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Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2015. There's nothing so terrifying as money . . . Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of...

A swoon-worthy Scottish romance set on the picturesque Isle of Skye. From the author of Kilt Trip. Brooke Sinclair's dream of being a published author derailed when she was expelled from the University of Edinburgh seven years ago. Now a ghostwriter, she sticks to other people's stories. But...

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 are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student Will Fowler, short of stature, low of birth but mightily ambitious, to make his name. 

When a violent man is framed, mercy is not an option. Joe Hope makes his living hurting people. If you borrow money in Edinburgh and don’t pay it back, Joe is the problem you can’t avoid. Then his teenage daughter is found dead. The police call it suicide. Joe knows better. And before he can even bury her, he’s arrested for her murder. For the first time in his life, Joe Hope is innocent. Which means he has nothing left to lose. Cut loose by the law, he turns to the only people he can trust: Scotland’s hardest men, and one woman who’s just as dangerous.

You're autistic - but what does that really mean? Welcome to the ultimate guide to understanding who you are and what it means to be autistic! Explore what it means to be autistic and discover the differences between sensory seekers and avoiders, why you might find some things super easy and...

From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WATCH OVER ME, over half a million copies sold, comes a heartwrenching, uplifting novel about a mother who'll go to the ends of the earth to bring her grieving daughter back to life. 'Daniela Sacerdoti is fast becoming one of my favourites: and here she...

When floral designer Deli MacDonald’s heart is broken by unrequited love and her best friend’s abandonment, she flees to the Scottish Highlands and her estranged aunt Mo’s cliffside cottage by the sea. There, embraced by a village of eccentric locals and her aunt’s unconditional, unfamiliar love, she finds herself drawn to brooding pub owner Lachlan Scott—whose path once crossed hers twenty years ago on these same heather-strewn hills.

A missing child. A shattered detective. And a lie so convincing it becomes deadly. When a seven-year-old boy vanishes after school, Detective Frank Collins finally gets the kind of case that could make his career. He’s ambitious, impatient, and desperate to prove himself. But the disappearance is only the first crack in something far darker. As Collins digs deeper, it becomes clear the missing boy is being used as leverage. Someone is exploiting a grieving mother, manipulating her pain for profit. And Collins himself is being nudged, prodded, and quietly set up for a fall.

Three women had been brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well dressed, scripture quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls. The figure was never caught or identified. But the intervening years have spawned a legend that has never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow. The killings provoked the country's largest-ever manhunt.

There aren’t many computer games that can justify an entire book, but for superfans, Alien: Isolation is truly extraordinary and Perfect Organism reveals all there is to know about every aspect of this masterful game. Discover the rationale and authenticity of the set design and art direction, learn about the alien’s unnerving abilities to second-guess the players and the importance of its unique height, find out more about the importance of the dynamic audio and the use of seventies archive soundbites, as well as the darkly beautiful music.

When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protégé, vouching for him in the rarefied literary scene in the 1950s. But lately, Malcolm has not been himself. Consumed by his work, he cuts an increasingly isolated figure and has become convinced that something terrible will befall him. He summons his loved ones to his secluded island in the Hebrides and – to everyone's surprise – entrusts Euan with the task of completing his masterpiece.

In June 1989 Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star, as they had met once before and enjoyed a good rapport. In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work for Paul McCartney on a regular basis, producing magazine articles, tour programmes, album liner notes, press materials and website editorial.

The independent kingdom of Scotland flourished until the beginning of the last century. Its great trading port of Challaid, in the north west of the country, sent ships around the world and its merchants and bankers grew rich on their empire in Central America. But Scotland is not what it was...

Cullrothes, in the Scottish Highlands, where Innes hides a terrible secret from his girlfriend, Alice, a gorgeous, cheating, lying schoolteacher. In the same village, Donald is the aggressive distillery owner, who floods the country with narcotics alongside his single malt; when his son goes missing, he becomes haunted by an anonymous American investor intent on purchasing the Cullrothes Distillery by any means necessary. Schoolgirl Jessie is trying to get the grades to escape to the mainland, while Grandpa counts the days left in his life.

We Germans takes the form of a letter written by the now 90-year-old soldier to his grandson, telling him of his experiences in the war and his grappling with the extent to which he feels guilt and shame about his own behaviour and the behaviour of Germany. The novel is interrupted at various points by the grandson, who offers his own perspective on his grandfather. 

A hundred years ago, the true story of the brutal murder of Miss Jean Milne in a small seaside town captured the imagination of the whole country. A wealthy spinster who lived alone in a crumbling mansion, Miss Milne appeared to be the very model of respectability. But behind the facade, Miss Milne was living a secret life. Why was this quiet spinster tied up in her own home, tortured and brutally murdered?

Since the days of the early church, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between law and gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, salvation is by grace and the law cannot save, what relevance does the law have for Christians today? By revisiting the Marrow Controversy—a famous but largely forgotten eighteenth-century debate related to the proper relationship between God's grace and our works—Sinclair B. Ferguson sheds light on this central issue and why it still matters today.

Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic they all decide to drive off. But the next day, Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime lord, and as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a nightmare of guilt, retribution, and violence.

'A storming debut' The Sun Perfect for fans of JP Delaney and C.L. Taylor, this is a complex thriller about the secrets we keep and the damage they do. ___________ ?SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLIST? ?BEST SCOTTISH CRIME DEBUT 2021 SHORTLIST? ?MCILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME...

Caroline is a passionate, transformational leader. She is continually driven by the results of those that have learned the Total Release Experience®. Privileged to have discovered the many mysteries of the body to heal itself with a simple, empowering, primitive practice, she was inspired to share many of the stories in her inspiring book Feel It to Heal It.