Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling – and expensive – news on a visit to...

In a conversation on Twitter Ian Rankin discloses why this book was set where it was: Impossible Dead was set in Kirkcaldy because owner of local restaurant paid charity to be mentioned in one of my books! Malcolm Fox...

Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking...

No man is an island…​ In the stifling summer heat of 2014, a killer has been stalking the streets of Newcastle causing city-wide panic. When the officer in charge of the case turns up dead, it falls upon Detective...

A well researched book about an extraordinary environment and how it affects the lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things with huge consequences. About ordinary people going about their daily lives against a thunderous state backdrop.

‘Every summer we sit like this. We should call ourselves something.’ Ash Wolf said. ‘Why?’ said Goodman, her older brother. ‘So the whole world can know just how unbelievably interesting we are?’ On a warm July night in 1974...

Alan Nolan discovers his father’s memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father’s life in the Dutch East Indies into one furious utterance. He reads about his...

The Invention of Curried Sausage” by Uwe Timm is a melancholy read of friendship and coincidence. The inventor of sausage with curried ketchup which is still one of the most popular burger van menu items in Germany.

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlock with an eccentric girl and her grandfather, Hugo’s...

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women...