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• Between Living and Dying

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Sep 2019

  £9.99

  Busy and deeply absorbed in all the complexity of life, Ruth Scott’s packed diary suddenly had to be cleared when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She said, ‘Discovering that life might be shorter than expected or hoped for...

• Chance Developments

  Paperback | Pub: 11 May 2017

  £7.99

  In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,...

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  A Human Love Story

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Feb 2018

  £9.99

  Matt Hopwood set off with just a small bag and a walking stick, no possessions and an open mind to walk many hundreds of miles the length and breadth of the country. He relied entirely on the generosity of strangers for shelter and asked people to...

• I Think of You

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Jul 2023

  £12.99

  This new collection is a fascinating journey into the heart of each of us – from the author of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and the 44 Scotland Street series. In I Think of You, the reader travels through literary Edinburgh in...

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  The Isla Dewar Collection

  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...

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  Mother: A Human Love Story

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2019

  £9.99

  Compassion, nurturing and pain are at the heart of everyone’s story of mothers and motherhood.  In this book, Matt Hopwood presents a selection of deep, powerful stories of and by mothers which were told openly and bravely to him. Women, men,...

• Pianos and Flowers

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023

  £8.99

  In Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. Three sisters brought up in Penang,...

• The Secret of Ardnish

  Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £8.99

  A small inheritance and a letter from his grandfather mark the beginnings of a journey that leads Peter Angus Gillies from his mundane job in Canada to Ardnish, the land of his forebears, on the rugged and remote west coast of Scotland. As Peter...

• 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 –...

• We Fought For Ardnish

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018

  £8.99

  After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise...