Upcoming Events At The Book Nook

Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland.

Squeaky Clean was his debut novel, inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow's East End. With it, Callum won the prestigious McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime novel of the year. Paperboy is the second Ally McCoist thriller and was also shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize as well as being a Times crime book of the month.

Ally McCoist is tasked with looking into the latest underworld rammy and ends up working with some bampots even dodgier than her police pals. Can she keep Fran from being turned into mince by a Russian OCG and finally free herself from the fankle of police corruption she's caught in? An enemy from Ally's past is determined her story won't have such a happy ending...

The Book Nook is extra excited to welcome one of our favourite authors! Adele Parks is author of 25 bestselling novels, including the recent Sunday Times bestsellers, Just Between Us and One Last Secret.

Over six million copies of her work have been sold in English, and her books have been translated into 31 languages.

Adele will be talking about her latest book ‘Eyes on You’

At 15, Amy witnessed her father brutally murder his secret lover. Her testimony sealed her father’s fate. With him in prison, Amy and her mother must rebuild their lives in the shadow of a notorious crime. Years later, Oliver Harrington walks into the restaurant where Amy works. Just like Amy, Oliver has a past he’d rather forget. Amy is drawn to him at a profound level; they feel a connection, an understanding… This seems a lot like love, but does it hide something darker – an obsession that could lead Amy into a web of deception and violence she thought she’d escaped? As the truth looms ever closer, Amy must confront a harsh reality: where there is love, there is often betrayal

Lin Anderson makes a welcome return to talk about her latest novel ‘The High Island’ which introducing the new Orcadia Mysteries series. This gripping Tartan-Noir offshoot of Lin Anderson’s acclaimed Rhona MacLeod series features the popular character of DI Erling Flett and is set in the Island of Hoy in the Orkneys.

On the rugged Isle of Hoy, a wealthy couple’s dream of building a stunning eco-home becomes a waking nightmare when the peat yields a grisly secret: the remains of a young mother and her baby.
For DI Erling Flett, the discovery is a personal haunting. He spent years running from Orkney, only to be pulled back to the islands he once fled. As he fights to identify the nameless dead, the community pushes back – and his own troubled history begins to surface.
At the heart of the mystery lies a lethal family feud over blood-soaked soil. Can Flett finally face the ghosts of his past? Or will the island claim its next victim before the truth is told?