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The author of Betty Trask-winning debut "Fallow" returns with a novel in which main protagonist Chloe falls in with a gang of risky outsiders during a summer stauing with grandparents - the final summer of childhood. Tenderness, grotesquerie and dark comedy characterise this look at the bond between mother and child. MOVED TO NOVEMBER 2018 (19/06/2018 - SS)

Jeehan's sense of identity is destabilised by 9/11, sending her back to Morocco where she draws strength from the kindness of the people but becomes immersed in their problems, as she continues her attempt to come to terms with Ground Zero amid the dunes. Jury Favorite-winner at the Sofitel Tour Blanche Literary Awards.

Robbie Munro's happily married country life is destabilised by an old flame asking him to investigate the death of her partner, as well as Munro's father being accused of fabricating evidence on a decades-old child murder conviction.

When a wealthy client visits Mathilde's dressmaking shop, she finds herself drawn into the only surviving circle of luxury left in a barren London. Attending parties offers a welcome escape from life governed by ration cards and a strictly enforced child policy.

Tells the true story of Brown's life as a child in Japan at the outbreak of the Second World War, featuring letters, journal extracts and personal recollections. Brings to life the dying days of the British Empire as well as the terrifying reality of invasion.

Tha saoghal Anna a' tuiteam às a cèile is a h-athair a' dol às a rian. Mar chloich às an adhar, tha caraid mac-meanmach às a h-òige a' cèilidh oirre a-rithist, ach chan e caraid a th' ann tuilleadh.Anna's world is falling apart and her dad is losing his wits. Suddenly an imaginary friend from her childhood reappears, but now he's not so friendly.

Jealousy inspires an online deception that threatens a social network and the woman who created it.

Tha Màiri NicEchairne ag ràdh gun robh i eòlach air Lee Harvey Oswald agus gun do theich i fhèin às na Stàitean, ach chan eil neach-naidheachd Ruairidh MacIlleathain cinnteach mun sgeul aice.Màiri NicEchairne claims that she knew Lee Harvey Oswald and had to flee the States, but reporter Roddy MacLean isn't sure her story adds up.

Tha Eilidh a' dol air ais ann an tìm gu baile a chaidh a bhàthadh o chionn bhliadhnaichean. Air chall san àm a dh'fhalbh, feumaidh i slighe air ais dhan latha an-diugh a lorg.Eilidh finds herself carried back in time to the town where her grandparents lived before it was flooded. Trapped in the past, she must find a way to return to the present.

A young couple stage a lavish wedding, but they have an ulterior motive.

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Sci-fi adventure. A space traveller seeks a new planet for her species.

A trip to Namibia changes a young banker's priorities.

Harmony drops out of university and returns to the commune she grew up in, now divided into flats, to try to identify the source of her nightmares featuring a redheaded woman. Set against the backdrop of the London riots, the consequences of the housing crisis and tuition fees, the "Guardian" contributor's new novel looks set to resonate with the millennial generation.

An accident in the school chemistry lab uncovers a hidden memory that shatters Sarah Campbell's confidence and, suddenly she is no longer the she is no longer the person she thought she was, and she doesn't know if she'll ever find the strength to face up to her past and get her life back on track.

Bell, Anna and Jo have been having a whale of a time together since they left university, but when Jo announces that she's moving in with her boyfriend life takes quite a jolt. Desperate measures are called for if Bell and Anna want to put a stop to this - or maybe they all need to grow up and behave better

Helen Bellany's two marriages to the artist John Bellany inform this portrait of the life they shared, with famous friends such as David Bowie and famous sitters such as Billy Connolly also featuring.

Tesse Fontaine joined the final throes of the American freak show circuit to cope with feelings brought on by an onset of illness faced by her mother, finding hope and solace among sword-swallowers and snake-charmers. These experiences are recorded in this quirky and stirring memoir.

This third book in the series depicts a power struggle in Berlin's underworld, with Rath growing bored of surveillance of gangster Abraham Goldstein and taking on a private case for his underworld associate Johann Marlow. Nazism also begins to rear its head in this 1931-set story, continuing the action that began with the now-TV adapted "Babylon Berlin".

When Scotland's leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him.