been set here. The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott might satisfy those historians among you. For contemporary novels, you are spoiled for choice. The gritty Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 44 Scotland Street by Andrew McColl Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark or one of my favourites One Good Turn Deserves Another by Kate Atkinson and featuring her ex-detective Jackson Brodie.