New and Forthcoming
The Grey Coast
Neil M. Gunn
Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: £15.00
Publication: 21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781918204001
Format: Hardback
A compelling, dramatic and deeply psychological story of youthful love and trapped hopes set in the startling landscape of the far North. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1926, this centenary edition celebrates a major talent and the work of one of Scotland’s most important and neglected writers.
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The wide-open skies, fierce seas and the ever-changing weather of Scotland’s farthest reaches, provides the setting for this gripping and emotionally acute study of young love and youthful ambition and the constraints and violence of a traditional community. Maggie and Ivor struggle to connect in a world that seems fixed on keeping them apart.​​
The Serpent
Neil M. Gunn
Introduction by Alan Taylor
RRP: £15.00
Publication: 21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781918204025
Format: Hardback
An old man living at the height of his powers of recall and memory tells the story of his life on the day of his death from the vantage point on a hill above the village where he was born.
Quietly narrated and yet raging with will and the passion of youth, this is a novel about fathers and sons, hope and hope’s death, and how we might live in the world before leaving it. In the company of such masterpieces as Seethaler’s A Whole Life and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Serpent will grip the reader from the outset.
A wildly immersive story and a provocative and un-putdownable study of what it is to be human.
Blood Hunt
Neil M. Gunn
Introduction by Louise Welsh
RRP: £15.00
Publication: 21 May 2026
ISBN: 9781918204018
Format: Hardback
This tense, psychically aware thriller hooks the reader from the first page when a local policeman arrives at the home of an isolated crofter in search of a young fugitive.
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Blood Hunt is a tale of, love, murder, divided loyalties and the awful human instinct to hunt a fellow animal down - even to death.
From the moment Sandy opens his door we enter into the ancient world of crime and punishment, action and retribution, of passion and the centrality of a woman’s power, brought bang up to date by a precise, psychologically acute narrative of the killed and the killer.​
A Year in Water
Beth McDonough
Illustrated by Graham Johnston
RRP: £16.00
Publication: 2 September 2026
ISBN: 9781918204087
Format: Hardback
A beautiful and inspirational companion, this book will have you thinking about outdoor swimming in a whole new way. Charming, funny, intelligent and informative, A Year in Water comprises journals, recipes, poems, practical advice and more.
A timeless classic in the making, A Year in Water is like no other book about swimming in the open. Both practical and inspirational, a personal memoir and an experience on the page that places the reader knee-deep in rivers, lochs and seas in Scotland and all over the UK.​​