Upcoming Events At The Book Nook

Join us for a gripping evening with award‑winning author Louise Welsh as she introduces her unsettling and brilliantly inventive new novel, ‘The Cut Up’.

It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming.
When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his inclination is to stay well out of his way. Letting sleeping dogs lie is one thing - but when one of Bowery's customers winds up dead on their tarmac, Rilke needs a bit of help from his friends to tidy things up. If only his friends didn't have such a habit of making things worse.

Come along and hear from one of Scotland’s most compelling literary voices, acclaimed for her razor‑sharp storytelling, dark wit.

Tickets £5 per person are redeemable against purchase of the featured book. Non-refundable.

It will be one year since the sad passing of much-loved Scottish author Denzil Meyrick and we are holding a special event in his memory.

10% of all event book sales will be donated to the British Heart Foundation.

Popular Scottish crime writers Quintin Jardine, Alex Gray, Douglas Skelton, Caro Ramsay and Alex Kane will all be reading favourite excerpts from Denzil’s books and sharing special memories of their friendship with him.

Other authors will also share memories - and you will be welcome to share any you have too.

Denzil’s last novel, the poignantly titled 'Last Orders’ will be newly out in paperback and will be available to buy, along with some of his previous books too.

Tickets £5 per person are redeemable against purchase of the featured books. Non-refundable.

We always love having our good friends Coinneach MacLeod and Peter MacQueen for an event with us, entertaining us with their heart-warming and humorous stories (and often a song!)

Join us for a wonderful evening celebrating Scottish stories, flavours, and folklore as The Hebridean Baker and Peter MacQueen come together for a special bookshop event.

Beloved for his cosy recipes, island humour, and irresistible storytelling, The Hebridean Baker brings the warmth of the Hebrides to every audience. Alongside him, his partner, broadcaster and writer Peter MacQueen will talk about his latest book, Tails of Scotland — a joyful journey from the wild Highlands to the rolling Lowlands, packed with lively storytelling about Scotland’s native breeds and the people who know them best.

Fans of Douglas’s popular ‘Company of Rogues’ series will have mixed feelings about the launch of the 6th and final book ‘ A Thief’s Revenge’ featuring Jonas Flynt.

A murder cries out for vengeance. A rogue answers the call. For six long years, fired by cold rage, Jonas Flynt has hunted the man he holds responsible for the terrible and personal murder tha took place in the Caribbean and American Colonies.

Many a pirate was delivered to justice during the chase, but Dan Hawke proved elusive. Learning that his quarry has now returned to London, Flynt races across the Atlantic in pursuit. There, he reunites with old allies and older enemies.

But, in streets where lies and betrayal are the norm, alliances have shifted, and it’s hard to tell friend from foe. Will Flynt be able track Hawke down at last in this web of intrigue? Or will his years-long quest for revenge have been in vain?

We are thrilled to welcome this powerhouse pairing of Jane Harper and Denise Mina. Denise, award-winning author of 14 novels, will be interviewing Jane about her new book ‘Last One Out’

Jane Harper is the author of four internationally bestselling Australian mysteries, including The Dry. Her books are published in forty territories and have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year and the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year. The 2021 movie adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana, is one of the highest grossing Australian films of all time.

In ‘Last One Out’ Jane Harper returns with an immersive and deeply atmospheric standalone crime novel that reveals the explosive truth behind the disappearance of a young man who vanished five years ago in a small Australian town.

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.
In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday. Sam never comes home.
His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out. Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.
But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?

We felt deeply privileged to have global leader in environmental science, Paul Hardisty, with us in 2024 to talk about The Forcing and The Descent . Hearing first-hand from an expert in climate change was a powerful experience then and we are proud to have Paul back with us in Stewarton again. Indeed we hope he will be giving us some hope in these difficult times!

The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what’s left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart.

Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E.
Hardisty’s critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy – a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse.

In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there’s still time?

The Book Nook Stewarton is thrilled to welcome back Chris Brookmyre with his latest novel ‘Quite Ugly One Evening’ featirng the much anticipated return of rogue journalist Jack Parlabane, thirty years after his first appearance in Quite Ugly One Morning.

An Atlantic voyage. A family at war. A secret worth killing over.

Reporter Jack Parlabane thrives on chasing stories in unlikely places, and where could be less likely than a fan convention on a cruise liner celebrating a contentious Sixties TV series? But unlike the media family exploiting their show's renewed relevance, he's not there to stoke controversy: he's there to solve a murder. Already in deep water with his employer, Jack desperately needs a win, and solving this decades-old mystery could be it. Problem is, he's in the middle of the Atlantic, and someone onboard has already killed once to keep their secret.

And that's not even the tricky part. No, the tricky part is definitely the dead body locked in a stateroom with him, covered in his blood. Now Jack has to solve two murders, otherwise the only way he's getting off this ship is in handcuffs - or in a body bag.

An icon of Scottish crime writing, Quintin Jardine is one of our favourite authors and we are thrilled to welcome him back for the official launch of his latest ‘ Bob Skinner’ novel in paperback ‘Dead Man’s Tale’

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic new leader, but former top cop Sir Robert Skinner is settled happily in Spain with his family, fully engaged in a new and unexpected career. He is focused on a business issue, only to be drawn suddenly homewards as a family member finds himself a witness to a homicidal attack, and under fire himself.

Skinner drops everything to rush to his stricken son's aid. Pulled back into his old world he finds himself facing the aftermath of a shocking crime only to see it evolve into a mystery as great as any he has ever faced. When kidnap follows murder, and the investigation expands in range and complexity, can Bob and his onetime police protégé ACC Sauce Haddock run the perpetrators to ground?