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Life and death played out over 48 hours. A father desperate to be with his young son escapes from a secure psychiatric hospital, knowing he has jus...

Maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of missing butcher Sam Price. But he soon uncovers links to a killer with a taste for games. W...

From the author of His Bloody Project, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal c...

From the author of His Bloody Project, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal c...

The follow-up to The Walrus Mutterer, longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2018. Northern Britain, Iron Age. Pytheas of Massalia, the famed Gr...

The remarkable inside story of Archangels, the oldest and one of the biggest business angel syndicates in the world. In 1992, angel investment was ...

A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship. In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imp...

Lakeland Book of the Year 2018, Bookends Prize for Art and Literature, WINNER. With its enchanting song, striking orange bill and endearing willing...

Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of ...

From the author of the prize-winning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes a remarkable ''unreliable biography'' of Karl Kjerulf Einarsson: an artist and...

1977: A killer is released from prison and returns home - a decaying, deserted boarding house choked with weeds and foreboding. Memories of strange...

A truly fine debut - Rodge Glass. 1911. Young Avram Escovitz is shipped off to Scotland to escape conscription into the Russian army. Living in the...

Moving, poetic and quietly provocative. The Independent. A novel sure to appeal to fans of Outlander. When Alys revisits the beautiful Scottish is...

A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste after all, finding lost souls is what he does best. But wouldnt it be better somet...

A captivating psychological thriller - The Herald. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings...

Britain is home to some forty species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobati...

One of Britain's greatest living naturalists. - Chris Packham. The Essential Guide to Creating a Beautiful Garden Haven for Dragonflies. With stunn...

The best nature writer working in Britain today. - The Los Angeles Times. Eagles, more than any other bird, spark our imaginations. These magnifi...

Longisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 Powerful stories. - Marina Warner. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in thi...

Narrating the twisted tale of a backstage double murder, Gypsy Rose Lee, the queen of the striptease, provides a tantalising glimpse into the under...

Challenged to prove her claim that an 18th-century diet was better than today's, for a full year Fiona J Houston recreated the lifestyle of her 179...

This is a story of gardens and how people can grow well in them. Through a lifetime's experience of award-winning work in community gardens and in ...

Centuries before European explorers 'discovered' the Americas, the ancient Maya flourished in thriving cities like Palenque and Chichen Itza, where...

A dark, fascinating exploration of man's nature. - The Lancet. A riveting thriller about greed, power, hormones, illicit sex, and women and the mo...

From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistibl...

When Coleman Lang finds his girlfriend Gina dead in his New York City apartment, he thinks nothing could be worse...until he becomes the prime susp...

A luscious historical novel, The Jewel brings to glorious life the dramatic years of Jean Armour and Robert Burnss courtship, and their tempestuous...

A genuine tour-de-force - Lesley McDowell on 'An Exquisite Sense of What Is Beautiful'. Palestine, 1920s. Working as an agent for one of the riches...

An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 nea...

Does for PTSD what Slaughterhouse 5 did for survivor guilt. Robert Morace. Returning from active service in Afghanistan, Archies life has fallen a...

A chilling and hard-hitting first novel - The Herald. At the age of thirty, Campbell Johnstone is a failure. Hes stuck behind the bar of a shabby p...

A quietly brilliant book - The Skinny. Glasgow 1915. Set against the background of rent strikes, anti-war sentiment and a revolution brewing in Rus...

''A work of literature: beautifully written, meticulously structured and heart-rending.'' Observer; What if you knew from the beginning how your r...

The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the inaugural international Nature Chronicles Prize. The Nature Chronicles Prize is a n...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, a pilgrimage through the shapes and shades of autumn. In autumn nature stages some of its most enchantingly be...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, a pilgrimage through the shapes and shades of autumn. In autumn nature stages some of its most enchantingly be...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Spring is nature's season of rebirth and rejuvenation. Earth's northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun, winter yi...

Spring is nature's season of rebirth and rejuvenation. Earth's northern hemisphere tilts towards the sun, winter yields to intensifying light and w...

In the abiding light of summer, the nature in Jim Crumley's heartlands of Scotland is burgeoning freely. Seals sing, brown hares bound, dragonflies...

In the endless light of summer days, and the magical gloaming of the wee small hours, nature in Jim's beloved Highlands, Perthshire and Trossachs h...

During winter, dark days of wild storms can give way to the perfect, glistening stillness of frost-encrusted winter landscapes - it is the stuff of...

From the publisher of Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project, the first in a new series of distinctive, standalone crime stories, each with a li...

Moving, poetic and quietly provocative' The Independent. City life in the early nineteenth century was never short of drama: poverty and pollution...

A beautiful historical romance from the author of The Curiosity Cabinet. When antiques seller Daisy Graham inherits an ancient house on the Hebride...

He's back, Carrie. The Scribbler is back. DI Gayther and his rookie colleague DC Carrie have been assigned a new caseload. Or rather, an old one .....

Nestled between the Pennines and the Lake District Fells, the beautiful Eden Valley combines lush green countryside, abundant wildlife in hedgerows...