The Sun-Room is Jess Watts's electric prose-poem of rage and grief about a life halted by illness. She was a healthy young woman in her twenties, newly graduated from university, when a chronic post-viral illness put an end to her present life and to her hopes for the future. I am unravelling in losses like ribbons piled up around my feet. This is not a ME recovery memoir, rather a scream of anguish about the ongoing present. Jess, a very gifted writer, has written a raw-to-bleeding, beautiful book for herself and for everyone whose life is on hold because of chronic illness

One woman, two men, how many love affairs? In this beguiling account of a triangular relationship, Ali Bacon unveils the woman who had a profound influence on one of the greatest writers of his age. Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1870, Frances Sitwell, beautiful, intelligent and trapped in an abusive marriage, is grateful for the chaste affection offered by rising literary star, Sidney Colvin. They make a perfect couple until the young Robert Louis Stevenson bursts into their lives to captivate them with his wild, mercurial spirit and startlingly original talent.

Ena MacDonald’s popular, entertaining and sometimes forthright monthly columns written for Am Paipear are collected here in one book. Ena is renowned for her lifetime’s dedication to traditional crofting methods and for her passionate advocacy of sustainable farming practices that protect and preserve the precious machairs and grasslands of her beloved Kyles on the Scottish island of North Uist. Born in 1940, Ena paints vivid pictures of growing up on a croft before machinery and 'going barefoot to collect the peats'. She records a way of life that has changed beyond recognition and is perhaps gone forever.