Thunderpoint Publishing Ltd : 17 books

My grandmother passed me in transit. She was leaving, I was coming into this world, our spirits meeting at the door to my mother's womb, as she bent over the bed to close the thin crinkled lids of her own mother's eyes.The women of Morag's family have been the keepers of tradition...

Longlisted: Not The Booker Prize 20161679 - The Killing TimesCharles II is on the throne, the Episcopacy has been restored, and southern Scotland is in ferment.The King is demanding superiority over all things spiritual and temporal and rebellious Ministers are being ousted from their...

The summer of 1679 is a dark one for the Covenanters, routed by government troops at the Battle of Bothwell Brig. John Steel is on the run, hunted for his part in the battle by the vindictive Earl of Airlie. And life is no easier for the hapless Sandy Gillon, curate of Lesmahagow Kirk, in the Earl’s...

“Pacy and assured, with an authentic voice, Dead Cat Bounce is an impressive debut novel” - Neil Forsyth“...a fast-paced novel driven by a brotherly rivalry that’s full of everyday scheming” - Elizabeth Reeder“Well, either way, you'll have to speak to him today because...unless...

‘The first queerbasher McGillivray ever met was in the mirror.’From the revivalist churches of Orkney in the 1970s, to the gay bars of London and Northern England in the 90s, via the divinity school at Aberdeen, this is the story of McGillivray, a selfcentred, promiscuous hypocrite, failed...

‘She was greetin’ again. But there’s no need for Lorraine to be feart, since the first day of primary school, Angela has always been there to mop up her tears and snotters.’An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age...

"All I know is, I’m in exile in Scotland, and there’s a dead Scouser businessman in my bath. With his toe up the tap."Meet Simon English, corporate lawyer, heavy drinker and Scotophobe, banished from London after being caught misbehaving with one of the young associates on the corporate...

July 1680: Richard Cameron is dead, and John Steel and Lucas Brotherstone have only just escaped capture by government forces. The net widens to arrest anyone suspected of Covenanter sympathies, and the army becomes ever more brutal in its suppression of the rebels. To have any hope...

When an Inverness Councillor is murdered in broad daylight in the middle of town, Detective Sergeant Joe Galbraith sees a familiar figure running from the scene. According to everyone who knows him, the Councillor had no enemies, but someone clearly wanted him dead. The victim’s high...

North Uist, Outer Hebrides, 1848Jess MacKay has led a privileged life as the daughter of a local landowner, sheltered from the harsher aspects of life. Courted by the eligible Patrick Cooper, the Laird's new commissioner, Jess's future is mapped out, until Lachlan Macdonald arrives...

Irma Lagrasse has taught piano to three generations of villagers, whilst slowly twisting the knife of vengeance; Nico knows a secret; and M. Lenoir has discovered a suppressed and dangerous passion.Revolving around the Café Rose, opposite The House with the Lilac Shutters, this collection...

"There's something about this place. It's going to destroy us if we don't get away." Reclaimed from the bed of an ancient mere, drained by their forbears 150 years ago, New Cut Farm is home to the Askin family. Life is hard, but the land and its dark history is theirs, and up till...

‘It’s coming up to twenty-four hours since the boy stepped down from the big passenger liner – it must be, he reckons foggily – because morning has come around once more with the awful irrevocability of time destined to lead nowhere in this worrying new situation. His temporary minder on board...

In 14th Century Scotland, amidst the wars of independence, hatred, murder and betrayal are commonplace and ordinary people are driven to extraordinary lengths to survive, whilst those with power exercise it with cruel pleasure.Royal Prince Alexander Stewart, son of King Robert II and plagued...