This collection takes a sensitive look at the intensity of love’s transient nature as time passes. Intertwining the complexities and clouded issues of relationships through the search for everlasting love, possibly ending where it began, with the return of that very special someone.

Finger of a Frenchman explores looking, and writing about looking: looking at surfaces and beyond them, at what is depicted and what is hidden in shadow, at how a transient chemistry of light may be fixed in colour and words.

From a quick-tempered singing grandmother to a performance of The Mikado in an African village: David Kinloch’s exploration of his relationship with his father is both unexpected and affectionate. An extended sequence of poems moves from personal memory to reflections on the values embodied in such cultural father-figures as the explorer David Livingstone and the Irish patriot Roger Casement.

The year is 1985. East Germany is in the grip of communism. Magda, a brilliant but disillusioned young linguist, is desperate to flee to the West. When a black market deal brings her into contact with Robert, a young Scot studying at Leipzig University, she sees a way to realise her escape plans. But as […]

Procurator fiscal Maddy Shannon wakes up in her West End Glasgow flat to a hangover and several mysteries, starting with who is the strange man in her bed? After solving the first mystery, Maddy discovers that the man’s boss, a successful defence lawyer, has met a gruesome end in his posh Merchant City office.

A collection of four literary novellas, it explores themes of motherhood and identity through the medium of Scottish myth and legend and features shape-shifting, baby-snatching, infanticide and a hanging.

The long-awaited new poetry collection by Elspeth Brown will appeal to all contemporary poetry and nature lovers. The engage the natural world in addition to that of myth and mystery.

The year is 1905 and Chai Mingzhi, an immigrant newly arrived in the port-town of Malacca, takes Engi, an indigenous boy from the tropical forest, to live with him. Trapped in a realm he doesn’t recognize and finding himself caught up in Chai Mingzhi’s bitter personal affairs, Engi quickly learns to take on the shape of the legendary mouse deer in order to survive in the outside world.