A complete collection of Scottish fairy tales, myths and legends, bound in a beautiful new edition. From the mysterious cat-faced lady whose magic allows a servant girl to attend a prince's ball...

Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides secre...

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married a German national, Dr. Willy Buntner Richter in 1912.

They honeymooned in Scotland and lived in Hamburg. Dr. Richter ...

As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkes...

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE. In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Choose us.

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...

Today Rena is going to change her life... Rena Jarvie is ahead of her time. Ambitious, attractive, and determined her family escape their shameful past.

When she moves to a new town and m...

This anthology showcases the very best in humorous short story writing, by outstanding contemporary women writers, including Kathy Lette, Sadia Azmat, Lucy Vine, Josie Long, Paula Lennon, and ma...

One evening, Gillis - a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god - falls into a hole left by a recently dug up elm tree and discovers an ancient disembodied hand in the soi...

The funniest, most moving and expansive graphic novel yet from the acclaimed author of The Con Artists and Americana. 'Who is Luke Healy?'

For over ten years, a graphic novelist called Lu...

The captivating and affecting graphic novel debut of a major new talent. One morning, a teenage boy wakes to find that he has grown to the size of a giant.

Inspired by the journey of the ...

Fife, in the blazing hot summer of 1994. Cora Mowat's mates don't understand her, but then Cora Mowat doesn't understand herself.

She's stuck on a seaside council estate full of dafties, ...

In a fractured dystopic future, the child Rue finds solace in the garden of a mysterious community. Rue has lost identity, family, home and people to war. Too much has happened for Rue to trust ...

‘A wronged woman’s voice is reclaimed in this gripping tale of revenge and romance; a ‘medieval Gone Girl’. Highland Scotland was no place for a woman in the early 1500s. Life was turbulent, bru...

Gunpowder, treason and a plot to destroy the British Empire…

AN OBSERVER TOP 10 DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2024

1770. Delphine lives in the shadows of London: a secret, vib...

**Pre-order Published:  26th Sept 2024**

Inside the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteenth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets o...

Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Serge...

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. When Bess...

India, 1919. Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force.

He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The v...

IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, WHAT IF THE GREATEST THREAT WAS YOUR OWN CHILD?

It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall…In London, armed police s...

The between days were days of pure white heat. Summer is swelling around the village. Heat is surging, people are whispering about a great hungry wave, and in the garden, Anna is kicking her dyi...

Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit.

With school over, the...

From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity pundit - is ent...

Single mother Revelle Lee spends her days translating the words of witnesses and defendants in London’s court rooms. Only she knows what they're saying; a misinterpreted word could decide their ...

SHE'S MEANT TO SAVE LIVES. NOT DESTROY THEM. Police officer Tia recently failed her exam to become a negotiator: her dream job.

But when a peaceful climate change protest at a London muse...

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson,...

Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over, she’s quit her job, her parents have been missing in the Australian outback for five years and now she’s back home in Santa Barbara, dealing with m...

From bestselling Brazilian novelist Patri´cia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing. To escape an overprotective family and an abusive part- ...

From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinar...

Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which ta...

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle.

John Knox is dead. The people a...

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of ...

What if we ride out tonight?

What if we ride out and never once look back?

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains.

The city is ri...

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...

The world is on fire. And what will you do?In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by herself.

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A twisting, pulse-pounding psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the highly addictive global bestselling Housemaid series. ***

"You must be o...

"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.

I ...

To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares...