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

The three Douglas sisters were all expected to do well. Now, as they approach middle age, Gillian has her career and Frances is successfully bringing up her sons on her own. Then comes the phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her sister Susan, thirteen years ago.

Daniel and Caroline are closest to each other, twins for whom the rest of the world is always distant. After the death of their mother and their father’s remarriage they are sent to separate boarding schools, then a dramatic accident when they’re students divides them again.

Bottoms up, Borodino! gives a charming selection of anniversaries for every day of the year, illustrated by photographs & drawings, mainly of New York, by the author. When you need an excuse to raise a glass and make a toast, here is your handy compendium of excuses for every day.

Charges headlong through a battered world of chancers, small-time drug-dealers, neighbourhood hoods and Hooray Henrys in 1983 Thatcher’s Britain. A wryly accurate and hilarious account of a young Scotsman on the make, determined to survive the Thatcher years.

No. 8 in the Saltire Society’s Series published in 2015, Scotland’s Year of Food and Drink.

This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the celebrated – and notorious – author of Young Adam and Cain’s Book.

Three St Andrews’ University graduates fond of magic mushrooms become terrorists, kidnap vulnerable elderly people, indulge in crude heart surgery and threaten the government with a ‘dirty bomb’ extortion plot from their lair in rat-infested tunnels 200 feet under central London.