Recent Releases
This is a complete list of the new books which have arrived on the site within the last month. See This Month's Highlights for a selection.
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Add to BasketThe Road To Hell
£6.79
- Paperback - Polygon
When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is found, also in a park. DS Alice Rice wonders if the same killer is at work, and if so, what is the connection between the apparently motiveless attacks? -
Add to BasketA Sparkle Of Salt
£6.79
- Paperback - Sphere
When James Lowrie returns to the Scottish fishing village of Buckie at the end of World War One, it can only reignite the embers of old feuds between him, his brother Innes and their sister Bethany. -
Add to BasketStaying On
£6.79
- Paperback - Sphere
When an accident forces the formidable Celia Scott to stay with her sister to recuperate, Angus and Jennet Scott decide to show their grandmother that they are more than capable of looking after Westervoe Farm for themselves. -
Add to BasketTime Warped
£7.64
- Paperback - Canongate
We are obsessed with time. However hard we might try, it is almost impossible to spend even one day without the marker of a clock. But how much do we understand about time, and is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? -
Add to BasketThe Translator
£6.79
- Paperback - Polygon
Sammar is a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband. Things change when she falls in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. 'The Translator' focuses on cultural and traditional differences. -
The Trip To Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink
£17.00
- Hardback - Canongate
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In 'The Trip to Echo Spring', Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver. -
Add to BasketFresche Fontanis: Studies In The Culture Of Medieval And Early Modern Scotland
£59.99
- Hardback - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
'Fresche Fontanis' contains 25 studies presenting major new research by leading scholars in Scottish culture of the late 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The three-part collection includes essays on the prominent writers of the period: James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, John Bellenden, David Lyndsay, John Stewart of Baldynneis, William Fowler, Alexander Montgomerie, Andrew Melville and Alexander Craig. -
Add to BasketThe Hanging Of Margaret Dickson
£8.99
- Paperback - Thames River
Maggie Dickson, a flawed character of great drama, courage and a lustful heart, is born to an alcoholic, philandering father and a disillusioned mother. On her wedding day, she swears that she will be mastered by no man, not even her husband. But when her fisherman husband goes to sea and leaves her alone with two children to a starving subsistence, Maggie has no option but to use her considerable charms and looks to survive. Embarking on a career of vice and debauchery, Maggie finds herself in a tavern in Kelso, where the landlady permits her to work for board and lodgings. -
Add to BasketThe Heart Of Glasgow
£12.74
- Paperback - NWP
This guide stays within the bounds of what is referred to as 'the City' - the area resembling a cross and consisting of the High Street from as far north as the cathedral down to Bridgegate on the Clyde with the east-west thoroughfare stretching across the High Street through the Trongate and down what is now Argyle Street. -
Add to BasketThe Hidden Story Of The Kilsyth Weavers
£8.49
- Hardback - Argyll
In the age before Kilsyth became a coal mining town most Kilsythians were handloom weavers, operating their own businesses from their own cottages. Tom Crainey has discovered that ordinary weavers from Kilsyth played a large part in the struggle for democratic freedoms.
