january sale
25% off selected Scottish titles
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.
Measured, humane, and quietly powerful, The Last Witch of Scotland reclaims a silenced life—turning history’s[...]
Slick, tense, and full of frostbitten secrets, The Hunting Party traps old friends in the[...]
Sweeping and evocative, Alchemy and Rose follows two lives bound by shipwreck and chance across[...]
Haunting and lyrical, The House Between Tides moves between past and present on a Hebridean[...]
Tender, sharp, and Glasgow to the bone, Glasgow Boys follows Finlay and Banjo—two lads from[...]
Wry, cosy, and quietly wise, The Library Cat follows Edinburgh’s most literary feline as he[...]
Elegant and incisive, The Secrets of Blythswood Square peers behind Glasgow’s finest façades to find[...]
Brisk, salt-bright, and morally alive, On Starlit Seas carries you from starlit decks to dangerous[...]
Lean, gritty, and sharply humane, The Dark Remains introduces a young Jack Laidlaw stalking Glasgow’s[...]
Spare, tense, and salt-lit, The Dying Light turns island loyalties into a slow-burn reckoning—where the[...]