At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come...

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

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and...

When David Thomson took a journey to the sea coasts of Scotland and Ireland to seek out the legend of the selchies - mythological...

1919, Siberia.
Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks...

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

Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our...

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

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

Families. Sometimes they're a bloody nightmare …
Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours...

Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he...

Kate Grenville’s The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the...

Ethiopia, 1935.
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a...

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to...

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

This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings.
Wear stripes. Eat...

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

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing...

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1

Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant 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...

This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast...

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

The case of the extraordinary child...
London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of...

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...

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

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks,...

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

How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a...

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and...