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Act of Murder (Book)

Wright Alan

ISBN:9781846971679

Wigan, 1894. Richard Throstle and his wife Georgina are in town with their ghoulish magic lantern show, Phantasmagoria. When Richard is found murdered in his hotel room...more details
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Banner in the West: A Spiritual History of Lewis and Harris (Book)

Macleod John

ISBN:9781841588520

From the unfathomable Standing Stones of Callanish to the quiet dignity of Christian commitment, the people of Lewis and Harris have, for millennia...more details
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Blood on the Wave: Scotland's Sea Battles (Book)

Sadler John

ISBN:9781841588650

In Blood on the Wave, John Sadler embarks on a pilgrimage around Scotlands rugged and stunning coastline, to explore the fascinating history that has occurred in its waters. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:246

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Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read (Book)

Kelly Stuart

ISBN:9781846971235

The sequel to The Odyssey? Sylvia Plaths second novel? Stuart Kelly provides a wry and erudite account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished...more details
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Crimespotting: An Edinburgh Crime Collection (Book)

Atwood Margaret

ISBN:9781846971662

All the short stories in Crimespotting are brand new and specially commissioned. The brief was deceptively simple each story must be set in Edinburgh and feature a crime...more details
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Dearest Brother: Lauderdale, Tweeddale and Scottish Politics, 1660-1674 (Book)

Lee Jr Maurice

ISBN:9781906566166

This book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in the reign of Charles II. It focuses on the years from 1667 to 1673...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:288

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Dizzy Worms: An African Tale (Book)

Holman Michael

ISBN:9781846971532

Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms...more details
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Donor: A Dr Steven Dunbar Mystery (Book)

McClure Ken

ISBN:9781846971624

When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to hospital with acute renal failure, her parents are in despair. Their hope is renewed when Amanda is accepted for treatment in a pioneering...more details
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Dr Finlay's Casebook (Book)

Cronin A J

ISBN:9781841588544

Dr Finlays Casebook is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronins own experiences as a doctor. The BBC went on to dramatise these stories on both television and radio...more details
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Driftwood and Tangle (Book)

Leigh Margaret

ISBN:9781841588988

A moving and poignant memoir of life in the north-west of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Margaret Leigh recounts the years she spent in Wester Ross...more details
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Dust to Dust (Book)

McClure Ken

ISBN:9781846971266

John Motram, a cell biologist at Newcastle University, firmly believes that Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus...more details
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Faded Map: The Story of the Lost Kingdoms of Scotland (Book)

Alistair Moffat

ISBN:9781841588858

Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around...more details
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Fate and Fortune: A Hew Cullen Mystery (Book)

Mckay Shirley

ISBN:9781846971549

The year is 1581, and the young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life and disillusioned with the law. After his fathers death he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richards pupil at the bar. Among his fathers things Hew finds a manuscript entitled In Defence of the Law...more details
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Four Ducks on a Pond (Book)

Nicholas the Cat

ISBN:9781841588766

This delightful account, written during a year in the life of a family on Mull in the 1950s, came to light after more than fifty years of neglect in a drawer. Being well camouflaged and unobtrusive...more details
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Greatest Game: The Ancyent & Healthfulle Exercyse of the Golff (Book)

Purdie Professor David

ISBN:9780951447079

Did you know that Shakespeare was a golfer? And that Rembrandt was no stranger to the fairway? Professor David Purdie takes a seriously humorous swipe at our collected knowledge of the game in this enlightening and entertaining compendium. Based on firm facts where available and on firm invention when not...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:160

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Hebridean Island Hopping: A Guide for the Independent Traveller (Book)

Coventry Martin

ISBN:9781841588865

The concept of island hopping conjures up visions of freedom and adventure, whether it be in the sunny Aegean or the exotic Caribbean. The Hebrides offer Scotlands unique take large skies...more details
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Held (Book)

Burns Elizabeth

ISBN:9781846971709

This remarkable collection of poems explores the complex ways in which people and things are held both metaphorically and physically in the world. Through motifs of vessels and containers...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:80

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History of Orkney Literature (Book)

Hall Simon

ISBN:9781906566210

This is the first full survey of literary writing from and about the Orkney Islands. The book presents readings of uncomplicatedly Orcadian writers such as Walter Traill Dennison...more details
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House with the Green Shutters (Book)

Brown George Douglas

ISBN:9781904598589

Arguably one of the most significant Scottish novels of all time and a direct influence on the writing of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Hugh MacDiarmid among others. The House with the Green Shutters is a powerful antidote to the homely...more details
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Importance of Being Seven (Book)

McCall Smith Alexander

ISBN:9781846971457

Will Bertie ever get away from his overbearing mother? And will we say goodbye to a Scotland Street resident Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril as a jaunt to the hills of Tuscany beckons? They star alongside the familiar cast of favourites...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:288

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Inside the 'Wicker Man': How Not to Make a Cult Classic (Book)

Brown Allan

ISBN:9781846971440

Inside The Wicker Man is a treat for all cinemagoers, exhaustively researched and achieving a near-perfect balance between history, trivia and serious analysis. Allan Brown describes the filming and distribution of the cult masterpiece as a textbook example of How Things Should Never Be Done. The omens were bad from the start...more details
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Iron Road: The Railway in Scotland (Book)

Ransom PJG

ISBN:9781841587288

Iron Road is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the Scottish railways told in a single volume. A pleasure for any railway enthusiast...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:336

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Island of Sheep (Book)

Buchan John

ISBN:9781846971563

The Island of Sheep is the fifth, last and most unusual of the Hannay books. Having returned once again to a quiet life at Fosse Manor, Hannays life is shaken a final time when the son of an old acquaintance from Africa asks for his help in finishing a feud that goes back thirty years to a hilltop in Rhodesia...more details
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Justinian: The Sleepless One (Book)

Laidlaw Ross

ISBN:9781846971587

Nephew of a semi-literate peasant, Justinian I was one of the most fascinating of the Roman emperors. His reign marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture...more details
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Kings, Mormaers and Rebels: Early Scotland's Other Royal Family (Book)

Marsden John

ISBN:9781906566197

The other royal family of the sub-title is first noticed in the seventh century as the Cenl Loairn, one of the principal dynastic kindreds of Dalriada...more details
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Land of the Seal People (Book)

Williamson Duncan

ISBN:9781841588803

No stories were more potent, more engaging, more subtle or profound than these half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time and time again listeners enthralled by Duncan Williamsons lore would ask him for the silkie tale. Duncan grew up with the seals...more details
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Last Wolf (Book)

Crumley Jim

ISBN:9781841588476

In The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland past, present and future and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact. Bringing to bear a lifetimes immersion in his native landscape and more than twenty years as a professional nature writer...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:235

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Lost Bristol (Book)

Coules Victoria

ISBN:9781841585338

Bristol has a rich historical heritage dating back to the citys beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times. Lost Bristol is an exploration of Bristols hidden past...more details
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Lost City: Old Aberdeen (Book)

Stevenson Jane

ISBN:9781841588131

There is a lost city lying to the north of the modern city of Aberdeen. It is Scotlands most compact and least known architectural treasure-house. In this fine Burgh is a pattern-book of Scottish architecture...more details
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Lost Cornwall: Cornwall's Lost Heritage (Book)

Thomas Joanna

ISBN:9781841586496

Cornwalls spectacular shoreline, with its brutal cliffs, desolate moors and pre-historic coastal settlements, has long held a source of fascination for those who cross the Duchys boundary line...more details
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Lost Devon: Devon's Lost Heritage (Book)

Goodall Felicity

ISBN:9781841586489

Devons colourful past may still be visible in its street names and pub signs, but in fact much of the regions history has been obliterated through necessity...more details
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Lost Inverness (Book)

Newton Norman

ISBN:9781841588742

In Lost Inverness, Norman S. Newton scours historical and contemporary works to trace the lost architectural history of the capital of the Highlands...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:256

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Major Obsession: One Fan, Four Golf Championships (Book)

Reid Kenny

ISBN:9781841588599

Kenny Reid has avidly followed golfs majors for more than 30 years. In 2009 he decided to go a step further, decided that it was time to live the dream of all golf enthusiasts; he embarked on a pilgrimage...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:256

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Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland (Book)

Clarkson Tim

ISBN:9781906566180

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or ignored...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:230

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More Frost and Snow (Book)

Burnet Janet

ISBN:9781898410089

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Mr Standfast (Book)

Buchan John

ISBN:9781846971556

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay thrillers. Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front and tasked with a secret mission to catch a dangerous German agent who is at large in Britain. Travelling incognito...more details
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Photographers of the Western Isles (Book)

Padget Martin

ISBN:9780859767040

When the internationally renowned photographer Paul Strand visited South Uist in 1954 to create a series of powerful portraits and landscape views for his book Tir a Mhurain...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

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Picts: A History (Book)

Clarkson Tim

ISBN:9781906566258

The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their importance in Scottish history they remain shrouded in an aura of myth and misconception. In the ninth century they were absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots and lost their unique identity...more details
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Poet McGonagall: The Biogrpahy of William McGonagall (Book)

Watson Norman

ISBN:9781841588841

William McGonagall is a literary legend and one of the best known names in the printed world. His disjointed verse has been popularised by the Goons...more details
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River of Fire: The Clydebank Blitz (Book)

John MacLeod

ISBN:9781843410492

With reference to written sources and the memories of those who survived the experience, John MacLeod tells the story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and devastation...more details
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Scott-land: How a Writer Invented a Nation (Book)

Kelly Stuart

ISBN:9781846971075

His name and image are everywhere from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburghs city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott...more details
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Secretum (Book)

Rita Monaldi

ISBN:9781846971464

July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani once a celebrated castrato soprano, now a spy in the service of King Louis XIV, the Sun King mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinals nephews wedding...more details
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Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Book)

Gillies Anne Lorne

ISBN:9781841588797

The Hebrides and Gaelic Highlands are one of the worlds great treasure-houses of song. In this new anthology, world-renowned singer Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together 175 of her favourite Gaelic songs. As well as a general introduction to the Gaelic musical and poetic tradition...more details
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Soor Plooms and Sair Knees: Growing Up in Scotland After the War (Book)

Dewar Bob

ISBN:9781841588629

Soor Plooms and Sair Knees is an hilarious and moving recollection of the writers childhood in a small Scottish east coast town during the immediate post-war years. In this warm-hearted...more details
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Taxi!: Never a Dull Day. A Cabbie Remembers (Book)

Findlay Douglas J

ISBN:9781841588964

Douglas Findlay takes a trip down memory lane in this hilarious memoir of his time as a cabbie in post-war Edinburgh. Never one to turn down a fare...more details
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The Dog That Came in From the Cold (Book)

McCall Smith Alexander

ISBN:9781846971617

Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith has moved house to a crumbling four-storey mansion in Pimlico Corduroy Mansions. It is inhabited by a glorious assortment of characters: among them...more details
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Three Hostages (Book)

Buchan John

ISBN:9781846971570

The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels. After the war and newly knighted, Hannay is living peacefully in the Cotswolds with his wife Mary and son Peter John. Unfortunately...more details
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Tsar's Doctor" The Life and Times of Sir James Wylie (Book)

McGrigor Mary

ISBN:9781841588810

Mary McGrigor explores a thrilling period of European history in this biography of James Wylie, Scottish-born personal physician to the Russian tsars in the early nineteenth century. A pioneer field surgeon who saved the lives of countless soldiers...more details
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When I Heard the Bell: The Loss of the Iolaire (Book)

Macleod John

ISBN:9781841588582

The loss of the Iolaire remains the worst peacetime British disaster at sea since the sinking of the Titanic. Yet, beyond the Western Isles, few have ever heard of what is not only one of the cruelest events in our history but an extraordinary maritime mystery a tale not only of unfathomable political and Naval incompetence and abiding...more details
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Wildcard: A Dr Steven Dunbar Mystery (Book)

McClure Ken

ISBN:9781846971631

When a traveller dies on a flight back to London from Africa, Ebola virus seems to be the reason. However, other victims in the UK are dying of the same illness and there seems to be no link. As politicians equivocate and scientists attempt to find a cause...more details
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