A bittersweet novel set in Glasgow in the Forties and Fifties.

This extraordinary novel charts the thrilling progress of one of the greatest but least-known journeys of exploration.

Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn.

A Polygon newcomer, Sam Meekings presents thoughtful, light and earthy poetry. Each poem a fleeting moment that demands a long pause of reflection and moves off once again leaving a pensive smile.

Buchan skilfully weaves the story of young clerk Peter Pentecost, who has a claim to the throne, and a tale of intrigue against King Henry VIII, where ’under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless’. With an introduction by Robert Hutchinson.

A moving and satisfying blend of tragedy and comedy, Blood Hunt, Gunn’s second last novel, has a powerful message – the triumph of love over anger and of the unending renewal of nature. It is a masterly novel by a writer in full maturity.

The first exciting crime thriller book of the Alice Rice Mystery series by Gillian Galbriath, we are introduced to the implacable Alice Rice - intelligent, pragmatic and yet despite this is somehow disillusioned.

The Book of St Andrews juxtaposes poems, stories and memoirs with scant regard to chronological order, but in the confidence that each contribution, lively in its own right, may also enhance the others. Here are specially written stories by Meaghan Delahunt, A. L. Kennedy, and Sarah Hall; new poems by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Don Paterson; memoirs by Kay Redfield Jamison and Ian Rankin.

This selection of stories, poems and memoirs is a wonderful literary celebration of St Andrews, exploring the multiple facets of its life and history.

Since its first publication in 2001 Boyracers has established itself as a contemporary Scottish cult classic. It is a totally fresh, savvy and supremely honest take on being young, naive and hopeful, and on the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad pop-culture world. It is fast, pacey, fun and witty, providing a caustic look at what has passed for culture in the last decade.

Brond is a high-octane page-turner, full of political intrigue, a tale of evil and exploitation in the nightmarish landscape of a Glasgow where nothing is as it seems. Lindsay’s writing is formidable and at its most thrilling and most unpredictable here.    

James Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life – an intelligent, funny and humane novel. First published by Polygon in 1984.    

Butcher’s Broom is Neil Gunn’s epic recreation of the Highland Clearances of the nineteenth century, when great changes swept through the country and its people.