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A unique, untold, true story of a middle-aged housewife recruited by the British Intelligence Services during World War Two.

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Sam Harvie, son of a circus manager, causes mayhem and is eventually dismissed form the Prosecution services. He tries his hand at a variety of jobs but they all result in a sacking.

Gonnae no dae that? This is a Scots expression imploring someone to stop doing something. Advice Miller H Caldwell definitely didn't follow. In his memoir, Miller goes back to 1950, growing up in the manse at Kirriemuir. After some troubling experiences, he finished schooling in Glasgow determined to lead a humanitarian life.

The numerous dreams of the author made him think of collecting some more. His net was spread over many lands and captured the recollections of authors, poets, friends and new acquaintances. From Eire, The Netherlands, India, Kyrgyzstan, America, Siberia, Germany, France, Australia, Romania, Russia and from other parts of the UK they arrived. Surreal, true, fictional, humorous and comments, this is a book without chapters. Use your favourit...

Listening to a Radio Moscow broadcast on holiday on Jura, Glasgow schoolboy Robert Harvie finds errors in the programme which he reports to the Russians. Then, as a student, the Soviets give him a grant, and so Robert is inadvertently compromised. His first job takes him to Ghana, and soon he has murder on his hands. How can he escape Soviet attention?

Hilda Campbell was born in the north of Scotland in 1889. She married German national Dr Willy Bu¿ttner Richter in 1912. They honeymooned in Scotland and returned to settle in Hamburg. Dr Richter died in 1938. After visiting her ailing parents, Hilda returned to Germany just before the Second World War began. She became a double agent, controlled by Gerhardt Eicke in Germany and Lawrence Thornton in Britain. How could she cope under such strai...

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A Lingering Crime follows Jack Watson as he is arrested for a crime he did not commit and extradited to Florida, a State he has never visited, to stand trial for murder. A poignant crime novel, this story brings the impact of historical sexual abuse into the spotlight and explores the long-lasting effects of abuse on an individual.

Geoff Varley joins the Eros cruise liner on its maiden four-month world cruise, as the Writer in Residence. It's a new venture for the shipping company and for him. Passengers' demons are laid to rest, creative minds are hard at work and on-shore adventures are both hair-raising and intriguing. Drug running and stamp collecting, ornithology and ship arrests, sumptuous meals and crippling debt, terminal illness, shattered dreams in the South At...

Mark Webster is the devoted friend of Danny Kimber, a blind musician yet also a police informant. But on a wild spring evening, when Danny's body is found in the river Nith, there is judged to be no evidence of foul play. Mark thinks otherwise. But can he prove it? Then a young girl Poppy is found in the river. But are the two deaths linked? As Mark tries to understand what is happening in modern Dumfries, he falls under the charms of Chief Su...

A Brahms concert in Hamburg in 1912 leads to romance. An escape behind enemy lines and a traumatic voyage follow. A second eventful voyage began a diplomatic career in the Second World War in West Africa and revealed a dark family secret. Throughout these decades of conflict and strife an oboe plays unaccompanied. Its notes would linger to entertain an independent Gold Coast

This is the remarkable autobiography of a Scottish son of the manse, blinded in one eye, the consequences of a rugby accident and educated in Edinburgh. Does this sound familiar? He suffered abuse but turned that dark episode of his youth into a life of humanitarian service in Africa, Asia and Scotland. This head of department, until illness caused him to retire, found a new life as an author of eclectic books. He confronted Usama bin Laden in...

The Trials of Sally Dunning - This is a fast moving story with autistic Sally Dunning the protagonist. Bones Ritchie and his girlfriend Donkey Riley befriend Sally. A Clerical Murder - This is also a fast moving story. Dr Tony Scriven finds his casebook inundated by clerics. All have their own daemon back stories which bring them to him.

A delightful concoction of self-help advice for those of all ages suffering from occasional or regular memory lapses. The author's personal medical history is bound together by a fascinating and rib-tickling insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the human memory. It is a seriously funny yet thoughtful and helpful book. A rare combination indeed. Why did he have to retire early? How he nearly married the wrong woman! How he wrote a succe...

Give Your Eyes a Treat. Text is clear, large and spacious. Give Your Mind a Treat. Let a Poem or Short Story transfix your imagination. Give Your Thoughts an Overhaul. Do You Share My Views of Life? But have the hankies to hand or be ready to explain why you are laughing!

Martha Douglas encountered several needles in her remarkable yet troubled life. One needle brought anguish while another brought relief One brought pleasure while another disbelief One needle eased suffering amid the horrors of war The final needle brought contentment on a far off shore. In an era of discrimination bold acts of the day Swayed the thoughts of many that never went away Today equality is for everyone with no exemptio...

A successful but arrogant banker has a spring holiday with his family in rural south west Scotland where his values and his attitude cause mayhem. The Last Shepherd shows the errors of his city ways with assistance of a mysterious mute benefactor whose actions climax in a tragic but resolute ending, touched by romance. 'I was shocked to discover I knew so little of rural ways. It was a real education.' Pete Newbrook. 'A way of life ...