A pandemic called ‘The Sweats’ is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes.

Grannie Island doesn’t think much of Granma Mainland’s fancy ways, but when a prize sheep gets stuck in Boggy Loch on Show Day, it’s up to the ever-resourceful Katie Morag to save the day – with a little help from her two grandmothers …

In An Eye on the Hebrides, Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair.

Kona Macphee’s What Long Miles is a characteristically eclectic collection from an ever-inventive writer, the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for her previous collection, Perfect Blue.

Why are there so many Italian hairdressers and Chinese restaurants in Glasgow? Who’s more Glaswegian: an Irishman, a Highlander or a Pole? Who’s city is this anyway? For the past 200 years, immigrants to Glasgow have found prosperity and poverty in its streets and closes. Mary Edward investigates their history, and the contribution they have brought to the city.

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Jan’s father has been summarily executed by the Nazis. His mother and his older sister Maria have disappeared, and his younger sister Lena has been removed to a remote farm in the German countryside. With Europe in the throes of war, the ten-year-old boy embarks on a personal journey to reunite the family he has been violently torn from.

To the Island is a book about the impact of larger political events on the lives of ordinary people, and how political and personal betrayals reverberate across generations, beautifully evoking the currents and cross-currents between individuals, within families and in broader society.

Chapman (Scotland’s Quality Literary Magazine), editor Joy Hendry, was founded in 1970. It has a well-deserved reputation for quality, diversity, and its authoratitive voice. It prioritised Scottish writing and cultural affairs, publishing writers like Sorley MacLean, Norman MacCaig, Hamish Henderson and a host of others, new and established. The magazine provided a stimulating and challenging platform for genuine debate and worked to develop the Scottish literary and cultural scene.