Para Handy

Para Handy


ISBN: 9781841582276
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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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Parliamo Glasgow Audio CD

Parliamo Glasgow Audio CD


ISBN: 9781841587585
Category: Humour, Audio CD
Author: Stanley Baxter
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
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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The Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus

The Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus


ISBN: 9781841587745
Category: Humour
Author: Stanley Baxter
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
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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Patrick Robertson

Patrick Robertson


ISBN: 9781904598459
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Brian Hennigan
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
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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

Paying the Piper


ISBN: 9781841585871
Category: Politics And Economics, Current Affairs
Author: Brian Monteith
Publication Date: February 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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


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The Pearl-fishers

The Pearl-fishers


ISBN: 9781846970061
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller’s last novel.

            
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Pentland Hero

Pentland Hero


ISBN: 9781841588889
Category: Biography, History
Author: Roy Pedersen
Publication Date: April 2010
Format: PB
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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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The People Above

The People Above


ISBN: 9781904607342
Category: Politics And Economics
Author: Alexander Murdoch
Publication Date: December 2003
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

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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People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 1

People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 1


ISBN: 9780859762106
Category: Social History
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: March 1988
Format: PB
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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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People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 2

People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 2


ISBN: 9780859762113
Category: Social History
Author: W. Hamish Fraser and R.J. Morris
Publication Date: March 1990
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

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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People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 3

People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 3


ISBN: 9780859762120
Category: Social History
Author: (Editors) A. Dickson and J. H. Treble
Publication Date: March 1992
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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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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The People of the Sea

The People of the Sea


ISBN: 9781841951072
Category: Short Stories
Author: David Thomson
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
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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People of the Wildcat Country

People of the Wildcat Country


ISBN: 9781841584485
Category: Short Stories, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Sandra MacPherson
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis:
Sandra Macpherson’s last book, A Strange and Wild Place, was hugely successful in 2003 and reprinted in 2004. Thisa book contains a delightful variety of tales old and new from Monarch of the Glen country.

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The People's Army

The People's Army


ISBN: 9781843410430
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Brian D. Osborne
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
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

Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights


ISBN: 9780748662319
Category: Short Stories, Literature
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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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The Perthshire Book

The Perthshire Book


ISBN: 9781874744849
Category: Local History, History
Author: Donald Omand
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

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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Perthshire in History and Legend

Perthshire in History and Legend


ISBN: 9780859765176
Category: Local History, History
Author: Archie McKerracher
Publication Date: March 1998
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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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Philipson

Philipson


ISBN: 9781873830031
Category: Art
Author: W. Gordon Smith
Publication Date: January 2006
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
Philipson was well-known for his bold colours and his free use of paint, and his art embodied many themes, ranging from female nudes through cockfighting to World War I.

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Philipson

Philipson


ISBN: 9781873830246
Category: Art
Author: W. Gordon Smith
Publication Date: January 2006
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
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Synopsis:
Philipson was well-known for his bold colours and his free use of paint, and his art embodied many themes, ranging from female nudes through cockfighting to World War I.

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Photographers of the Western Isles

Photographers of the Western Isles


ISBN: 9780859767040
Category:
Author: Martin Padget
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis:

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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Physicians and Society

Physicians and Society


ISBN: 9780859766982
Category: Education, Medicine
Author: Morrice McCrae
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:
This book is a social history of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from its foundation in 1681 until 1918 when, at the end of the First World War, its role was changed by the creation of the Ministry of Health.

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The Picts

The Picts


ISBN: 9781906566258
Category:
Author: Tim Clarkson
Publication Date: September 2010
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

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


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Pilgrims of the Mist

Pilgrims of the Mist


ISBN: 9781841587523
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Sheila Stewart
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: reprinting  

Synopsis:
A diverse collection of stories gathered by singer, storyteller and author Sheila Stewart, one of the last in the line of Scotland’s travelling people.

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The Poems of Norman MacCaig

The Poems of Norman MacCaig


ISBN: 9781846971365
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Norman MacCaig
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:
‘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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Poet McGonagall

Poet McGonagall


ISBN: 9781841588841
Category:
Author: Norman Watson
Publication Date: September 2010
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

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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Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell

Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell


ISBN: 9781846971150
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Alison Whitelock
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
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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Polar Crusader

Polar Crusader


ISBN: 9781841585437
Category: Exploration, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Smith
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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 Polar Twins

The Polar Twins


ISBN: 9780859765138
Category: Literary History, History
Author: (Editors) Edward J Cowand and Douglas Gifford
Publication Date: March 1999
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

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


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The Polish Invasion

The Polish Invasion


ISBN: 9781843410485
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Ksawery Pruszynski
Publication Date: February 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
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 Political History of Scotland 1832-1914

A Political History of Scotland 1832-1914


ISBN: 9781904607328
Category: Politics And Economics, Scottish History, History
Author: I. G. C. Hutchison
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

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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The Poor Had No Lawyers

The Poor Had No Lawyers


ISBN: 9781841589077
Category:
Author: Andy Wightman
Publication Date: October 2010
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

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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Poor Mercy

Poor Mercy


ISBN: 9781904598282
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Jonathan Falla
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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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The Port of Leith

The Port of Leith


ISBN: 9781904607175
Category: Local History, History
Author: Sue Mowat
Publication Date: November 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

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

Poverty Castle


ISBN: 9781846970153
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
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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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The Power House

The Power House


ISBN: 9781846970290
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
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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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Prester John

Prester John


ISBN: 9781846970641
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
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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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Princelie Majestie

Princelie Majestie


ISBN: 9780859766111
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: Andrea Thomas
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

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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Private Angelo

Private Angelo


ISBN: 9780862413767
Category: Fiction
Author: Eric Linklater
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
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Synopsis:
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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The Private Memoirs and Confessions Of A Justified Sinner

The Private Memoirs and Confessions Of A Justified Sinner


ISBN: 9780862413408
Category: Fiction
Author: James Hogg
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
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Synopsis:
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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Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen

Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen


ISBN: 9781841581460
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: Piers Dixon
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

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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