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

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

Meet the Hunter family: Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte. And Prince, their Labrador.
Prince is an earnest young...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world’s most famous author. But fame comes at a price.
In the...

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...

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Millstone is a radical celebration of the mother-child relationship. It is the Swinging...

1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea...

She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn’t mind leaving this world through an untimely...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry...