Ruby thinks her life is in good order but as she lurches from choir to yoga, to Zumba and work deadlines and taking her son, Ben, to and from school and cubs and clubs, she makes sure she doesn’t have a free minute. No matter that she’s oblivious to other people’s feelings, as far as […]

Only six years after its unlikely founding in 1962, the young Scottish Opera entered a period of a dozen years when it could do little wrong. The Company was the brainchild of Sir Alexander Gibson, a conductor who was to prove the most pivotal and vital force in the development of music in Scotland in […]

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A poignant, funny, and timely memoir that marries the intimacy and the sexual identity themes of Boy Erased with My Life in Middlemarch’s interest in the way literature shapes and influences our lives, written in the authentic Southern voice, deeply incisive wit, and with quirky but erudite observations evocative of John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead. Mark Scarbrough has been searching […]

Auto accidents. Mysterious fires. Cultists. Mythological figures. Poisoned lands. Is danger spreading from sinister Dubbs House? These bloody events come alive under the watchful eye of Doctor Kathryn Cross, a former victim of the town, now turned survivor. Her skepticism is the only thing keeping her sane as she unravels a potential conspiracy seeded within […]

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A woman approaches private investigator, Andy Flood, claiming that her controlling husband tried to drown her in the Gulf of Mexico while on holiday in Florida. Miraculously, she finds her way back to the UK, determined to exact revenge. Flood turns down the case, doubting her fanciful story but when something shocking happens to her, […]

When a wife loses her husband, that can be too much to bear: but when a mother then loses her only son, that is just one loss too far. Mary Tegg doesn’t know which way to turn, and her young daughter is suffering because her mother is finding it impossible to sort their lives out. […]

Hailey Pittman suffers a violent and premature death. Her husband, Owen, discovers that Hailey was having an affair. Detective Sergeant Holly Jones thinks she knows what happened to Hailey. The Detective disagrees with those that say the circumstances of the death of Hailey were mysterious. Detective Sergeant Holly Jones, though, remains curious and wants to […]

The Most Dangerous Spy Nancy Brown is an ordinary girl living in the industrial town of Orethorpe at the outbreak of the Second World War. Her life suddenly changes when she is told to report to the mysterious Megg House, and soon she finds herself caught up in a top-secret operation to find German spies […]

The Mothers The reappearance of Mariela Fairman’s husband, seven years after he mysteriously vanished, launches her into a tortuous whirlpool of love, guilt, hope and loss. Living on the south west coast of Ireland in a dilapidated manor house that is both a retreat and a prison, struggling to raise her cold and rejecting son, […]

My Man and Me George Stephenson is approaching his fiftieth birthday, disappointed with life, and only too aware of his many failings. His troubled marriage to Dawn appears to be crumbling, egged on by his successful neighbour Derek. His relationship with his son Paul has become detached. Something has gone horribly wrong in their son’s […]