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A warm book of folklore and tales told by one of the most well-known storytellers of the Western Isles.
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This is the fourth collection of adventure tales by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Canongate Classics series. The book includes: "The House of Eld", "The Song of Morrow", "Will O' the Mill", "The Treasure of Franchard", "The Sire de Maletroit's Door", "Treasure Island" and "The Black Arrow".
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Tales Until Dawn is an extraordinary collection of texts recorded from the lyrical and adept Gaelic speaker Joe Neil MacNeil. Translated by John Shaw, this book truly captures the breadth and richness of the Gaelic speaking community which covers and records many genres and subjects in this comprehensive collection.

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Tales and Traditions of the Lews is a marvellous pot pourri of local history, myth and legend from prehistoric times to the present day; it brings alive the island of Lewis in a way few other histories can.

    
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First published in 1928, the personal account of John Wilson’s experiences is both compassionate and humorous, providing a valuable insight into the social and educational conditions of the Gaelic Highlands and Islands.

        
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This omnibus edition of Christina Hall’s memoirs brings together her two books, To the Edge of the Sea and Twice around the Bay.

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Spanning a century, this book investigates Scotland’s contribution to military flying in Britain.  
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The Tartan Pimpernel is the remarkable autobiography of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940. A true story of heroism and sacrifice in occupied France during the Second World War. 
    

                    
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Anna Blair recreates a bygone era through the recollections of countless Glaswegians who shared their memories with her during extensive interviews.

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Edited by his son, this illustrated autobiography of John Logie Baird covers the wild escapades of his early career and the dramatic pioneering days when he transmitted the very first television pictures.

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In the decade since Terry Farrell and Partners founded their office in Scotland, three major buildings and two public squares have been designed and constructed in the capital. This book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, explores the philosop
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That’s Fourpence You’re Eating! takes the reader back to another period, recounting a middle-class upbringing in Victorian and Edwardian Perth and Edinburgh.

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Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, this is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church, thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable.
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Stuart Kelly provides a wry and erudite account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun – from ancient Greek and Arabic masters through Shakespeare, Dante and Hemingway right up to the present day.
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of Scottish, indeed, European literature, this epic poem is a tribute and cronicle of the life of Robert the Bruce. Its scale and extraordinary and vivid use of language adds an extra dimension to this fascinating and adventurous life story.
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A stylish and enthralling thriller set in 1978, which explores America's influence on Europe and the causes of terrorism.

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Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She's a sweet girl who has spent her teenage years in a fearful, cautious bubble. She's never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she's done all three.
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The second installment of the much-loved Corduroy Mansions series, as seen in The Telegraph, by one of Scotland’s most prolific authors.
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Alistair Moffat brings to vivid life the half-forgotten kings and kingdoms of two thousand years ago, of the time of the Romans, the Dark Ages and into the early medieval period. It is a remarkable journey around a lost Scotland.

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Morrisson tells the anguished story of the three daughters of a minister and his wife living in a remote Highland manse. The youngest narrates the love affairs of her sisters, each of whom falls in love with a man deemed an unacceptable match by their patriarchal, rigid and prejudiced society.
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A wonderfully fresh new collection of poems from one of Scotland's leading poets. Alongside his familiar theme of the changing elements of the Scottish landscape, the poet leads us quietly and courteously into a personal territory of friendship, love, reflection.
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The mutual influences of people and environment, and the recent history and current issues in this beautiful area of Scotland, are explored through a series of stunning aerial photographs.
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The author relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. This title lets you see the author make new friends and romances while finding his own way in a changing world. It describes the passing of age-old country ways, as technology begins to replace traditional farming methods.
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The first full survey of literary writing from and about the Orkney Islands. The book presents readings of uncomplicatedly Orcadian writers such as Walter Traill Dennison, Edwin Muir, Eric Linklater, Robert Rendall and George Mackay Brown and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition.
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With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith has given us another instalment to this popular series that is as clever, witty and as delightful as the rest. Bertie, Angus Lordie and his gold-toothed dog Cyril star alongside the familiar cast of favourites, as we follow their daily pursuit of a little happiness.

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The fifth, last and most unusual of the Hannay books, The Island of Sheep is part thriller and part meditation on nature. Accompanied by two friends Hannay sets out to protect the family by finishing a feud that goes back thirty years to a hilltop in Rhodesia.

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When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead – but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money?
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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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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 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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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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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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Examines how the question of military organisation was a major interest of the leading thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith.
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To many, the Enlightenment of the 18th century represents Scotland's Golden Age. In philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences, Scots were key players in changing the way the world was viewed. This anthology gathers together the well known and the lesser known amongst the writing of the time.
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Opening with a premonition of death, this is the story of a young man's conflict with the spiritual authority of his father, of a spirit of scepticism set against an authoritarian Calvinism.
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A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophesies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures.
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A collection of short stories celebrating life and love.
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Introduced by Christopher Hitchens, this is the fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels.

Hannay is living peacefully in the Cotswolds with his wife family until three separate visitors tell him of three children being held hostage by a secret kidnapper.

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Regarded as Hogg's most ambitious work of fiction, this tale is an extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the story is to be found in the Scottish Borders.
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This anthology brings together for the first time the poetry of five languages - Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse – in an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations that form a spectacular window on Scotland's past. Ranging from war to religion, nature to love, the quality and power of these poems display the riches of a vanished world.
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A unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the island of Hirta. It provides a first-hand account of the living conditions, social structure and economy of the community in the early 1900s, before the evacuation of the remaining residents in 1930.
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Looking back to the days of Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry's poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the vagaries of war and the brutal realities of battle, wounding and betrayal, all seen from the point of view of the troops in the field.
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This is the extraordinary story of Theoderic the Goth, a man who rose to the equal of Emperors, who raised his people to a pinnacle of power and wealth. It is a story that spans Europe, from the intrigues and wiles of Constantinople to the battlefields of the future France, from North Africa to the Balkans.
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This is the extraordinary story of Theoderic the Goth, a man who rose to the equal of Emperors, who raised his people to a pinnacle of power and wealth. It is a story that spans Europe, from the intrigues and wiles of Constantinople to the battlefields of the future France, from North Africa to the Balkans.

            
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The essays cover five main themes: Ireland, Scotland and the British Question; The Horizons of Women; Conservatism and Culture in Scotland; Chartism Revisited, and The Past, the Present and the People.    
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A supernatural mystery based on the Clydebank Blitz and written for 9–12 year old readers. Pete's whole family has suddenly and unexpectedly moved from London to Scotland and in their new house he hears unexplained voices. He meets new friends in the abandoned air raid shelter in the back garden but gradually realises that all is not as it seems.

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Scapa Flow is known worldwide. In two world wars it was the northern base which sheltered ships of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets from both storm and enemy attack. This book tells a fascinating history of a little seaway in the furthest reaches of Scotland's coast.

    
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Presents the author's ancestors' history of East Lothian with tales and anecdotes to embrace the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. When the team’s luck begins to change, the whole town unites to support them.

        

        
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A powerful and perceptive semi-autobiographical novel, which captures the true spirit of a traditional fishing community in the very north of Scotland's isolated coasts.

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This beautifully presented book is a combination of mouth-watering recipes, culinary essays and personal anecdotes from Shirley Spear of the Three Chimneys in Skye, one of Scotland’s favourite chefs.
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This beautifully presented book is a combination of mouth-watering recipes, culinary essays and personal anecdotes from Shirley Spear of the Three Chimneys in Skye, one of Scotland’s favourite chefs.
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic adventure story offers a dreamlike vision of prehistoric life and opens up new vistas to the imagination. This is a classic science-fiction tale from the 1930s, with an introduction by Ian Campbell.

    
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Forced into service at the age of fourteen, orphan Katie Mair must enter the bleak and cut off household, Howe of Denty, that turns out to be not as respectable as it first appears. One desperate act of defence from Katie is to a start a chain of despair, passion and revenge.
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Compelling first novel from established dramatist, Mark Tuohy. The Tide is a tale of self discovery—a novel that deals with the universal themes of love and death, alienation and the fragile nature of existence.
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An intriguing piece of fiction of a single mother set in the harsh conditions of post-war Britain.         
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Ronald Frame’s deceptively gentle writing spins a taut web of desire, betrayal and loss as his characters play out their roles in the intimate and claustrophobic amphitheatre of Carnbeg.

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A Time to Keep is George Mackay Brown’s second volume of short stories inspired by both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.

            
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To War with the Black Watch is a sharp, witty and moving insight into Scots–Italian relations in the latter part of the Second World War.

    
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A highly entertaining and informative accountof Scotland’s culture and character in the eighteenth century as told by two of Britain’s most notorious men of literature.

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Today Tomorrow is a celebration of the life and work of poet George Bruce, bringing together all the poems from previous collections, uncollected poems previous to Sea Talk (1944) and uncollected poems after the publication of Pursuit:
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