Whether you love prosecco, cava, cremant or champagne, the UK's love for all drinks sparkling and fizzy shows no sign of abating! Sparkling wine sales have increased by 76% in the last 5 years, ...

A selection of poetry and fiction. We’ll try to match the cream of contemporary fiction with the best of yesteryear.

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The Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2020.

Claire Cox's poetry collection which won this category in the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2020, beautifully set by Gerry Cambridge.

The war is over, but the past is never past ...

Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied Paris struggling to stay alive and keep her baby Vivi safe as ...

How on earth do you do it?

'Well, what can I tell you? An hour of tai chi first thing in the morning, an HIIT work-out with ...

In A Friendship in Letters, Dr. Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland's most famous writers for the first time. Though they never met, Robert Louis Stevenson and J....

A Kind of Spark tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story...

Sagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stories centre around music that take the reader from Bach to Gould, from Gould to the Beatles, from Sergeant Pepper to the music that was played in Na...

'Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell' Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister.  A searing account of a mother's late-diagnosis of autism - and its reachin...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. 

Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes - of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, explored and thrived in this country have develo...

In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one day, she doesn't return home.

Did her work lead her into dan...

Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, emerging shadowy, from the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes o...

‘In Scotland oor wirds Are gey different, aye.’

There has been a real resurgence in interest in the Scots language, and poet, Stuart Paterson, has a new collection for bairns to get that ...

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective.

The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch...

Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards.

Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie ...

A young girl and her mother settle in the woods for a night's sleep, after a long and tiring journey. But who will keep them safe from harm? A wee bird is watching from the trees. And he knows j...

If there is one thing that most of us aspire to, it is, simply, to be happy. And yet attaining happiness has become, it appears, anything but simple.

Having stuff - The Latest, T...

A poem for every month, this is a beautiful anthology of nature poems by best-loved children's poet, Joseph Coelho encourages a love for the natural world and the importance of looking after it....

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets. Noah is only days away fro...

This beautiful full-colour gift edition comes 200 years after the birth of Alice's first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel. Both celebrated political cartoonists of their day, for Punch and...

Just like us, animal families are all different. For orang-utans, mummy looks after the babies, for emus it is all down to daddy.

Clownfish live with a mummy and daddy, some albatross fam...

Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can't tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him.

She's trying to stay in th...

My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows: this rediscovered gem tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever. Things llamas like: Snaff...

Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C. J. Schüler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted fro...

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had kill...

Anisha Mistry is all set to be a bridesmaid at her Aunty Bindi's wedding tomorrow ... until she finds a note in her family's letterbox. Bindi's groom has been kidnapped and will only be released...

Anisha can't wait to show off her volcano project at the science fair ... and maybe win the prize trip to the national space centre. But when the volcano explodes and floods the school, Anisha i...

Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants.

No billionaires....

The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today. Edited, curated ...

The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart.

Ra...

Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa who works in the city.

When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their...

Veronica McCreedy is about to have the journey of a lifetime.

Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a ...

Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda are enjoying a summer on land with legs when they receive a strange crabagram ordering them to return home at once. Some seriously BAD MERMAIDS are on the loose ...

Meri Pebble, professional spy mermaid, has a new mission. She's going to be a personal assistant to the Sushi Sisters (famous for their notorious appearance on reality TV programme Catwalk Prawn...

Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda, along with Steve the talking seahorse, are trapped aboard the spooky ship the Merry Mary, heading for the legendary (and super-stylish) Crocodile Kingdom. On la...

In the kingdom of Frostopia, mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda have come to the aid of Maritza Mist, a famous water witch who supplies magic spells to the underwater kingdoms. Two notoriously bad...

Jeanie's Grandma is bad. Not bad like a vampire or a gangster or anything, more like . . up to no good.

Sometimes she can be a bit embarrassing but most of the time she's really fun, espe...

Fish come from all over the ocean to see Puffy the Puffer Fish's amazing bubbles. Big bubbles, small bubbles, square bubbles ... they've never seen anything quite so amazing, that is until Barry...

To understand success, we first need to understand how and why we fail. This book has beautifully and succinctly summarised this knowledge and shows us how to use it to our advantage.

Dis...

Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S...

Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in re...

If you touch other humans, this book is a must for your bookshelf. Poetically written, Don Mcfarland’s classic, Body Secrets, invites the reader to consider the full person and shares his extens...

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and an...

A joyful celebration of amateur theatreThis is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain. In a triumphant mix of memoir, social history, interviews and manifesto, Jenny Landreth opens our eyes t...