It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. With Case Histories, Kate A[...]

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.[...]

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, lived the Fairfaxes, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too. But Isobel Fairfax knows about the past. She is waiting for the return of her mother whose dis[...]

The "Continuum Contemporaries" series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give readers informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years.[...]

"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? "
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks u[...]

Left impoverished upon the death of her aunt, Emma Watson has no option but to be reunited with her estranged father and siblings. Initially delighted with her new life - including the fashionable society balls she now has access to - Emma soon realises that her family harbour many ill feelings, not[...]

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie[...]

Life After Life

En spännande och underbart rolig berättelse i högt tempo - men med mörka bråddjup

Allt sker sekundsnabbt.
Några människor som står och köar utanför en teater i Edinburgh råkar bevittna en bagatellartad bilkrock. En av förarna blir rasande och löper amok men fälls till marken[...]

Tänk om det finns andra chanser. På riktigt. Och tredje chanser. Tänk om du har ett oändligt antal chanser att leva om ditt liv. Skulle du till slut kunna rädda världen från ett oundvikligt öde? Skulle du ens vilja? En kall vinterdag 1910 föds Ursula Todd. Hon är tredje barnet till en [...]