An exciting assembly of Scotland's most promising new writers, with a foreword by Irvine Welsh, and exclusive artwork by Aidan Moffat of Arab Strap Such authors as Sophie Cooke, who was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book award; Suhayl Saadi, who was nominated for the James Black Tait Memorial Prize; acclaimed novelist and poet Kevin MacNeil; and renowned performer and novelist Alan Bissett all contribute stories on contemporary Scotland. Throw in renowned international authors like Kapka Kassabova and Jason Donald as well as esteemed figures of Scottish literature like Duncan McClean, and you have a collection that aims to show a changing and dynamic new Scotland. Brand new, unpublished authors are also featured; quite simply, if you want to read the best new talent in Scottish fiction, you've come to the right place.

1st edition Sphere 1975 paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

1st edition Sphere 1975 paperback, vg++, Signed In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

"The embargo was a success: the people were starving and the country was in ruins..." Extreme situations have always illuminated the human condition, and in these three stories set in three widely-separated places in times of crisis, Theodore Dalrymple explores the deeper levels of human nature. Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor and psychiatrist who has written many books, including Life at the Bottom, Romancing Opiates and Admirable Evasions.

1st Quartet edition paperback, fine signed by the author In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Albert the mouse finds the perfect clubhouse for his playroom--a human shoe--but first he must measure it and avoid Groucho the cat.

Clive Sinclair's first collection of stories won the Somerset Maugham Award. His second was short-listed for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award. His third won both the PEN Silver Pen, and the Jewish Quarterly Award for fiction. This is his fourth. The new stories range from New Orleans and Texas to Peru and Venice. Their subjects are loss, the fear of loss, and love, most especially that between husbands and wives, fathers and sons. Their cast includes the quick and the dead, the real and the imagined: Davy Crockett, Kinky Friedman, Captain Haddock, Princess Diana, and Shylock. They are as cruel as life, and as funny.

This is a collection of stories from authors including Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Frank Ronan and Carol Shields.

In these dramatic, humorous and poignant short stories, Dan Jacobson unearths, in a variety of modes and settings, some essential and unexpected truths about human nature. Several of these stories have reached classic status and have been included in many leading anthologies of the storyteller's art.

A collection of stories which span intimacy and politics, violence and calm. The settings include the depths of the Pacific and the Amazonian forests, the Poland of the death camps, and Italy after the collapse of Marxism.