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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION

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  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Jan 2022
    £6.99

    Introduced by Alan Johnson. ‘All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.’ Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £8.99

    Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing law for tinkers. Who but Agnes Owens could...

  • Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025
    £12.00

    ‘It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.’  Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £8.99

    ‘It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.’  Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the...

  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023
    £9.99

    The Reich will protect its secrets.  1942, Berlin. After Police Chief Investigator Rolf Schneider is summoned to a meeting with Himmler and tasked with investigating the assassination of Heydrich, he exposes a web of corruption and secrecy...

  • Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024
    £9.99

    What happens when ordinary people are faced with extraordinary choices? Jean Parris was a child when her adored father was taken away by the Nazis. As she and her mother wait anxiously for news, the life Jean thought she knew begins to fall...

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2021
    £5.99

    ‘Hauntingly delicious’ – Sunday Post In a darkening season in a northern city, Daniel, Orla and Tom’s lives intersect through a peculiar flatshare and a stolen nineteenth-century diary written by a dashing gentlemen who may not...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021
    £12.99

    Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year ‘a beguiling mixture of poetry, moving prose and magical realism’ – Stephen McGinty, The Sunday Times Jeda is a girl on the cusp of adulthood, living in Edinburgh; with a white...

  • Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025
    £9.99

    A feel-good, uplifting tale of two women who make a life-changing connection.  In Ethiopia, beautiful Sylvie’s successful life is derailed by a disastrous childbirth. With no money and no hope, all seems lost.  In London, feisty Juliet is...

  • Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024
    £9.99

    Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers. Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely duo. They soon find they share a wicked sense of...

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2017
    £4.99

    By the Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Others. After more than thirty years in London, recently-widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India. He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a...

  • Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023
    £9.99

    How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can’t set you free? Scotland, 1589. Besse Craw is a young mother whose husband has mysteriously vanished. And in a time when women were powerless, she is accused of witchcraft, abused by her...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022
    £9.99

    Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024
    £8.99

    The Isle of Iona, 825. In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to give away the location of the sacred relics of St Columba, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotland. Following a...

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023
    £18.99

    The Thirty-Nine Steps is the original spy thriller, and the inspiration for countless books, films and games. Buchan’s most popular novel is the first to feature adventurer Richard Hannay. Here you can get all five of Richard Hannay’s...

  • E-Book | Pub: 02 Mar 2023
    £3.99

    Katie Donald’s aunt is moving to Canada and asks Katie to take over management of her matchmaking bureau. Katie, who is always ready for a new challenge, enthusiastically accepts the offer, taking charge of The Perfect Passion Dating Company at...

  • E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012
    £4.99

    The sequel to her novel ‘Brow of the Gallowgate’, Doris Davidson’s latest novel follows the fortunes of the Ogilvie family through the World War II. Olive is determined to have her cousin Neil as her husband and won’t allow...

  • Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022
    £8.99

    ‘Plakos is a strange place, for the tides of civilisation and progress seem to have left it high and dry. It is a relic of old days, full of wild beliefs and pagan habits.’ Young Englishwoman Kore Arabin has inherited a remote Greek...

  • E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2023
    £4.99

    Take a trip to the expat community of the sun-drenched Spanish coast with Morgan Cry and the Daniella Coulstoun thrillers. With suspicious deaths, police corruption, gangland politics and Daniella caught in the middle, strap yourself in for a...

  • Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023
    £12.00

    Tales of suspense for the twilight hour… Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic...