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Elspeth Davie's Latest Book

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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1990
  • Latest Book:
    July 2010
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • A story about a group of people who, living and working in the present, look back at the past of their city of Edinburgh. They see luminaries and blackguards, brilliant periods and sombre ones. One young boy in particular feels this play of light and...



  • Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye f...



  • Twenty-eight short stories by the Katherine Mansfield Prizeâ€"winning author: “a most impressive collection, a work of genuine imagination” (Observer, UK).   Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most unjustly overlooked short-stor...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elspeth Davie has published 3 books.

Elspeth Davie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books, was published in July 2010.

The first book by Elspeth Davie, Coming to Light, was published in June 1990.

No. Elspeth Davie does not write books in series.