Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers - two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together is shadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper. Set during the Second World War, this novel is an examination of good and evil, and mankind's propensity for both.

Calum and Neil are the cone-gatherers -- two brothers at work in the forest of a large Scottish estate. But the harmony of their life together s overshadowed by the dark obsessive hatred of Duror, the gamekeeper.

When the beautiful pearl-fisher, Effie Williamson, arrives in a rural Scottish village, with her grandparents and siblings, the residents react in many different ways. When the religious, gentle Gavin Hamilton takes the family into his home, a difficult love blossoms gradually between Effie and Gavin under the scrutiny of the watchful locals.

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charles Forbes, sees an uncanny warmth in his reticence and in his seemingly insolent smile. So he decides to take Tom on holiday with his own family.

Set in a small Spanish seaside town, this work includes many personalities: twins Jonathan and Maddy Braxmead, unsure of their creative talents and in crisis; John Lynedoch, an aggressive, working-class Glaswegian painter; beautiful Barcelona student, Montserrat, who arouses ferocious jealousy, and her brother, a well-known Catalan patriot.

Sollas, a remote island off Scotland's west coast with a well-known religious history has been invaded by a group of Christian sectarians who claim a right to live and pay reverence at the famous stone where St Solla landed and which formed the centre of their ancestors' worship.

The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. Cursed with poverty, an ineffective president and a string of defeats, the Thistle team members are running low on morale, especially when it seems like there are many people against them...

Hugh Carstares, badly wounded in the war that cost him his wife, seemed to himself and to his superiors in the forestry service only the burnt out wreck of a hero.

Set in Afghanistan, this novel features Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiancee, Laura Johnstone. Prince Naim sees the marriage as a symbol of a successful union between East and West, and in his hurry to cement this union, promotes Abdul into a position of power he is far from ready for.

Set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, this novel creates a modern-day Confessions of a Justified Sinner . Convinced of his own rectitude and appalled at the moral squalor around him, Duffy declares war on society. Duffy is a ferocious indictment of Calvinist moral certainty.

Deals with human nature, as always with Jenkins, and the socialism of industrial Glasgow.

Robin Jenkin's novel, 'A Very Scotch Affair', is set in Glasgow and tells the tale of Mungo Niven, a man who possesses a fiercely Scotch conscience and who feels trapped in a drab and unfulfilling existence.

Tom Curdie is the product of a Glasgow slum and the most ill-behaved boy in his chool. But when his teacher spots an uncanny quality of magnanimity in his pupil and takes him on holiday, the child's true colours emerge.

Two British travellers, David and Margaret, have disappeared in the wild mountainous region of northern Afghanistan. The authorities in Kabul say that they have been murdered by the inhabitants of the small village. But John McLeod, a friend of the missing couple, travels to Kabul and starts his own enquiries.

From his origins as an illegitimate child in the slums of Glasgow, Fergus Lamont sets out to reclaim his inheritance and to remake his identity as soldier, poet and would-be aristocrat. Spanning the turn of the century to World War II, Fergus finally hopes to find redemption in a love affair.

Following the death of his mother, Matthew is taken to the fishing community of Lunderston where he encounters Sheila, who forces her way into his life and introduces him to her dark beliefs and habits. Together they flirt with murder and the supernatural as a solution to his problems.

Set in early-Victorian Scotland, this story is based on a momentous event in Scottish history, the Great Disruption of 1843, when a group of ministers took on the establishment in a bitter conflict which split the Church of Scotland down the middle.

A selection of photographs that illustrates the transformation that has taken place in Leicester during the 20th century. It offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of change. It records the process of transformation.

Is there life in the old dog yet? For Gregor McLeod - 72-year-old retired school master, 6-handicap golfer and Rotary Club socialist - the answer is yes. Even after his wife's death there is romance to be found, but with whom? This story travels from the West Coast of Scotland to California.

Magdalen, the 14-year-old daughter of Lord Carnegie has a love of art and beauty and a horror of barbaric practices such as the burning of women thought to be witches. With civil war brewing, family alliances are paramount and Carnegie arranges her marriage to James Graham, the future Marquis of Montrose.