Saraband

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...