New work in Scots & English from Sheena Blackhall & Tom Hubbard.

Sydney Goodsir Smith, Poet: Essays on His Life and Work offers the first substantial work to assess his life and writings since his premature death in 1975. Considered a major figure in the second wave of Hugh MacDiarmid’s ‘Scottish Literary Renaissance’, Smith’s unique body of work has largely fallen from critical discussion of post-war Scottish literature. […]

Scottish singer songwriter Alan Dickson has published an anthology of late 18th/early 19th century political song in Scots and English, to commemorate the bicentenary of the Scottish Radical Rising of 1820. The Rising was the first sustained mass-political movement since the Jacobite uprisings. It led to many secret trials for treason and sedition, as well as street […]

Northern Britain, c. 300 BC. Former slave, indomitable survivor and now matriarch Rian returns with her daughters to her Celtic homeland and navigates changing fortunes from plundered riches and feuding warlords to betrayals and menacing curses. But when a disaster befalls her older daughter mirroring the cruellest events in Rian’s own past, Rian finds herself […]

Life, love and death, those three cornerstones of the human condition that seem hell-bent on letting you down ‘How’s about a seven-week romance? you asked, and it never crossed my mind to refuse.’ Here, in Glasgow, Moira knows that love is about Andy. The living out of faults and shamefaced flaws together; coming home from […]

An eclectic collection of poetry showing the connections between India and Scotland. Sonnets, concrete poems and free verse that gives a flavour of life in India and the immigrant’s adaptation to a new country. Some of the poems in this collection have been featured in various magazines like ‘Gutter’ ‘Visual Verse’, ‘Steel Bellow(USA’).

A new collection of brilliant stories from the multi-award winning elder statesman of Scottish literature, exploring themes of poverty, migration, alienation, accountability and alcoholism, with an impressive depth and emotional range.

A brilliantly powerful, evocative, humane and funny exploration of loss, grief and isolation within the confines of domestic family life.