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France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour, a young silkworm breeder, has to...

The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and...

The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers...

Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the...

Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the tragedies of his mother’s suicide and his wife’s murder when...

In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future...

Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border...

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist...

Rankin Ian, M...

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join...

At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents....

Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent man hiding in his filthy, cat-filled...

Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control of Glasgow’s underworld...

When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. Laidlaw begins...

Lost in Portugal.
Lost to grief.
With nothing but a chimpanzee.
A man thrown backwards by heartbreak goes in search of an...

How much is the truth worth?

When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy...

‘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...

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...

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

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...

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...