From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted His Bloody Project, Case Study is a fast-paced, often humorous novel of mind-bending brilliance – a dazzling investigation into sanity, identity and truth itself.
Winner of the NorthBound Book Award, Approval is a powerful meditation on judgment, the adoption process and fatherhood, told from a perspective rarely explored in fiction: a man’s response to a couple’s infertility.
Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of the Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: what’s next for our depleted planet?
A stimulating collection of essays about our environment, nature and wildlife by world-renowned naturalist Roy Dennis.
In this searing, frank, and funny memoir by the author of When I Had a Little Sister ("A superb memoir" Sunday Times), a crisis causes Catherine Simpson to reflect—and to see how her body tells the story of her life.
A quirky, comic crime novel inspired by The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in which a time-travelling altruist must solve a mystery involving Macbeth and the Weird Sisters. Never underestimate a librarian.
A working class coming-of-age story of one girl’s attempt to claim an identity for herself beyond that ascribed by her chaotic home life that expertly captures the shaky existence of all who are lost.
An exploration into our Neolithic past through the history, legends and lore of Cumbria’s prolific array of standing stones.
A powerful, poignant and award-winning novel of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disaster since the Titanic – the 1919 Iolaire tragedy off the coast of Isle of Lewis – written by a son of the Hebrides.
A one-of-a-kind anthology of writing on the landscapes and nature of the North of England, edited by a leading nature writer and environmentalist.
In this fifth Harcus & Laird novel, PIs Maggie and Wilma find themselves chasing leads on several fronts, including a missing Aberdeen schoolchild and the fallout from a disturbing hanging with a backstory of secrets and lies.
In this landmark volume, Jim Crumley lays bare the impact of global warming and urges us all towards a more daring conservation vision that embraces everything from the mountain treeline to a second spring for the wolf.