Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a...

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack...

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

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

Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him may be enough to make you lose your heart, for he is...

Ron Rash has been acclaimed as ‘the best American novelist I have come upon in the last twenty years’ (Scotsman), a writer with...

This superb collection, hailed for its power, compassion and elegance, takes in the wide sweep of human experience.
From the...

John Fante is a lost gem of American literature and the man who was credited by Charles Bukowski as the inspiration for him to...

Welcome to the house of the mosque…
Iran, 1950. Spring has arrived, and as the women prepare the festivities, Sadiq waits for a...

After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once...

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

There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream…

Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the...

Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need...

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

After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O’Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using...

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but...

Named Wales’s Greatest Novel
This outstanding novel tells of one boy’s journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full...

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

Anne Marie’s Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that...

Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves...

Kenn returns to the Highlands of his youth, back to the river which has haunted his dreams since boyhood. Determined to walk all...

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...

It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition,...

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

On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a...

A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the...

‘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...

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

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...