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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...

Max Rushmore is re-hired by the CIA to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max, who can dr...

Behind the normal door of a normal house, in a normal street, two men are slowly driving each other insane. One of them is a psychopath. The fathe...

What did I know about life, a wee heifer like me, a twenty-two-year-old no-mates stay-at-home from the rump end of Cumbernauld? What did I even kno...

Sublime writing...a genuinely important book - Ken Lussey. Hundreds of years after their extinction in these isles, beavers are back in Britain. Th...

Trisha, a lonely unsentimental boozer, unexpectedly inherits a home in the Highlands. She wastes no time leaving Glasgow - and her estranged husb...

Everyone''''s on antidepressants, suffering from Post Romantic Stress Disorder - especially Daphne, who''''s just been severely chucked by lily-l...

A book you could become obsessed with. - Alastair Braidwood. The death sentence of a spaceman: the claustrophobic editor of a newspapers letters pa...

Weaving together natural history and investigative reporting with mythological and cultural material, On Rare Birds tells the compelling stories of...

Shortlisted in Scotlands National Book Awards By the time she reached her fifties, Catherine had experienced period pain, childbirth, and early men...

Divine comedy...a joyous celebration of human imperfection - Louise Welsh. Maria's job is to support Blue Group, an unruly crew of service users....

Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was an u...

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

Seeking a temporary escape from the city and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the l...

An intense and satisfying story. - Sara Sheridan. Bohemian Paris in the 1880s. Exotic, strange and exciting especially to young English sculptress...

When the body of Aberdeen socialite Annabel Imray is discovered at her home, the police are under pressure to come up with answers, and fast. The l...

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (17981803) and as the sister of the poet William Wordsworth. S...

To paraphrase L.P. Hartley, The past is a different country. Stan L Abbott sets out to explore the visible clues to our mysterious past from the ...

David Howe tells the story of the Lake District, England's most dramatic landscape. Home to vistas of stunning beauty and a rich heritage, it is an...

THE THIRD BOOK IN CLAIRE MACLEARY'S MULTI-AWARD-LISTED HARCUS & LAIRD SERIES 'Claire MacLeary has, with little fuss or fanfare, written a crim...

The islands of Orkney are distinct, perhaps that bit wild. Remote, surrounded by an endless ocean and dominated by an infinite sky, which brings ei...

Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize From Jim Crumley, the pre-eminent Scottish nature-writer (Guardian), this landmark volume documents the...

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. In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with Britis...