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From love and marriage to the front line of Russia's invasion, a profoundly personal story of the city of Odesa and the emotional impacts of Putin's ten-year war.

And do not relinquish the search For that limitless lightSo that in the street, starsMorph into cometsExtract from 'This Place (...)'  HAIRAN is a new anthology of poetry by Iranian women, compiled in the face of the violent attacks on life and liberty that began with the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran in September 2022. Amini was arrested and killed in police custody for not covering enough of her hair in public. Here are 75 poems from a diverse cross-section of contemporary Iranian voices, accompanied by 'hair portraits' taken by the poets. Alongside Sobati and Sarhandi-Williams, HAIRAN was edited by Sepideh Jodeyri, Sepideh Kouti, Anna Krasnowolska, Anahita Rezaei, and Abbas Shokri.

'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.'MIRIAM MARGOLYES About the bookRosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father's violin. An epic generational novel about womanhood and Judaeo-Scottish experience across two World Wars, the creation of Israel and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Jenni Daiches's Somewhere Else explores today's most difficult and urgent questions, not least of which: how to find identity in displacement.

Scotland, 162 AD, is a divided country. On one side of the Antonine wall, thirteen-year-old Felix is trying to become a good Roman soldier like his father. On the other, twelve-year old Jinny is vowing revenge on the 'metal men' who have invaded her Maetae tribe's homeland. At the Maetae's scared circle of standing stones, her planned attack on Felix goes badly wrong, awakening a legend that threatens to bring fire and destruction down on them all. Can Jinny and Felix overcome their differences and soothe the stones back to sleep before it's too late?

The final novel in the Empress Irini Series following the life of the only woman to rule ancient Byzantium, seen through the eyes of Thekla the young abbess of the imperial convent. Tragedy, revenge, civil war and family strife are lightened by the true adventure of a young woman raised to awesome responsibility in a glittering, exciting age.

Book three of The Empress Irini Series, following the life of the only woman to rule ancient Byzantium in her own right. Irini's struggle for power pits her against her own son Constantine, all seen through the loyal but questioning eyes of abbess Thekla. Can she even attempt to right the wrongs of a power-crazed family?

The biography of R B Cunninghame Graham; writer, adventurer, politician; co-founder of the Labour Party and of the Scottish National Party, written by his great, great nephew.

The first volume in a young adult thriller series about the formidable Empress Irini - the only woman to have ruled the Roman Empire of the East, Byzantium 770 AD...

Alan Riach's The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; a work that blends biography and national history, poetry and prose. This is as much a work on MacDiarmid (man, poet, and myth), as it is a study into a peculiarly Scottish kind of consciousness.

One hundred stories written in prison in Belarus in 2021 awaiting trial. While the futures of fellow prisoners hang in the balance, every detail of life is important: from the steps of the cockroach to the snores of cell mates.

The first ever biography published on Scottish artist James McBey. Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). This illegitimate son of a blacksmiths' daughter was the acknowledged heir to Whistler and Rembrandt. But after his death in 1959, his renown as one of Britain's most accomplished artists faded from public consciousness. At the heart of this biography is his time as a war artist in the Middle East during the Great War, his love affairs, marriage to a beautiful American, and his enduring passion for Morocco. This is the story of one man who triumphed against the odds.

"The stories have a steely rectitude and an uncompromising determination to face down humiliation and inequality...economical, moral and compassionate."-The GuardianDilys Rose has been compared to Katherine Mansfield. Stories include one of two musicians in an airport watching a bombing of the home town they have left; restless teenagers running riot during lockdown, with disastrous consequences. In others Albert Einstein's reputation grows, as does his absence as a father; a cantankerous ninety-nine year old contributes to the chaos of a night ward. Rose conjures the essence of a situation with insight, economy and dark wit, and vividly presents an uncompromising view of the world where everyone is searching but few find what they hope for. Each story vividly creates the inner world of a compelling yet disparate cast of characters, and these brief glimpses into the lives of others leave a lasting afterglow.

Andreea is thirteen.  She skips school one day and for fun gets in a car with a boy she does not know.  At once they have a crash which leaves her paralysed from the neck down.  This is the true story of a teenager's courageous fight for a life.Â

Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada, provides fresh social, political and foreign policy insights from the perspective of a gentleman spy who took part in some of the most important events of his time.

The long anticipated sequel to Errant Blood, C.F. Peterson's new crime thriller set in the Scottish Highlands.

A collaboration between artist and poet exploring archetypes and belonging from South Africa, through London to the Scottish Highlands.

A transnational collection of 'Pandemic Poems' and paintings that, among other things, compares India with Scotland. Vibha's paintings go hand in hand with Bashabi's evocative poetry.

An explosive collection of poems which document the life as a daughter caring for her father who is a drug addict.

Marjorie's Journey: On a Mission of Her Own tells the compelling story of Marjorie, a courageous woman who sailed to South Africa with ten children during WWII.

'A book with a bounce.' Comic, Dickensian murder mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh.

Alicia and her brother Avi are interned in a camp where children are taught to forget their mother tongue and speak the language of the coloniser. They escape into the Belarusian forest to go on an adult Hansel and Gretel adventure.

Conceived and realised by Scottish PEN, this anthology of poetry and prose explores freedom of expression. The year 2020 marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter to the Pope from the Scottish Nobles asking for the freedom to exist as a nation. The need to hear and understand each other is as urgent now as it ever was.

Alexander Wilson was the inspiration for the Last of the Mohicans.  He travelled across North America, living wild, counting and painting birds for the first ever American Ornithology.His beautiful illustrations alongside new poems in Scots by Hamish MacDonald, look at the habits, habitats, and characteristics of birds.

The builder of the White House, the hero of Aboukir Bay, a murderer who inspired Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a decadent society hostess... Just some of the characters who lived at number 66.

The Polish novelist Zofia Nalkowska was witness to two world wars and Poland's struggle for independence. Her most renowned work, 'Medallions', is considered a masterpiece of anti-fascist world literature. This is her only biography in the English language.

Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin is a young red squirrel who leads his people in a battle against a horde of grey squirrelinvaders from America. The Sheep who wasn't a Sheep and The White Drake get into the minds of other intelligent farm animals living in rural Scotland.

Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realise that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities, adopting three homeless children on the way. Originally refused publication in London because it was deemed critical of the English, Auntie Robbo was first published in the U.S. in 1940. After success in print it was taken on by Constable in 1959 and later was published in India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Germany.

Poet and actress, Gerda Stevenson, is widely acknowledged as one of Scotland's greatest talents. Here she has illustrated the paintings of her one time neighbour, Christian Small, with poems specially written for the book.