Oxford-educated Father David Anderton, the Catholic priest in a small, working-class Scottish parish, triggers the enmity, suspicions, and simmering hatred of a town that resents strangers when he befriends two rebellious teenagers.

Product Description: Granta goes to the movies. This issue includes Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's List, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on his years as a movie critic, and the stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood...read more

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. He had an instinct for celebrity. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. For Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits. Maf was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life, first in New York, where she mixed with everyone who was anyone—the art dealer Leo Castelli, Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio crowd, Upper West Side émigrés—then back to Los Angeles. She took him to meet President Kennedy and to Hollywood restaurants, department stores, and interviews. To Mexico, for her divorce.With style, brilliance, and panache, Andrew O’Hagan has drawn a one-of-a-kind portrait of the woman behind the icon, and the dog behind the woman.

Explores cases of missing persons and features interviews with police, social workers, and families

Product Description: Night out With Robert Burns (09) by Burns, Robert [Paperback (2009)]

Product Description: First Canadian publication of the powerful debut novel from the author of Be Near Me.Finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Whitbread AwardHugh Bawn was a modern hero, a visionary urban planner, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotland’s residential development after the Second World War...read more

Product Description: ¿Qué hemos hecho con el sueño de un mundo mejor que tuvieron nuestros padres y abuelos? Un nieto que derriba antiguas barriadas obreras. Un padre que lucha contra el alcohol. Un abuelo que dedicó su vida a la construcción de viviendas sociales...read more

Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up in the 1970s above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, she is making ready to escape the ordinary life to become a living exhibit in the modern drama of celebrity.

In this last book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English–speaking modern world. Most of them are inhabitants of the North Sea archipelago once known as Great Britain, who are here seen as tribally distinct, as Scottish, English, Irish, or Welsh, and as a single society. The book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century.