Forfar, the county town of Angus, Scotland, is small enough for everyone to know almost everyone else in the town. And Forfar people like to know everything that goes on.

The third novel to be brought back into print in The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Series, edited by Dr Nicola Wilson, a collection and study of the author's writings that explores her contribution to British working-class literature. The novel, first published in 1924, is Introduced by Roger Smalley.

A new edition of Isobel Murray's acclaimed biography of the inspirational Scottish novelist, playwright and radio producer, Jessie Kesson.

In a series of fourteen letters, written in 1722 as he journeyed through Scotland, John Macky set out to show that the 'kingdom will not appear so despicable as some parts of the world imagine'. It proved a popular, influential, publication. This new edition is introduced and annotated by Anne M. McKim, with a full index of people and places.

A major translation into English of the travel memoirs of Hanna Diyab, the man credited with telling the story of 'Aladdin' to Antoine Galland - himself the first European translator of 'One Thousand and One Nights' - in 1709, in Paris.

A new edition of a classic memoir and defence of Christian mysticism by the Reverend Murdoch Campbell, author of 'Gleanings of Highland Harvest', 'The Loveliest Story Ever Told', and 'Wells of Joy'.

A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first published novel written by a working-class woman in Britain.