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Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is the doyenne of the short form. In this volume...

It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part...

Marianne Messmann longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, she throws herself into the Seine, but is rescued by...

Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and...

It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part...

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months...

It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gossip' and significant rumour. It is none of her...

If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment romantic, professional, even aesthetic that flowed from accepting...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

'How differently the Geller sisters' lives would have turned out had C.J. Reynolds not been released from prison that February. ....

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a pisseur de copie , that he urinates frightful prose , little does she realise the...

This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback.

Freda...

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a pisseur de copie , that he urinates frightful prose , little does she realise the...

Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'...
Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has...

In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family...

Han was contemplative. Nothing that he had seen so far answered his questions about where his mama and he came from. Who they...

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is...

History Happened While You Were Hungover

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could...

This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the...

For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The...

Picking up the story where it left off, the controversial protagonist of cult classic Diary of an Oxygen Thief retools his...

Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted...

The sparkling seaside village of Merle Bay, with its beautiful beach scattered with sea glass, is a place where anyone can have a...

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith

Life...

Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself and her past. After agreeing to help...

The charming and entertaining new 44 Scotland Street novel from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.

Scotland Street...

A family gathering, a moment of celebration, a time to come together - and fall apart...

Recently married Bess should be...

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for...

Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an...

A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of...