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Richly detailed, dark and compelling, d'Corsey magically transposes the old ways of Scotland into the 20th Century and brings to life the ancient traditions and beliefs that still dance just below the surface of the modern world.
Battered and bruised, Elizabeth has left abusive husband Patrick. Again. In the bleak and impersonal Glasgow housing office Elizabeth meets the provocatively intriguing drug addict Sadie, who is desperate to get her own life back on track too.
The two women forge a fierce and interdependent relationship as they try to rebuild their shattered lives.
Compelling and authentic, Toxic is a tense and fast paced crime thriller inspired by the Bhopal disaster.
An eloquently written novel tracing the social transformations of a century where possibilities were opened up by two world wars that saw millions of men move around the world to fight, and mass migration to the new worlds of Canada and Australia by tens of thousands of people looking for a better life.
In The Shadow Of The Hill skilfully captures the intricacies and malevolence of the underbelly of Highland and Island life, bringing tragedy and vengeance to the magical beauty of the Outer Hebrides.
Helen Davis deftly weaves the 1980's readjustment of British social boundaries into her novel as she transports the reader from coming of age student life in England, through adventure, death and life changing experiences in Peru, to a disastrous attempt at rediscovering lost youth and innocence, nearly thirty years too late.
A fast-paced novel following young backpackers on their first international adventure to Asia. Romantic notions of foreign travel quickly turn sour as they unwittingly become entrapped in the plans of a young drug-smuggler intent on making himself rich by exploiting naive young travelers.