Fiction / Classics

Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions. Published in 1966, it won the Guardian Fiction Book of the Year and Yorkshire Post’s Best First Work.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde follows the story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug: a chemical that can turn him into something else – his monstrous alter-ego. This new edition features an introduction by Denise Mina.

Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime, as well as those that were unpublished and a new story which was discovered in 2001.

Major new retelling of the life and pre-life of Oedipus Rex, as written by his daughter Antigone

Carlo Gébler has re-imagined twenty-eight of the original stories of the Decameron, drawing out the essence of the tales in order to let their true genius and wit shine. This is a text for troubled times, which will continue to resonate and provide solace for years, if not decades to come.

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Greenmantle is a gripping reflection on the power of political Islam, and demonstrates Buchan’s exemplary storytelling ability and political insight.

Dogs Enjoy the Morning is an uproarious novel full of weird and wonderful characters set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland…

The Dublin Illustrated Edition of Ulysses, endorsed by The James Joyce Centre, meticulously recreates the 1922 text.

In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab; three high-flying men – a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker – are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to...

Brutal and beautiful, passionate and powerful, Sunset Song is a moving portrait of a declining way of life and an inspirational celebration of the human spirit. And in Chris Guthrie, Grassic Gibbon has given us one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.