1920. The Great War is over.

Whilst working as a nurse, Clementine fell in love with a  handsome Canadian doctor, but lost him amid the horrors of the Western Front. Now, she feels stifled by her middle class marriage and motherhood. 

Vincent was badly disfigured in the war, losing his future and his  prospects at the same time. 

Drawn together by their...

The body of Paul Shore toppled onto him, a stream of blood pooling around them on the concrete. Bernard lay back and waited to see if he too was going to die.

An undercover agent gone rogue is threatening to shoot a civil servant a day. As panic reigns, the Health Enforcement Team race against time to track him down – before someone turns the gun on them.

Tom is on the menu at a dog-meat restaurant in Hanoi when he is rescued by an Irish couple escaping economic woes back home. The three embark on a whirlwind tour of Vietnam, Nepal and Cambodia, determined to stay together against the odds.

In this poignant tribute to her late husband Pete, Moire O’Sullivan recalls how their devotion to Tom helped forge a...

On a hot July day, Lindsay Mathieson, confident, carefree and  thirteen years old, walks up the beach where she has played all her  life, around the rocks and out of sight. She does not come back. 

More than thirty years later, her younger brothers and cousins are  still dealing with the fallout from that terrible summer.

From the southern tip of Barra to the ancient stone circle of Callanish, Leonie and her friend Shuna ride off the beaten tracks on their beloved Highland ponies, Ross and Chief. In deeply poetic prose, she describes not only the beauties of the Hebridean landscape, its spare, penetrating light and its people, but also confronts the ghost of her mother and...

Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C. J. Schüler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way. Schüler reflects on the route’s violent history through the centuries, not least his own family’s experience of persecution and flight.

I made what may be called a rash and foolish marriage to a man I scarcely knew.

1904: Cathie longs for adventure. A whirlwind romance with soldier and artist Herbert Jackson offers this and more, but Herbert is violently jealous and she is soon fighting for her freedom – and her life. A fictionalised account of Catherine Carswell’s first marriage, What We...

Major TV show coming to BBC Four on December 28th!

A severed left foot in a training shoe washes up on the shore in Stavern. Then another, and yet another: four left feet in a single week. Neither police Inspector William Wisting nor his journalist daughter Line have ever seen anything like this.

The exceptional debut short story collection by prize-winning author Dan Brotzel

A woman granted a superpower finds it more trouble than it’s worth. A children’s entertainer wrestles with problems that are nothing to joke about. And a harassed dad attempts to meet the challenge of the primary school cake competition.

These modern tales offer a fresh...

‘Blood had begun to trickle down Asha’s starched cotton salwar, and once more she tried to will herself to stay calm. It was nothing. These things happened. ‘

But these things haven’t happened before. It’s August 1947, the night before India’s independence. It is also the night before Pakistan’s creation and the brutal Partition of the two countries.

Asha, a...