Collection: Reader Development

Tragic events, spellbinding characters, humour, romance and clever minds are bound together by two well-established storytellers living and working in the city and shire of Aberdeen. Some of the tales in this collection are based on historical fact while others are embedded in myth and legend.

This booklet has been designed to help more able people with learning disabilities who want to understand and talk about dementia. People with learning difficulties may want to talk about dementia for a number of reasons. It is important to identify why they need to explore these issues before us...

In 1984, PC Alan McAlpine was given a simple job. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after an acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. He has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and ...

At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible, but as the First World War came to a close very few had survived. This epic history of the final year of the air war is both a chronicle of the ways in which 1918 changed aerial combat forever, and a requiem for the pioneers who became vi...

Harry Pearson takes a nostalgic look at 1960s and 70s childhood as well as a more serious examination of boys' (and some men's) obsession with war.

Written in an analytic style, Adolphe writes about love, his own experiences in love, but he also reflects his anxieties about the prospects for any kind of authentic commitment, political or religious as well as emotional, in a disenchanted world.

St John wrote the apocalyptic 'Book of Revelation' over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. When a revered monk from that holy island's 1000-year-old monastery is murdered in Patmos's town square during Easter week, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is called upon t...

When Felix Brewer meets 19-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance, he charms her with wild promises. Thanks to his lucrative if not always legal businesses, she and their 3 girls live in luxury. But on the 4th of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, facing prison,...

After Rain comprises twelve new short stories by William Trevor, whose most recent novel, Felicia's Journey, won the 1994 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.