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  • The Specimens

    A bold retelling of Burke and Hare’s crimes from the women closest to the gruesome truth

    by Mairi Kidd ...
    "A work of fiction that is both a potent portrait of early 19th-century Edinburgh but also a story about female agency or the lack of it. The result is a compelling, painful, haunted piece of work." THE HERALDWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 2025Up the close and down the stair, meet the women of Burke and HareEdinburgh, 1828. Two women - one rich, one ... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Scottish Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends

    by Mairi Kidd ...
    Illustrated by David Wardle ...
    Series series Scholastic Classics
    A complete collection of Scottish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound in a beautiful new edition.From the mysterious cat-faced lady whose magic allows a servant girl to attend a prince's ball, to the princess who meets an enchanted frog;From ogres and hooded crows, to faery bagpipers and shape-s... ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Specimens

    by Mairi Kidd ...
    Narrated by Gerda Stevenson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Edinburgh, 1828. Two women—one rich, one poor—must navigate life against a frenzied backdrop of medical discovery, mob mayhem, and murder.The home Helen shares in the slums of the Old Town with her lover William Burke could hardly be more different from Susan’s dreams of an affluent existence as the wife of Robert Knox, one of the foremost anatomists of the day. But as people begin disappearing, ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Piper

    An Inspector Ian Rutledge Story

    by Charles Todd ...
    Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge returns shell shocked from the trenches of World War I, tormented by the memory of Hamish MacLeod, the young Scots soldier he executed on the battlefield. Now, Charles Todd features Hamish himself in this compelling, stand-alone short story.Before the Great War, Hamish farms in the Highlands, living in a small croft on the hillside and caring for a flock of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Death of a Witch

    by M. C. Beaton ...
    Series Book 24 - A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin television series, travel to the Scotland Highlands with a classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery.Returning from a vacation, Constable Hamish Macbeth senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over his Scottish village of Lochdubh. Newcomer Catriona Beldame has cast a bewitching spell over the town, causing the local men to visit her cottage at ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death of a Dustman

    A Hamish MacBeth Mystery

    by M. C. Beaton ...
    Series Book 16 - A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
    Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.Death of a Dustman: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryThe garbage collectors in Britain are still called dustmen, and Lochdubh's dustman is an abusive drunk named Fergus Macleod. When Fergus is put in charge of a recycling center and dubbed the "environment officer," Constable Hamish ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Peril on the Royal Train

    The bestselling thrilling Victorian mystery series

    by Edward Marston ...
    Series Book 10 - Railway Detective
    'A rattling good tale' - DAILY MAILFrom the bestselling Railway Detective seriesSpring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $6.19 CAD

  • Bedford Square

    A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

    by Anne Perry ...
    Series Book 19 - Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
    The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe him—for in the dead man’s pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the general’s study ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Scent of Oranges

    The stunning literary retelling of the beloved classic Oliver Twist from a brilliant Australian author.

    by Kathy George ...
    A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. For readers of The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks.'A thoughtful, serious-minded, and emotionally generous companion to Oliver Twist.' The Dickens SocietyNancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Time Jumpers

    by Brandon Mull ...
    Series series Five Kingdoms
    Trapped in a world where magic is powerful and dreams are real, Cole’s epic adventure comes to a close in book five of the New York Times bestselling “fanciful, action-packed adventure” series (Publishers Weekly, starred review), from the author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series.Cole Randolph can barely remember what life was like back home in Arizona. It’s hard to imagine there was a time he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Under the Hawthorn Tree

    Children of the Famine

    by Marita Conlon-McKenna, PJ Lynch ...
    Illustrated by Donald Teskey ...
    The first book in the famine trilogyUnder the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book. The phenomenal success of this original and enthralling book is celebrated with this beautiful hardback gift edition. This novel has become a classic for young readers worldwide. Under the Hawthorn Tree continues to go from strength to strength and this new edition is a must for any collection ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Fran and Matthew

    A MacGregor Family Novella

    by Grace Burrowes ...
    Series series The MacGregor Family
    A MacGregor Family NOVELLAFormer military officer Matthew Daniels has been sent home from the Crimea in disgrace. Mary Frances MacGregor is a Scottish widow who loathes everything about the British military, and yet both Mary Fran and Matthew understand more than they want to about being lonely and isolated even amid family. They yearn to understand each other too, but old secrets and divided ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD