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A comprehensive guide to Scotland’s malt whisky distilleries by the world-renowned authority on whisky, Charles MacLean. With photographs by John MacPherson.
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The fiddle has long played an important part in Scottish musical tradition: here are lively stories that reflect that importance.

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The inimitable humour of the Highlander through the ages.

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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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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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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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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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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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This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman – would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter – moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat.
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Original, quirky and brilliantly insightful, this fan’s-eye account of the four golf majors of 2009 is a must for all lovers of sport and of golf; it is entertainment, travelogue and user manual to the most spectacular golf tournaments in the world.

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

                
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This is the inspirational story of a remarkable man who wanted to preserve the traditional Gaelic culture and wildlife.

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

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This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.
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Based on exclusive interviews, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson reveal the huge contribution Scots managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, George Graham, Jim McLean, Eddie Turnbull, Graeme Souness, Gordon Strachan, Kenny Dalglish, David Moyes, Alex McLeish and Walter Smith, as well as a host of others, have made to the world game.
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Stories of possession, doubleness and terror reveal more clearly than ever their Scottish roots, and that fascination with the uncanny which brought the creator of Mr Hyde screamingly awake one winter's night over one hundred years ago.
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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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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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Two classic novels of travel, romance and adventure by one of Edinburgh's most celebrated writer's.
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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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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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This readable yet informative book explores the castles of Hebridean myth.

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Galt’s two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings. The Radical is a study of narrow-minded, humourless fanaticism.
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These vivid and inimitable records of life in the early 19th century, and above all on the great Rothiemurchus estate, are full of sharp observation and wit, and form an unforgettable picture of Elizabeth Grant's time.
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The Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings, they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their story is often neglected or ignored. This book redresses the balance by studying the northern Britons from the departure of Rome to the birth of medieval Scotland.

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An anthology of early Scottish literature. It is suitable as a teaching text for school and university students.
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After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a dark, maniacal thriller that explores many kinds of duality - individual, social and cultural, and is a heartfelt tale about the search for belonging and the nature of love and desire. It is also bloody funny.

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Now thy enemy! And have a laugh at the same time with this pocket-szed guide to the scourge of the Scottish summer - the midge.

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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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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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The story of a great family in the evolving kingdom of the Scots, cross-border lords who gave unambiguous allegiance to the Scottish Crown, mighty subjects of successive Scottish kings.

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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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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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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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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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’This woman who was everything to him - mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat...’ Mr Matekoni on Precious Ramotswe.

Discover the favourite recipes of our ’traditionally built’ heroine and delight in the culinary traditions and culture of Botswana through the wit and wisdom of Precious, Mr Matekoni and the rest of the gang from The Number One Ladies Detective Agency. With an Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.

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Until now there have been no rational studies of the age, sex and status of Scottish migrants. This book opens up entirely new perspectives on one of the classic subjects of Scottish history. Using detailed information from census readings, Jeanette Brock’s impressive study quantifies the out-migration by country and region.

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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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This indispensible anthology contains selections of the best works by Scotland’s most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets.
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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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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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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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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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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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With over 200 poems, this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history.
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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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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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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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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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Giving a voice to the Scottish Gael at the end of the 20th century, the late Hector Macdonald (writing as the great Aimsir Eachainn) scribed the brilliant weekly column A View from North Lochs for the West Highland Free Press. This book is the second collection of columns.
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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 - 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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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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Introduced by Hew Strachan, 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.

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

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The first serious history ever written of one of the most beautiful and most visited of Hebridean islands, this text is the product of fifteen years’ research. It is lavishly illustrated with a wealth of previously unpublished pictures. The result is one of the most important books on Hebridean history yet written, told throughout with humour and masterful characterisation.
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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 Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.

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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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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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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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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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