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‘His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come...

In this dazzling collection, Nam Le takes us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life....

Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, this is the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation...

Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother...

Who is to blame when no one is innocent?
The papers want blood.
The force wants results.
The law must be served, whatever the...

A life-changing app.
The woman who created it.
And the man who took the credit.
When Asha starts work on a revolutionary app...

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls...

In the shadow of a war that rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather pine cones in the grounds of a Scottish...

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his...

A young man is fighting for his life.
Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him.
Their journey will...

In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In...

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

In The Keys to Kindness Claudia Hammond takes us on an eye-opening tour of kindness: what constitutes kindness (it’s not what you...

Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen.
Though her...

After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither...

1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.
1976. A mysterious and charming young...

The Pure Gold Baby is the story of Anna, a little girl with a luminescent quality, her mother, Jess, and the community that...

A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting typewritten...

What if going back means you could begin again?
Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets...

A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a...

An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen.
Before the celebrated late-career world...

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed,...

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3

Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.
Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance...

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a...

Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel
Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted...

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth...