Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the...

Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are competing for control of Glasgow’s underworld...

When his brother dies stepping out in front of a car, Jack Laidlaw is determined to find out what really happened. Laidlaw begins...

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

How much is the truth worth?

When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy...

Following the incredible success of his first book, In His Own Write, John Lennon’s second collection of stories, drawings and...

‘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...

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable...

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life....

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

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

‘He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed ‘Truth! Truth!...

When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an...

Who is to blame when no one is innocent?
The papers want blood.
The force wants results.
The law must be served, whatever 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...

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls...

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...

A young man is fighting for his life.
Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him.
Their journey will...

I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had...

In Dubliners, James Joyce takes us on an extraordinary journey with the ordinary men and women from the city of his birth. In...

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...

After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither...

“John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.”

A novel of family, ghosts, love,...

1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.
1976. A mysterious and charming young...

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