New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1970) dj. Hardcover - Young adult novel set in 1736 Scotland, where Sandy Maxwell, a lawyer's clerk in Edinburgh, finds himself up against far more than the smugglers of the Lothian Route. 212 pp.

New York: Norton, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A novel about the bonds of friendship by the author of 'Trainspotting' - the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects. SIGNED by Welsh on the title-page. ISBN: 0-393322157.

New York: Delacorte, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, a tale of pyschological suspense, set in 1960 in a Scottish seaside town "utterly devoid of culture or charm." 367 pp. ISBN: 0-385-339402.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Hardcover first edition - Early collection of short stories by this highly praised Scots writer (and winner of the 1994 Booker Prize.). ISBN: 0-374-166870.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Glasgow, Kelman's territory, especially in its harsher, poorer areas where despair and unhappiness permeate the lives of his characters. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-374-140243.

New York: Vantage Press, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in what was the near future at the time this was written in 21st century Scotland, a story which combines science fiction, gothic, adventure and romance - as well ghosts, who dwell in MacKenane castle and appearing and disappearing at will. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 91 pp. ISBN: 0-533022959.

London: The Hogarth Press, (1988). Probably the finest of Kesson's three novels - and her own favourite - this is set in a small Scottish farming community and tells the story of dairyman Hugh Riddel. New introduction by Sue McGregor. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-701207981.

New York: Ballantine, (2002.). First edition - Third novel by this New Zealand author to be published in the US. Set in Scotland in 1903, this is a darkly romantic mystery surrounding one of the survivors of a ship's explosion. 413 pp.

London: Harper Collins, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth thriller by this award-winning writer, featuring Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae, who is helping an ex-con settle into his new Aberdeen home. Meanwhile, construction at Donald Trump's golf course is bringing a mini-boom, and the gangsters want a slice. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0007244607.

Amhert, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - An accessible new edition of a poem described as the greatest long poem in Scottish literature when it was originally published in the mid 1920s. Includes a new preface, marginal gloss in English for those who have no Scots, and Weston's explanatory notes and background information. A handsome production, bound in lavender cloth boards with cream cloth spine, slightly oversized square format. xiv, 122 pp. ISBN: 087023059X..

New York & London: Little Brown, (2014). First edition - Novel set in seamy underworld of Glasgow. "Two friends, Alex Glass and Oliver Peterkinney, look for work and for escape from their lives spent growing up on Glasgow's most desperate fringes. Soon they will become involved in one of the city's darkest and most dangerous trades. But while one rises quickly up the ranks, the other will fall prey to the industry's addictive lifestyle and ever-spiralling debts." 337 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 8th mystery, a thriller set during World War II. "November, 1942. World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. . . These are the reasons Maggie is isolated on a remote Scottish island, in a prison known as Killoch Castle. When one of her fellow inmates drops dead in the middle of his after-dinner drink, hes only the first. As victims fall one by one, Maggie will have to call upon all her wits and skills to escapenot just certain death . . . but certain murder." Historical note. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0399593826.

London: Robert Hale Ltd, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh thriller by this Scottish author - and apparently the hardest to find. An oceanographer and specialist in sonar is conducting secret tests from a launch off the northwest coast of Scotland when he becomes aware that his vessel is being shadowed by another. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For -- with love from the author" and uncommon thus. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-709159978.

New York & London: SilverOak/ Quercus Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover - The first book in a new trilogy, featuring Edinburgh cop Fin Macleod. "Two bodies are found hanging from trees: one in Edinburgh, the other on the Isle of Lewis, the most northerly isle in the Outer Hebrides. Macleod, originally from Lewis, is assigned to the case for no more reason than that he speaks Gaelic. Two narratives vie with each other. One involves Macleods struggles with confronting people whom he left behind years ago. The other, which eventually informs the first, is Macleods first-person memories of his life on the island." Published in French before it appeared in English, this was awarded the 'Prix des Lecteurs' (readers' prize) at the Le Havre festival of crime writing. Maps. 357 pp. ISBN: 978-1454901273.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's 30th novel and one which is very satisfying on many levels. Features Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie, head of Scotland's Historic Cases Unit (cold cases) who finds herself researching a small plane bombing 20 years ago that had been believed to be an IRA attack, but never claimed by any organization. 421 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125743.

New York: St Martin's, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning 4 decades and two very different worlds - from Scotland in 1936 through war-torn Europe to South Africa in 1976. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312183445.

New York: St Martin's, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning 4 decades and two very different worlds - from Scotland in 1936 through war-torn Europe to South Africa in 1976. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-312183445.

New York: Morrow, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel about bare-knuckle boxing set in a mining village in northern Scotland. Upon its original appearance in England, this was hailed as 'a masterpiece' as 'an eloquent and trenchant critique of a brutally competitive society' and as the work of 'an intelligent novelist writing at the height of his powers.' Basis of the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-688-064051.

New York: Norton, (1997). Award-winning writer's first novel to be published in the US, a pyschological thriller, a novel of gradually growing horror: "Rob and Karen Catto are a newly married young couple settling into their lives together on the northeast coast of Scotland. Rob's job as a janitor at the local school involves him in both the lives of his students and issues of security. So he takes sharp notice of a hulking figure in a parka lurking around the edges of the school, leering through windows, and squatting in an abandoned concrete bunker. As unpleasant and unsettling incidents multiply, Rob's suspicions tilt into obsession." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-393316165.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1978.). McPhee returns to the island of his ancestors - Colonsay, 25 miles west of the Scottish mainland. A moving portrait of this fragment of the Hebrides - of the history and legends, and most of all of the people. Illustrated with drawings by James Graves. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-374-514658.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and note on "facts and fiction.". ISBN: 978-1250007377.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2011). SIGNED - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and author's note on 'fact or fancy.'

Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, (2018). SIGNED - Novel set in the "oddest bookshop" in a town full of bookshops - Scotland's book town of Wigtown where a librarian fleeing from her life in London finds refuge and friends, but also secrets and the courage to face her past. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0738756172.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Set in the 1920s. INSCRIBED on the title page. 287 pp plus postscript and note on "facts and fiction.". ISBN: 978-1250007377.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first novel by this young Scots writer, one of the strongest and best new voices in crime fiction - one review described this novel, set in "the grimmest of Glasgow's hilltop neighborhoods" as "the humor's black as coal and the action bright as a switchblade." John Creasey Award Winner for Best First Crime Novel. Mina is not yet nearly as well-known as she should be - 349 pp. ISBN: 0-786706120.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final novel in the Paddy Mehan trilogy, set in 1990's Glasgow (originally published in the UK under the title 'The Last Breath.') SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-316-01558x.

Boston: Little Brown, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th novel by this exceptionally good writer, one who writes complex and satifsfying mysteries, with very real characters - set in Glasgow, this is the second novel featuring Paddy Meehan, a young Irish girl now working as a reporter. I cannot describe Mina's appeal as a writer better than Michael Connelly did when her said "[Her] work is really quite wonderful. She has an original voice, rough-and-tumble one moment, heart-touching the next. She paints a big picture with the subtleties of true life. It took only one book for me to become a fan." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-316-735949.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to her award-winning 'Garnethill.' set in Glasgow and London. I cannot describe Mina's appeal as a writer better than Michael Connelly did when her said "[Her] work is really quite wonderful. She has an original voice, rough-and-tumble one moment, heart-touching the next. She paints a big picture with the subtleties of true life. It took only one book for me to become a fan." And Ian Rankin called Mina "one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in years." 364 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-09626.

Boston: Little Brown, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 6th novel by this exceptionally good writer, one who writes complex and satifsfying mysteries, with very real characters - set in Glasgow, this is the second novel featuring Paddy Meehan, a young Irish girl now working as a reporter. I cannot describe Mina's appeal as a writer better than Michael Connelly did when her said "[Her] work is really quite wonderful. She has an original voice, rough-and-tumble one moment, heart-touching the next. She paints a big picture with the subtleties of true life. It took only one book for me to become a fan." 360 pp. ISBN: 0-316-735949.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.). The first novel by this young Scots writer, one of the strongest and best new voices in crime fiction - one review described this novel, set in "the grimmest of Glasgow's hilltop neighborhoods" as "the humor's black as coal and the action bright as a switchblade." John Creasey Award Winner for Best First Crime Novel. Although she is beginning to attract more attention in the US, Mina is still not yet nearly as well-known as she should be - 349 pp. ISBN: 0-786708395.