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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)
Outlander by Diana GabaldonMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Winter Sea by Susanna KearsleyDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Books Set in Scotland
1,110 books — 697 voters
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel SparkTrainspotting by Irvine WelshDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonKnots and Crosses by Ian RankinMary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Books set in Edinburgh
135 books — 72 voters

Good Omens by Terry PratchettNeverwhere by Neil GaimanJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. SchwabDaughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
SF & F Atlas - British Isles
218 books — 16 voters

Andrew Blaikie
In 1766, James Boswell, having returned from a grand tour accompanied by Rousseau's mistress, left London for his native Edinburgh, where he took his final law examination and joined the Scottish bar. Meanwhile, ensconced in the Advocate's Library, the Professor of Pneumatics and Moral Philosophy, Adam Ferguson, was completing his pioneering work, shortly to appear (despite David Hume's misgivings) as An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767). These were heady days in the precincts of the ...more
Andrew Blaikie, The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory

Irvine Welsh
Yuv goat tae huv crap sex occasionally, just tae git some perspective oan the barry shaggin. If every ride wis textbook porno, then it would be meaningless, cause thir'd be nae real reference point. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. ...more
Irvine Welsh, Glue

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