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A Capital Union

A Capital Union

A remarkable debut, with explosive moments of real poetry and narrative power … an excellent novel, dramatic and engaging, with a Buchan thrills quality.' Alan WarnerScotland, 1942. Seventeen year-old Agnes Thorne discovers that her new husband, Jeff,...

The brutal shooting of a bear cub galvanises ecologist Callis MacArthur into becoming an activist. Dreaming of bears roaming free – even in Scotland, a thousand years after their disappearance – she finds herself exploring Europe’s remotest forests...

Winner of the NorthBound Book Award, shortlisted for an Independent Publishing Audiobook Award 2023, and a BBC Radio Scotland Audiobook Club Pick."Witty and introspective … Echoing the canny writing of David Sedaris … this meditation on the beauty of...

From the author of Homelands, a Guardian memoir of the year 2022"A cartoon fried egg. An eye. The tiniest of black holes. It needed a professional eye to be seen, but once pointed out it was undeniable. My own little Big Bang. The beginning of it...

How to Survive Everything

How to Survive Everything

A New York Times Editor’s Pick. Shortlisted for the Bookmark Festival Book of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize"I wasn’t sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is." Ian RankinMy name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote...

Winner of the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (2019).She used to be someone else, but now she’s arrived in Vegas, where she can start again. It won’t do to let the past leak in. It’s the Sixties now. She’s going to become … Joan.She makes a list: Buy...

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar

Never underestimate a librarian.Intelligent cosy crime series with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark"The crème de la crème of crime debuts.” Al Guthrie"Delightful." GuardianFifty-something Shona...

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Gondola of Doom

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Gondola of Doom

Never underestimate a librarian.Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name....

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace

Never underestimate a librarian."Audacious, witty and fun." HeraldIntelligent cosy crime series with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel SparkIntrepid, fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle, erstwhile Marcia...

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters

Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters

Never underestimate a librarian.Intelligent cosy crime with razor-sharp wit and an unlikely hero, for fans of P.G. Wodehouse and Muriel Spark"So funny." Lynne TrussShona McMonagle is back, once again personally selected by Marcia Blaine, founder of...

One Body: A Retrospective

One Body: A Retrospective

Nominated in Scotland’s National Book AwardsIn this searing, frank and funny memoir, Catherine Simpson describes what it’s been like to live in her woman’s body, and to reach the realisation that all that time she’d spent trying to change her body to...

A candid and confessional cultural investigation into the kinky world of the foot fetish.According to recent research, 1 in 7 people have fantasized about feet at some point in their lives, so why is this kink still often considered taboo? Queer...

A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imperceptibly slow. Treacherous tides sweep the quicksands, claiming everything in their path.As a boy,...

The Zen of Climbing

The Zen of Climbing

"Outstandingly good … It may be the single most insightful book about climbing ever written." Paul Sagar, Climber, writer, thinkerWhat do Zen masters, sixteenth-century Samurai, and the world’s elite climbers have in common?They have perfected the of...

What Doesn't Kill Us

What Doesn't Kill Us

A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England's industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.It's the eve of the 1980s. Police officer Liz Seeley joins the...

Writing Landscape

Writing Landscape

Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time.Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is...