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Paper Thistle Book Reviews

At Paper Thistle, we write a review for every book we sell, specialising in Scottish fiction. Each review considers character, writing style, tone, and overall reading experience, offering a thoughtful introduction to what awaits on the page.

Book Review: Unhallowed Halls

At the elite Agathion College, Page seeks refuge - but finds classrooms humming with ancient philosophy, corridors[...]

Book Review: The Bookshop on the Corner

Jobless but undaunted, Nina drives a van full of books to the Highlands, bringing stories - and[...]

Book Review: Witch Light

Condemned as a witch, Corrag speaks her truth from a cold Highland cell - of storms, mountains[...]

Book Review: Where the Missing Gather

In Burrowhead’s windswept fields the past stirs: bones are unearthed, a horse is ritually killed[...]

Book Review: When the Dead Come Calling

On Burrowhead’s blasted coast a playground murder forces a detective to confront hidden prejudice, ancient[...]

Book Review: The Winter Sea

At Slains Castle, where wind and sea meet, a writer finds herself dreaming someone else’s[...]

Book Review: What Doesn’t Break Us

In the village’s midnight hush, a new poison circulates wrapped in ritual and blood, while[...]

Book Review: The Whistling

Elspeth arrives on Skelthsea to care for a mute girl, but the house murmurs with[...]

Book Review: The Second Cut

In the glint-lit corridors of Glasgow, an auctioneer revisits a house clearance that hides a[...]

Book Review: The Space Between Us

When a meteor flashes above Edinburgh and three unlikely strangers awaken from strokes whole, their[...]