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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION

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  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023
    £5.99

    1579, St Andrews. When Hew Cullan, a young lawyer, returns home after studying in Paris, he arrives to find a close friend accused of murdering a thirteen-year-old boy. For the first time, Hew finds himself plunged headlong into a Pandora’s box of...

  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022
    £8.99

    A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland’s history: the North Berwick Witch Trials. IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s...

  • Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024
    £9.99

    Investigative journalist Shona Sandison is attending the wedding of her closest friend and former colleague, Vivienne. But the night before the wedding, Vivienne’s reclusive school friend, Dan, jumps from a roof to his death. Shona is the only...

  • E-Book | Pub: 21 Jan 2014
    £4.99

    Marion Cheyne is young, poor and ambitious. Her humble village roots and poorly paid job offer few opportunities and Marion feels trapped in a dead-end existence. So when an unexpected chance to escape presents itself, Marion grabs it, ignoring the...

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023
    £7.99

    Snap up a pair of Isla Dewar’s feel-good novels in this exclusive bundle from Polygon. First, delve into a feel-good summer reading mystery with It Takes One to Know One, where Charlie Gavin, abducted as a baby, joins the Be Kindly Missing Persons...

  • Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £18.99

    As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. It’s never too late to make a change. Single and approaching middle age, Maeve Macdonald feels she has reached a point at which, if she doesn’t do something drastic soon, life will have passed her by. And...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £8.99

    In Jen’s Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle’s plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town’s entire male population. With a perfectly tuned ear...

  • E-Book | Pub: 15 Jun 2013
    £5.99

    It is the third summer of the war, June 1863, and Robert Lee’s Confederate Army slips across the Potomac to draw out the Union Army. Lee’s army is 70,000 strong and has won nearly every battle it has fought. The Union Army is 80,000...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £9.99

    Denzil Meyrick’s three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape. From the author of the...

  • E-Book | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £3.99

    Katie Donald is learning the ropes at the Perfect Passion Company, which provides help to the lovelorn  citizens of Edinburgh. Katie is assisted in her matchmaking endeavors by William Kidd, a talented knitwear designer in the office next door with...

  • E-Book | Pub: 09 Aug 2016
    £0.99

    Lammas is the third instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. Lammas day, a day of celebration for some. Elspet, a serving girl at the harbour inn has been told for...

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £8.99

    The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed, and Mac leaves his home and his companions in the Paxton Arms for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he soon finds himself out in the wilderness, chasing the promise of a job. In the...

  • Hardback | Pub: 06 Feb 2025
    £16.99

    What if you met the person you were destined to be with? And what if you never saw them again . . . ? There’s a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Clea meets the man of her dreams. But having...

  • Paperback | Pub: 08 Jan 2026
    £9.99

    What if you met the person you were destined to be with? And what if you never saw them again . . . ? There’s a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Clea meets the man of her dreams. But having...

  • Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £9.99

    A secluded island. A murdered genius. A missing masterpiece. When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protégé, vouching for him in the...

  • E-Book | Pub: 17 Dec 2012
    £4.99

    After the death of her father, 10-year-old Renee and her mother are forced to open up their Aberdeen home to two lodgers. An impressionable and romantic child, Renee grows up weaving romantic fantasies around both men, firstly the dependable Jack...

  • Paperback | Pub: 14 Jan 2021
    £7.99

    THE JURA EDITION with new introduction by Alex Massie ‘For him Jura was home’ – Richard Blair on his father George Orwell ‘The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance’ – Ben...

  • Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022
    £8.99

    Discover murder and mayhem in the court of Henry VIII Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII’s court welcomes the Imperial emperor Charles V. Anthony Blanke – the son of the king’s late ‘black trumpet’, John...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
    £9.99

    ‘An enthralling mystery, family saga and Sunset Song-esque ode to the land’ – The Herald, 25 Summer Reads Winner of the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize After Highland shepherd Colvin...

  • Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022
    £14.99

    Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. The master mariner and his crew – Dougie the mate, Macphail the engineer, Sunny Jim...