John Rydell was 4000 miles away when he got the phone call from his wife, ‘John, there’s someone in the house.’By the time he was home, tragedy had struck. A tragedy that threatened to engulf him, bringing back long forgotten and repressed memories of his days at university.Now some of his old friends are dying, one by one. They are found gutted, disembowelled, ruined.There were twelve of them back in university, an...

'Atmospheric, unsettling and compelling’ Chris Hammer 'Eerie and gripping' Daily Mail ‘A brilliant thriller’ StylistIn the remote Scottish Highlands, a young woman is found dead on a road the locals call cursed.DI Georgina Lennox doesn’t believe in curses, but she does believe in bad luck – the same kind that’s been stalking her for the last two years. And now she’s facing old family feuds, cold cases, and...

"If you like Tana French, you will love this one. It’s fun and suspenseful and it kept me up late.” —Jenna Bush HagerEilean Eadar is a barren, windswept rock best known for the unsolved mystery of the three lighthouse keepers who vanished back in 1919. But when a young man is found dead at the base of that same lighthouse, two detective inspectors are sent from Glasgow to investigate.Georgina “George” Lennox is happy to be back from leave after a devastatin...

Winner, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short FictionLong-Shortlisted, ReLit Award (Short Fiction)"You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were perfect."The seventeen stories in Elaine McCluskey’s latest collection, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes, follow characters who have reached a four-way stop in life; some are deciding whet...

A highly illustrated study of the pivotal campaign that saw the Allied armies led by Field Marshal Haig break through the German Hindenburg Line in 1918, published in its centenary year.From 26 September until 8 October 1918, the Allied armies in France launched their largest ever combined offensive on the Western Front of World War I. The British, French, American and Belgian armies launched four attacks in rapid succession across a 250km front between the Argonne...

*An Apple Best Book of 2025* Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger Award On an Island full of secrets The truth lies in the darkA gripping and atmospheric debut crime thriller set on an isolated Scottish island…A mysterious deathOn a small island off the coast of Scotland, an isolated community is grieving. Eighteen-year-old Alan Ferguson was found at the foot of the lighthouse – an appa...

How important is truth? What is normal? These are the questions raised in The Gift Child, Elaine McCluskey’s fictional oeuvre — a funny, poignant, sure-shot novel, populated with a community of petty criminals, beloved broadcasters, undercover intelligence agents, and more.The novel opens with the disappearance of a man in Pollock Passage, Nova Scotia, a man last seen driving away from a government wharf with a giant tuna head in the basket of his Schwinn delivery bicycle....

In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic organisations.He considers the changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities of automation and why being trade unionists can enable us to help shape the future. He set...

News Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism’s Power to Aid Healing and Recovery addresses an underexplored aspect of news, arguing that journalism helps people heal and recover in the aftermath of significant traumas. This comparative analysis draws from local and international news in eight countries around the world that suffered a natural disaster in 2018. This book evaluates ten news themes that aid healing, coping, hope and recovery during and after a natural disaster. Analysis show...

This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and challenges associated with using SSO.The chapters discuss different aspects related to SSO, such as:Access to the field or footageEthics, including informed consent with data collectionUse of...

Une île hors du temps. Un héritage païen et mystérieux.Quand le corps d'Alan Ferguson est retrouvé au pied du phare abandonné de l'île d'Eilean Eadar, les villageois parlent de suicide mais l'inspectrice principale Georgina Lennox n'y croit pas. Les blessures du jeune homme racontent une autre histoire. Les regards qui se détournent à son passage aussi. À mesure que la tempête gronde et que l'enquête piétine, Georgina découvre une communauté soudée, pieuse, farouchement attachée à s...

Medieval thinkers were both puzzled and fascinated by the capacity of human beings to do what is morally wrong. In this book, Colleen McCluskey offers the first comprehensive examination of Thomas Aquinas' explanation for moral wrongdoing. Her discussion takes in Aquinas' theory of human nature and action, and his explanation of wrong action in terms of defects in human capacities including the intellect, the will, and the passions of the sensory appetite. She also looks at the notion of p...