Cook your way around the world with Cerys Matthews' Where the Wild Cooks Go, with a Spotify playlist ready for each country, as well as poems, proverbs, curiosities and some very surprising aspe...

Dylan Thomas is one of most beloved poets of the twentieth century. Richly melodious and expressive, Thomas's poems strike to the heart of eternal themes of living and dying, of childhood days l...

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surfac...

Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creati...

Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers.

Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this u...

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calam...

WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with...

A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024.

Have you ever had a gut feeling? Found something hard to stomach? Have you gone belly up under pressure? Did you pull yourself together a...

**Pre-Order: 19th Sept 2024**

I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearl...

A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked...

Churches are many things to us - they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of o...

We are living in a social, political, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier ...

Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious...

Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend Joh...

The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: ...

Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Sc...

Dream deeply. Rise up strong. Change is coming ... the visionary new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. How do you help the people you love create a future you're proud to leave ...

A fascinating history of how the unfolding drama of each election from 1900 to 2024 has shaped the Labour Party and modern Britain.

WELCOME TO PETER'S BAKING PARTY!

The Great British Bake Off winner is back to share his famous tips, tricks and yummy concoctions to surprise family and friends with, as well as delicious...

The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd and 24th June 1314 is frequently presented as ...

THERE'S BLOOD ON THE WATER. NO ONE IS SAFE... 1999.

A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a killer. She finds a tranquil community o...

**Pre-Order Publication date: 26th Sept 2024**

The ex-politician and bestselling author Alan Johnson, who was a Labour cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, takes on the lif...

Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024.

A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert usi...

**Pre-Order Publication date: 12th Sept 2024**

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the p...

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL.

You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling lo...

Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era.

‘He invented a whole ...

10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two ...

With this searingly powerful first collection, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight gives the current war in Ukraine some much-needed human focus, while examining its brutal aggression within a wider and...

Bring the rhythms of the seasons into your kitchen with this timeless guide to cooking and celebrating produce, all year round. Seasoning spans the four seasons of the year, with insights into o...

THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER.

Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.

We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing in...

Perched on a beautiful Scottish island measuring just two miles across, Café Canna is one of the remotest restaurants in Britain. Justly famous for its seafood, landed from clear, sparkling Hebr...

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.

Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family.

In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis ta...

India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world.

For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indi...

This is a story of girl meets printer.

A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she b...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE.

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?

This question lies at the he...

This is the autobiography of Dougie Donnelly, one of Scotland’s most successful and best loved broadcasters, who has spent over 32 years with the BBC as a presenter on Grandstand and Sportscene....

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series

In Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime... Ritchie Gulliver MP is d...

Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film.

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Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machin...

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller is back with a powerful, riveting new novel, as maverick investigator Ray Lennox discovers that confronting his past could cost him everything. OLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW...