Kirsty Gunn - Faber
A short but beautifully written story of adolescence - one of the best evocations of what it's like to be a 15-year old boy. In some books, it's claimed, you can almost smell the sea: Kirsty Gunn comes very close in her latest novel.

James Robertson - Hamish Hamilton
James Robertson is on cracking form with his latest novel. This can only add to his growing number of fans.

John Burnside - Jonathan Cape
You won't read a better book this year on childhood, growing up and dealing with your past: Burnside's writing is simply sublime in this novel/memoir. Set in West Fife and Corby, the portrait of a father-son relationship is lyrical and moving.

Christopher Brookmyre - Little, Brown
Always good for a laugh, Brookmyre's latest romp will not fail to entertain.

Andrew Drummond - Polygon
We interviewed Andrew Drummond after the publication of his first novel, An Abridged History. His new novel shares the rich Victorian language - and a rather grand title - of that book, but this time adding an entirely constructed language, Volapük. As Mr Gemmell Hunter Ibidem Justice works to enlighten Scotland as to the benefits of the World Language (vol = world, pük = language, speech, -a = of the), he battles with the treacherous Dr Bosman and his clearly inferior Esperanto. This unusual novel is interspersed with lessons in Volapük.

Margaret Elphinstone - Canongate
This new novel from Margaret Elphinstone should do well.
Light, set in the 1830s, brings surveyors, imbued with the confidence of Enlightenment Edinburgh, to build a new lighthouse on a remote island. There they discover the women maintaining the old light have values rooted in other times and places and a different perspective on 'progress'. For the island children the ensuing conflict is both an adventure and an introduction to other worlds, geographical and emotional.

George Mackay Brown - Polygon
Mackay Brown's limpid and subtle prose is perfect to soothe you through your holidays. Orkney's past is imagined through the centuries in the dreams of a young boy, Thorfinn Ragnarson. Shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994.

Ali Smith - Penguin
We don't need to tell you that Ali Smith is one of the best writers around at the moment. This award-winning novel, set in the English countryside, is a complex and beguiling story that will leave you feeling as though you too have been 'visited'.

Isla Dewar - Headline Review
The very popular writer's latest offering.

Stuart MacBride - HarperCollins
Just in case all that relentless summer sun is too much, Stuart McBride’s latest offering will certainly give you a frisson: it’s summer in Aberdeen and DS Logan McRae has been assigned to the city’s ‘Screw-Up Squad’ dealing with the death of a prostitute that’s not quite as it seems.

MacBride's characteristic grittiness, gallows humour, and lively characterisation are to the fore in his unputdownable second novel, confirming his status as the rising star of crime fiction.

Janet Paisley - Sandstone
At BooksfromScotland.com, we think Janet Paisley is great and her latest novel promises to be a feisty, funny read.

Jackie Kay - Picador
A quick beach read: the first title in Picador’s new ‘Picador Shots’, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. Jackie Kay's Sonata comes from her new collection, Wish I Was Here.

Iain Crichton Smith - Clàr
The late and much missed Crichton Smith is on form in this Gaelic story of a young Scottish minister takes his sermons and prayers into deepest Africa, where he believes he will find an untouched and innocent population poised for the blessings of the Lord a young Scottish minister takes his sermons and prayers into deepest Africa, where he believes he will find an untouched and innocent population poised for the blessings of the Lord.