'McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart.' - Financial Times

The third in David Ashton’s series of McLevy thrillers, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer.

'David Ashton, like Robert Louis Stevenson or Ian Rankin, is inspired by the beauty-and-beast nature of Edinburgh. His interpretation of James McLevy is worthy of the original man,’ - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London

It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? McLevy investigates in this thrilling tale of corruption.

A new example of the diverse pathways and the multiple dimensions of Kenneth White's method in that highly original type of travel-writing he calls the waybook.

WINNER OF THE 2010 DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE

Death stalks the aisles and haunts the Stage Door for two groups of entertainers in this blood-curdling Victorian murder mystery.

Features stories including 'A Working Mother', 'For the Love of Willie Owens', 'Bad Attitudes' and 'Jen's Party'.

The complete life work of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.

The poems of this bilingual collection by award-winning poet Angus Peter Campbell examine the decay and fragmentation of Gaelic language and identity in the modern age, exploring the ways in which language and identity intersect with the historical and natural landscapes of Scotland.

Published to coincide with the quincentenary of Buchanan’s birth in 2006. Here, for the first time ever, Polygon presents a selection of Buchanan’s work, translated and accompanied by the work

Early fifth century, Europe, and two old friends, now bitter rivals, face each other on the battlefield. Attila, leader of the Huns, is confronted by Aetius, the last of the great Roman generals. In the epic battle that ensues, the stakes for Attila and Artius could not be higher as the fate of both their empires hangs in the balance.