A haunting and compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is an ambitious re-telling of the Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman.

Chosen by Ron Butlin as a ‘Book of the Year’ in the Sunday Herald, 2014.

Every spring has its own song – from potent legendary wells to inspiring new sources. Listening to the voice of each one, world renowned poet Valerie Gillies composed a new poem to fit. “The Spring Teller” records the author’s remarkable journey across Scotland, which took over three years and included visits to over a hundred springs.

A unique, fully bilingual poetic dialogue between two poets who literally and figuratively inhabit two sides of a mountain pass.

GOING HOME is a down to earth, if refined tale of ordinary people pitched into often quite extraordinary circumstances.

Voyageurs has garnered praise for its historical versimilitude and its exacting character portraits, as well as the story’s contemporary relevance. Margaret Elphinstone’s magnificent sixth novel gives us Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker who lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister he has always admired for her adventurous spirit.

This extraordinary book is dramatic in ways that are theatrical, cinematic and operatic. Vividly atmospheric, combining suspenseful narrative drive with a theological and philosophical gravitas that is never portentous or pretentious, this extraordinary book is dramatic in ways that are theatrical, cinematic and operatic.

This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context.