Fiction: General

The Italian Chapel is a story of forbidden love, lifelong friendships torn apart, despair and hope, set against the backdrop of the creation of a symbol that is known around the world.

Nestled down, hidden behind the Glasgow Art Galleries, is a line of seven rented houses. Though quiet and out of sight alongside the River Kelvin, they accommodate seven very different families, along with their problems, schemes and secrets. Despite their efforts to retreat within separate lives, each household will soon find themselves mixed up in the problems of the others, as malicious schemes and secrets are exposed in Margaret Thomson Davis’s new thriller, Kelly’s of Kelvingrove.

As the coronation of Queen Elizabeth-II lifts the spirits of post-war Britain, Molly McQueen opens her brand new venture, McQueen's Agency. The agency hires out temps to local businesses but Molly soon finds it tough going, until one day when a lucrative job comes in to McQueen's Agency which almost seems too good to be true. Molly senses that something isn't right, but she's determined to get the job done, until she gets caught up in a web of intrigue and deceit that puts her life in grave danger.

A fast-paced historical thriller set in Victorian Glasgow, Saints and Sinners brilliantly captures the desperation and poverty riddling the Irish immigrant community of the city's East End. Told through the varying perspectives of the three main characters - a fugitive, a priest and a prostitute: two brothers and the woman they both love - Paul Cuddihy's debut novel depicts the conflicting devotions of Victorian society.

The MacLean family has more than their fair share of secrets. They live in a close-knit community on Glasgow’s High Street and the men work on the railways. They’re hard-working, ordinary, respectable people but, behind the facade, they are a family in crisis.

This brilliant sequel to Millie Gray's first novel, In a Class of Their Own, continues the story of Rachel Campbell and her family. Millie Gray once again brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the postwar era with all the hardships and struggles as well as the fun, warmth and humour of everyday life.

The Holy City is Meg Henderson’s hugely absorbing story of a working class Clydeside community.

The Italian Chapel is a story of forbidden love, lifelong friendships torn apart, despair and hope, set against the backdrop of the creation of a symbol that is known around the world.

Ashanti Gold is a pure, unbridled adventure novel. A fast-paced, exciting page-turner, it's based on a true story and marks a welcome addition to the thriller genre in the style of Wilbur Smith and Clive Cussler, with a twist.

After the massive success of the autobiographical Voices in the Street, Maureen Reynolds began a family saga as captivating as anything by Margaret Thomson Davis or Catherine Cookson. Towards A Dark Horizon second volume in the Neill family trilogy.

The acclaimed creative writing course at Glasgow University is a force to be reckoned with, producing important new writers year after year. Whatever your tastes, there's a writer here who will surprise and excite you, and you'll read them here first.

The Shadow of the Sycamores traces the fortunes of the Rae family, from Henry Rae's birth in 1871, when his drunken father, a blacksmith, forgets the name chosen for him, to his old age in the 1940s. This epic tale, from one of north-east Scotland's most renowned novelists, is romantic and heartrendingly tragic.

Dark, mysterious, deadly -- the twilight world of Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Witch is a place of nightmares and superstition, where strange, unseen forces are constantly at work. This new edition of Dorothy K. Haynes' award-winning collection of short stories includes a selection from the very best of her later work, plus the original illustrations drawn by Mervyn Peake for the first edition.