Fiction / Political

A referendum on Scottish independence is only days away, but when senior civil servant John Millar is shot in a Glasgow alley on a furiously rain-soaked night, his death triggers a chain of catastrophic events. Who was John Millar? Who wanted him dead? And who is trying to alter the future path of an entire nation?

Corrado Alvaro’s Fear in the World was published a decade before Orwell’s 1984, but is not well known outside Italy, perhaps because of the timing of the publication just before the Second World War.

The gripping sequel to To Keep A Bird Singing and the second part of Kevin Doyle’s Solidarity Books trilogy. Noelie Sullivan delves further into the murky world of the powerful Donnelly family and their association with the Catholic church and the security forces. Edgy and sharp, this political thriller is restless, brilliantly plotted and topical.

A thoughtful spy novel turned love story set during the days of the dying Soviet Union in Estonia, as a group of young dissidents smuggle copies of KGB files out of the country, with security services never far behind, and their fates entangled.

A novel exploring the tensions between the Welsh and the English. It's a passionate defence of cultural and political identity, and a plea for tolerance. It's also a sustained attack on the forces of small-town bigotry and corruption. But, above all, it's an acknowledgement of the subtleties and ambiguities that exist in even the most entrenched at