Region: Britain (70 Listed volumes)
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Joan Haig
Tiger Skin Rug
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2021 Two homesick Indian boys and their new Scottish friend join a magical tiger on a journey across continents. Lal and his brother Dilip miss home. They don’t like drizzle, midges, or the tiger skin rug in their creepy new house. All they... -
William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin
The Dark Remains
In this scorching crime hook-up, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of D.I. Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. -
Alan Parks
The April Dead
When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow. Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organization led by a dangerous fanatic and committed to a very different kind... -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Alan Parks
Bobby March Will Live Forever
The third dark and gripping Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir. July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, has just overdosed in a central hotel. Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, lonely. And missing. -
Benjamin Wood
A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. “His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on.” For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma... -
Ben Hopkins
Cathedral
Ambitious, immersive, a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire. It deftly combines historical fiction, the literary novel of ideas, and a tale of adventure and intrigue. -
Karen Powell
The River Within
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident? -
Stav Sherez
The Intrusions
Detectives Carrigan and Miller are drawn into a terrifying new world of cyberstalking – where the threat of online intimidation, hacking, and control is ever-present, and disturbing contemporary themes and dark psychology are explored with Stav Sherez’s customary skill. -
Meena Kandasamy
When I Hit You
“Meena Kandasamy’s vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You.”—Guardian