Scottish Fiction

Synopsis Voted one of the Top 20 Scottish books of all time (The List, reader poll). Trisha, a lonely unsentimental boozer, unexpectedly inherits...

Synopsis John Fallon is a disillusioned journalist on a failing Glasgow newspaper. After a second failed independence referendum, Scotland is in ...

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

Synopsis With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially - kicking things off w...

Synopsis Before Trainspotting there were Skagboys. This is the 1980's: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - bu...

Synopsis Edited with an Introduction & Notes by Dorothy McMillan. The brutish John Gourlay is a merchant in the village of Barbie, envied and...

Synopsis In the same vein as the acclaimed Para Handy stories and TV series, this novel is based on one of Ealing Studios' most popular comedies, m...

Synopsis By day, Charlie Bain is the school's most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art...

Synopsis In just over 200 pages of interior monologue, spanning a 24-hour day, it leads us deep into the life of Helen, a young Scottish woman livi...

Synopsis Jack Laidlaw Trilogy #2 Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow wh...

Synopsis This book first saw publication in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The character of Miss Jean Br...

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