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Tweed rins tae the Ocean follows an east to west coast walk by Allan and some friends, and gently explores the history, literature and language of what Allan contends is the oldest national land border in the world. The title of the book takes its inspiration from the Burns song, 'Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation'.

With the hunt on for the country’s most notorious cop killer, and an ongoing complex international investigation, the murder of a local thug during a football match is the last thing the police need.

Mick Crossan is a ‘homer’, removed by social services from his widowed mother and slum home in the Gorbals and placed in ‘care’. In 1950s Scotland, thousands of children were removed from their families for a ‘better life’ in the rural idyll of the Highlands as ‘boarded-out’ children. Willie Orr deftly writes with a lightness of touch, and addresses a rarely talked about aspect of recent history.

The Summer Stance is more than a story of one man clinging to his traditions, it is a eulogy to centuries of Scottish cultural history in danger of being forgotten.

Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize - Scottish Crime Debut 2019 On the Scottish Hebridean Island of Islay, five corpses are dug up by a peat-cutter. All of them have been shot in the back of the head, execution style.

The New Frontier, from award-winning author Robin Lloyd-Jones, is a series of interviews with remarkable people over 70, all of them nominated for the annual Times-Sternberg award, which documents the impact of different influences over their lives and provides readers with a unique viewpoint on how important it is that we make, and are seen to make, a valuable contribution to society at all ages.

Desperate Times is the third historical novel in Ethyl Smith’s series, following Changed Times and Dark Times, about the lives of ordinary Scottish people in extraordinary times.

It’s been a year since Rima Khalaf died in a fall from the Black Rock, deemed to be a tragic accident by the police. But her grieving parents are dissatisfied with the police investigation, so DS Amanda Pitt is sent north from Glasgow to the small town of Clachdubh to re-examine the case.

Covering a period of ten days, Gemmano is a compelling and inspiring story of people caught powerless in their own land, told from the perspective of two young Italian men.

Moving from 1930s Capri to Paris, London and the Isle of Glass off the Scottish coast, The Last Wolf is a subtly crafted tale of lies and betrayals.