The scarecrow in the Williams's field was certainly scary, and not just to crows.Bobby couldn't say why exactly he found it as scary as he did. He just did.He told himself it was only some material filled with straw, but avoided going near it, all the same. He preferred it if he didn't have to even think about it.The scarecrow had been there forever, or so it seemed. It had certainly been there as long as he'd been around, and as far as Bobby was concerned that was for...

The scarecrow in the Williams's field was certainly scary, and not just to crows.Bobby couldn't say why exactly he found it as scary as he did. He just did.He told himself it was only some material filled with straw, but avoided going near it, all the same. He preferred it if he didn't have to even think about it.The scarecrow had been there forever, or so it seemed. It had certainly been there as long as he'd been around, and as far as Bobby was concerned that was for...

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic sculptress on the lam from the psych ward upstairs, who insists t...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs.**One morning in 2008, desperate, broke and living alone while trying unsuccessfully to write, Craig Davidson plucked a flyer out of his mailbox that read “Bus Drivers Wanted.” And so began his new career: driving a school bus for k...

Owen and Duncan are childhood friends who've grown up in picturesque Niagara Falls--known to them by the grittier name Cataract City. As the two know well, there's more to the bordertown than meets the eye: behind the gaudy storefronts and sidewalk vendors, past the hawkers of tourist T-shirts and cheap souvenirs live the real people who scrape together a living by toiling at the Bisk, the local cookie factory. And then there are the truly desperate, those who find themselves drawn to the ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE: An infectious and heartbreaking novel from "one of this country's great kinetic writers" (Globe and Mail)--Craig Davidson's first new literary fiction since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract CityWhen neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he's handling more than a patient's delicate brain tissue--he's altering their seat of consciousness, their golden vault of memory. And memo...

Sex And Sin In The City This gritty tale is twenty four hours in the life of Stevie Mearns,an alcoholic social misfit and sexual deviant,as he explores Londons seamy underbelly. Hes a man having more than a mid-life crisis as he tries to lose himself in drink,drugs and sexual gratification.As his life spirals out of control he reflects on his grim childhood in Aberdeen,his terrible time in the harsh Scottish Penal System and his travels to the fleshpots of Thailand and South America as a s...

This is the enthralling and acclaimed story of an extraordinary and courageous woman. Her bravery, stoicism and African upbringing were critical to the career of her husband, world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. Evocative and beautifully written.

College Voices tells the story of Christ’s College Aberdeen, a theological college of the Church of Scotland, from its beginnings in the 1840s to the present day. This is a rich and colourful story, vividly told, and peopled with many fascinating characters and stories. Written by the College’s administrator, who saw how the personalities of teachers and students alike shone through the formal language of minute books and other records, College Voices relates how the College grew and evolv...

Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' So begins Robyn Davidson's perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company.Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get...

A unique and highly personal history of Nazi Germany, supported throughout by documents and transcripts.In 1993 Martin Davidson discovered that his German grandfather, who seemingly spent the war as an unassuming dentist in Berlin, had been a Nazi. And a thoroughly committed one, too: he had joined the Bund as a child, graduated to the brownshirts, and signed up for the party as soon as it had become legal, seven years before Hitler came to power. Davidson became d...

All-new in the New York Times bestselling drop-dead funny series.Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor thought she couldn't die. So what's she doing in the morgue? It could have something to do with a time- traveling trip she made, and a foe with a wicked agenda that could finally be the real death of Betsy-if she's not careful.