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IN 2020, BRITAIN IS AT BREAKING POINT...In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope s...

A bright book and a brilliant book. - Robert Macfarlane. Peter MacAulay sits down to write his will. The process sets in motion a compulsive series...

Shortlisted for the prestigious Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown Award, 2014. Edinburgh, 1942. As war tightens its grip on Britain, Agne...

This handbook is an inspirational resource to help you discover the thousands of miles of Scotland''''s spectacular coastline - from its stunning g...

The Essential Guide to Scottish History. Scotland has more history than you can shake a spurtle at, or a shinty stick, or a sporran one of the man...

Updated edition. This concise yet comprehensive handbook, compiled with the expertise of Reforesting Scotland's editors, covers trees commonly foun...

This inspirational guide is bursting with invaluable know-how on Scotlands wild harvest, covering what, where, when and how you can use your bounty...

The story of a murder and its aftermath. On Christmas Night in 1881, John Manley, a poor son of Irish immigrants living in the slums of Leeds, was ...

Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes - of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, e...

A brilliant, deeply unsettling work. Books + Publishing. Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with shame, he runs away to a remote par...

Finding herself at a crossroads and in need of a change from her job and domestic responsibilities, Helen Moat set herself the challenge of a lifet...

The Calder Valley, in the glorious countryside of West Yorkshire, is a dramatic, often steep-sided landscape that is home to a wonderful variety of...

The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethic...

The personal collides with the political in this literary tour-de-force. In the 1950s, an eminent British writer pens a novel questioning the ethic...

Families Can Be Murder. In this dark, psychologically gripping thriller, an undercover cop has crossed the line getting involved with his gangland...

Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been ...

Approval follows would-be parents David and Cici through a series of forays into the past as they go through the motions of applying to adopt a chi...

In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod Morrison was ther...

An utter delight - Jennifer Tetlow. In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with Britis...

An utter delight - Jennifer Tetlow. Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain's most iconic and loved anim...

The brutal shooting of a bear cub galvanises ecologist Callis MacArthur into becoming an activist. Dreaming of bears roaming free even in Scotland...

In Beneath Cold Seas, author and photographer David Hall takes us into the underwater world of the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska, home to...

A poetic voice of great sensitivity. Alexander McCall Smith. Beneath the Ice tells the fascinating, often troubling, story of the Sami the indige...

By the author of McIlvanney-prize-listed Cross Purpose. My husband is trying to kill me : a new client gets straight to the point. This is a whole...

Plath and Ted Hughes, Into the Forest includes poems related to the Tree Ogham (Gaelic) tree alphabet, which links a species to each letter. Tappin...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A page-turning blast.' Times 'Genuinely affecting a very funny bo...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A page-turning blast.' Times 'Genuinely affecting a very funny bo...

''I''d always known that I was Brown. Black was different though; it came announced. Black came with expectations, of rhythm and other things that ...

The magnificent Highlands of Scotland represent, in so many ways, ancient Britain. But much of this apparently wild environment is, in fact, far mo...

Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson learns that he is dying. Stunned by his doctor''s prognosis, he nevertheless makes his ritual annual pilgrimage to...

WINNER OF THE 2021 NORTHBOUND BOOK AWARD 'Adam Farrer is a bold new voice in nonfiction writing. His keen observations are as gentle as they are wr...

Nominated for the 2017 McIlvanney Award for Scottish Crime Book of the Year Two Women, One Quest, Grave Consequences. When Maggie Laird's disgrace...

The idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture, find your #deadringer and if you like, set up a meeting in real life. When Ella...

Two revelations, each coming to light 20 years apart following the deaths of his father and mother, prompt Brian Johnstone to turn a poet's eye on ...

When Rona and Craig buy a large Victorian house up from Edinburghs Newhaven district once teeming with fishing boats they plan to renovate and se...

A high-octane read. - Maxim Jakubowski. Meet Jen. She works in a bookshop and likes the odd glass of Prosecco... oh, and shes about to be branded T...

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitch...

How would any of us feel if we could meet our teenage selves, a ghost on the road? Everything Passes, Everything Remains is a confluence of journey...

Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or the remains of a long-extinct volcano. H...

Original and witty and goes like stink. - Greg Loftin, director, Saxon. The mysterious return of a deceased film icon forces media man Root Wilson...

Brilliant... hilarious. The Skinny. Trixie is back! After a few months in cliquey, midge-ridden Inverfaughie, shell do anything to escape to Glasgo...

A beautiful new collection of Robert Burns poems and songs written for his wife, Jean Armour, with selected letters. Young Jean was a bonnie lass ...

When twelve-year-old Sherrie-Lee witnesses a failed bank robbery in her neglected town, she seizes an opportunity to claim a new identity for herse...

An utter delight - Jennifer Tetlow. Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain's most iconic and loved anim...

Even in the brick and concrete heart of our cities, nature finds a way. Birds and mammals, insects, plants and trees - they all manage to thrive in...

Even in the brick and concrete heart of our cities, nature finds a way. Birds and mammals, insects, plants and trees - they all manage to thrive in...