Fiction: Special Features

In the beginning the page was blank and without form, and the scribe sat in front of it, a world forming inside his head. The world grew large, spi...

Though several decades have passed since the savage climax of Algeria's long and bloody war of independence, it still casts a long and haunting sha...

This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart planned. It displays the full range of his work: unspa...

Some of the best of Fred Urquhart's ghost stories are gathered in this volume. They include humorous and satirical tales, depicting an afterlife in...

Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart's first collection of short stories brings to life the modern Scotland of the 1930s, using his inimitab...

These stories observe how people live through moments of realisation; how they negotiate the avenues of loss, with cowardice and courage and a fair...