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...

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

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

Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other.
But there is someone in Sarah’s family who will not...

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

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

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...

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...

No one will forget

In a grimy flat in Glasgow, a homemade bomb explodes, leaving few remains to identify its maker.
Detective...

When Apollo Kagwa was just a child, his father disappeared, leaving him with recurring nightmares and a box labelled...

Robert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man:
Don’t cry
Drink beer
Play rough
Don’t talk about feelings
Looking...

In this stunning final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an...

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...

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

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...

Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive...

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...

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

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....

Alighieri... , Gray...

In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray – in his last work – offers an...

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

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