ALONE - Journeys Inside the Solo Life - with a FOREWORD by Scotland's QUEEN OF CRIME, multiple award-winning CRIME FICTION author, VAL MCDERMID, our paperback anthology features eight Scottish writers who writing movingly about LONELINESS and what this human condition makes us do, think and feel. Commissioned during the COVID-19 PANDEMIC, our writers spin their fiction with humour, grace, intelligence and thought-provoking clarity. Be prepared to be moved to tears when you read these stories; you'll laugh too. 8d Press supports ANDY'S MAN CLUB - a key charity looking after men's mental health in the UK. #itsokaytotalk