 | Marie B.: A Biographical Novel by Tom Hubbard
Buy new: £12.95 Our own work, well inasmuch as we at the bookshop published it. This is a masterpiece of contemporary fiction with great historical sensitivity, and written partly in Scots.
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 | Fringe of Gold: The Fife Anthology by Glen Duncan
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.99 Another work by Dr. Hubbard, in collaboration with the late Prof. Duncan Glen. Not ours this time, but we would recommend it most highly as the foremost literary introduction to the Kingdom.
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 | Prester John by John Buchan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.73 Early chapters set on the atmospheric rocky coast just a boulder's throw from the bookshop itself.
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 | A Monk Of Fife by Lang Andrew
Tragedy strikes on a St. Andrews golf course, prompting a young man's escape to a new life in France.
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| Logie Town. A novel by Sarah Tytler
The story of a young woman growing up in late Victorian Fife. Logie town is based on the actual town of Cupar.
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| Robert Henryson: The Testament Of Cresseid by Dickins Bruce
Buy used from: £27.03 Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid', a narrative poem in mediaeval Scots, could be called a Fife verse novel as, though the story is set in Troy in Greece, there are strong hints of Dunfermline.
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| The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott
Buy used from: £2.75 Some of the most gripping scenes are set in Fife's Falkland Palace where sinister events unfold.
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| Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural (Association for Scottish Literary Studies No 15) by Margaret Oliphant
Buy used from: £4.89 The story, 'The Library Window', is set in St. Andrews and as one might expect treats the supernatural.
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| Peace Comes Dropping Slow by Christopher Rush
Buy used from: £13.98 Short stories set in the East Neuk of Fife by a local who author has risen to national prominence with the forthcoming release of the film, Will.
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| Anster Fair: A Poem in Six Cantos. With Other Poems
Buy used from: £102.27 A well-made verse novel set in Anstruther and set of quirky, deadpan humour.
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 | The Flood by Ian Rankin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ian Rankin's first novel was set in the coalfields of Fife.
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 | The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Buy used from: £0.01 A young woman's corpse is discovered by a group of St Andrews students.
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 | Israel Potter (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £4.19 Melville was of Fife ancestry and this exciting historical novel depicts John Paul Jones being confronted by a formidable Presbyterian minister on a Fife beach.
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Penguin Classics) by James Hogg
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £3.05 Hogg's famous novel includes a short story about the devil's appearance before Auchtermuchty's Presbyterian congregation.
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