When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the...

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular...

'I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'
Jessica...

Nineteen-fifty-three is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June. But less well known...

Marianne Messmann longs to escape her loveless marriage. On a trip to Paris, she throws herself into the Seine, but is rescued by...

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months...

It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gossip' and significant rumour. It is none of her...

For seven-year-old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The...

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith

Life...

The charming and entertaining new 44 Scotland Street novel from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.

Scotland Street...

Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie - philanthropic editor of the Review...

It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's...

Real Life sucks. He's thirty, his dreams of becoming a rock star are long gone, and he's just discovered that responsibility has...

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the...

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has...

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and petty...

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44...

Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone...

In Killing Monica Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life...