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

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...

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his...

Forty years after John Edgar Wideman’s first book of stories, comes this stunning collection that is vital reading for anyone...

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

Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear’s queen.
Though her...

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

A woman’s life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a...

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

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

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

A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics and conscience set in parallel Londons
The Ark was built to...

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

‘My oshi was on fire. Word was he’d punched a fan’
High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her...

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

Can you ever forgive the unforgivable? In 1962, Emil Clement comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in...