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• After the Dance

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2017

  £12.99

  As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he spoke English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages and two histories entailing exile. His divided...

• The Bachelors

  Hardback | Pub: 08 Feb 2018

  £9.99

  Spiritualist and extortionist Patrick Seton is coming up for trial. He’s been accused of forgery, and suddenly West London’s bachelors are all in a tizzy. Described by Evelyn Waugh as the ‘cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark’s clever...

• A Day Like Any Other

  Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2020

  £8.99

  You can’t change your past. You can only use the experiences you live through to make your future better, wiser. Anna and her best friend George meet every week to remember, to sigh, to laugh, to reminisce about their moments of glory, guilt and...

• Greenvoe

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations, but Operation Black Star requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the islanders’ way of life. A whole host of characters...

• Magnus

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force – his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelfth-century story of the saintly Earl Magnus of Orkney’s brutal murder at the hands of his...

• The Second Worst Restaurant in France

  Paperback | Pub: 11 Jun 2020

  £8.99

  Paul Stewart has returned to Scotland to continue his successful career. His agent and girlfriend, Gloria, has arranged for him to write The Philosophy of Food in Six Easy Chapters, a project he relishes but that will have to be delivered in six...

• Time in a Red Coat

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time. She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music....

• The Translator

  Paperback | Pub: 29 May 2008

  £7.99

  The Translator is a story about love, both human and divine. Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband and estrangement from her young son, she drifts –...

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  Vinland

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019

  £8.99

  Vinland follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future. Struggling to understand the conflicts of his home, Ranald seeks adventure and...

• Whispering Shadows

  Paperback | Pub: 25 Jun 2015

  £8.99

  Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul’s marriage unravels in the fallout. When he makes a fleeting...