps up on you and becomes almost a force. I’ve had squirrels run over my f …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Sylvia Hehir
Sylvia was awarded a doctorate in creative writing from University of Glasgow in 2018 and is a former recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. Her debut YA thriller, Sea Change, published by Stirling Publishing 2019, was winner of the Pitlo …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Birlinn
Birlinn Ltd is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company is built on traditions of the written and spoken word and is constantly looking to the future. Established by Hugh Andrew (2022 recipient of the Royal Scottish Geo …