• An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful J. David Simons

    [trim]"An accomplished and compelling novel by a storyteller at the top of his game, An Exquisite Sense Of What Is Beautiful lives up to its ambitious title, delivering a story that is both delicate in its detail and politically robust." Chris Dolan, author of the award-winning Ascension Day, Redlegs and Aliyyah[/trim]


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  • The Call of the Cormorant Donald S Murray

    [trim]“A beautifully written novel, the prose sweeps off the page like the seabirds of the Faroes.” Inverness Press & Journal, Book of the Week[/trim]


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  • Death Drop Claire MacLeary

    [trim]'A rare vitality and verve … these are two of Scottish fiction’s most engaging characters.' Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae[/trim]


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  • Fossils Alison Armstrong

    [trim]“A moving and vivid piece of storytelling … haunting, lyrical writing that is at all times compelling and frequently surprising.” Will Mackie, New Writing North[/trim]


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  • Case Study Graeme Macrae Burnet

    [trim]“Such is Burnet’s skill that he immediately convinces the reader that everything he is about to say is based on historical fact … brilliantly depicted … intriguing … compulsive reading.” John Boyne, Irish Times[/trim]


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  • Castles from Cobwebs J.A. Mensah

    [trim]‘Real, powerful, and unique.’ CHITRA RAMASWAMY NorthBound Book Award Judge[/trim]


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  • Case Study Graeme Macrae Burnet

    [trim]"A riveting psychological plot ... tortuous, cunning ... clever." – KATE WEBB, THE TLS[/trim]


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  • Approval John D. Rutter

    [trim]“John Rutter's Approval is many things at once. A powerful meditation on judgement. A transfixing fable of a Kafka-esque application process. A complex tragedy about fatherhood. But it's also a simple, affecting and beautifully wrought story of one couple's journey towards what they most desire – a child – and the cost of reaching out for one. A hugely promising debut.” – RODGE GLASS[/trim]


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  • Shocked Earth Shocked Earth Saskia Goldschmidt

    [trim]“One of my favourite books of [the year]: it was one of those rare books that I kept thinking about while I wasn’t reading it … It’s an absolute cracker … this book’s humanity is precisely where its power lies.” Helen Vassallo, Translating Women[/trim]


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  • In a Veil of Mist Donald S Murray

    [trim]“A moving portrait of a place and its people … a quiet, sad but brilliant novel.” Antonia Senior, Times, Book of the Month in best historical fiction, March 2021.[/trim]


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  • Castles from Cobwebs J.A. Mensah

    [trim]“[An] extraordinary debut … changes with every reading, like the sea, deep and light, or the flicker of spidersilk … a book to be cherished and shared.” Vahni Capildeo[/trim]


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  • The Lyre Dancers Mandy Haggith

    [trim]"Convincing, provocative … evoked with lyrical detail … triumphantly draws together all the threads … while successfully eluding any simplistic resolution." Margaret Elphinstone, Northwords Now[/trim]


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  • Buy The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange Sue Lawrence

    [trim]'Swept me along breathlessly... The cruelty and complexity of eighteenth-century Scottish society is richly represented.' Dr Annie Gray[/trim]


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  • Dead Ringer Nicola Martin

    [trim]“[This] scintillating debut is pacy, often witty, always succinct, a credible and well-constructed tale of two young women … Excellent. Buy this book. Nicola Martin is a writer to watch.” Bob Cornwell, Crimetime[/trim]


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  • Payback Payback Claire MacLeary

    [trim]‘Time spent in the company of Maggie Laird and Wilma Harcus is never wasted … Claire MacLeary has a canny way with light and shade. Her books are not afraid to deal with dark and gritty subject matter, yet she manages to inject a degree of humour into them so that … we find ourselves laughing as often as we gasp at developments … Aberdeen springs to life in her vivid settings’ Live and Deadly[/trim]


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  • The Amber Seeker Mandy Haggith

    [trim]"Brave and fascinating … asks questions about the nature of truth, perspective, and the power of the narrator to influence where readers’ sympathies lie." Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae[/trim]


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