Modern Fiction
By Picaresque Books
By Picaresque Books
Lady MacBethad: The electrifying story of love, ambition, revenge and murder behind a real life Scottish queen
Isabelle Schuler
£14.99 £14.24
The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: the most beautiful and uplifting novel of 2023
Kara Gnodde
£14.99 £14.24
The Memory of Animals: From the Costa Novel-winning author of Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller
£16.99 £16.14
Black Candle Women: a spellbinding story of family, heartache, and a fatal Voodoo curse
Diane Marie Brown
£20.00 £19.00
Old Babes in the Wood: New stories of love and mischief from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£22.00 £20.90
Twelve Secrets: The Sunday Times bestselling thriller everybody is talking about
Robert Gold
£8.99 £8.54
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R.F. Kuang
£16.99 £16.14
Mad Honey: The most compelling novel you'll read this year
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
£16.99 £16.14
A Heart Full of Headstones: The Gripping New Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin
£22.00 £20.90
Act of Oblivion: The Thrilling new novel from the no. 1 bestseller Robert Harris
Robert Harris
£22.00 £20.90
Queen High: Chilling historical thriller from the acclaimed author of WIDOWLAND
C J Carey
£16.99 £16.14
Bleeding Heart Yard: Breathtaking thriller from the bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway books
Elly Griffiths
£22.00 £20.90
Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick
Celeste Ng
£20.00 £19.00
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
Emeric Pressburger
£9.99 £9.49
The Last Party: The twisty new mystery and instant Sunday Times bestseller
Clare Mackintosh
£14.99 £14.24
Murder Before Evensong: The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
Reverend Richard Coles
£16.99 £16.14
Lessons in Chemistry: The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
Bonnie Garmus
£16.99 £16.14
A Change of Circumstance: Discover the million-copy bestselling Simon Serrailler series
Susan Hill
£8.99 £8.54
The Wall: Discover this addictive dystopia from the Vintage Earth series
Marlen Haushofer
£9.99 £9.49
Amy and Lan: The enchanting new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Outcast
Sadie Jones
£16.99 £16.14
Snow Country: The epic Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
£9.99 £9.49
Elektra: The mesmerising retelling from the women at the heart of the Trojan War
Jennifer Saint
£14.99
Scabby Queen
Kirstin Innes
£12.99 £12.34'Gripping and moving. A literary triumph' Nicola Sturgeon 'A humane and searching story' Ian Rankin 'Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better nation' A.L. Kennedy A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Now that she's gone, those who loved her, those who hated her and those who felt both ways at the same time are forced to ask one question: Who was Clio Campbell? Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, life-long-love and one-night-stand - kills herself in her friend Ruth's spare bedroom. And, as practical as she is, Ruth doesn't know what to do. Or how to feel. Because knowing and loving Clio Campbell was never straightforward. As news spreads, the story of Clio's life spreads with it: from the Isle of Skye to an anarchist squat in Brixton, from a yoga retreat in Greece to Glasgow on the night of the Scottish referendum. Half a century of memories, of pain and of joy, and that peculiar feeling in between the two, are wrenched to the surface. Scabby Queen is a portrait of a woman who refuses to compromise, and a picture of a country that does nothing but. It's about the silencing of women's voices, about the destructive power of the celebrity machine, but most of all it is about empathy: its motives, its limits and the way it endlessly transformed.
The Push: The Richard & Judy Book Club Choice & Sunday Times Bestseller About Motherhood
Ashley Audrain
£12.99 £12.08The most astonishing book you'll read in 2021 - selected as one to watch by Vogue, Grazia and Marie Claire 'I will never forget her eyes in that moment - I couldn't look away from them. But I knew what happened as soon as I heard it. 'I think she pushed him,' I said to you quietly. 'I think she pushed him...' ___ 'I read it in one sitting. Not to be missed' LISA JEWELL 'Unsettling, visceral, provocative, compulsive' SARAH VAUGHAN ___ The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. But as soon as I held her in my arms I knew something wasn't right. I had always known that the women in my family aren't meant to be mothers. My husband Fox says I'm imagining it. He tells me I'm nothing like my own mother, and that Violet is the sweetest child. But she's different with me. Something feels very wrong. Is it her? Or is it me? Is she the monster? Or am I? ___ The Push is an unsettling, breathtaking and powerful read about obsession and our deepest fears that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
Luckenbooth
Jenni Fagan
£16.99Featured in Damian Barr's picks for 2021'If this addictive slice of Edinburgh Gothic isn't on all prize lists, there is no justice.' iNews 'Over time, 10 Luckenbooth Close sinks from grand residence to condemned squat with secrets seething in its walls ... Luckenbooth is a place of compacted time, where the past manifests as unquiet ghosts and the future bleeds into the present ... There's a force in Luckenbooth's bizarre assemblage.' The Times'Definitely going to be one of my books of 2021, a gloriously transgressive novel of Edinburgh denizens past and present.' IAN RANKIN________________________Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement. The devil's daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancee. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents - a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, No. 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors and an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind, and the places that hold them long after we are gone. ________________________'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years. Luckenbooth, sprawling the decades with its themes of repression and revenge, brings back something that has long been lacking in the British novel: ambition. If Alasdair Gray's Lanark was a masterly imagining of Glasgow, then this is the quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.' IRVINE WELSH 'A deeply powerful, compellingly vivid novel ... Luckenbooth is a major work of Scottish fiction - possibly one of the most significant novels of the last ten years' ALAN WARNER'Luckenbooth is seedy, sexy and strange, a haunted house story soaked in booze and bad weather ... Fagan's prose is fast and impressionistic.' Sunday Telegraph' With Luckenbooth, [Jenni Fagan] gives us nine of Edinburgh's wildest and loneliest misfits ... Piles on claustrophobia and menace ... As we move between the characters' perspectives, gritty realism takes over from the gothic. This isn't fancy Edinburgh: at No 10 it's cigarettes, cocaine and Benzedrine for breakfast ... There are memorable creations ... Fagan's prose is poetic, high-octane, built on punchy sentences. Arresting descriptions of the city and its weather abound. This is not a novel that lacks energy.' Sunday Times'Jenni Fagan's Luckenbooth reminded me of one of my favourite novels, Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. Set in an Edinburgh tenement, it leaps across decades to tell the story of the curse that haunts No 10 Luckenbooth Close and its eccentric inhabitants.' Alex Preston, Observer 'Structures and structuralism obsess Jenni Fagan. Those obsessions intertwine spectacularly in Luckenbooth, her third novel, about an Edinburgh tenement and the curse that haunts it, infecting the lives of all who live across the building's nine floors over nine decades of mystery and uproarious change ...
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Maggie O'Farrell
£20.00 £19.00
Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller
Torrey Peters
£14.99 £14.24
When the Dead Come Calling: The Burrowhead Mysteries: A Scottish Book Trust 2020 Great Scottish Novel
Helen Sedgwick
£8.99 £8.54
Still Life
Sarah Winman
£16.99 £16.14The stunning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tin Man. We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn. And do you know what it’s capable of? I do. Grace and fury. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening together. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a particular Florentine room with a view. These two unlikely people find kindred spirits in each other and Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses’ mind that will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for the next four decades. Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of London’s East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful, richly-peopled novel about beauty, love, family and fate.
Where the Missing Gather: 'Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now!' Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
Helen Sedgwick
£12.99 £12.34Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay on When the Dead Come CallingGone but not forgotten... An archaeological dig exposes a brutal history and a witness finally speaks. It seems the wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air of Burrowhead might be excised at last. But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the woods and human remains begin to surface. Sinister rituals connect past and present but no one wants to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. Soon Georgie must face the question: where do the missing souls of the village gather?
Unravelling: A gripping tale of dark secrets, lies and murder
Helen Forbes
£9.99 £9.49Incarcerated in the gloom of a Highland asylum, a young mother finds illicit love. And death. Can her daughter unravel the twisted truth and save her own life?Kate Sharp’s family is a mystery. Her mother, Ellen, disappeared into the shadows of Craig Dunain psychiatric hospital when Kate was a child. When her grandmother dies, Kate is desperate for answers. What were the circumstances of her mother’s life and death? Who is her father?Kate’s not the only one trying to uncover the truth. The remains of two bodies with murderous injuries have been found buried in the forest next to the former hospital. And someone else is searching for answers, and he will stop at nothing to find them. As the tale of Ellen’s tragic unravelling unfolds, the secrets that led to her death are exposed, along with the shocking truth about Kate’s father. Unaware of the danger stalking her, Kate continues her search. Will she find the answers? Can she save her own life? Unravelling is a gripping tale of dark secrets,lies and murder, Set in a dual time-frame, Unravelling features the former Craig Dunain Psychiatric Hospitalin Inverness. The idea for the novel came from a visit to the Highland Archive Centre, where the records for the former hospital are kept.
Light Perpetual: 'Heartbreaking . . . a boundlessly rich novel.' Telegraph
Francis (author) Spufford
£16.99 £16.14
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
Sally Rooney
£16.99 £16.14
A Slow Fire Burning: The addictive new Sunday Times No.1 bestseller from the author of The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
£20.00 £19.00
The Heron's Cry: Now a major ITV series starring Ben Aldridge as Detective Matthew Venn
Ann Cleeves
£20.00 £19.00
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Chibundu Onuzo
£16.99 £16.14
The Dark Remains: The Sunday Times Bestseller and The Crime and Thriller Book of the Year 2022
William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
£20.00 £19.00
The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4
Monique Roffey
£9.99 £9.49
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Maggie O'Farrell
£9.99 £9.49
The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
Matt Haig
£9.99 £9.49
Companion piece: The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both
Ali Smith
£16.99 £16.14
The Key In The Lock: A haunting historical mystery steeped in explosive secrets and lost love
Beth Underdown
£14.99 £14.24
A Fatal Crossing: Agatha Christie meets Titanic in this unputdownable mystery
Tom Hindle
£14.99 £14.24
Burning Questions: The Sunday Times bestselling collection of essays from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
£20.00 £19.00
Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day
Tessa Hadley
£16.99 £16.14
Mating in Captivity: How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships
Esther Perel
£10.99 £10.44
Mother's Boy: A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
Patrick Gale
£20.00 £19.00
Thirty Things I Love About Myself: The 'witty', 'uplifting', 'inspiring', 'fresh', 'joyful' novel you must not miss!
Radhika Sanghani
£16.99 £16.14
Sundial: from the author of Sunday Times bestseller The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
£14.99 £14.24
Build Your House Around My Body: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
Violet Kupersmith
£8.99 £8.54
The Patron Saint of Second Chances: the most uplifting book you'll read this year
Christine SIMON
£16.99 £16.14
Shrines of Gaiety: From the global No.1 bestselling author of Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
£20.00 £19.00
The Island of Missing Trees: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Elif Shafak
£9.99 £9.49
French Braid: The Sunday Times Bestseller and Perfect Gift for Mother's Day
Anne Tyler
£16.99 £16.14
