We’re excited and delighted to announce that we’ll be publishing Kirkland Ciccone’s 4th Young Adult novel next year. Hoorah! It’s titled Glowglass, and although it’s not out until May, a few lucky people will get a sneak preview. (More about that in the coming weeks.) There’s lots about all of Kirkland’s books over on his…
We’re absolutely delighted that Gordon Brown‘s conspiracy thriller Darkest Thoughts – book 1 in the Craig McIntyre series – has been hailed by The Reading Agency as one of its Books Of The Year for 2017. Brilliant novel, brilliant author; the perfect combo. It’s up there with the likes of novels by Robert Harris and…
Paul Murdoch is the author of Windscape and The Egg Thief (Jenny & Pavel Adventures) and fantasy series The Peck Chronicles – Talisman, Citadel and Tyrant. (He’s a busy guy!) Paul touches on environmental and ecological issues in Windscape and The Egg Thief in particular. He’s especially careful to explore different sides of debates through…
It’s 10 years since D A Nelson‘s DarkIsle was first published. And 9 years since it won the Scottish Children’s Book Awards. It’s much-loved for its humour and sense of adventure. No wonder so many schools choose it for novel study. The dragon in the story is called Shona. The inspiration for her was this magnificent…
We see this as a relay – complete with dystopian baton-passing – more than as a straight race. After all, Margaret Attwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale came many years before Gillian Phillip‘s Bad Faith; and 1984 well before both. The theocratic premises are similar. In Bad Faith, there is a Putinesque collusion between the political leader and the One…
Gordon Brown’s stylish Craig McIntyre road-trip thriller rips along. It combines intrigue, action, sparky dialogue and the alarmingly possible. And that ‘alarmingly possible’ verges on probable given the twists and turns in American politics over the last few months. So we thought you might like a taster. Here’s the prologue + chapter 1. Enjoy. (Note that it’s a…
When Kath Anderson, a Scot, moved to Boston to study, she came across free-fitness movement November Project™. It started in Boston, USA as a way of some friends keeping fit during the winter months. Soon it spread, and now it can be found in cities throughout America. More recently, it’s reached Europe. Kath went along to…
Why ‘Revolution(s)’? Because what we call the Russian Revolution was really 2 revolutions: one first short-lived, the second the Bolsheviks coming to power. BBC TV’s Newsnight ran a feature on the Russian Revolution (we’ll stick with the singular now!) on 20 Feb 2017. So we thought we’d join in and provide you with this extract…
We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of A Rainbow In The Basement, a magical novel by former H2O singer Ian Donaldson. We think you’re going to be blown away by this one. It’s a novel about a lot – our lot. It’s about life & death, love & loss, hope & despair, belief &…
A sneak preview of the spines and rear covers for Gordon Brown’s blistering Craig McIntyre thriller series. What colour is your world?
Thriller-writer Gordon Brown (not the former PM) will be previewing his new McIntyre novel Deepest Wounds on 21 Feb in Aberdeen. The joint event with Quentin Bates will be part of the Granite Noir Book Festival. Click here for event details and tickets. Deepest Wounds is an explosive novel with sinister undertones. It’s fiction, but…