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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: The Blood Isles
Tyler runs the rooftops, the rain-slick city alive with cameras and blades. Lana steadies her[...]
Book Review: The Unrecovered
In 1918, casualty trains bring Flanders into a Scottish manor turned hospital. Esther counts breaths[...]
Book Review: Just Another Mountain
When Sarah Jane Douglas lost her mother, the promise to carry on became a trek[...]
Book Review: Close to Where the Heart Gives Out
On Eday, the ferry timetable is as vital as any drug chart. Storms cancel clinics;[...]
Book Review: The Young Team
Azzy’s life unfolds in the raw rhythm of Lanarkshire streets—violence, laughter, loyalty and regret. Graeme[...]
Book Review: The Things We Do To Our Friends
Clare comes to Edinburgh to reinvent herself and finds Tabitha’s glittering circle waiting. Private clubs,[...]
Book Review: Surgeons’ Hall
The wax hand on the Exhibition stand glowed under gas-light. Jem Flockhart slipped it into[...]
Book Review: Squeaky Clean
Davey Burnet’s shift at the East-End car-wash should have been just another night. Then he[...]
Book Review: The Salt and the Flame
April 1923: the liner strains free of Stornoway harbour and Mairead leaves the Isle of[...]
Book Review: Phantom Limb
Gillis stood at his church door, his sprinting years behind him. Then, in the pit[...]