The Raiders
ISBN: 9781841952345
Category: Fiction
Author: S R Crockett
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Caught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downright murderers: his conventional world made anew by fear, desolation, courage and energy.
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Raising the Dead
ISBN: 9781841586700
Category: History of Science, History
Author: Andy Dougan
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Rebuilding Scotland
ISBN: 9781898410331
Category: Architecture
Author: Miles Glendinning
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book, drawing on a recent pioneering series of national symposia and exhibitions presents an introductory reassessment of thirty years of vigorous, but until recently misunderstood transformations of Scotland’s built environment.
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Recollections of East Fife Fisher Folk
ISBN: 9781841582818
Category: Industry, Social History
Author: Belle Patrick
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book is a charming yet insightful memoir of a bygone way of life. From it emerges a detailed picture of fisherfolk and fishing: their boats, methods of fishing, life and customs. The result is a valuable and vivid record of what was a central part of Scotland’s fishing industry.
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The Red Door
ISBN: 9781841581606
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: November 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Although best known as one of Scotland’s greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. Here in one volume is a comprehensive collection demonstrating the versatility of Crichton Smith’s range.
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Red Rowans and Wild Honey
ISBN: 9781841580708
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Betsy Whyte
Publication Date: November 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Betsy Whyte was a gifted, natural storyteller and this remarkable memoir brings to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet ’red rowans’ and ’wild honey’ - in a way that no work of the imagination can.
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Reek Roon a Camp Fire
ISBN: 9781841587950
Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: Stanley Robertson
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A magnificent collection of epic traveller tales full of wonder. There are tales of the supernatural as well as tales of everyday life.
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The Reign of James VI
ISBN: 9781904607656
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: (Editor) Julian Goodare and Michael Lynch
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: not in stock
The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it which resemble black-holes in our knowledge.
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The Reivers
ISBN: 9781841586748
Category: British History, History
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Reivers is an extraordinary book which tells the historical tale of a land that was at all times no-man’s-land but a land over which blood was shed on both sides of an invisible border.
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Renfrewshire
ISBN: 9781841587998
Category: Local History, History
Author: Derek Alexander
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not yet published
Derek Alexander provides an enthralling account of the archaeological history of Renfrewshire, one of Scotland’s least investigated countys.
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The Rev. Dr John Walker's Report on the Hebrides
ISBN: 9781904607397
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: (Editor) Margaret M. McKay
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: not in stock
Dr Walker's report gives us a last opportunity to see the basis of the old island economy and the life and conditions of the inhabitants.
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The Revival of the Democratic Intellect
ISBN: 9780748661886
Category: Education, Scottish History, History
Author: Andrew Lockhart Walker
Publication Date: January 1994
Format: PB
Price: £13.99
Stock Status: in stock
A passionate defence of the importance to the Scottish educational tradition of a philosophical and generalist approach.
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland
ISBN: 9780859765800
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: David Stevenson
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This volume continues the story begun in The Scottish Revolution of the Covenanters’ sudden rise to power, but how their soaring ambitions and religious zeal in the end led Scotland to an unparalleled disaster.
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River of Fire
ISBN: 9781843410492
Category:
Author: John MacLeod
Publication Date: September 2010
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: not yet published
John MacLeod tells the story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and devastation, speculating on why its incineration has been so widely forgotten and its ordeal denied any place in national honour.
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River of Memory
ISBN: 9781841831060
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Joe Pieri
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Following the success of his history of Italian immigration to Scotland, The Scots-Italians, Joe Pieri tells his own eventful life story.
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The Road to Drumnafunner
ISBN: 9781841585062
Category: Travel Writing, Travel
Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Road to Drumnafunner is a journey through the secret history and legends of North-east Scotland. Beginning at Drumnafunner Farm, where the Donald family lived and where the poet Charles Murray – ’Hamewith’ – walked over the moors to school, the road winds its way through many intriguing places, uncovering the stories and characters associated with them.
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The Road to Glen Spean
ISBN: 9781841584348
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Christina Hall
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is the sequel to Christina Hall’s charming autobiographies about her youth, To the Edge of the Sea andTwice Around the Bay.
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The Road to Maggieknockater
ISBN: 9781841583211
Category: Reference
Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: November 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
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Rob Roy And All That
ISBN: 9781841585727
Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £2.99
Stock Status: in stock
Follow Rob’s quest through glens, dungeons and river rapids as his enemies close in for the kill . . . Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Rob Roy Macgregor
ISBN: 9780862415389
Category:
Author: W H Murray
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Robbie Shepherd
ISBN: 9781841588377
Category: Biography
Author: Robbie Shepherd
Publication Date: October 2010
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: not yet published
A stunning autobiography from one of the most popular, recognisable and beloved Scottish journalists and broadcasters.
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Robbie Shepherd’s Doric Columns
ISBN: 9781841585246
Category: Humour
Author: Robbie Shepherd
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
For the first time, over fifty of Robbie Shepherd’s Press and Journal Doric columns have been brought together in one collection, with superb illustrations by Graham MacLennan.
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Robert Bruce
ISBN: 9781841584751
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: Colm McNamee
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The first popular biography for 40 years and an enthralling read. Colm McNamee is an expert on the Irish dimensions of the Wars of the Bruces.
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Robert Burns And All That
ISBN: 9781841585734
Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £2.99
Stock Status: in stock
Join Burns’s quest to rescue a lost musical treasure - and get chased by ghouls as he explores the dark side of life. Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Robert Fergusson
ISBN: 9781846970351
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Robert Fergusson
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Originally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson’s finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary.
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Robert Garioch
ISBN: 9781904598077
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Robert Garioch
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Robert Garioch was one of Scotland's most distinctive poetic voices. Born in Edinburgh in 1909, he was educated at the university there, and subsequently embarked on a teaching career, writing poetry in his free time.
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Robert Owen
ISBN: 9780859766159
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ian Donnachie
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not in stock
Ian Donnachie’s engaging yet judicious study is the first biography of Robert Owen for fifty years.
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Robert the Bruce And All That
ISBN: 9781841584973
Category: Humour, Children's Non-Fiction
Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £2.99
Stock Status: in stock
A real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland’s warrior king. Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Roman Scotland
ISBN: 9780713489958
Category: History, Scottish History
Author: David Breeze
Publication Date: February 2007
Format: PB
Price: £15.99
Stock Status: in stock
Two thousand years ago the Roman army, one of the world's most successful fighting machines, set out to conquer Scotland. Three invasions were attempted, and each ended in withdrawal. This book investigates why the Romans chose to invade and failed.
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Ross County
ISBN: 9781841589213
Category: Sport
Author: Frank Gilfeather
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
The fairytale story of the Highland League minnows triumphing against the odds to reach the Scottish Cup Final.
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Rosslyn
ISBN: 9781841584171
Category: History of Religion, History
Author: Andrew Sinclair
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This book offers an enthralling trail through the rich tapestry of events witnessed by Rosslyn over the centuries. Andrew Sinclair, himself descended from Prince Henry St Clair.
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Rosslyn
ISBN: 9781841584706
Category: History of Religion, History
Author: Andrew Sinclair
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This book offers an enthralling trail through the rich tapestry of events witnessed by Rosslyn over the centuries. Andrew Sinclair, himself descended from Prince Henry St Clair.
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Rosslyn Chapel
ISBN: 9781841587240
Category: History of Religion, History
Author: Angelo Maggi
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
A complete and comprehensive history of the ever mysterious yet famous Rosslyn Chapel.
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Rough Wooings
ISBN: 9781862320901
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: Marcus Merriman
Publication Date: March 2000
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is the story of the beginnings of Mary, Queen of Scots, a rich and vibrant epic involving many of the major figures of early modern history. Henry VIII of England, Francois I and Henri II of France bestride the canvas, but even they cannot obscure the beguiling figure of the young Mary Queen of Scots.
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Royal Commemorative Mugs and Beakers
ISBN: 9781862322653
Category: Reference, Kings and Queens, History
Author: Peter Lockton
Publication Date: March 2001
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock
This book aims to increase the passion of existing collectors of commemorative mugs and beakers, and to introduce new enthusiasts to this exciting field of collecting.
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Rural Housing in Scotland
ISBN: 9780080345291
Category: Social History
Author: M Shucksmith et al.
Publication Date: August 1987
Format: PB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This book has grown from a conference held in 1986 which had the intention of drawing the attention of policy makers to research the had been conducted, and of promoting further well coordinated research..
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The Russian Civil War
ISBN: 9781843410416
Category: Military History, Military and Adventure
Author: Evan Mawdsley
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Evan Mawdsley’s lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.
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