Number-one New York Times best-seller and the perfect holiday gift. A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell i...

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK "Get cozy because you won't be able to put this one down! Our final Reese’s Book Club pick of 2019 is the thrilling murder-mystery Conviction by Denise Mina. This story combines suspense, internatio...

Conviction

The new twisty, gripping audiobook from B. A. Paris, the author of the instant New York Times and USA Today best-selling titles Behind Closed Doors and The Breakdown “We’re in a new Golden Age of suspense writing now, because of amazing books like Br...

Bring Me Back

Costa First Novel Book Award winner 2017 - The Sunday Times best seller - AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner  Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon.  Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but not how to live. ...

A brand-new unabridged recording of Philippa Gregory’s classic best seller featuring an afterword read by the author!  From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA Today) comes this New York Times best seller featuring three very different women whose fate...

The Boleyn Inheritance

Alex Morrow investigates the dark underbelly of a seemingly peaceful seaside town.  A wealthy businesswoman disappears from her Glasgow home without a trace, leaving her husband and children panicked but strangely resistant to questioning. Tracing th...

Blood, Salt, Water

Alex Morrow faces her toughest opponents yet in this brilliant new thriller about criminals, consequences, and convictions.  Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Michael Brown ranks a...

The Red Road

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." (Paula Hawkins, number-one internationally best-selling author of The Girl on the Train) Set in a world where a virus stalks our...

The End of Men

Internationally best-selling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe.  In Broken Ground, cold-case Detective Karen Pirie faces her ha...

Broken Ground

The Sunday Times number one best seller* EVERYONE’S INVITED.  EVERYONE’S A SUSPECT.  AND EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT IT.  In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year. The beautiful one The golden couple The volatile one The new parents The quiet one The city boy The outsider The victim.  Not an accident – a murder among friends.

The Hunting Party

Sweden, 1732. Strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it's a man's world. She believes she's being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather and she's determined to stop it. When help appears in the unlikely form of handsome Scotsman Killian Kinross, Jess finds herself both intrigued and infuriated by him. In an attempt to recover her fortune, she proposes a marriage of convenience.

Trade Winds

Blind since birth, widowed in her 20s, now lonely in her 40s, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she...

Star Gazing

There are some things in life better not known, some things that should be left where they rest.Erin Paterson runs her grandfather's law firm in Glasgow, and is an uncompromisingly aggressive negotiator. But the success of her practice is not echoed ...

Perception of Death

Elvie McCulloch's sister, Sophie, has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Several young women in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie's family fears the worst.  Teaming up with retired dete...

The Night Hunter

There are lots of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them.... When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a 20-year-old murder inquiry.  Detect...

Out Of Bounds

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, which is scheduled for renovation, Cold Case Squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. Her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets...

The Skeleton Road

Glasgow's citizens are in a celebratory mood for the annual West End Festival parade. But beneath the jovial surface lurks something darker. A confused young woman is found wandering among the stilt walkers and jostling crowds, claiming to have been ...

Standing Still

The million-copy best-selling author returns with a breathtaking thriller.  The disappearance.The suspicion.The fear. 

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence...

Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of 12. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee - dubbed by the press as "The Snow Queen" - sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously, but determination ...

Under a Pole Star

Tormented by her innocence.  As leader of his clan, Black Rob Brunson has earned every dark syllable of his name. But, having taken hostage his enemy's daughter in a fierce act of rebellion, he is tormented by feelings of guilt and torn apart with th...

Taken by the Border Rebel

In A Dark and Brooding Gentleman, acclaimed Regency-era author Margaret McPhee tells the story of reformed rake Sebastian Hunter and the far-too-pretty Phoebe Allardyce, his estranged mother’s paid companion. Sparks fly until he catches Phoebe trying to steal a priceless heirloom from the manor. What Sebastian doesn’t know is that her father’s been kidnapped and Phoebe has stolen the heirloom for a ransom - and might just steal his heart as well.

A Dark and Brooding Gentleman

Word in the Royal Court has spread that the wild Scottish borders are too unruly. Upon the King's command, John Brunson must return home. Once part of a powerful border clan, John has not set eyes on the Brunson stone tower in years. With failure nev...

Return of the Border Warrior

Badly disfigured Lady Isobel Dalceann has fought fiercely to defend her keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger within her walls? Whilst he threatens danger, his battered body marked by war mirrors her own scars an...

Lady with the Devil's Scar

When a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside a village shop, Detective Inspector Costello quickly surmises there's more to this case than meets the eye.  As she questions those involved, she uncovers evidence that this was no impulsive act as the ...

The Suffering of Strangers

In August 1992 a young mother and her two small sons were brutally murdered in the woods behind their home. Her neighbour, Andrew Gyle, was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.  Now, 23 years later, a macabre discovery throws ne...

Rat Run

A Glasgow post office. Martin Pavel cowers on the floor, his eyes locked on those of a terrified child. Above them a masked gunman wields an AK-47 while the boy’s grandfather calmly volunteers to help gather the money. Then the old man stands passive...

Gods and Beasts

From Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Theakstons and McIllvanney awards for Black Widow, comes a standalone psychological thriller full of twists, lies and betrayal.   One family, two holidays, one devastating secret. To new nanny Amanda, the Temple fa...

Fallen Angel

To marry him will be to betray her family . Bessie, the selfless sister of the powerful but stubborn Brunson clan, has sacrificed herself for her family's honor and is at the mercy of the court of King James. Ill suited to court life, she must confro...

Captive of the Border Lord

Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no good-byes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his cast-iron alibi, Costello has gone solo, determined to expose a ruthless killer without being hampered by police ...

The Sideman

Sebastian Hunter has shown his last hand at the card table. Nights once spent womanising and gambling are now spent in the dark shadows of Blackloch Hall. That is until the mysterious Phoebe Allardyce - his mother’s new and far too pretty companion - interrupts his brooding. After catching her thieving, the master of the house has no choice but to keep a close eye on this provocative little temptress.... 

1759, Jamie Kinross has started a new life in India as a gem trader, but when his mentor's family is kidnapped he vows to save them. There he encounters Zarmina Miller. She is rich and beautiful, but when it becomes clear that Zarmina's step-son is involved in the plot, he begins to see another side to her - a dark past and a heart just waiting to be thawed. But is it too late?

Monsoon Mists

"[Kathleen Jamie’s] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over - not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth’s, maybe our own, pointing to new p...

Surfacing

Investigative journalist Oonagh O'Neil's instincts tell her when a story is worth pursuing. And the death of an elderly priest on the altar of his Glasgow church, just as she is about to expose the shocking truth behind the closure of an infamous Mag...

The Lost Children

A tale of love and betrayal set in the borderlands of medieval Scotland.  Badly disfigured Lady Isobel has fought to defend her Keep, with little thought for her safety. Why, then, has she let a stranger within her walls?  Marc de Courtenay is a merc...

Delicious dark, relentless and chilling psychological thriller by the international best-selling author of The Cry. Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdow...

Worst Case Scenario

When Evie Nicholson is asked to visit Kettlesheer Castle in Scotland to archive the family heirlooms, she jumps at the chance. Evie's passion for antiques means that, for her, the castle is a treasure trove of mysteries just waiting to be uncovered. ...

The Vintage Girl

Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson takes up his new parish, an isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time there will change his life, but the Sea House, on the edge of the dunes keeps its silence long after Alexander departs. More than a century later, Ruth and Michael buy the grand but dilapidated building for the family they hope to have. But their dreams are marred by a shocking discovery.

Secrets of the Sea House

The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Novel Award.   Follow the path to the freezing north. Follow your ambition. Follow your heart  Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of 12. Years later, in 1892, dete...

Ailsa Rae is learning how to live.   She's only a few months past the heart transplant that - just in time - saved her life. Life should be a joyful adventure. But.... Her relationship with her mother is at breaking point, and she wants to find her f...

The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae

Wish I was Here features tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust Road. This fierce, funny, and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions...

Wish I Was Here

Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin. In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her nine-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote...

Hame

Charley Lambert has a perfect life. She has The Job. The Wardrobe. And The Flat. Then she breaks her leg in three places and is forced to hand over her job to her nasty deputy while she recovers. Desperate for something to do, she discovers a talent for helping the lovelorn online. Then along comes William.…

A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger

One week before Fliss' wedding and all her old friends are back on Mistletoe Island to celebrate....  Fliss cannot wait to get married, but before she says 'I do' she needs to clear up one little thing. Because now she's finally ready for her future,...

The Wedding on Mistletoe Island

In Jackie Kay’s first collection of stories, ordinary lives are transformed by secrets. Her world might seem familiar – sex, death and family cast long shadows – but the roles of mothers, daughters and lovers are imagined and revealed in the most surprising of ways.  Jackie Kay sees the extraordinary in everyday life, and lights it up with humour and generosity in a way that is uniquely her own. 

Why Don't You Stop Talking

Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles.  Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland; and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum. 

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

Resilience is the compellingly honest autobiography of Elise Christie - triple World Champion, 10-time European Champion and former world-record-holding short track speed skater. In a world where online scrutiny is more intense than ever, Elise’s sto...

Resilience

A hugely gripping, fast-paced mystery adventure, with brilliant twists and turns, from a fresh and exciting new voice in children’s books. When twelve-year-old Lily moves to the sleepy seaside town of Edge, she’s sure that nothing exciting is ever go...

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