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In this highly engaging book, acclaimed author Joe Pieri takes us through the shady history of Sicilian organised crime, which has spread from its local roots to every corner of the western world. It is a tangled story of rackets, fueds, business affairs and political chicanery, and one peopled with a sinister and colourful cast of characters.                                
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This is the first of two graphic accounts of the industry’s three and a half decades of risk and reward, of drama and tragedy and of a remarkable achievement unrivalled in the industrial history of Scotland.
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Visiting construction yards, oil terminals and offshore facilities in the 1980s and 1990s, Sue Jane Taylor captured the gritty, harsh conditions of the oil industry in her sketches, paintings and sculptures. This is a remarkable visual and social commentary on a crucial development period in North Sea oil.

    
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Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow, James Kelman’s first collection of short stories shine a light on the exploits of young and old.

            
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An entertaining and witty book of Scotland’s most famous of islands.

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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers. 
        
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Older Scots Literature is a major set of nearly forty new studies on the literature of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth-century Scotland.

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In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. The author sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendants.
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Three internationally bestselling authors write three interlinking stories focused on Edinburgh.

        
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An anthology of historic photographs from The Dan MacDonald Collection. They cover every aspect of the life of the River Clyde, and are chosen and introduced by Len Paterson.

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The One is a first novel of rare power and originality. It takes the reader to a place that has never been
documented in this way before—inside the mind of someone suffering the torments of schizophrenia. Written
with a sure grasp of the Edinburgh vernacular and a merciful leavening of black humour, it grips like a thriller
from beginning to end.
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Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and ‘loveliness’. Certainly the bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promises much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known hitherto. Her studies in the School of Art open up new horizons of independence and love, and Joanna reaches for them all.
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Spare, compelling and beautifully constructed, Kenneth White's poetry lies at the heart of his work, and this book is the first collection to show the full sweep of his vision from his earliest work to the present day.

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Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History, Aberdeen 1997. This book is essential reading for all concerned with questions of food and health in Europe.

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This important collection of essays offers new perspectives on the development and character of the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians; this study fills the gaps for the earliest period of Scottish railway history.

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The first in a new series of OneCity books this is a cracking collection of specially commissioned stories for upper primary school children, by ten of the best Scottish children’s writers.
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This family saga emerged through the chance survival of an archive of documents covering a dozen generations of a family that lived in Atholl in Highland Perthshire.

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Alastair Reid is one of Scotland’s foremost literary figures but his work is currently out of print in the UK. The bulk of his prose has long been unavailable, so this wide-ranging new collection of prose will present a fresh and comprehensive overview of his achievements, and will appeal to existing fans and new readers.

With an introduction by Andrew O'Hagan.

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