The genesis of Julian Hanshaw's latest graphic novel I'm Never Coming Back began with Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms, the 2008 winner of The Observer/Comica graphic short story prize. From this Hanshaw...
On March 11 2011, Japan’s north-east coast was hit by a massive earthquake, followed minutes later by a fifty-foot tsunami. The subsequent meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant completed...
Anais Hendricks is a fifteen year old orphan who is taken to the Panopticion, a home for chronic young offenders, after she is suspected of putting a policewoman in a...
The Chemistry of Tears is fresh from the pen of Peter Carey, the guy who did more for Ned Kelly than Ned ever did for himself. This time Carey does...
First, the good news: there’s no such thing as a creative type. Next, the best news: we’re all creative types. As modern science uncovers the mysteries of the imagination, the...
From writer, broadcaster and psychologist Claudia Hammond comes Time Warped, an intriguing book unravelling the mysteries of time perception. With countless books discussing people's relationships with others, nature and even...
Tallula Rising is the middle book in Glen Duncan's werewolf trilogy, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed The Last Werewolf. Tallula is not only the last of the lycanthropes, but pregnant...
Anne Sward's Breathless is told from the perspective of Lo, who in looking back on her childhood examines a relationship she has been unable to escape. When she first meets...
An autobiographical account of a childhood in upstate New York, We The Animals tells the story of three mixed-race brothers born to very young parents, growing up in a volatile...
Doug Johnstone continues his fascination with cliffs and cars in his fourth novel Hit and Run, a story following trainee reporter Billy Blackmore, who, after a night of drinking and...
Trackman is a novel told from the perspective of Edinburgh-born Davie Watts. Davie is haunted by the traumatic death of his younger brother Lewey, for which he feels responsible. Following...
Prue McKeel was babysitting her baby brother, but could do nothing when he was kidnapped by crows and flown away. She has only one choice: to follow his abductors into...
Many contemporary writers believe that in order to overcome the sense of ineffability surrounding the horrors of the Holocaust one must attempt radical innovations in form and content. One may...
Misguided but enthusiastic heroine Aurelie Renard is struggling to come up with a project for Art College which will blow the socks off her lecherous professor and the art department....
Gosh, what a shame. Where The Secret River had a deserved debutante sparkle and The Lieutenant had an adventurous and poetic grace, Sarah Thornhill is an underwhelming tag-along. The three...
In his debut collection of short stories, Price has done the paring down already. Not even a foreword makes it in. The stories are raw and precise, and each one...
Like the man himself, Richard Holloway’s autobiography is candid, entertaining and delightfully unstuffy. The former Bishop of Edinburgh traces a thoughtful path through the byways of his life, beginning with...
Cara Hoffman’s debut novel follows the disappearance of Wendy White, a teenage waitress in the small rural town of Haeden, New York. In a town where everyone knows everybody, case...
Edinburgh Street Furniture is an informative guide to the capital’s landmarks and streets. Fittingly, it’s written by historian David Brandon who knows plenty about the city so who better to...
The Last Holiday is a deeply personal, if self-conscious, telling of Gil Scott-Heron’s life. The writer and musician’s early life is described from a witty, sensitive angle. The clash between...
