Following on from the same author’s On Scottish Ground, this book shows Kenneth White on his tracks outside Scotland, before zooming in on his return.

A new thrilling novel carefully laiden with mystery, deception and murder in which Alice Rice finds herself hunting a killer.

Winter Tales is a superb collection of tender and compassionate tales, focussing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the 20th century.

Wish I Was Here represents the diversity of languages, dialects and cultures in contemporary Scotland.

Buchan’s favourite of all his novels, Witch Wood deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance. Minister Sempill witnesses devil worship in the ’Witch Wood’ and is persecuted. With an introduction by Allan Massie.

Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to one of Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competitions – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award 2006.

Writing Scotland is a major eight-part television series, made by Hopscotch Films, written and presented by Carl MacDougall and scheduled to be broadcast on BBC2 Scotland and BBC4 in 2004.