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Synopsis Subtitled : An exploration of Scottish Identity & Scottish Obsessions. "A Subtle Sadness is a rigorous exploration of Scottish Identit...

Synopsis Ten years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp...

Synopsis Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit...

Synopsis Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger. First in a prize-winning historical thriller series featuring Captain Damian Seeker,...

Synopsis The Lewis Trilogy #3. The nail-biting, best selling finale. The New Start : Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis e...

Synopsis A Book to Look Out For 2022 (BBC, i-d & Foyles). An unsparing story of modern-day Britain, told with brilliant flashes of humour and...

Synopsis Subtitled : Begbie is Back. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful pain...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The 2019 McIllvanney Prize. A New Statesman Book of The Year. A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th cent...

Synopsis Winner of The Booker Prize. Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd r...

Synopsis Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, truly revolutionary, 'A Scots Quair' is a trilogy of novels of which this bo...

Synopsis Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits s...

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

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of The Year 2020. A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly ten...

Synopsis The Island of the Women & Other Stories is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of 6 short stories, released in 199...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the ...

Synopsis Soaring above the mean streets of Edinburgh to an interstellar conspiracy involving doomed space shuttles and vanished satellites, this ea...

Synopsis Jane Logan is a stranger to Berlin and she finds the city alive and echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant,...

Synopsis Introduced by John Burns. A lesser known Science Fiction Classic. This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bomb...

Synopsis This book 'transitions' the split between Iain Banks' non-sci-fi output & Iain M. Banks' vast space operas, presenting a sci-fi tale w...

Synopsis Seasonal Quartet #1. Man Booker Prize Finalist. A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian...

Synopsis Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young...

Synopsis “This is not a story about old people,” Bernard MacLaverty told the Guardian, “It’s the story of two young people who got old and they hav...