Idle Chatter
  • The new season of NFL Fantasy is now open for registrations. Anyone wishing to participate please sign up before August 16 2026.
    EPL and NFL Pickem pools are now open for registration
    EPL Ultimate Team is now open for registration. The new season kicks off on August 21 2026.
    NEW GAME: Club Manager is now live. Go register your team for the upcoming season.

scotland

  1. The Blood Is Still

    The Blood Is Still

    When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged the right-wing group Spirit of the Gael which is...
    • Bingo
    • Item
    • crime mystery mystery thriller scotland suspense thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  2. Falling Fast

    Falling Fast

    The higher you climb, the harder the fall. When a woman plunges to her death from Edinburgh's iconic Scott Monument, crime reporter Doug McGregor is sent to chase the story behind the shock. But Doug is juggling more than headlines—he's also on the hunt for a notorious rapist, newly unmasked...
  3. Jason

    Six Nations 2025

    The best annual sports tournament in the world begins again in 7 days time with France v Wales on the evening of Friday 31st January. Fixtures: France are probably favourite. Dupont is back with a gold medal, Ntamack is back fit and Damian Penaud can't stop scoring tries - 9 in his last two...
    • Jason
    • Thread
    • england france ireland scotland six nations
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Talk Sport
  4. Singing To The Dead

    Singing To The Dead

    Seven-year-old Troy McEwan was only wearing leggings and a thin fleece. It's down to minus three at night and the snow is falling. His mum doesn't know where he is. Then little Luca Scott goes missing as well. Someone is snatching boys from the streets of Glasgow. And the boys look just like...
  5. The Maiden

    The Maiden

    "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that...
    • Janey
    • Item
    • fiction gothic historical historical fiction literary fiction scotland
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Classical & Historical
  6. The Estate

    The Estate

    Inheritance can be murder... Every family has a secret. Every father has a favourite. Every killer has a motive. Sebastian Pallander's death leaves behind a multi-billion-dollar financial estate and a castle in the Cairngorms. His family are torn apart, not by grief but by anger at Sebastian's...
  7. Mayflies

    Mayflies

    Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the...
    • Aimie
    • Item
    • coming of age contemporary fiction historical fiction literary fiction music scotland
    • Reviews: 2
    • Category: Fiction
  8. Franco Pinion

    Alex Salmond Has Died

    Just popped up in my news alerts. Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond has died aged 69. Not much in the way of details but he was in Macedonia apparently and was posting on Twitter a few hours ago so something sudden presumably. This has come as a bit of a shock.
  9. The Black Loch

    The Black Loch

    Set against the brooding landscape of the Hebrides, Peter May returns to the territory of his bestselling Lewis Trilogy, and his much-loved detective, Fin Macleod. When the lifeless body of eighteen-year-old Caitlin is discovered on a desolate beach by the Black Loch, questions of murder and...
    • Legion
    • Item
    • crime murder mystery mystery mystery thriller scotland suspense thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  10. Tom

    Scotland Euro 2024 Squad and Discussion

    Not really much to say after that opening day performance. Things can only get better. They definitely can't play any worse.
    • Back
    Top Bottom