Upcoming Events At The Book Nook

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. Join us free to celebrate the book launch with Douglas - now a Stewarton resident!

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 are excited to welcome Nussaibah Younis to The Book Nook for an event chaired by Nicola Sturgeon.

Dr Nussaibah Younis is a peacebuilding practitioner and a globally recognised expert on contemporary Iraq.
For several years, she advised the Iraqi government on proposed programmes to de-radicalise women affiliated with ISIS.

Fundamentally was one of the biggest debut publications of 2025. It tells the story of heartbroken academic Nadia, who winds up in Iraq leading a chaotic UN scheme to deradicalize ISIS brides, after she’s dumped by her lover Rosie. There she meets Sara, a young ISIS bride from East London, and they bond immediately, because in Nadia’s words, ‘There’s nothing scary about a hijabi rude girl from Mile End.’ But when Sara confesses a secret, Nadia is forced to make a difficult choice.

‘Fundamentally’ is both incredibly funny and deadly serious. Nussaibah upends and explores one of the most controversial issues of our time with heart, complexity and humour.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction .

‘this year’s funniest debut novel….Bridget Jones in Iraq’ Sunday Times

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

And to add to our excitement, the chair will be Mark Billingham, bestselling author of the ‘Tom Thorne’ series and also well-known as one of the members of the amazing ‘Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers’ band! We look forward to hearing Mark chatting to Chris about thirty years of Jack Parlabane.

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?