Fiction

Synopsis 'She was the bravest person I ever met' - Lale Sokolov, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she...

Synopsis Chosen & Edited by Kingsley Amis. This delightful anthology celebrates a rich and pleasing - if often underrated - tradition of Engl...

Synopsis Whitbread Award for Fiction Winner. A Scottish miner fights for a better life for his son . . . . . . 'His face made a fist at the world. ...

Synopsis Introduction by Ali Smith. Trumpet is the debut novel from Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay, published in 1998. It chronicles the lif...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis Endorsed by Amnesty International. A young adult novel about two transgender teens who figure out how to navigate life with help from ea...

Synopsis A hypnotic, unforgettable Gothic page-turner. One night in 2012, Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable high-...

Synopsis A compelling emotional drama of love and guilt that grips from the very first moments, by the UK's bestselling women's fiction author. Luk...

Synopsis The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of cons...

Synopsis A secret beach. A holiday of a lifetime. Wish you were here? Think again . . . You wake on a beautiful, remote island. Sparkling blue se...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling st...

Synopsis Book 2 of The Burning Chambers. From the Languedoc to Paris and Amsterdam, Kate Mosse's novel sees the Joubert family caught up in the St ...

Synopsis Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel. Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the t...

Synopsis Edited with an Introduction by Ian A. Gordon. "The Provost" is a novel written in 1822 by John Galt. He was a Scottish novelist and he h...

Synopsis 'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted...

Synopsis This is a collection of 5 stories by a Czech writer originally published between 1956 and 1968 - the first ever English collection of st...

Synopsis The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film starring David Bowie was based. Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from ...

Synopsis 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving ...

Synopsis Winner of The Booker Prize 2019 & Multi-Award Winning Bestseller. This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has ...

Synopsis A WWII thriller about a German rocket engineer, a former actress turned British spy, and the Nazi rocket program. It's November 1944 - Wil...

Synopsis Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrified...

Synopsis Maestra #1. The Global Thriller Phenomenon. By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a ho...

Synopsis After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready - an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning com...

Synopsis A strange virus is sweeping the globe.Humans have become allergic to one another.Simply standing next to somebody could be a death sente...

Synopsis Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Short...

Synopsis The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one vo...

Synopsis This classic novel of childhood is set in fictional St Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain's ...

Synopsis Edited & Introduced by Daniel Tatarsky. The title explains what lies within. Eagle Annual from the 1960's. A nostalgic series of rep...

Synopsis Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoulderi...

Synopsis In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barðu...

Synopsis Harry Potter #1. Translated into Scots by Matthew Fitt. "Harry Potter doesnae ken the first thing aboot Hogwarts when the letters stert dr...