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It’s 1975 and Britain is a country in political flux. In Glasgow the dirty old Victorian slums have been razed to the ground, replaced with brand new slums twenty storeys high. Chips are a health food and the very mention of filet mignon would spark a riot on the Govan Road.

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Kelsae is a definitive and comprehensive guide of the historical Border town, Kelso.
    
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When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead – but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money?

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'Nowhere was Stevenson's supremely elegant prose bettered,' - Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman

In Kidnapped (1886) and later fiction such as The Master of Ballantrae (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland’s past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in Kidnapped, whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite.   

 

                

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel set in the third summer of the war. Robert Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North.

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A book for anyone with an interest in the East Neuk of Fife, this is a history of the parish and burgh of Kilrenny from the twelfth century to the present day.
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Family is the one thing we all know about - whether family gives you strength, or breaks your heart, whether your idea of family stays steadfast through generations, or whether your family is a million miles away from kids or rosy-cheeked grannies. This book helps us think about and celebrate family moments and family members.
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Collected for the first time are twenty-six tales, superbly edited and introduced by Linda Williamson, from Scotland - and arguably Britain's - finest storyteller.

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A new and engrossing biography of the most significant Scottish politician of the Stewart age.

    
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George IV’s great journey to Scotland in 1822 is one of the defining moments in the creation of our country. Prebble has created a thoroughly investigated book, which makes a great read for any history enthusiast.

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This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of the Isles.

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Marjorie O. Anderson has made a fresh critical analysis of the evidence available from regnal lists and Irish annals, covering the sixth to ninth centuries.

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'A valuable addition to the field,' - BBC History Magazine

A hugely rewarding voyage of discovery for anyone interested in the formation of the kingdom of the Scots.

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This new book by the author of a number of book sof northern medieval history traces the story of the Cenél Loairn and its descendent kindreds through more than six hundred years to throw an unfamiliar side-light on the emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots.
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This work attempts to breathe life into a now close to forgotten period of Scottish life before th effects of centralisation came into force. The stories contained within draw on the recollections of over thirty inhabitants from the Kinross-shire area.

 

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The explosive follow-up to Two-Way Split.

    

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When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope.

            

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The Klondykers: The Oilmen Onshore is Mackie's sequel to his The Oilmen: The North Sea Tigers,  which shifts focus from the oilrig to how this historical development affected communities on land.

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Knoydart – the northern edge of the ‘Rough Bounds’ is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day.

 

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