The final instalment in the acclaimed "Seasons" series, which interrogates how climate change has disrupted the natural rhythm of the seasons. It has attracted widespread praise and prize attention; Jim's passionate stance on climate chaos and the need for rewilding chimes with an increasingly eco-aware public.

Cottongrass Summer is a collection of 52 essays by a world-renowned naturalist, author and broadcaster on subjects ranging from birdsong to beavers, and our role as stewards of the land.

Recommended by Rachel Fox (Children and Schools Programme Director)

I read The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliot a while ago now and it has really stuck with me.

Set in mythic Scotland, probably the Isle of Skye, two unlikely heroes must make a dangerous journey to protect their people’. The book is dually narrated by two characters, both members of the Tuath clan but with different roles within the clan structure.

The Good Hawk is an absolute must read for every fantasy fiction fan out there.

A gorgeous interwoven tale of a desolate island, and two lovers finding their way back to one another.

An Archive of Happiness is set in the Scottish Highlands over the course of one day during the Avens family's annual get-together. It's the summer solstice and theirs is a fractured family, broken by arguments, by things said and not said, by a mother who has left and a father who was left behind.

The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer

WINNER OF THE 2020 MCILVANEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME FICTION

A haunting collection of 'New Scottish Folktales' from award-winning poet Robin Robertson, featuring beautiful drawings throughout and an introduction by writer Val McDermid.

WINNER OF THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Climb aboard the Highland Falcon and join Harrison Beck as he solves the case of a jewel thief in an addictive series, Adventures on Trains, from bestselling mystery-writing duo M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman.

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?