Alexis Scott: 5 books

Eleven stories make up this collection. A number, like ‘The Guiding Hand’ and ‘Unspecified Matters’ are biting satire while others, like ‘A Day Oot’, ‘Window Boxes’ and ‘Martyrs’ are gentler in tone. Covering roughly the period from the early nineteen seventies until the millennium,...

‘The Years’ is a 'faction' novel - some would even call it the 'non-fiction novel' (see Wikipedia). The first chapter outlines, in graphic detail, the facts of Bloody Sunday on January 30th 1972 when fourteen men - many of them teenagers - were shot dead and twenty seven injured by British paratroopers....

'Deaconsbank' is a literary crime novel set in contemporary Glasgow. When Moira Forrest – a writer of romantic fiction - is found dead from a stab wound in Patsy McCutcheon’s garden in Glasgow’s southern suburbs Detective Inspector Sarah MacLeod and her side-kick Hearst are allocated the task...

“Hidden Histories” is a historical/family saga spanning almost eighty years and set in Ireland, Scotland and England. It is about the impact of political and historic forces on ordinary lives, the interdependence of past and present, exploring how identity is transmitted from one generation to...

Nice Times is a black comedy set in Nice and Glasgow. Two Scottish couples in their early forties go on holiday together. It is the millennium, France still has the franc and Nice promises affordable sun, sea and culture. Only the holiday is no cure for their respective ills: Gavin and Sheila still...