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'A gothic tale with a powerful sense of place and an eerie atmosphere' The Sunday Times, Best New Historical Fiction Picks 'A heady, entertaining brew...asks questions about guilt, superstition, desire, power, and historical inheritance' Scotland on Sunday It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a...

After her mother dies, grief-stricken Cora discovers she has been left a cottage, a crumbling shelter on a mysterious Scottish island. The moment Cora arrives on the windswept isle of Seal, she falls under its spell and is drawn to brooding Innes, back on the island to confront his past. As Cora begins to trace her mother's roots, she learns Gealach Cottage has a dark, turbulent history. Another young woman has sought refuge here, fleeing terrible danger, and waiting for her lover to return. What became of her? 

The Kennedy sisters, Molly, Alex and Sam, have a Christmas tradition – a night out, just the three of them, sisters together. Lewis Stone can’t face the work Christmas party, but as he’s one of the bosses, he has to put in an appearance. He leaves as soon as he can politely get away, ready for the holidays to begin. When Lewis Stone meets the Kennedy sisters, a train of events begins that engulfs them all. One sister is left fighting for her life. One sister is left fighting for her marriage. And one sister is hellbent on revenge.

Aspiring writer Brooke Sinclair dreams of seeing her words in print, which she should have thought of five years ago before falling for her teaching assistant and being driven out of uni when their illicit romance came to light. When her ailing mentor, Professor McCallister, asks her to co-write her memoir, she jumps at the chance. Her insistence that Brooke hike the rugged, eighty-mile Skye Trail for authenticity's sake is the least of her worries - the photographer she hired is none other than Jack Sutherland, Professor McCallister's nephew and the TA who broke Brooke's heart.

Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has big plans for his future. But when his aunt announces she's selling the family's ice cream café and his nonna's mind starts to wander, Luca's dreams melt away… Will his family ever be the same again? Heart-warming and gently funny, this hopeful new novel from the Carnegie-nominated author of Guardians of the Wild Unicorns presents a child's perspective on dementia in the family.

When teenager Katie is found dead in her own bed, Banktoun does what small towns do best—it panics. Grief curdles into suspicion, rumours harden into certainty and one question drowns out all others—did her teacher do it? School counsellor Polly McAllister arrives back in town carrying more baggage than she admits. Old loyalties. Old mistakes. While DS Davie Gray and DC Louise Jennings work the official investigation, Polly is sent into the classrooms, listening to frightened children, guarded siblings, and friends who know far more than they’re saying.

This is a fact: Ryan Summers walked into Three Rivers College and killed 13 women, then himself. But no one can say why. The question is one that cries out to be answered - by Ryan's mother, Moira; by Ishbel, the mother of Abigail, the first victim; and by DI Helen Birch, put in charge of the case on her first day at her new job. But as the tabloids and the media swarm, as the families' secrets come out, as the world searches for someone to blame...the truth seems to vanish.

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of John Murray, a sparkling anthology of letters from John Murray authors to their publisher. The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations. Published to coincide with this 'remarkable...

Every favour has a price. Prison collects in full. Nicholas Glass is a young prison officer already at the end of his rope. The job is grinding him down, the inmates smell weakness, and his colleagues aren’t much better. Every shift stretches longer than the last. When a group of cons reach beyond the walls to threaten his wife and daughter, Nicholas does what he thinks any husband and father would do. He agrees to a small favour. Just once. Just to make it stop. It doesn’t stop. The threats escalate. The favours multiply.

'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story and lick their wounds' Ian Rankin The...

Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now - ten years later and seven hundred miles away - I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of their cries in my ears and the weight of their deaths on my conscience...'Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children died on his watch. It should never have happened.

The incredible new novel from Tom Harper, set in one of the most dangerous environments on the planet. Perfect for fans of Dan Brown and The Lost City Of Z. Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on Earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime.

When Gareth Maloney walks into Jo's bookshop in the sleepy Scottish town of Banktoun, the life she thought she'd rebuilt starts to unravel. Because Jo recognises this man. The man who attacked her and her friend Claire, all those years ago, leaving Claire paralysed, and Jo tortured by the memories, unable to forgive herself for what happened. A desperate Jo turns to her friend, local policeman, Sergeant Davie Gray. The man she met after the attack. The kind, caring man who had vowed to look out for her since her mother's death. But he doesn't believe her.

Longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2015. There's nothing so terrifying as money . . . Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of...

Three women had been brutally murdered between early 1968 and late 1969, each after a night dancing at Glasgow’s infamous Barrowland Ballroom. Their murders were linked and ascribed to the spectre of the well dressed, scripture quoting killer who had apparently stalked the city’s dancehalls. The figure was never caught or identified. But the intervening years have spawned a legend that has never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow. The killings provoked the country's largest-ever manhunt.

A missing child. A shattered detective. And a lie so convincing it becomes deadly. When a seven-year-old boy vanishes after school, Detective Frank Collins finally gets the kind of case that could make his career. He’s ambitious, impatient, and desperate to prove himself. But the disappearance is only the first crack in something far darker. As Collins digs deeper, it becomes clear the missing boy is being used as leverage. Someone is exploiting a grieving mother, manipulating her pain for profit. And Collins himself is being nudged, prodded, and quietly set up for a fall.

Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay—the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts—with a wallet full of cash, a stash of coke and a serious thirst. Over a weekend soaked in the finest cask strength spirit, they meet young divorcee Molly, who Adam has a soft spot for, her little sister Ash who has all sorts of problems and Molly's ex-husband Joe, a control freak who also happens to be the local police. As events spiral out of control, they are all thrown into a nightmare that gets worse at every turn.

Caroline is a passionate, transformational leader. She is continually driven by the results of those that have learned the Total Release Experience®. Privileged to have discovered the many mysteries of the body to heal itself with a simple, empowering, primitive practice, she was inspired to share many of the stories in her inspiring book Feel It to Heal It.

Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook, but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritance have lured him back home to Edinburgh. No one is pleased to see him. The debtors want him gone. The police have some questions for him. And a mysterious stranger has been asking about him in the pub. To survive, Staines has to sober up, solve the murders and stay one step ahead of the man who wants him dead.

Writing to a friend who was disillusioned by religion, minister and theologian Henry Scougal created what would become a classic text on Christian living. Compassionately explaining what true religion is and isn't, Scougal shares biblical practices that lead to real spiritual transformation. In The Life of God in the Soul of Man, Scougal cuts through false ideas about religion and demonstrates how to pursue true unity with God. He explains that religion shouldn't be primarily focused on restraining or dictating outward behavior, but living a divine life characterized by faith.