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Complete Novellas by Agnes Owens [extract]

Features stories including 'A Working Mother', 'For the Love of Willie Owens', 'Bad Attitudes' and 'Jen's Party'. Read more >>

And the Judges Said... by James Kelman [extract]

A collection of captivating essays in which Kelman discusses a wide range of issues connected to his views about the world, and the people and events that have influenced his writing.

Best Laid Schemes [extract]

The Best Laid Schemes is the only substantial selection of Burns’s work in print which has line-by-line glossing of the Scots words aiming to help readers appreciatete a remarkable and freshly accessible poetic voice. Read more >>

The Bestiary by Sam Meekings [extract]

A Polygon newcomer, Sam Meekings presents thoughtful, light and earthy poetry. Each poem a fleeting moment that demands a long pause of reflection and moves off once again leaving a pensive smile.

Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith [extract]

Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has 'moved house' to London's Pimlico and into his brand new daily novel, Corduroy Mansions. Read more >>

The Devil's Staircase by Helen Fitzgerald [extract]

Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She’s a sheltered girl - gentle and kind - who has spent her teenage years in a fearful bubble. She’s never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she’s done all three. Read more >>

Dizzy Worms by Michael Holman [extract]

The spectacular conclusion to the Last Orders at Harrods trilogy. Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will love Michael Holman's charming and entertaining novels. Read more >>

Dying Of The Light by Gillian Galbraith [extract]

Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this third Alice Rice mystery sees the detective in the hunt for a serial prostitue murderer and explores the hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs. Read more >>

Elephantina by Andrew Drummond [extract]

Original literary fiction that tackles the tricky eighteenth-century problem of how to dissect an elephant.

Fatboy and the Dancing Ladies by Michael Holman [extract]

Mildred Kigali is quite certain. Charity Mupanga, widowed proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), believes her old friend. Mildred insists that after leading the impromptu conga, knitting-needles in her hands, at the end of the Kireba Sewing Circle’s monthly knees-up at Harrods, she had returned the needles to their usual place. And while she has to admit that the memory of someone born during East Africa’s Great Flood of 1932 might not be entirely reliable, she has no doubt that the two paw paws have also gone missing.

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