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MacPherson's Rant    MacPherson's Rant
ISBN:9781841582900
Category: Scottish History, Scottish Culture, Music
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The fiddle has long played an important part in Scottish musical tradition: here are lively stories that reflect that importance.


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MacRory's Breeks    MacRory's Breeks
ISBN:9781841582054
Category: Scotland, Humour
Author: David Ross
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

The inimitable humour of the Highlander through the ages.


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Macbeth And All That    Macbeth And All That
ISBN:9781841585741
Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: PB
Price: £2.99
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Synopsis:

Journey back to the dark ages where the throne is splattered in blood and death lurks in every corner. Chilling and gory Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.


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Mackerel and Cremola    Mackerel and Cremola
ISBN:9780748663026
Category: Literature, Scotland, Art, Anthologies, Poetry
Author: Ian Stephen
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A collection of Ian Stephen's short stories with recipe-poems and children's drawings, Mackerel & Creamola is a rich portrayal of contemporary life in the Hebrides, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of sea lore.


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Mackerel at Midnight    Mackerel at Midnight
ISBN:9781841831107
Category: Food And Drink, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ethel G. Hofman
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: Ethel Hofman grew up in the only Jewish family on Shetland. This is the story of her family and childhood, accompanied by recipes for Jewish and Shetland food cooked by her mother.


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Made in Scotland    Made in Scotland
ISBN:9781841587257
Category: Industry, Social History
Author: Carol Foreman
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This new edition of Made in Scotland features the stories behind a wide number of the best-known household names that originated in Scotland. It is a fascinating and nostalgic journey into the past and a wonderful celebration of Scottish industry.


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Magnus    Magnus
ISBN:9781846970627
Category: Literature, Classics
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

A powerful novel set in the twelfth century that explores universal questions aligned with the concepts of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.


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Making of Hibernian 1, The    Making of Hibernian 1, The
ISBN:9780859765091
Category: Sport
Author: Alan Lugton
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Alan Lugton’s remarkable book on The Making of Hibernian is now published for the first time in paperback.

        
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Making of the Crofting Community, The    Making of the Crofting Community, The
ISBN:9780859765374
Category: Politics And Economics, History, Cultural Studies, Crofting
Author: James Hunter
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This book has been seminal in bringing once again to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.


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Making of the Shetland Landscape, The    Making of the Shetland Landscape, The
ISBN:9781904607137
Category: History
Author: Susan A. Knox
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

The transformation of Shetland by the process of enclosure is placed in the wider context of agricultural and economic change on the British and international scene.


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Man Who Challenged America, The    Man Who Challenged America, The
ISBN:9781841585789
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Laurence Brady
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

One of the world’s first global entrepeneurs, Sir Thomas Lipton’s life is one of fascination.

                
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Man Who Sold Nelson’s Column, The    Man Who Sold Nelson’s Column, The
ISBN:9781841586120
Category: Humour
Author: Dane Love
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

In this fascinating book, Dane Love uncovers a strange collection of tales of devious fraudsters and curious hoaxes.


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Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560    Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560
ISBN:9781862321847
Category: History
Author: Pamela Ritchie
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that she was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politician, whose own dynastic

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Mary, Queen Of Scots And All That    Mary, Queen Of Scots And All That
ISBN:9781841584997
Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Format: PB
Price: £2.99
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Synopsis:

Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining. Crowned with exciting illustrations, this book is a heartbreaking royal romance that will leave you laughing your head off. One of eight volumes of the 'And All That' series.


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Masked Fisherman and Other Stories, The    Masked Fisherman and Other Stories, The
ISBN:9781846970849
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis: An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the title story of this remarkable collection of short stories.
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Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston    Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston
ISBN:9781846970603
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: Two classic novels of travel, romance and adventure by one of Edinburgh's most celebrated writer's.
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Matthew and Sheila    Matthew and Sheila
ISBN:9780748662395
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Matthew and Sheila is a story of family secrets, obsession and tragedy, set against the backdrop of a small Scottish town and the haunting beauty of the Western Isles.

                
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McGonagall    McGonagall
ISBN:9781874744115
Category: Poetry
Author: William McGonagall
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis:

This is an essential short introduction to a man who is a byword for poetic awfulness, as well as providing a fascinating snapshot of Victorian Scotland.


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McGovan Casebook, The    McGovan Casebook, The
ISBN:9781841830506
Category: Crime, Literature
Author: James McGovan
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: In the 1870s there appeared a series purporting to be the autobiographical writings of an Edinburgh policeman, James McGovan. Honeyman, the real author, had created one of the first detectives in crime fiction.


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McLevy    McLevy
ISBN:9781841587417
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James McLevy
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: The collection of stories in this book are based on some of the 2,220 cases he dealt with in the course of James McLevy’s career, wonderfully evoking the spirit of the city, and the vivid descriptions of its criminal classes. Introduced by Quintin Jardine.
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Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh, The    Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh, The
ISBN:9781841586137
Category: Local History, Folklore, Architecture
Author: Roger Miket and David Roberts
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

This readable yet informative book explores the castles of Hebridean myth.


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Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375 - 1707    Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375 - 1707
ISBN:9781873644652
Category: Scottish History
Author: (Editors) R. D. S. Jack and P. Rozendaal
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis: A large anthology of early Scottish Literature. This book challenges many widely-held assumptions about Scottish Literature, in particular the tendency to undervalue or even ignore the writers of the seventeenth century in Scotland. It aims to redefine the accepted canon and suggests an alternative way of approaching Scottish literary history.
   
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Midges    Midges
ISBN:9781841583860
Category: Humour
Author: Alasdair Roberts
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Nothing saves you from the savage bloodthirst of the Highland midge, scourge of Scotland and the tourist industry’s guilty secret.
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Midges in Scotland    Midges in Scotland
ISBN:9781841830629
Category: Natural History
Author: George Hendry
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis: This latest edition brings the story of biting midges up to date with new material on the Highland midge, its biology and why it bites. Written in a highly readable but informed way.


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Midwinter    Midwinter
ISBN:9781846970702
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Regarded by many critics as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Midwinter tells the tale of Alastair Maclean, confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England. With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.

    
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Mineworkers, The    Mineworkers, The
ISBN:9781841583655
Category: Industry
Author: Robert Duncan
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

The first substantial social history of mineworkers in Scotland to encompass the entire span of commercial mining, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the extinction of deep coal mining.


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Mirror of Monte Cavallara, The    Mirror of Monte Cavallara, The
ISBN:9781843410317
Category: Military History
Author: Ray Ward
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

After his passing, Ray Ward’s son discovered his father’s memoirs of the Second World War in the basement of their family home. The Mirror of Monte Cavallara is a very personal, poignant and revealing account.

    
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Missionaries, The    Missionaries, The
ISBN:9781904598596
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

An inspired study of human nature, The Missionaries charts a voyage of self-discovery for Andrew Doig, a university student who finds himself embroiled in a passionate debate over his defence of the inhabitants of St Sollas.  


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Missions to the Gaels    Missions to the Gaels
ISBN:9780859766180
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: Fiona A.MacDonald
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis:

This book is the first extended study, in the Post-Reformation period, of the impact of the Gaels (in the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland) on each others’ religious heritage.


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Mobile Scot, The    Mobile Scot, The
ISBN:9780859764537
Category: Social History, History, Emigration
Author: Jeanette M Brock
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

Using detailed information from census readings, Jeanette Brock's impressive study quantifies the out-migration by country and region.


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Moch is Anmoch    Moch is Anmoch
ISBN:9781899863310
Category: Gaelic Poetry
Author: Donald A. MacNeill
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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A collection of poetry and song by former Mod Medallist, the late Donald McNeill and other Colonsay bards.


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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 1    Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 1
ISBN:9781904607601
Category: Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.

        
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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 2    Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 2
ISBN:9781904607618
Category: Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.

        
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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 3    Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 3
ISBN:9781904607625
Category: Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.

    
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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 4    Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 4
ISBN:9781904607632
Category: Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.

        
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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 5    Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 5
ISBN:9781904607649
Category: Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.

        
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Moleskin Joe    Moleskin Joe
ISBN:9781841580371
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Patrick MacGill
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Moleskin Joe is one of Patrick MacGill's most memorable of characters. Humourous, poignant and vivid, Moleskin Joe is an unmissable read.

    
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Mologan the Boggart and the Green Lobster    Mologan the Boggart and the Green Lobster
ISBN:9781841830681
Category: Children's Fiction
Author: Mazda Munn
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis: Young Fin encounters a mischievous cave-dwelling creature called Mologan. A fantasy adventure story suitable for children aged 7-12.


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Monday Girl    Monday Girl
ISBN:9781841585970
Category: Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Set in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War and after the death of her father, Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. The impressionable Renee begins to form unusual attachments and romantic self-illusions which only spurs a cycle of self-effacement. A subtle treatment of human relationships during a time of flux.


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Mons Star, The    Mons Star, The
ISBN:9781841581279
Category: Military History
Author: David Ascoli
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

David Ascoli's account of Britain's crucial contribution to the opening months of the Great War is a worthy monument to those who gave so much to save France.


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Montrose    Montrose
ISBN:9781899863594
Category:
Author: Ronald Williams
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
Price: £17.99
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Synopsis:

James Graham, Fifth Earl of Montrose, is considered to be one of the most controversial and romantic figures in Scottish history. This biography aims to show that he was constant in his beliefs and heroic in his principled moderation in spite of the historic evidence of his cruelty.


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More Fruitful than the Soil    More Fruitful than the Soil
ISBN:9781862321618
Category: Scottish History
Author: Andrew McKillop
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815.


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Morningside Mata Haris    Morningside Mata Haris
ISBN:9781843410218
Category: Scotland
Author: Douglas MacLeod
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Douglas MacLeod delves beneath the surface of the Scottish League for European Freedom to reveal its more hair-raising activities as a front for MI6.
    
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Morvern    Morvern
ISBN:9781841582375
Category: Local History
Author: Norman Macleod
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:  Morvern - A Highland Parish is a stoic book with humaneness at its heart, encapsulating forgotten traditions and humour, recapturing the vitality of a past community often overlooked.
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Morvern Transformed    Morvern Transformed
ISBN:9781899863099
Category: Local History
Author: Philip Gaskell
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Format: PB
Price: £13.99
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A classic of local history, first published in 1968, Morvern Transformed is a fascinating description of the way of life of a community and the pressures both from within and without which altered it for ever.


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Movie Traveller, The    Movie Traveller, The
ISBN:9780748662494
Category: Cultural Studies
Author: Allan Foster
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

The Movie Traveller is the first comprehensive sightseeing guide dedicated to the most popular art-form of the twentieth century: the cinema!

    

    
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Mr Wong Goes West    Mr Wong Goes West
ISBN:9781846970818
Category: Fiction
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
‘To many, he is Asia’s funniest, most pungent columnist and author. To others, he is a subversive threat who must be watched like a hawk.’ - Herald Sun

The second exciting installment of Nury Vittachi’s ’The Feng Shui Detective Novel’ Series!

AVAILABLE MAY 2008

    
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Mull    Mull
ISBN:9781841581774
Category: Local History, Crofting
Author: Jo Currie
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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This is the first serious history ever written of one of the most beautiful and most visited of Hebridean islands.

    
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Mull and Iona    Mull and Iona
ISBN:9781841584430
Category: Photography
Author: John MacPherson
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This collection of photographs of the island of Mull and its neighbouring isles forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.

    
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Murdo    Murdo
ISBN:9781841580586
Category: Humour, Literature
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.


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Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century    Music and Society in Lowland Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN:9781841830490
Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: David Johnson
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis: In 18th-century Scotland both folk and classical music flourished in a unique blend. A hundred-year burst of creative activity is described in this ground-breaking study, now with a new introduction.


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My Life as a Man    My Life as a Man
ISBN:9781846970092
Category: Literature
Author: Frederic Lindsay
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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When factory owner Bernard Morton fires him from his first job, Harry Glass protests by impulsively going off with Morton’s car and the intriguing Mrs Morton.

            
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My Life as a Man    My Life as a Man
ISBN:9781904598725
Category: Literature
Author: Frederic Lindsay
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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A new thriller from a hugely popular crime writer that will grip and satisfy his many fans. My Life as a Man begins with a nation in the grip of anti-war fever, and ends with an old man’s discovery that life can still surprise him.

    
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My Little Town of Cromarty    My Little Town of Cromarty
ISBN:9781841585277
Category: Local History
Author: David Alston
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

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This book is a history of the small town of Cromarty, north of Inverness at the tip of the Black Isle peninsula. Although it has less than 750 inhabitants, Cromarty is viewed by its residents as a town rather than a village, which reflects the settlement’s beginnings as a royal burgh and its days as a leading port for the northern Highlands.  

    
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