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Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in Neil Munro’s lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001.

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For the first time this hilarious book is available on audio CD. It is the essential guide to understanding the intricacies and nuances of one of Britian’s most colourful dialects by the multi-faceted comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter.
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This hilarious book is the essential guide to understanding the intricacies and nuances of one of Britian’s most colourful dialects.
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This is Brian Hennigan’s debut novel and it has currently being adapted for film by director David Mackenzie.

    
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Paying the Piper offers an intriguing and stimulating debate about taxation.

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The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller’s last novel.

            
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This is the story of an idea - to operate a frequent, cheap short route between Orkney and the Scottish mainland - and of the man, Andrew Banks - a quietly spoken Orkney farmer’s son- who battled against the odds to make that idea a reality.

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This important book incorporates an outline of the structure of government in Scotland after the Treaty of Union with a study of the politics of Scotland from 1747 to 1784.

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First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.

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Published in association with The Economic and Social History Society of Scotland, this history provides a scholarly survey of the forces that have shaped modern Scotland.

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First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.

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These mysterious and fascinating legends retain their spellbinding enchantment through the luminous quality of Thomson’s prose. In the Selkie legends he found the perfect expression of a Celtic world where fiction and truth intertwine, and his book is a window onto that vanished world.
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The Home Guard, and its forerunner the Local Defence Volunteers, was genuinely a 'people's army' with its own ethos, character and political influence. This book examines the human story of the Home Guard in Scotland and the impact that this remarkable organisation had on society and on those that became involved with it.
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Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights is a complete set of stories first published in the early thirties, revealing an author whose interests lie far beyond the Scottish and rural.

    
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This comprehensive collection of essays provides fascinating information about this part of Scotland. The natural, historical and cultural treasures of this popular part of Scotland are revealed here in all their glorious variety.

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This book explores some of the remarkable stories of this ancient land, many of them appearing in print for the first time.

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The book features the work of photographers such as Captain F.W.L. Thomas, George Washington Wilson, Margaret Faw Shaw and many more.

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This is the fascinating story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.

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‘I have always loved the mixture of strictness and susceptibility in Norman MacCaig’s work. It is an ongoing education in the marvellous possibilities of lyric poetry . . . He means poetry to me.’ – Seamus Heaney

This book is the third edition of MacCaig’s Collected Poems and is edited by his son Ewen. This edition contains 778 poems, 100 of them previously unpublished. It is a definitive edition of his work.
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William McGonagall is a literary legend and one of the best known names in the printed world. Norman Watson gives us an important, absorbing and hugely entertaining biography which will appeal to McGonagall fans and general readers alike.

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Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquilisers. This book is a irreverent, bittersweet account of a brutal Scottish childhood.
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In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.

                
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The essays in this collection explore the uneasy relationship between Scottish History and Scottish Literature through the ages.

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With a new introduction by Neal Ascherson.

This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the impact of Poles coming into Scotland, following their contribution to the Second World War.
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A study of the main political parties in Scotland, examining in particular their electoral fortunes from the time of the First Reform Bill to the emergence of the Labour party.

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Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland and takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into Scotland’s history to find out how and why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common.

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Jo Falla, the author of the critically acclaimed Blue Poppies, has followed up his earlier triumph with a brilliant new novel set in the shimmering deserts of western Sudan.

    
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In this history of Leith the emphasis is placed firmly on the lives of the ordinary people - their work, homes, lifestyle, interests, aspirations and opinions.

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Poverty Castle is an absorbing work of contrasts and subtle irony centred around an idealistic family in Argyll. A compelling novel, it deals with human nature and the socialism of industrial Glasgow.

                
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Featuring prosperous Scots lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen - often considered John Buchan's alter ego - The Power-House is a classic thriller!

 

            

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South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of beyond. A strange encounter on the journey suggests that dark deeds and treacherous intrigues are afoot - all bound up with the mysterious primeval kingdom of Prester John.

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For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie reveals that he was an energetic and innovative patron, who in a brief fourteen years created a court culture of remarkable quality and diversity.

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Angelo, a private in Mussolini’s ‘ever-glorious’ Italian army, may possess the virtues of love and an engaging innocence, but he lacks the gift of courage. However, due to circumstances beyond his control, he ends up fighting not only for Italy, but also for the British and German armies...
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James Hogg’s masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders.
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This is a portrait of a complex and fascinating society which laid down patterns in the Scottish countryside, many of which still survive today.

    
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