The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh is the first publication in a new series of crime-novel meets historical fiction, written by a husband-and-wife duo, Chris Brookmyre and Maisa Haetzman, under the…
The Art of Intelligent Ageing: Portraits of the Lothian Birth Cohort studies by Fionna Carlisle
In 1932 and again in 1947, all the 11-year-olds in Scotland participated in the ‘Scottish Mental Survey’, an intelligence assessment created to provide data for educational policy reforms at the…
Black Water
Cormac O’Keeffe’s debut novel, Black Water, tells the story of football-mad Jig Hunt, a ten-year-old teetering on the edge of Dublin gangland. With an alcoholic mother and abusive father, Jig…
Woman of Substances
Whilst there are many addiction memoirs out there with authors displaying their ‘failures’ for the public’s shock and entertainment, Jenny Valentish has succeeded in producing a rare kind of memoir…