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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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In the current climate where politics and politicians are held in low esteem, Judy Steel looks back to a less cynical time. She writes with a light touch, as a storyteller rather than a historian or an analyst. The world of politics that she knew has disappeared, as has much else that she has lived through, but this memoir allows them to live on.
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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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A Runyonesque romp through the demi-monde that lurks beneath Edinburgh’s genteel façade. Douglas Findlay takes a trip down memory lane in this hilarious memoir of his time as a cabbie in post-war Edinburgh.

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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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In this, the sequel to the successful The Truth Tells Twice, Charlie Allan continues the wonderful story of his family farm and surrounding community in the North-east of Scotland, as the running of the farm comes under his guidance.

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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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Award winning chef Shirley Spear brings to life the story of the Three Chimneys restaurant in Skye – a winning combination of recipes, culinary essays, personal anecdotes and stunning photography.

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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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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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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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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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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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This is the first biography in over 100 years of the great Tom Morris of St Andrews, who presided over one of the most illustrious periods in the history of golf, who – more than anyone before or since in any game – stamped his individual character upon his sport and who, in large measure, made golf what it is today.
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This is the full, unofficial and uncensored story of one of the greatest football clubs in the world.

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The High School of Glasgow has a long and distinguished history. This book charts its history to become one of the top schools in Scotland.

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The guide provides an authoritative survey of the vast range of material held in the National Archives of Scotland—dealing with houses, streets, estates and farms, administrative divisions of Scotland as well as schools, businesses and recreational activities.

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Scotland has one of the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research. This book details internet developments, including a chapter on family history on the web. It also points to traditional resources, explaining step by step how to research records of births, marriages and wills.
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In presenting the full story of Bristol’s involvement in the slave trade, as well as its subsequent demise, Victoria Coules’ original and timely book shows how port cities around Britain profited from the slave trade.   

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Traditional Scottish Cookery brings together mouth-watering recipes from the whole range of Scottish cuisine - from the simple scones, broths and bannocks of the Highland Gaels, to the sophisticated meat and game dishes that are a legacy of the Auld Alliance with France.
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Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this book comprises of various 'transcribed and/or translated' first-hand narratives of non-English speakers, reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and even the Cultural Revolution in China.
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This novel is about what happens before and after the events that shape, scar and make us who we are.

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’David Ashton, like Robert Louis Stevenson or Ian Rankin, is inspired by the beauty-and-beast nature of Edinburgh. His interpretation of James McLevy is worthy of the original man,’ - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London

It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? McLevy investigates in this thrilling tale of corruption.
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Winner of 2007 Dundee International Book Prize

As a child Arabella Cordon idolises her Father, but his enthusiasm is reserved for steam engines, motorcycles and Margaret Thatcher.

On the day Thatcher comes to power, Arabella’s life changes irrevocably. Alone and adrift in London, she takes a job as a striptease artist in Soho. She is determined to leave the past behind but her identity and survival seem inextricably linked to her childhood and the question of what a father is.

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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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Made famous by Sir Walter Scott, the Trossachs retains its hold on the Scottish imagination as one of the most romantic areas of the country.
    
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Welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 5 times and sold more than 10,000 copies.

    
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An inspiring narrative of one man’s exploration within the fringes of the arctic circle. A truly unique perspective.

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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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Looks at the life of the small North-East farmer through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title includes folk wisdom and anecdotes from the people who made that farming community the prosperous thing it became from Nature's rather meagre bounty.
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The first ever biography of the celebrated yet controversial doctor catapults the reader directly into the centre of 19th century world affairs.

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For the first time, a full canon of twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic verse is available in one handsome volume.

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The first, definitive history of Tuscany written in English.
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Taken from the novel Redgauntlet, and told in colloquial Scots, 'Wandering Willie's Tale' is one of Scott's best known stories of the supernatural and a pact with the devil, while 'The Two Drovers' tells of a quarrel over Highland honour and the fatal intervention of the second sight.
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Covering his childhood and student years, David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars. One of the sons of Edinburgh's Chief Rabbi, his autobiography is a meditation on religious tolerance, and his father's vision of a society that could respect and synthesize cultural difference is of relevance to modern Scotland.
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This is the first edition of Allan Guthrie's debut novel which won The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007.

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A-format edition of the first novel from Allan Guthrie, one of crime fiction’s toughest new writers.    

        
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