Test Kitchen is set on a single evening in 2013 at Midgard, a Michelin-starred East London restaurant. Our narrator is Marley, a 20 year-old Melbourne-born waitress who's come to London to escape her past and is glad to have found a kind of family among the 'brigade' at Midgard. Like any family, however, it's dysfunctional, and Marley's youth and rootlessness put her at risk. A violent event leaves her a spectre observing events - incorporeal in a robustly physical, embodied space - and seeking to put things right. It's a gripping, funny and often macabre story about the culture of food, of dining and eating, about feeding and nourishing, about mothers, mortality and magic. Sparked by the author's experience of glancing around a busy restaurant and wishing he could eavesdrop on conversations at other tables, Test Kitchen interweaves an overall storyline with short narratives focusing on diners eating with friends, family, dates, business associates, partners or - most intriguingly - all alone.

When Lynne offers money to a homeless man on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street she is shocked to recognise Angus, her former art tutor from college. Lynne once revered him, even dreamed of becoming an artist under his tutelage. Now, she works as a supervisor at an insurance call-centre. And as for Angus, he has fallen on even harder times . . . She insists on inviting him to stay at her flat, but just as Angus doesn't go out of his way to explain the reasons for his misfortune, neither is Lynne's insistence on taking him in to her home purely altruistic. The Glasgow Coma Scale is a barbed love letter to the city, a dysfunctional romance, and a story about damage: the kind done unthinkingly, the kind done deliberately, and the worst sort - the harm we do even as we're trying to do 'the right thing'. 'Neil Stewart is the kind of writer who appears once in a generation, gifts fully formed. Through the unforgettable duo of Angus and Lynne, he takes us to places where other novels fear to treat, from the perils of life on a park bench through the murky grey areas of love to the ineffable mysteries of art. Compassionate, brave, singing with life, The Glasgow Coma Scale is an outstanding debut from an extraordinary talent.' Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies

Here are twenty poignant reminders of occasions when the human spirit has been moved. Containing "House of Sighs," "The Folded Palm" and "Mother's Hands" and with an introduction by John MacArthur, this is an uplifting collection of new poetry.

The Aching Heart is the eighth in a series of ten collections of poetry by Neil Stewart McLeod. There are experiences in life which strike such deep chords that the vibrations continue to reverberate almost endlessly. They might even reach the ranks of treasured memories stored away in some silver box, and every time we peer in the richness and painfulness are there as vivid as the day our hearts broke. Such are the memories recorded here, a litany of melancholy farewells. Dr. Rabbi Reuben wrote "Neil McLeod has a way with words. His "way" is to move people, to capture the essence of friends, family and others who have passed his way, to open his heart and allow his sweet, loving, caring soul to pour into every description, every sentence, every image, every moment he captures to carry us away and inspire visions of lives that touch us deeply and really matter. This collection of poems is a tribute to those lives and a gift to those of us who read his lyric images and feel a profound sense of truly knowing the truth about the people we meet through his imagery. I feel blessed to have these souls now as part of my own life as well."

The call of the sea and the mystery of foreign lands has drawn sailors and travelers to risk all and venture forth. The inspiration from the experience drove many to make all kinds of models to record and preserve the details of the vessels and among the array you will find the ship in a bottle. Neil McLeod traveled by sea to and from Africa, and his grand parents went on sailing ships to New Zealand. The poems in this anthology capture the essence of ships and the sea and the ports of call.

The call of the sea and the mystery of foreign lands has drawn sailors and travelers to risk all and venture forth. The inspiration from the experience drove many to make all kinds of models to record and preserve the details of the vessels and among the array you will find the ship in a bottle. Neil McLeod traveled by sea to and from Africa, and his grand parents went on sailing ships to New Zealand. The poems in this anthology capture the essence of ships and the sea and the ports of call.

The Clan Remembers is the fifth in a series of ten collections of poetry by Neil Stewart McLeod. Directly influenced by Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, the author grew up surounded by Scottish clan heritage. Here are fourteen poems that directly relate to the Hebridean Clan MacLeod, including "The Song Of The Caurie Shells," "A Lament for the Games At Coombs Ranch," "It Takes Your Breath Away," and the title poem which is an accumulation poem, a MacLeod version of the "The House That Jack Built." Poems by Neil Stewart McLeod Vol. 5.

Frances McLeod wrote touching tunes. Here are East African family poems and songs from the British colonial era, a time now vanished. They are comforting melodies with a lullaby feeling, capturing the leisurely pace of a lifestyle that has all but disappeared.

Touching poems about life in a trans-millennial family growing up in Los Angeles in the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. Here are captured events in what is becoming a rare commodity, the traditional nuclear family. There is a range of events and experiences which are common to nearly all families. Couples meet, they decide to get married, babies are born and grow up so fast, and are off to college in the blink of an eye. In addition parents may pass away too soon. Through all of it we share emotions and memories which if captured in verse may ring just as true for the reader as they were for the author. We try to be good lovers and express our love in novel ways. We are amazed when we see a new born's tiny hands, and ponder how our children will grow up. We have pets, and we may even build a tree house.

A glimpse at a poet's treasured memories kept sealed in a silver treasure box. Here are concealed those memories which we might only discuss reluctantly and perhaps in private. Along with "The Flowers of Memory" here are "Do Not Ask," "My Silver Box" and "Come Uppance," touching reflections.