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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...

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017 A profoundly affecting, intellectually challenging and beautifully written fable ...

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

Heart of the Hero' gives a compelling insight into the lives of some of the worlds most famous explorers, through the eyes of the women who inspire...

SHORTLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. WINNER of the SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK of the YEAR 2016. The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in...

Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter - you can see it from space. But is brighter always better? Artificial light is vora...

Do you sometimes wake from dreaming with an unease you find difficult to shake? Is there one recurring nightmare that haunts you? Or do dreams brin...

Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine. The relationship...

Winner of the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (2019). She used to be someone else, but now shes arrived in Vegas, where she can start again. It won...

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

Longlisted for the Edge Hill and Frank O'Connor Short Story awards 2015. A mother struggles to bond with her newborn baby; a student obsesses about...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2018. Chrissie Docherty returns to the southern Africa of her childhood and tracks down Ev...

Nineteen-year-old merchant seaman Brian Clarke is sure the U-boats will never hit home; he won't be the one to die. But when his ship is torpedoed ...

Torpedoed by a German U-boat, adrift on the open ocean, gravely weakened and slowly dying of thirst - the odds of making shore are lengthening with...

His poetry is distinguished by its precision. There is no surfeit to it. His poems are short and taut as well-set sails. Robert Macfarlane. After ...

Is it possible to 'send' thoughts into someone else's brain? Can random number generators predict future events? Why does a placebo work like a dru...

Never underestimate a librarian. Intelligent cosy crime series with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spa...

Fifty-something librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean B...

Fifty-something librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean B...

A new collection of vibrant essays to inform, stimulate and inspire every nature lover. Times of darkness offer opportunities to reflect. In Mistl...

Mongol [mong-gohl], noun, 1. a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia. 2. (offensive) a person affected with Down's Syndrome. U...