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The official authorised biography with author access to Hamish Henderson’s archive and previously unpublished poems and letters.
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year

Hamish Henderson lived one of the great lives of twentieth-century Scotland, a dramatic life of epic European scale, a life of major artistic, political and spiritual achievement. Timothy Neat captures a complex and interesting man in the second volume of this stunning biography detailing the poet’s later years.

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In this collection Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to ‘find a language’ to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face.

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Hand, Heart and Soul is the first book to provide a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and many new names that emerge from the shadows.

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How should we mark great occasions? With great words. Those seeking memorable words for their ceremonies of marriage or commitment, or simply want to take delight in an anthology of love poems, will find in this collection old favourites and brand new poems.

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This is a selection of contemporary and classic Scottish poems on this subject, in Scots, English and Gaelic with appropriate translations and glossaries.

    
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Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets.

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This anthology gives us a last glimpse of the heroic age in Europe through the resonant poetry of the Gaelic tradition. English translations included.

    
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A unique insight into Harris life, industry and its people through the ages.

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He might not be the fastest P.I. in Miami, but octogenarian Harry Lipkin is definitely the oldest.

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Roddy Martine gives as eerie stories of paranormal activity and the legends and folklore of haunted Scotland.

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Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Lomont leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds.
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This collection of eleven stories demonstrates the full range of George MacKay Brown’s literary talent.

        
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The inspiring but occasionally gruesome story of medicine in Scotland—from folk healers through to doctors like David Livingstone who made Scottish medicine world-famous.

 

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Healing Threads is a unique introduction to the healing properties of nature that has fascinated generation after generation.

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A lifelong Hibs fan takes on the challenge that TV’s Faking It and Wifeswap were too scared to even contemplate as he tries to follow his team’s hated rivals Hearts for an entire season.

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Eminent poets and critics combine in unique tribute to a poet of whom even Robert Burns stood in awe.

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Illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides, this large-format, hardback book is the perfect way to remember birthdays of friends and family.    

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Another beautiful addition to the much-loved Hedderwick stationery range.

 

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This is an address book which is attractively illustrated with acclaimed illustrator Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of seasonal Western Island scenes.
 

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A perennial favourite, this diary is another beautiful addition to the Hedderwick stationery.

 

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Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps, and including practical information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat, how to get there and how to get around, this is an eminently practical, portable and essential guide for the independent traveller.

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Following the immense success of the Hebridean diaries, birthday books, and address books, Birlinn have added a notebook to its attractive range of Hebridean stationery.

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A beautifully illustrated handy address book. Colleced over a period of 40 years, these skeches showcase Hedderwick's remarkable knowledge of the Western Isles.

 

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The perfect travelling diary, beautifully illustrated by the acclaimed Mairi Hedderwick.

 

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In Hebridean Sharker Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch, between the Inner and Outer Hebrides. His story is full of adventures and fantastic descriptions of a seagoing life in the islands. It has become a Hebridean classic.

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For centuries the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have cast their spell over visitors.

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Features beautiful, full-colour paintings by Mairi Hedderwick. New addition to the successful range of Hebridean diaries and address books.

    
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Gus Wylie’s association with the Hebrides as photographer goes back thirty years and has been a significant force in the shaping and development of his creative output.

        
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A collection of photographs of the key west coast bases in Scotland during World War 2. The Hebrides were an important but little known theatre of the war and the photographs are accompanied by first-hand accounts of U-boat attacks, convoy attacks and the preparation for D-Day, from both military and civilian sources.

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The mutual influences of people and environment, and the recent history and current issues in this beautiful area of Scotland, are explored through a series of stunning aerial photographs.

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"These are poems wrought with delicacy and love," - The North

This remarkable collection explores the complex ways in which people and things are held – both metaphorically and physically – in the world.

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Hiking across the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter, Cawthorne provides a vivid and evocative celebration of Highland scenery and ecology.

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Hell of a Journey describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. It is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek and celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the scenery and ecology of 'the last wilderness in Europe'.

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Jane Duncan’s stories of a little girl called Janet and her life on ’Reachfar’ farm are evocatively illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick and have become children’s classics.

    
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Hidden Scotland is an indispensable guide to those keen to explore the more alternative histories and destinations on Scotland’s tourist trail.

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The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.

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An entirely new account of the history of one of the oldest Hebridean clans from its origins in a remote Scandinavian past until its dispersal around the globe in modern times.

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This is the first fully documented study for many years of one of Scotland’s most emotive subjects.

                            
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Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.

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Following in the footsteps of Edwin Muir’s famous Scottish Journey, Robin Gillanders presents a beautifully illustrated account of contemporary Highland life.
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Combines two artists' texts to provide a social commentary comparing two vastly contrasting eras, written by two complete strangers with a common distaste for tourist hordes and the impact of man's encroachment in Scotland's landscape.
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The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady, has had an avid readership since the book’s first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys.
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This is the first history of the musical culture of the worldwide piping community.

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Having reviewed his life, including fighting in World War I, a mature Scottish man reaches the source of the river he had grown up near in the Highlands. He realizes that the magic he had experienced there as a child was in fact always present in his erstwhile nihilistic life.

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The author relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. This title lets you see the author make new friends and romances while finding his own way in a changing world. It describes the passing of age-old country ways, as technology begins to replace traditional farming methods.
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Joint Winner of the 2010 Saltire Royal Mail Scottish First Book of the Year

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, Edwin Muir, Eric Linklater, Robert Rendall and George Mackay Brown and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition.

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A long-awaited re-issue of a continual classic originally published in 1881.

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This book provides a lively account of bookselling and booksellers through the life histories of key and representative figures in the Scottish trade, told in their own words.

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In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.

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Published in 1901 and described by George Douglas Brown as ‘a brutal and bloody work’, this bestselling classic was a furious reponse to what Brown called ‘sentimental slop’ – the representation of Scotland as a cosy rural idyll.

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This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway: Tunes of Glory - a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and brutality of post-war army life; Household Ghosts - a claustrophobic tale of family tension, love triangles and the persistence of the past; and Silence, which tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence.

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’A gripping and welcome addition to the growing genre of historical crime fiction,’ - Waterstone’s Books Quarterly

A historical crime novel set in sixteenth century St Andrews where an open and shut case becomes a Pandora's box of lies, deceit and passions repressed by the academic cloister and the Protestant church.

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A historical crime novel set in sixteenth century St Andrews involving the academic cloister and the Protestant church.

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As well as being the first biography of this pivotal figure and an important landmark in the religious history of Scotland, this is also an exciting and moving story of a fascinating man in a time of persecution and disruption.
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The Hunt for Rob Roy investigates new and controversial sources that shake modern conceptions of a well-marked man.

    
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"One of the most entertaining books written about Scottish football...a glorious mixture of the serious and the whimsical, the cream and the crude and the great diversity of Scottish League football." - Programme Monthly

Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, Gary Sutherland visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing and the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon.

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Aonghas MacNeacail’s poetry sweeps to new heights with this collection in both Gaelic and English. 

    
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'Scrupulously observed and completely persuasive,' - The Telegraph

Dr Frank Simmons digs beneath the surface of the cancer research industry and unearths corruption more destructive than the disease itself. Famed for his meticulous research and uncanny predictions McClure has built a reputation worthy of Michael Crichton.

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