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Kevin Barry
The Heart in WinterHe was ready to die for love. He just needed to...He was ready to die for love. He just needed to find the right girl. October, 1891. Tom Rourke is a poet struggling to make a life amongst the Irish migrant workers in Butte, Montana. He is a doper... -
Elif Shafak
There Are Rivers in the SkyThere Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping...There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting chara... -
Percival Everett
JamesThe Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved ...The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson’s... -
Emma Healey
SweatFinally, this felt like revenge. All Liam ever ...Finally, this felt like revenge. All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselve... -
Kirsten MacQuarrie
Remember The Rowan‘Gavin has not married me in church with staine...‘Gavin has not married me in church with stained glass saints looking down in judgement and me wearing shop-bought jewellery that will soon become tarnished. He has not married me on paper, inking ... -
Alasdair Gray
Poor ThingsA life without freedom to choose is not worth h...A life without freedom to choose is not worth having. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realised when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he b... -
Alasdair Gray
Lanark : A Life in Four BooksLanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the ...Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide... -
Emma Healey
Elizabeth is MissingHow do you solve a mystery when you can't remem...How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes he... -
Karen Campbell
This Bright LifeGerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves ...Gerard is twelve. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He's a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No o... -
S.G. MacLean
The Bookseller of InvernessAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for ...After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Ja... -
Marion McGowan
The Priest's PoolChange is sweeping across Scotland in the 1870s...Change is sweeping across Scotland in the 1870s as new ideas meet old superstitions, but in remote Wanlockhead the old ways still prevail. Martha, the daughter of the local healing woman, spends he... -
Yael van der Wouden
The SafekeepIt is fifteen years after the Second World War,...It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of pla...
