Contemporary Fiction

An inventive, spirited novel about a pioneering woman who was shamed for daring to challenge male dominance in the arts and sciences four centuries...

A political thriller set mainly in Estonia during the dying days of the Soviet Union, but also in Russia, Finland and Sweden. It follows a group of...

Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved ...

The Stalkers Tale follows three storylines (two set in fashionable, contemporary London, a third in 1930s bohemian Fitzrovia & 1940s post-occup...

Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his ...

In this magical debut, a couple''s lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska,...

President Rex Funck is a loutish, lying old bully whose affairs have deeply hurt his stunning wife Natalia, a former model from Slovakia. Now he wa...

Two days, eighteen hours, fifty-eight minutes...The time of your life on this earth. Richard Goodman is the caretaker of a unique institution that ...

Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can th...

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emergin...