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Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, this novel from Ian M. Banks, author of 'Consider Phlebas' and 'The player of Games', is science fiction at its best.

When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure. It's a season marked not only by the sparsity of whales and the...

A graphic novel collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to its 30th anniversary, 'IDP' imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future.

Hearing that his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble, Cotton Malone follows the few clues he has and realises that they are in the middle of something huge involving Russian and US oil interests and a centuries-old secret.

Following the death of her parents in the Tay Bridge disaster, 23-year-old Lena expects to inherit at least half of her father's shipping & merchant business. However, her father leaves the business to his stepson, James. Instead of working, it's assumed that Lena will wed family friend, Alistair...

Dan Boothby had been drifting for more than twenty years, without the pontoons of family, friends or a steady occupation. He was looking for but never finding the perfect place to land. Finally, unexpectedly, an opportunity presented itself. After a lifelong obsession with Gavin Maxwell's 'Ring o...

Following on from the bestselling 'Hidden Aberdeen', Fiona-Jane Brown now presents 'Hidden Aberdeenshire: The Coast', exploring the rich history and the most fascinating, quirky stories from the windswept lands beside the North Sea.

Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.

This novel continues the saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded amongst the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down society from within. It's a j...