Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems and song...

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...

There’s Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic....

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...

Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an...

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

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...

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

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist...

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British...

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where...

Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and...

‘His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come...

As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense...

In this dazzling collection, Nam Le takes us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the...

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...

Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks,...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come...

'What will you do?'
'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.'
'What are you going to...

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and...

One boy, one boat, one tiger …
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue...

Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a...

With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up...