St Andrew's Day is celebrated on 30th November each year. Over the next week I will recommend 2 books a day (one for S1-3 and one for S4 and above) by Scottish authors as part of the countdown to St Andrew's Day.Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan is set in early nineteenth century Edinburgh, a period when operations were carried out without anaesthetic and surgeons relied on body snatchers to supply them with corpses for their anatomy lectures. Robbie's mother dies in agony whilst being operated on by Dr Robert Knox and Robbie is intent on revenge. (S1-S3)
Fleshmarket Close is Ian Rankin's 15th Inspector Rebus novel. Set in Edinburgh there are more murders and sub-plots than you can shake a stick at. An illegal immigrant is murder
ed in a housing scheme, is it a racist attack? A teenager has disappeared from home; two skeletons are found buried under a cellar floor in Fleshmarket close and Rebus is under pressure to retire! (S4-Staff)
