For decades, in the absence of inspired translations, it was nearly impossible to convince Anglophone readers of Alexander Pushkin’s genius.

Kate is the mother of Mhairi, who has, alarmingly, married without telling her, and returned home pregnant by a departed lover. After baby Patrick’s birth, Mhairi does a terrible thing – but surprising rescue comes in the shape of a homeless young man on the run.

When Alison Ross loses her son Calum in a car crash, her world turns upside down. In her struggle to cope, she does some strange and uncharacteristic things starting with a one-night stand with her ex-best friend, Neal and sets in motion a chain of events that will lead her on a journey she could never have imagined.

From the forests of Finland to the plain of Lombardy, from a Scottish beach to a river island in Hungary, Tom Hubbard deploys the riches of the Scots language to explore that tragicomic space we call Europe.

Mercia Murray has been abandoned. Disposed of and dumped by her lover of twenty-four years. She attempts to make sense of a senseless act. After almost a quarter of a century living in Scotland, most of it with Craig, she looks back at her experiences in an attempt to understand them.

When Jimmy McPhee wakes up in hospital, he doesn’t know his name, where he is, or who the Taoiseach is. But as Jimmy’s girlfriend coaxes his memory back to life, a story spanning through a family’s experiences of recent Dublin history expands into something altogether more mysterious.

When a friend remarks casually that the prices for dead artists’ work tend to be higher, Scottish gallery-owner Mabel Mountjoy finds herself daydreaming about how it would be if demand for Roddy McCulloch’s work skyrocketed overnight.

An Enclave In Eden comprises widely published but previously uncollected poems from the last decade of the 20th Century and the first decade of the 21st. The poems are about what goes wrong and what we spoil in an otherwise wonderful world of wonderful people and wonderful relationships.