Fledgling Press imprint: 50 books

This is the life story of Chris Murray from Stornoway. As a winchman on Search and Rescue helicopters, for 22 years he was involved in the rescue of many people from the seas and mountains around the north of Scotland and further afield. He details his exploits from his early days as a Royal Navy...

B has Alzheimers and so her long and caring life has been lovingly recollected by her husband Zander. From star athlete, B trained as a Nightingale nurse, then as a midwife. She married, had four children, and became a loving mother and creative home-maker. Then she worked as a community midwife in...

Life behind Bars: Confessions of a Pub Landlady is an exhilarating account of life in the licensed trade. This hilariously funny collection of tales will have your sides splitting as Kate and Linda recount some of their most memorable experiences as pub landladies. Anyone who has lived in the Lothians...

From his humble beginnings as a raw recruit aged 15 to his departure from the army aged 27 and a fully qualified Helicopter Air Gunner/Pilot, Alan Brown recounts anecdotes and tales from his life as a soldier in the British army in the 60s and 70s. This refreshingly frank and often funny book follows...

‘If we had held one minute’s silence for each of the six million Jews who were murdered, we would have remained silent for twelve years.’ Blanche Major. In Time’s Witnesses: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust, Blanche Major and nine other Jewish women testify about their horrific experiences...

Steve Harvey was in the same class at school as Sting in the sixties, on ‘the Fringe’ with Liam Neeson in the seventies; spent a day with Spike Milligan; spent several months travelling round India by steam train; went round the world; taught on Tyneside; joined the police; breathalysed Gazza;...

Margaret Irvine was the youngest of twelve children, and was taken into local council care aged 2. She was brought up in Tenterfield House, with 39 other children, and this is her story of her happy life there, under the care of Miss Dorothy Martin, daughter of the co-founder of Aston Martin, and...

Chinese by birth but spiritually Italian, Chin's strength and tenacity to overcome drugs, liquor, promiscuity and the very real attraction of suicide is a compelling read. Survival is innate as her abandonment in childhood teaches her to do whatever it takes to live. Her adventures take her across...

A stunning debut collection of modern contemporary poetry providing a delightful and thought provoking look at aspects of everyday life. With her sharp intellect and wonderful sense of humour Elaine's observations of daily life are captured in these 30 poems.

To commemorate the involvement of Scots Regiments in WWI "Last Train to Waverley" is set in France during one week in March 1918. The Germans launched their final major offensive of the war and pushed the British back thirty miles. One unit of the 20 Royal Scots were cut off. This book follows...

The Silence is a gritty novel set in Glasgow at the time of the Ice Cream Wars in the 1980s. A bloody raid on a family celebration leaves Paddy Coyle's only daughter so traumatised she loses the power of speech. Blaming his sworn enemies, the McClellands, Coyle seeks to destroy the family in revenge...

From the dark and mean streets of Glasgow to the glamorous and decadent resort of Marbella, The Betrayal sees the continuation of a family feud spanning decades. This is a gritty novel following the fortunes of bitter enemies, the Coyles and McClellands. The birth of Erin and Bobby's son sets in motion...

From the glamorous resort of Marbella to the mean, dark and dangerous East End of Glasgow, The Reckoning follows the next generation of bitter enemies stalking the Coyles. The unknown enemy leaves a trail of death and despair and pushes the Coyle family to the brink of destruction. A tale of sadistic...

The year is 1586, and Mary Stuart is sitting in an English prison cell at the end of her life, stitching her tapestries, haunted by the ghosts of her past - including John Knox, Bothwell, her half-brother Moray, and Darnley, the husband she was accused of conspiring to murder.Darnley's murder became...