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Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realise that they have to run away. The chase leads all over the north of Scotland, narrowly escaping police and the authorities, adopting three homeless children on the way. Originally refused publication in London because it was deemed critical of the English, Auntie Robbo was first published in the U.S. in 1940. After success in print it was taken on by Constable in 1959 and later was published in India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Germany.

Poet and actress, Gerda Stevenson, is widely acknowledged as one of Scotland's greatest talents. Here she has illustrated the paintings of her one time neighbour, Christian Small, with poems specially written for the book.

The history and character of Edinburgh inspire every piece in Stewart Conn's new collection. Stewart's poems, paired with John Knight's beautifully detailed illustrations evoke the spirit of the city and its unique aspects. Knight's pieces are not simply illustrative. This work is a collaboration between architect and poet.

A virulent disease carried by foxes is spreading across Europe. In London an urgent cull is underway, spearheaded by Frank Smith, the young master of the Hyde Park Hunt. But for Britain's paranoid Prime Minister, fox flu is a chance to foist the ultimate in surveillance technology on an unsuspecting population: the Mulberry Tree system, secretly bought from the Chinese.When biochemist Christophe Hardy discovers the conspiracy, he finds himself caught up in a chase which starts in Beijing and ends in Northumbria involving animal rights activists, a beautiful female missionary, high-society Chinese assassins, and the world most innovative catering venture, the Pu Dong Pudding Company.

It is 1934. Five children escape from a cruel orphanage, run away and steal a boat, which they sail around the Outer Hebrides where they explore uncharted new islands.

Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses "e;Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when you eat them. Spiritual maybe? So I eat and wait for the Karelian cranberries to work their magic on me."e; Skarynkina is impelled to spend the last of her money on a trip to Krakow to meet Czeslaw Milosz but never finds his address, so he remains to her an idol like Elvis Presley dressed in gold lame. Each story has a charm and imaginative flight of its own.

The subject matter of each sonnet follows the original, and the metre, line endings and rhyme are all Shakespeare's. In one or two, whole lines have been transposed. They are in no way an attempt to emulate, but are a humourous, irreverent and feminist reaction to the great bard.

Mona Macleod worked on the land during the second World War, providing the skilled labour needed on farms before mechanization. This well illustrated memoir provides a valuable record of a time when women faced the rigorous physical challenges involved in winning the war at home.

In 1593, a girl with spirit is a threat. Ruth has secrets. An old book of heresy belonging to her long-absent father. Hope is as faint as a moonbow. Dare Ruth trust the shadowy one who could destroy them all?

Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals.