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From the author of the award winning The Sound of My Voice After being sacked from his day job as a business executive, Morris Magellan has cashed it all in - the house, the car, family life - to be free at last to pursue his true passion: music. He returns to his childhood home to escape city li...

Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize and The Highland Book Prize A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure... In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through t...

We come from the mist, and to the mist we will return . . . Fergus MacGregor told people he was going to Pitlochry for the day but was never seen again. Years later, Rebecca witnesses his deeply religious mother holding an annual ritual in the ancient Black Wood of Rannoch, a place Fergus loved b...

'The Hollow Mountain is possibly the best yet' - S.G. MacLean The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession - blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerous conditions few men could endure. Alice Larkin, th...

The titular Mr Dixon is not the novel's main character but the creation of the novel's main character, Tom Spence. Spence describes himself as "an embryo novelist"; he has had the odd job - for example, delivering mail - but is largely without skills and has bet all on his career as a writer. Unf...

'[A] warm and witty exploration of our hidden vulnerabilities' - Catherine Simpson Ellis's life has crumbled without warning. Her boyfriend has fallen in love with someone else, her job's insecure, her bank account's empty and she has a mouthful of unreliable teeth. Forced back to her childhood h...

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality. Ihuoma is a woman of great beauty and dignity, beloved in a village that remains untouched by colonialism. By all acco...

Katie Donald's aunt is moving to Canada and asks Katie to take over management of her matchmaking bureau. Katie, who is always ready for a new challenge, enthusiastically accepts the offer, taking charge of The Perfect Passion Dating Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in Edinburgh's New Town. Although ...

Someone in this very exclusive swingers club is out for revenge. Club members are brutally killed. Ben Hood is hired initially to protect rich and beautiful women in this club but suddenly he becomes one of the prime targets for the killer. In order to identify the killer, Ben is forced to mix wi...

Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Fiction 2025, a darkly comic novel of subterfuge, whisky glasses, and the drive of an underdog to find the truth, no matter the consequences... Welcome to the The Harrow, last survivor of London's once-notorious muckraking magazines. John Salmon, its battle-ha...