Bering
ISBN: 9781904598114
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Edward John Crockett
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This extraordinary novel charts the thrilling progress of one of the greatest but least-known journeys of exploration.
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Football Haiku
ISBN: 9780748663095
Category: Poetry, Fiction, Photography, Art
Author: (Editor) Alec Finlay
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Football Haiku contains over 100 three-line poems from a wide variety of contributors which have been printed on T-shirts.
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The Burn
ISBN: 9781846970535
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
An extraordinary collection of short stories by a master of paranoia and an unsurpassed prose stylist.
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Kane's Ladder
ISBN: 9781846970474
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Carlos Alba
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Stevenson's Scotland
ISBN: 9781841830568
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication Date: August 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
For the first time, the best writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, including the entire text of Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, extracts from his letters, and previously unpublished items, are collected in one entertaining and evocative anthology.
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The Bestiary
ISBN: 9781846970467
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Sam Meekings
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A Polygon newcomer, Sam Meekings presents thoughtful, light and earthy poetry. Each poem a fleeting moment that demands a long pause of reflection and moves off once again leaving a pensive smile.
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And the Judges Said...
ISBN: 9781846970528
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
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Labanotation
ISBN: 9780748663255
Category: Poetry, Fiction, Photography, Art
Author: (Editor) Alec Finlay
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Labanotation is a wonderful idea: take the greatest World Cup goal ever, the infamous Archie Gemmill goal from the 1978 Scotland v. Netherlands game, and transform it into dance.
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In Between Talking About the Football
ISBN: 9780748661121
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Gordon Legge
Publication Date: October 1991
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A short story collection, capturing the lives of council estate dopeheads, single parents, awkward young men and lonely old women.
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The Dark Twin
ISBN: 9781899863525
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Marion Campbell
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The narrator, Drost, tells the story, through a series of waking dreams, of his life in Bronze Age Scotland from his childhood, as the chosen companion and help-mate of his future "king", up to his own approaching death.
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Today Tomorrow
ISBN: 9780748662999
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: George Bruce
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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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
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The Dark Twin
ISBN: 9781899863419
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Marion Campbell
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
The narrator, Drost, tells the story, through a series of waking dreams, of his life in Bronze Age Scotland from his childhood, as the chosen companion and help-mate of his future "king", up to his own approaching death.
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Jimmy Swan
ISBN: 9781841582030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveller, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist.
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Where the Shadow Falls
ISBN: 9781846970757
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
'From its blood-stained opening, the latest chapter in the tumultuous life of DS Alice Rice proves a compelling read,' - Scottish Field
A new thrilling novel carefully laiden with mystery, deception and murder in which Alice Rice finds herself hunting a killer.
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Children of the Tempest
ISBN: 9781899863990
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A tale of greed and love, smugglers and kidnapping set in the wild Outer Hebrides.
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The Blood is Strong
ISBN: 9781899863228
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Richenda Francis
Publication Date: January 1997
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Magnus
ISBN: 9781846970627
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A powerful novel set in the twelfth century that explores universal questions aligned with the concepts of guilt, goodness and personal sacrifice.
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Greyhound for Breakfast
ISBN: 9781846970542
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price:
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Wish I Was Here
ISBN: 9780748662814
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editors) Alec Finlay, Kevin MacNeil
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Wish I Was Here represents the diversity of languages, dialects and cultures in contemporary Scotland.
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The Lightning Tree
ISBN: 9780748663262
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Valerie Gillies
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Valerie Gillies' vibrant new collection takes us on a journey across Scotland, exploring the inhabited landscape and the wild places.
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Scottish Traditional Tales
ISBN: 9781841582641
Category: Short Stories, Fiction, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: (Editors) A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: reprinting
A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down by generations of Scottish storytellers, and have been recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years.
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Fall From Grace
ISBN: 9781846970504
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
The second in a new series of McLevy books, Fall from Grace revolves around the terrible Tay Bridge disaster.
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Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780859766050
Category: Linguistics, Fiction
Author: Marina Dossena
Publication Date: March 2005
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Scotticisms in Grammar and Vocabulary investigates the historical development of the (mainly sociolinguistic) phenomena which favoured a process of increasing anglicisation in Late Modern Scots.
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Hard Man
ISBN: 9781846970221
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets.
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Writing Scotland
ISBN: 9781904598237
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Carl MacDougall
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Writing Scotland is a major eight-part television series, made by Hopscotch Films, written and presented by Carl MacDougall and scheduled to be broadcast on BBC2 Scotland and BBC4 in 2004.
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A View from North Lochs
ISBN: 9781841586304
Category: Essays, Fiction, Humour
Author: Aimsir Eachainn
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
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William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet'
ISBN: 9781862321960
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Sally Mapstone
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
The publication of Priscilla Bawcutt's complete edition of The Poems of William Dunbar provides the opportunity for a critical stocktaking on Dunbar studies and the chance to map out areas in which more extensive enquiry should be undertaken.
For Promised Joy
ISBN: 9781899863754
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Oonagh Morrison
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Tales From Barra
ISBN: 9781874744030
Category: Fiction, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: John MacPherson (The Coddy)
Publication Date: April 1992
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A warm book of folklore and tales told by one of the most well-known storytellers of the Western Isles.
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Hard Man
ISBN: 9781846970047
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets.
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Blood on the Borders
ISBN: 9781862322875
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Judith Cook
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Dr Simon Forman finds himself accused of harbouring enemies of the state after a night of revelry. In his haste to clear his name he gets caught up in a secret spying mission and death stalks him as he tries to discover the identity of a murderer.
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Murdo
ISBN: 9781841580586
Category: Humour, Literature, Fiction
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.
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Erchie
ISBN: 9781841582023
Category: Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. Meet Erchie Macpherson, waiter and Kirk Deacon, his wife Jinnet, and his friend Duffy, the coal merchant, three pawky characters, putting the world to rights in Edwardian Glasgow.
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Fall From Grace
ISBN: 9781846970078
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The second in a new series of McLevy books, Fall from Grace, revolves around the terrible Tay Bridge Disaster.
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No More Heroes
ISBN: 9781846970139
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A firebomb attack at a Plummer property thrusts Innes into the spotlight as he saves a child from the burning building. But when Plummer enlists his help to track down the arsonists, Innes finds himself dealing with more than the ENS and his rapidly overwhelming codeine addiction. Manchester needs a hero and Callum Innes is the closest it has.
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Those Other Times
ISBN: 9781841580593
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Bess Ross
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Curewife
ISBN: 9780954407544
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Claire-Marie Watson
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Curewife is the winner of the Dundee Book Prize 2002 and is the story of Grissel Jaffray, the last woman to be burnt as a witch in Dundee.
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Alias MacAlias
ISBN: 9781904598213
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: Hamish Henderson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Hamish Henderson was one of the most significant figures in the cultural life of Scotland during the twentieth century; a man of extraordinary intellectual versatility and a committed humanitarian.
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Justified Sinners
ISBN: 9780748663088
Category: Literature, Essays, Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editors) Ross Birrell, Alec Finlay
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Justified Sinners is an archaeology of counter-culture in Scotland 1960-2000, featuring poetry, prose, polemic, letters, documents and fragments, from the Holy Loch and Project Sigma to the Demarco Gallery, Beltane and K Foundation.
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Mackerel and Cremola
ISBN: 9780748663026
Category: Food And Drink, Short Stories, Poetry, Fiction
Author: Ian Stephen
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A collection of Ian Stephen's short stories with recipe-poems and children's drawings, Mackerel & Creamola is a rich portrayal of contemporary life in the Hebrides, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of sea lore.
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The Hope That Kills Us
ISBN: 9781904598008
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Adrian Searle
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Specially commissioned stories from some of our country’s best contemporary writers and startling new voices.
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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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Walking with Murder
ISBN: 9781841584096
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Ian Nimmo
Publication Date: July 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Few who have read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped can resist its appeal. Ian Nimmo takes us on the very same journey of Stevenson's classic novel.
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The Nickum
ISBN: 9781841587158
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The story of mischievous Aberdeenshire boy Willie Fowlie - or the 'nickum', as his grandmother calls him - and his journey to adulthood. The course of his life completely changes, but can the 'nickum' ever atone for the decisions that he has made in his past?
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The Killer Angels
ISBN: 9781846970863
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Michael Shaara
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel set in the third summer of the war. Robert Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North.
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Outside In
ISBN: 9781846970689
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: Alastair Reid
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Alastair Reid is one of Scotland’s foremost literary figures but his work is currently out of print in the UK. The bulk of his prose has long been unavailable, so this wide-ranging new collection of prose will present a fresh and comprehensive overview of his achievements, and will appeal to existing fans and new readers.
With an introduction by Andrew O'Hagan.
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Inside Out
ISBN: 9781846970696
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Alastair Reid
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
The bulk of Alastair Reid's poetry has long been unavailable, so this wide-ranging new collection of poetry, translations and thoughts on the art of translation will present a fresh and comprehensive overview of his achievements and will appeal to existing fans and new readers.
With an introduction by Douglas Dunn.
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John Burnet of Barns
ISBN: 9781846970733
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The rivalry of two cousins results in treachery, betrayal and a desperate struggle for survival. With an introduction by Tam Dalyell.
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Midwinter
ISBN: 9781846970702
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Regarded by many critics as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Midwinter tells the tale of Alastair Maclean, confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England. With an introduction by Stuart Kelly.
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Witch Wood
ISBN: 9781846970719
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Buchan’s favourite of all his novels, Witch Wood deals with the hypocrisy that can lie beneath god-fearing respectability. The book is set in the terrifying times of the first half of the seventeenth century when the Church of Scotland unleashed a wave of cruelty and intolerance. Minister Sempill witnesses devil worship in the ’Witch Wood’ and is persecuted. With an introduction by Allan Massie.
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The Blanket of the Dark
ISBN: 9781846970726
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Buchan skilfully weaves the story of young clerk Peter Pentecost, who has a claim to the throne, and a tale of intrigue against King Henry VIII, where ’under the blanket of the dark all men are alike and all are nameless’. With an introduction by Robert Hutchinson.
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McLevy
ISBN: 9781841587417
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James McLevy
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The collection of stories in this book are based on some of the 2,220 cases he dealt with in the course of James McLevy’s career, wonderfully evoking the spirit of the city, and the vivid descriptions of its criminal classes. Introduced by Quintin Jardine.
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Master of Ballantrae & Weir of Hermiston
ISBN: 9781846970603
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Two classic novels of travel, romance and adventure by one of Edinburgh's most celebrated writer's.
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The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781846970849
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the title story of this remarkable collection of short stories.
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The Golden Bird
ISBN: 9781846970856
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.
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Hypocrites' Isle
ISBN: 9781846970870
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
Dr Frank Simmons digs beneath the surface of the cancer research industry and unearths corruption more destructive than the disease itself. Famed for his meticulous research and uncanny predictions McClure has built a reputation worthy of Michael Crichton.
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Craiters
ISBN: 9781898410737
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: March 1995
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
Wry, dry, moving and humorous, these tales capture the flavour of the North-east as never before and are written in the dialect of the area as it has been used over the last six decades.
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Elephantina
ISBN: 9781846970443
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Two-Way Split
ISBN: 9781904598572
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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An Abridged History
ISBN: 9781904598091
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is an astonishingly assured first novel. Written with great realism and sense of time and place, Andy Drummond creates a haunting and hallucinatory world where nothing is as it seems.
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A Hand-book of Volapuk
ISBN: 9781904598671
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A stunning historical novel, as engaging as it is meticulously researched, that will appeal to fans of James Robertson, Magnus Mills and Hilary Mantel.
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An Old Pub Near the Angel
ISBN: 9781846970375
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow, James Kelman’s first collection of short stories shine a light on the exploits of young and old.
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Not Not While the Giro
ISBN: 9781846970382
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
This collection, written with irony and great tenderness, confirmed James Kelman’s status as one of the most significant writers in the UK, and remains as powerful, relevant and truthful as it was in the early 1980s.
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The Busconductor Hines
ISBN: 9781846970399
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
James Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life – an intelligent, funny and humane novel. First published by Polygon in 1984.
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Saturday's Child
ISBN: 9781904598787
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
It’s criminal up north ... Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer ...
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Donkey Punch
ISBN: 9781904598855
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
With the barbed-wire leash of parole freshly clipped from his throat and his Private Investigation business an unpleasant memory, Cal Innes is looking forward to continuing his job as caretaker at Paulo’s Lads’ Club. But a prodigal boxer, Liam, needs someone to go with him to his first major amateur tournament in Los Angeles. That someone is Cal . . .
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Donkey Punch
ISBN: 9781846970214
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Failed PI businessman, Cal Innes, babysits prodigal amateur boxer, Liam, on his first major tournament in Los Angeles. It soon turns into something more sinister, as rumours of a rigged competition fly around. As Cal’s codeine habit and Liam’s temper grow out of control, the City of Angels doesn’t seem quite so heavenly.
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John Macnab
ISBN: 9781846970283
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This novel is a light interlude within the Leithen Stories series – an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.
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Mr Wong Goes West
ISBN: 9781846970818
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The second exciting installment of Nury Vittachi’s ’The Feng Shui Detective Novel’ Series!
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Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
ISBN: 9781846970931
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Hamish Henderson
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics
ISBN: 9781846970498
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Nury Vittachi’s debut Polygon novel. Primarily set in Hong Kong, this highly enjoyable read delves into the mysterious underworld of vegan terrorism that only a Feng Shui master can resolve.
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La's Orchestra Saves the World
ISBN: 9781846970924
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: November 2008
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not in stock
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Agnes Owens
The Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9781846970597
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Agnes Owens
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
The complete life work of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.
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Kiss Her Goodbye
ISBN: 9781846970054
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope.
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Saturday's Child
ISBN: 9781846970115
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
It’s criminal up north . . . Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan . . .
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A Chancer
ISBN: 9781846970405
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
Polygon relaunches James Kelman’s backlist with four classic titles – Not Not While The Giro, The Busconductor Hines, A Chancer and his very first short story collection, An Old Pub Near The Angel in 2007. Each book features a new afterword in which the mature author reflects on his work and its development.
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Two-Way Split
ISBN: 9781846970429
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A-format edition of the first novel from Allan Guthrie, one of crime fiction’s toughest new writers.
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Kiss Her Goodbye
ISBN: 9781904598770
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
In Cold Ink
ISBN: 9780951447055
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: David Robinson
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Translator
ISBN: 9781846970801
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Leila Aboulela
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Worms of Euston Square
ISBN: 9781841831008
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: William Sutton
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
ISBN: 9781846970269
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Kenneth Buthlay’s edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid’s complex and often opaque use of language.
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Imprimatur
ISBN: 9781846970764
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, this novel contains startling revelations that have been concealed for centuries, drawing on original papers discovered in the Vatican archives. First published to great controversy in Italy in 2002, Imprimatur was boycotted by the Italian press and publishing world. Despite this, the novel has gained European bestseller status.
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Theoderic
ISBN: 9781846970825
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Ross Laidlaw
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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 Well at the World's End
ISBN: 9781846970276
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The House of Lyall
ISBN: 9781841584720
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
William McGonagall
ISBN: 9781841584775
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: William McGonagall
Publication Date: November 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
William McGonagall’s poetry is Scotland’s alternative to Robert Burns, and as every bit engaging in this comprehensive collection.
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Monday Girl
ISBN: 9781841585970
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Set in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War and after the death of her father, Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. The impressionable Renee begins to form unusual attachments and romantic self-illusions which only spurs a cycle of self-effacement. A subtle treatment of human relationships during a time of flux.
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Stories from South Uist
ISBN: 9781874744269
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Angus MacLellan
Publication Date: February 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: reprinting
This collection of 42 stories comprises every type of tale found on the island of South Uist, including heroic Fingalian stories, international folktales, ghost stories and local historical and humorous anecdotes.
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The Lost Pibroch
ISBN: 9781899863105
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 1996
Format: PB
Price: £7.95
Stock Status: in stock
This edition is published as a tribute to mark the 65th anniversary of the author’s death. Written in 1896, the title story is set in a now-deserted but identifiable glen beside Loch Fyne, and can be read as an allegory of the history of Highland culture.
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Time Shall Reap
ISBN: 9781841585987
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
An intriguing piece of fiction of a single mother set in the harsh conditions of post-war Britain.
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Heaven-Taught Fergusson
ISBN: 9781862322011
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Robert Crawford
Publication Date: September 2003
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Eminent poets and critics combine in unique tribute to a poet of whom even Robert Burns stood in awe.
Early in Orcadia
ISBN: 9781899863501
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Speak of the Mearns
ISBN: 9780748661671
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This novella is a sharply observed portrait of a rural community on the coast seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up there.
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Love Me, I (Who Do You Love?)
ISBN: 9780748661848
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Gordon Legge
Publication Date: October 1994
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Gordon Legge's second novel, the hugely entertaining follow-up to In Between Talking About the Football.
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Lunderston Tales
ISBN: 9780748662210
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: January 1996
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The small seaside town of Lunderston is the setting for these thirteen entertaining tales from Robin Jenkins.
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Damage Land
ISBN: 9780748662845
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Alan Bissett
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The newest and most talented of Scottish writers have plumbed their depths, creating a set of demons for a modern age. The range of visions and voices collected in this book – all investigating the heart of darkness, all written with a chilling skill – are enough to confirm Scotland as one of the most imaginative homes of world Gothic.
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The Burning Mirror
ISBN: 9780748662937
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Suhayl Saadi
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
In his first collection of powerful and imaginative short stories, Suhayl Saadi experiments with form as well as content. The result is a mixture of the seamy and the spiritual, the subtle, the baroque and the brutal.
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Charlie Knows the Words
ISBN: 9780748663200
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Roz Paterson
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Karen MacKenzie’s tiny ambitions are knocked off-course when she finds herself in the arms of Charlie McGuigan, a man 26 years her senior who hasn’t had a date in a decade and who initiates her in the ways of hard drinking, heavy smoking and surreal hangovers.
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Boyracers
ISBN: 9780748663286
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Alan Bissett
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not in stock
Since its first publication in 2001 Boyracers has established itself as a contemporary Scottish cult classic. It is a totally fresh, savvy and supremely honest take on being young, naive and hopeful, and on the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad pop-culture world. It is fast, pacey, fun and witty, providing a caustic look at what has passed for culture in the last decade.
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The Triple Point of Water
ISBN: 9781846970009
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Fiona Dunscombe
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Little Black Dress
ISBN: 9781846970030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Susie Maguire
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Classic style never goes out of fashion. Since Coco Chanel invented it in 1926, the little black dress has become every woman’s wardrobe staple. Fifteen women of varied backgrounds offer a colourful range of views on the little black dress, all tailored by Susie Maguire into a simply stunning and elegant collection.
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The Pearl-fishers
ISBN: 9781846970061
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Pearl-fishers is a classic love story and the master storyteller’s last novel.
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Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN: 9781846970085
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not in stock
The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.
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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9781846970092
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Frederic Lindsay
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
When factory owner Bernard Morton fires him from his first job, Harry Glass protests by impulsively going off with Morton’s car and the intriguing Mrs Morton.
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Attila
ISBN: 9781846970122
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Ross Laidlaw
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Early fifth century, Europe, and two old friends, now bitter rivals, face each other on the battlefield. Attila, leader of the Huns, is confronted by Aetius, the last of the great Roman generals. In the epic battle that ensues, the stakes for Attila and Artius could not be higher as the fate of both their empires hangs in the balance.
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Poverty Castle
ISBN: 9781846970153
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Leila
ISBN: 9781846970160
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Robin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for Leila, a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician.
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The World According to Bertie
ISBN: 9781846970177
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: not in stock
The World According to Bertie is the fourth in the 44 Scotland Street series and revolves around the many colourful characters who live there.
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The Speak of the Mearns
ISBN: 9781846970207
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics
ISBN: 9781846970238
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Blood Hunt
ISBN: 9781846970245
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A moving and satisfying blend of tragedy and comedy, Blood Hunt, Gunn’s second last novel, has a powerful message – the triumph of love over anger and of the unending renewal of nature. It is a masterly novel by a writer in full maturity.
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The Power House
ISBN: 9781846970290
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Sick Heart River
ISBN: 9781846970306
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Sick Heart River is both John Buchan’s most powerful novel and his last, with perhaps the most autobiographical of his characters.
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The Dancing Floor
ISBN: 9781846970313
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
'The narrative drive of his thrillers is unsurpassed.' - Evening Standard
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Brond
ISBN: 9781846970320
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Frederic Lindsay
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Brond is a high-octane page-turner, full of political intrigue, a tale of evil and exploitation in the nightmarish landscape of a Glasgow where nothing is as it seems. Lindsay’s writing is formidable and at its most thrilling and most unpredictable here.
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Kidnapped/Catriona
ISBN: 9781846970337
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
In Kidnapped (1886) and later fiction such as The Master of Ballantrae (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland’s past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in Kidnapped, whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite.
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
ISBN: 9781846970610
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: HB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
Limited to only 1,200 copies, this beautifully crafted book contains two-colour illustrations throughout and comes in a sumptuous hardback slip case taking McCall Smith’s best-selling novel to new heights of reading.
Numbered and signed by both the author and illustrator.
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The Dear Green Place and Fur Sadie
ISBN: 9781846970795
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Archie Hind
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Introduction by Alasdair Gray.
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Julia De Roubigne
ISBN: 9781862320475
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Henry Mackenzie
Publication Date: March 1999
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This edition aims to draw new readers to Mackenzie’s compelling final experiment in the novel of sentiment. Edited an with an introduction by Susan Manning.
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Scottish Writers Talking 2
ISBN: 9781862322806
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Dennis Canavan
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and work. Recorded at intervals over sixteen years, they go at the writer's chosen pace. Writers relish them.
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Jaunty Jock
ISBN: 9781899863150
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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Lobsters on the Agenda
ISBN: 9781899863204
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: January 1997
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This novel about life in the West Highlands deals with a single week in the affairs of a small coastal village. A series of meetings are the settings in which the locals try to resolve their differences over public issues, as well as more personal ones - not least being, who stole the lobster?
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The Daft Days
ISBN: 9781899863778
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is the story of an orphaned American girl who arrives in Scotland to stay with relatives. Against all odds and without losing her new family, she manages to become an actress in London and to liberate herself from the religious attitudes of small town Scotland.
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The Dancers Inherit the Party
ISBN: 9781904598138
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
This book draws together an authoritative selection of all the writings needed to begin discovering the full story of Hamilton Finlay’s early work, his themes, preoccupations and vision of the philosophical transformed by the everyday.
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Greenvoe
ISBN: 9781904598176
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
In this, his first novel (1972), George MacKay Brown recreates a week in the life of an island community as they come to terms with the destructiveness of a sinister military/industrial project, Operation Black Star.
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Hawkfall
ISBN: 9781904598183
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
This collection of eleven stories demonstrates the full range of George MacKay Brown’s literary talent.
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Some Kind of Grace
ISBN: 9781904598190
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
This gripping novel, first published in 1960, helped confirm Robin Jenkins as one of the most outstanding novelists of his generation. Set in Afghanistan, it was written shortly after his return from his two-year period in Kabul, and his experiences there add an unmistakeable ring of authenticity to his descriptions of this mysterious and remote country. Some Kind of Grace is a terrible warning of what outside interference can do to a country. Throughout the book Jenkins’ sympathy is with a people sacrificed on the altar of dogma and convenience by the great powers of East and West.
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Poor Mercy
ISBN: 9781904598282
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Jonathan Falla
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Beside the Ocean of Time
ISBN: 9781904598299
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: reprinting
Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies of himself as a Viking traveller, a freedom-fighter for Bonnie Prince Charlie and the colleague of a Falstaffian knight who participates in the Battle of Bannockburn.
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The Scheme of Things
ISBN: 9781904598312
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Brian Hennigan
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Brian Hennigan, has followed up his brilliant debut Patrick Robertson with a wickedly humorous satire on the world of business and Public Relations.
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Vinland
ISBN: 9781904598336
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Vinland, George Mackay Brown’s fourth novel, follows the turbulent life of Ranald Sigmundson, a young boy born into the Dark Ages, when Orkney was torn between its Viking past and its Christian future.
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Furthermore
ISBN: 9781904598343
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Susie Maguire
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Former comedy actor and TV presenter Susie Maguire’s second story collection is instantly engaging, with its seductive, dark and witty explorations of the human condition.
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The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew
ISBN: 9781904598374
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Jake Wallis Simons
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A startingly original tragicomedy based around a fictional Tibeto-Jewish refugee community in London.
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Far Inland
ISBN: 9781904598381
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Peter Urpeth
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: not in stock
A truly original work of fiction that falls perfectly between Buddha Da by Anne Donovan and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – unconventional and inspiring.
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Secrets
ISBN: 9781904598435
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Janice Galloway
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Well-known names of leading Scottish authors and totally unknown, talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competition – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story
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Patrick Robertson
ISBN: 9781904598459
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Brian Hennigan
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is Brian Hennigan’s debut novel and it has currently being adapted for film by director David Mackenzie.
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Love is a Fervent Fire
ISBN: 9781904598466
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
In Love is a Fervent Fire Jenkins plumbs the depths of the subtlest human emotions in a brilliant study of sexual psychology.
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Spartacus
ISBN: 9781904598565
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
This marvellous historical novel, based on an intimate knowledge of the historical background and a perceptive understanding of human nature, is wonderful to read as fiction, as adventure, and as a history of people in the grip of exploitation and oppression. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece from one of Scotland’s greatest writers.
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The House with the Green Shutters
ISBN: 9781904598589
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: George Douglas Brown
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Published in 1901 and described by George Douglas Brown as ‘a brutal and bloody work’, this bestselling classic was a furious reponse to what Brown called ‘sentimental slop’ – the representation of Scotland as a cosy rural idyll.
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The Missionaries
ISBN: 9781904598596
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
An inspired study of human nature, The Missionaries charts a voyage of self-discovery for Andrew Doig, a university student who finds himself embroiled in a passionate debate over his defence of the inhabitants of St Sollas.
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Little Black Dress
ISBN: 9781904598602
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Susie Maguire
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: HB
Price: £12.00
Stock Status: in stock
Classic style never goes out of fashion. Since Coco Chanel invented it in 1926, the little black dress has become every woman’s wardrobe staple. Fifteen women of varied backgrounds offer a colourful range of views on the little black dress, all tailored by Susie Maguire into a simply stunning and elegant collection.
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Escalator
ISBN: 9781904598626
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Michael Gardiner
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Escalator is Michael Gardiner’s stunning fiction debut. Sparsely written and beautifully observed, these stories resist cliché and overstatement, and refuse to judge their subjects, presenting a compelling glimpse under the skin of an enigmatic country.
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The Green Isle of the Great Deep
ISBN: 9781904598688
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Told fully in Highland dialect, The Green Isle of the Great Deep is a both a wonderful Scottish parable and a warning of the dangers of power and its abuse.
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Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN: 9781904598701
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.
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Condottiere
ISBN: 9781904598718
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Edward John Crockett
Publication Date: January 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A classically told adventure that brings fourteenth-century Italy vividly to life, this will appeal to fans of Bernard Cornwell and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose.
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My Life as a Man
ISBN: 9781904598725
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Frederic Lindsay
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A new thriller from a hugely popular crime writer that will grip and satisfy his many fans. My Life as a Man begins with a nation in the grip of anti-war fever, and ends with an old man’s discovery that life can still surprise him.
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A Calendar of Love
ISBN: 9781904598732
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not in stock
A Calendar of Love is George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories set in Orkney.
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One City
ISBN: 9781904598749
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, (Introduction by) J.K. Rowling
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
Three internationally bestselling authors write three interlinking stories focused on Edinburgh.
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Fatboy and the Dancing Ladies
ISBN: 9781904598794
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Michael Holman
Publication Date: January 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Mildred Kigali is quite certain. Charity Mupanga, widowed proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), believes her old friend. Mildred insists that after leading the impromptu conga, knitting-needles in her hands, at the end of the Kireba Sewing Circle’s monthly knees-up at Harrods, she had returned the needles to their usual place. And while she has to admit that the memory of someone born during East Africa’s Great Flood of 1932 might not be entirely reliable, she has no doubt that the two paw paws have also gone missing.
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A Scots Quair
ISBN: 9781904598824
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A Scots Quair, is Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.
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Dust on the Paw
ISBN: 9781904598848
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiance, Laura Johnstone, in the capital of his home country. Having met while Abdul was a student at Manchester University, the couple are eager to settle down in Isban. However, Abdul is not the only one interested in Miss Johnstone’s arrival.
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The Sardana Dancers
ISBN: 9781904598886
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Sardana Dancers is an intriguing and compassionate novel about the interweaving lives of a variety of characters who are caught up in a sort of sardana – a Catalan dance performed for pleasure and as a symbol of unity.
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The Drinking Well
ISBN: 9781904598893
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
First published in 1946, The Drinking Well is part of a Polygon series of Neil M. Gunn republications. Iain Cattanach lives happily in a small tight-knit Highland village, but his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him.
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The Island of the Women
ISBN: 9781904598909
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
The Island of the Women is George Mackay Brown’s posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author’s death.
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Butcher's Broom
ISBN: 9781904598916
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Butcher’s Broom is Neil Gunn’s epic recreation of the Highland Clearances of the nineteenth century, when great changes swept through the country and its people.
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Three Go Back
ISBN: 9780748662036
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Dream State
ISBN: 9780748662609
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Donny O'Rourke
Publication Date: January 1994
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
Stock Status: in stock
This new edition of Dream State has been completely revised, updated and expanded to take account of new work by the existing contributors and to usher in thrilling new talents.
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Dreaming Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780954407513
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 8 times and sold more than 20,000 copies.
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The Colour of Black and White
ISBN: 9780954407520
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead’s first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984.
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True Confessions
ISBN: 9780954407537
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 5 times and sold more than 10,000 copies.
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Time in Carnbeg
ISBN: 9780954407551
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Ronald Frame
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Northern Lights
ISBN: 9781846970016
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Northern Lights presents George Mackay Brown’s writings on many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed his vision and work.
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Luckenbooth
ISBN: 9781846970184
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Lizzie MacGregor
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
From the great Scottish renaissance poet William Dunbar, Burns, Scott and Stevenson, to some of Scotland’s newest poetry by Robin Robertson and Stewart Conn, this book presents a choice of the finest poems about Edinburgh through the centuries. This selection includes some rare poems by forgotten masters, and includes well-loved writers like Spark, Crichton Smith and Norman MacCaig.
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Savage Night
ISBN: 9781846970191
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Kidnapping and corpse mutilation are just a taste of what’s in store for Andy Park in Allan Guthrie’s violent fourth novel. Meanwhile Tommy Savage may not survive the night when he finds himself heading to a graveyard armed with a sword and a bag of cash to meet his masked blackmailer.
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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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Open World
ISBN: 9781904598015
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Kenneth White
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock
Spare, compelling and beautifully constructed, Kenneth White's poetry lies at the heart of his work, and this book is the first collection to show the full sweep of his vision from his earliest work to the present day.
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Visiting the Bard
ISBN: 9781904598022
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alasdair Campbell
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The astonishing range and scope of Alasdair Campbell's writing is highlighted in this collection of short stories set in Lewis.
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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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Consider an Island / Eilean Sgitheanach
ISBN: 9781904598121
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Rhona Rauszer has had a long and varied life, but she has always been drawn back to her ancestral homeland, Skye, the setting of these stories.
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The Wanderer and His Charts
ISBN: 9781904598152
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: Kenneth White
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Following on from the same author’s On Scottish Ground, this book shows Kenneth White on his tracks outside Scotland, before zooming in on his return.
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Handfast
ISBN: 9781904598244
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Edited by Lizzie MacGregor, (Introduction by) Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: HB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
How should we mark great occasions? With great words. Those seeking memorable words for their ceremonies of marriage or commitment, or simply want to take delight in an anthology of love poems, will find in this collection old favourites and brand new poems.
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The Light Fantastic
ISBN: 9781904598350
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: June 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Light Fantastic, Rhona Rauszer’s third collection of short stories, is permeated with a love and deep compassion for the people of Skye.
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Treading Water
ISBN: 9781904598411
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Claire Collison
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: not in stock
This novel is about what happens before and after the events that shape, scar and make us who we are.
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A Very Scotch Affair
ISBN: 9781904598442
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: July 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Set in Glasgow, Jenkins' novel tells the tale of Mungo Niven, a man who possesses a fiercely Scotch conscience and who feels trapped in a drab and unfulfilling existence.
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The Book of St Andrews
ISBN: 9781904598503
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Robert Crawford
Publication Date: December 2005
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
This selection of stories, poems and memoirs is a wonderful literary celebration of St Andrews, exploring the multiple facets of its life and history.
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Handsel
ISBN: 9781904598510
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Lizzie MacGregor
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: HB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is a selection of contemporary and classic Scottish poems on this subject, in Scots, English and Gaelic with appropriate translations and glossaries.
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Lament
ISBN: 9781904598527
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Lizzie MacGregor
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: HB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This restorative collection of Scottish poems will help readers and listeners to accept a loss and celebrate a life, whether at formal religious or secular ceremonies, or at quiet personal commemorative service.
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The Singin Lass
ISBN: 9781904598640
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Aimee Chalmers
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
Selected Work of Marion Angus celebrates the legacy of Marion Angus, (1865-1946) one of Scotland’s finest lyric poets.
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A Time to Keep
ISBN: 9781904598657
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Sunset Song
ISBN: 9781904598664
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
’Part of the trilogy, A Scots Quair, Sunset Song is a book about change, war, politics and, above all else, what it means to be Scottish.’ - Nicola Sturgeon, MSP
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The Thistle and the Grail
ISBN: 9781904598763
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Apollos of the North
ISBN: 9781904598817
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Published to coincide with the quincentenary of Buchanan’s birth in 2006. Here, for the first time ever, Polygon presents a selection of Buchanan’s work, translated and accompanied by the work
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Work
ISBN: 9781904598831
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Bernard MacLaverty
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to one of Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competitions – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award 2006.
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Winter Tales
ISBN: 9781904598879
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
Winter Tales is a superb collection of tender and compassionate tales, focussing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the 20th century.
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The Book of St Andrews
ISBN: 9781904598992
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Robert Crawford
Publication Date: January 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Book of St Andrews juxtaposes poems, stories and memoirs with scant regard to chronological order, but in the confidence that each contribution, lively in its own right, may also enhance the others. Here are specially written stories by Meaghan Delahunt, A. L. Kennedy, and Sarah Hall; new poems by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Don Paterson; memoirs by Kay Redfield Jamison and Ian Rankin.
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Blood in the Water
ISBN: 9781841831121
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
'The Edinburgh underworld may have emitted a collective sigh of relief at the departure of Inspector Rebus, but just as they thought it was safe to reclaim the streets of Auld Reekie it seems that a fresh avenger of evil, DS Alice Rice, has come of age,' - Scottish Field
In this thrilling police-procedural from new crime writer Gillian Galbraith, we are introduced to Alice Rice, Edinburgh’s latest fictional detective.
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The Devil's Staircase
ISBN: 9781846970450
Category: Fiction
Author: Helen Fitzgerald
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
Bronny, a young Australian, finds herself down and out in London. She’s a sheltered girl - gentle and kind - who has spent her teenage years in a fearful bubble. She’s never taken drugs, had sex or killed anyone. Within six weeks she’s done all three.
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Savage Night
ISBN: 9781846970962
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the fall-out, though. Before long, his teenage son is in mortal danger, and his daughter and her fiance are knee-deep in corpses.
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Slammer
ISBN: 9781846970979
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: February 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Young prison officer Nicholas Glass is finding the stresses of the job increasingly hard to handle. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, every day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons use outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, Glass agrees to help them out with a ’favour’.
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Beast of Burden
ISBN: 9781846970986
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: March 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
’Banks is the real thing,’ - Marcel Berlins, The Times
The biggest race riot in Manchester’s history and his brother’s death have left PI Callum Innes a physical and emotional wreck. He’s about to leave his newly established agency to partner Frank Collier when the word comes through that his erstwhile nemesis Mo Tiernan has gone missing.
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Kane's Ladder
ISBN: 9781846970993
Category: Fiction
Author: Carlos Alba
Publication Date: April 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published
It’s 1975 and Britain is a country in political flux. In Glasgow the dirty old Victorian slums have been razed to the ground, replaced with brand new slums twenty storeys high. Chips are a health food and the very mention of filet mignon would spark a riot on the Govan Road.
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Secretum
ISBN: 9781846971044
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: HB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal’s nephew’s wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II. Melani, keen to see the French king ascend the Spanish throne, sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
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Imprimatur
ISBN: 9781846971051
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. Among this detained in the Locanda Donzello is the mysterious Atto Melani, a spy in the service of the French king. With the help of the young serving boy, he discovers a secret passage leading to a network of tunnels under the city.
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Where the Shadow Falls
ISBN: 9781846971068
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
"From its blood-stained opening, the latest chapter in the tumultuous life of DS Alice Rice proves a compelling read," - Scottish Field
When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. This is linked with wind-farm developers - with millions of pounds at stake. When Alice thinks she's finally solved the mystery, the sheriff's wife is also killed - is it a double murder?
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Feng Shui Detective's Casebook
ISBN: 9781846971099
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore; it's just another day at the office for CF Wong and his slacker assistant Joyce. More feng shui master than detective, Wong would much rather get paid, go home and put his feet up, but that's just not going to happen. They are in demand - all over Asia.
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Dying of the Light
ISBN: 9781846971167
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
'The unpleasant, unlovely social underbelly of Edinburgh is seen in all its horror ... thoroughly recommended,' - Dorothy L. Sayers Society
Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this third Alice Rice mystery sees the detective in the hunt for a serial prostitue murderer and explores the hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs.
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Crimespotting
ISBN: 9781846971242
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Various
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Presents a story which features crime and is set in Edinburgh. This title ranges from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural.
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Under Fishbone Clouds
ISBN: 9781846971020
Category: Fiction
Author: Sam Meekings
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.
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Love Over Scotland - SIGNED
ISBN: LOVESIGNED
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
For a limited time these signed copies of Love Over Scotland, the third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's popular Scotland Street series, is available to buy exclusively through our website.
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Bay of Naples
ISBN: 9781846971105
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Alan Clews
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A Scottish noir thriller of love betrayed, set against the backdrop of World War Two.
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Strip the Willow
ISBN: 9781846971198
Category: Fiction
Author: John Aberdein
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
WINNER OF THE 2010 MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST BOOK FICTION AWARD
A near-future dystopian Aberdeen – Uberdeen – is the setting for John Aberdein’s long-awaited second novel – a combination of political satire and love story, full of twists and turns.
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Theoderic
ISBN: 9781846971112
Category: Fiction
Author: Ross Laidlaw
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Westward Ho!
ISBN: 9781841586359
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Beginning in the fictional seaport of Bideford Quay in Devon, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this novel follows the fortunes of Amyas Leigh, a young man who sets sail on a life of adventure on the high seas.
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Dead Wood
ISBN: 9781846971204
Category: Fiction
Author: Chris Longmuir
Publication Date: June 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
When several bodies are discovered in the woods, an investigation, led by newcomer DC Louise Walker begins. However, she is not the only one determined to catch the serial killer.
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Hue & Cry
ISBN: 9781846971310
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Shirley McKay
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
A historical crime novel set in sixteenth century St Andrews involving the academic cloister and the Protestant church.
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Duplicity and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781841588247
Category: Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A brand new novella and fantastic collection of short stories by Scotland's favourite novelist.
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The Three Kings
ISBN: 9781841588254
Category: Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Good Times
ISBN: 9781846970559
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
Features twenty first-person narratives that portray ordinary people - men and boys facing uncomfortable truths, encountering betrayal or struggling to understand women and work.
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Translated Accounts
ISBN: 9781846970566
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2009
Format: PB
Price:
Stock Status: in stock
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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Trick of the Light
ISBN: 9781846970917
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
’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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Prester John
ISBN: 9781846970641
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Free Fishers
ISBN: 9781846970658
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, leaves his home town for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue.
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Agnes Owens
The Complete Novellas
ISBN: 9781846971372
Category: Fiction
Author: Agnes Owens
Publication Date: August 2009
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock
Features stories including 'A Working Mother', 'For the Love of Willie Owens', 'Bad Attitudes' and 'Jen's Party'.
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Bloody Women
ISBN: 9781846971334
Category: Fiction
Author: Helen Fitzgerald
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
A thrilling tale for lovers of action from the author of The Devil's Staircase.
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Shattered
ISBN: 9781846971273
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Various
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A collection of stories based from some of Scotland’s leading fiction authors on the impact of crime on the lives of ordinary people.
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The Poems of Norman MacCaig
ISBN: 9781846971365
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Norman MacCaig
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
‘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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White Death
ISBN: 9781846971488
Category: Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Governments of the world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later. Vaccination is the only solution, but designing and producing vaccines has never been harder due to stringent trials, rules and regulations and huge settlements in an increasingly litigious society.
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Dying of the Light
ISBN: 9781846971433
Category: Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: reprinting
Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, Gillian Galbraith’s third novel explores a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs.
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Andrina
ISBN: 9781846971501
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form.
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The Sun's Net
ISBN: 9781846971518
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
No Sorrow to Die
ISBN: 9781846971648
Category: Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2010
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
'The unpleasant, unlovely underbelly of Edinburgh is seen in all its horror ... thoroughly recommended,' - Dorothy L. Sayers Society
Alice Rice is brought in to investigate the murders of two terminally-ill men. Are their killings coincidence? Or is there a serial killer with a mission to get rid of the sick and infirm?
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Dr Finlay's Casebook
ISBN: 9781841588544
Category: Fiction
Author: A.J Cronin
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A glorious omnibus edition of Dr Finlay's adventures during the inter-war years, based on the author's own experience as a doctor. This collection revives Conin's masterpiece and celebrates favourite characters from the BBC-adapted perennial favourite.
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Four Ducks on a Pond
ISBN: 9781841588766
Category: Fiction
Author: Annabel Carothers
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: not in stock
Nicholas the cat keenly observed the comings and goings of three generations of his family and their animals in a remote area of the Isle of Mull, and recorded it all - the funny, dramatic, heart-warming and harrowing events that make up family life. Rediscover Annabel Carother's tender tales of pastoral romance.
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Dust to Dust
ISBN: 9781846971266
Category: Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
A new thriller featuring Dr Stephen Dunbar from the author of White Death and Hypocrite's Isle.
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Hue & Cry
ISBN: 9781846971525
Category: Fiction
Author: Shirley McKay
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A historical crime novel set in sixteenth century St Andrews involving the academic cloister and the Protestant church.
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Fate & Fortune
ISBN: 9781846971549
Category: Fiction
Author: Shirley McKay
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock
From the author of Hue & Cry comes an exciting new mystery. Hew Cullan moves to Edinburgh to finish his legal studies, but is thrown off track when the corpse of a girl is discovered on a St. Andrew's beach. As he begins a desperate search to find the killer, he is lead closer and closer to home.
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The Dog Who Came in From the Cold
ISBN: 9781846971617
Category: Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: HB
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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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Dizzy Worms
ISBN: 9781846971532
Category: Fiction
Author: Michael Holman
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
The spectacular conclusion to the Last Orders at Harrods trilogy. Fans of Alexander McCall Smith will love Michael Holman's charming and entertaining novels.
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Donor
ISBN: 9781846971624
Category: Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to hospital with acute renal failure, her parents are in despair. Their hope is renewed when Amanda is accepted for treatment in a pioneering, state-of-the-art dialysis unit in an exclusive private hospital in Glasgow, but behind the lavish hospital corridors, private rooms and friendly staff lies something much more sinister. Dr Dunbar goes undercover to find out.
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Wildcard
ISBN: 9781846971631
Category: Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
When a traveller dies on a flight back to London from Africa, Ebola virus seems to be the reason. However, other victims in the UK are dying of the same illness and there seems to be no link. As politicians equivocate and scientists attempt to find a cause, Dr Steven Dunbar begins to question his own belief in medicine.
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Novgorod the Great
ISBN: 9781846971013
Category: Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: September 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
’Drummond's writing happily bears comparison with [Alasdair] Gray's brand of Gothic fantasy,' - Times Literary Supplement'
In Novgorod, a decaying Russian Imperial town south of St Petersburg, in August 1833, two travellers meet in a dilapidated inn. During a pleasant evening together, they are alerted by an ancient resident of the town to the presence of a dying ‘foreign’ man, holed up in an abandoned tumbledown lodge. The pair go to investigate, and find a retired British army officer lying in squalor, surrounded by the memories of his life of dissipation. Invited by the old nurse to watch over the dying man’s last hours, all four of them relate stories from their past as they wait for the inevitable.
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The Importance of Being Seven
ISBN: 9781846971457
Category: Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Secretum
ISBN: 9781846971464
Category: Fiction
Author: Rita Monaldi & Francesco Sorti
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
July, 1700, Rome. Atto Melani mingles with other high-ranking guests at the villa of Cardinal Spada. Despite being there to celebrate the Cardinal’s nephew’s wedding, the main topic of conversation is the grave illness of the Pope and the approaching demise of Charles II. Melani, keen to see the French king ascend the Spanish throne, sets in motion a grandiose conspiracy that will plunge him into a world of secret languages, religious sects, forged Royal wills and Europe into war.
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The Devil's Staircase
ISBN: 9781846971495
Category: Fiction
Author: Helen Fitzgerald
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Mr Standfast
ISBN: 9781846971556
Category: Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Introduced by Hew Strachan, Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay thrillers. Brigadier-General Richard Hannay is recalled from active service on the Western Front and tasked with a secret mission to catch a dangerous German agent who is at large in Britain.
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The Island of Sheep
ISBN: 9781846971563
Category: Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Three Hostages
ISBN: 9781846971570
Category: Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2010
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Under Fishbone Clouds
ISBN: 9781846971686
Category: Fiction
Author: Sam Meekings
Publication Date: June 2010
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not in stock
‘A powerful and mesmerizing novel, both mythic and intimate . . . a great accomplishment of imagination, insight and lyricism,’ - Amy Tan
The Kitchen God, a Chinese deity, has been challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart. In the course of his quest, he follows the life of Jinyi and his wife Yuying, from their youth until their old age.
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Beleaguered City
ISBN: 9781841950600
Category: Fiction
Author: Margaret Oliphant
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
An extraordinary novel, haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland. These tales are now recognised as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times.
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Haunted Woman
ISBN: 9780862411626
Category: Fiction
Author: Sir David Lindsay
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Lomont leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds.
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The Blood Of The Martyrs
ISBN: 9780862411923
Category: Fiction
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Gowk Storm
ISBN: 9780862412227
Category: Fiction
Author: Nancy Brysson Morrison
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Dance Of The Apprentices
ISBN: 9780862412975
Category: Fiction
Author: Edward Gaitens
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Caught in the melting pot of social injustice, revolution, war and pacifism, this powerful book gives a vivid account of the experiences and struggles of a Glasgow family from the First World War and into the Depression at the end of the Twenties.
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Divided Loyalties
ISBN: 9780862413750
Category: Fiction
Author: Janet Teissier Du Cros
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Out of the war years comes this memoir of life as a wife and mother in occupied France during World War II. Candid and poignant, du Cros powerfully evokes the international political atmosphere of the time and its effects within her own family.
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Just Duffy
ISBN: 9780862415518
Category: Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: September 2002
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
Set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, Duffy declares war on society. Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to a terrifying conclusion.
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The Key Of The Chest
ISBN: 9780862417703
Category: Fiction
Author: Neil M Gunn
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Flemington
ISBN: 9780862417840
Category: Fiction
Author: Violet Jacob
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Jacob's fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising: tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author's own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose.
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The Bad Sister
ISBN: 9781841950532
Category: Fiction
Author: Emma Tennant
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This omnibus edition brings together for the first time three of Tennant’s most acclaimed works, to create a trilogy of immense power and enduring value.
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Household Ghosts
ISBN: 9781841951256
Category: Fiction
Author: James Kennaway
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway: Tunes of Glory - a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and brutality of post-war army life; Household Ghosts - a claustrophobic tale of family tension, love triangles and the persistence of the past; and Silence, which tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence.
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Growing Up In The West
ISBN: 9781841952628
Category: Fiction
Author: Various
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock
This collection of stories presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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The Death Of Men
ISBN: 9781841955049
Category: Fiction
Author: Allan Massie
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
A stylish and enthralling thriller set in 1978, which explores America's influence on Europe and the causes of terrorism.
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Land Of The Leal
ISBN: 9780862411428
Category: Fiction
Author: James Barke
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
Opening at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, this thinly disguised autobiographical tale, narrates the journey of Jean Ramsay, an aggressively practical woman from a peasant background, and her weak-willed, poetic husband, David.
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Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis
ISBN: 9780862411916
Category: Fiction
Author: Sir David Lindsay
Publication Date: July 2003
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Three Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places.
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Magnus Merriman
ISBN: 9780862413132
Category: Fiction
Author: Eric Linklater
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman – would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter – moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat.
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions Of A Justified Sinner
ISBN: 9780862413408
Category: Fiction
Author: James Hogg
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Private Angelo
ISBN: 9780862413767
Category: Fiction
Author: Eric Linklater
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
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 Member and The Radical
ISBN: 9780862416423
Category: Fiction
Author: John Galt
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Open The Door!
ISBN: 9780862416447
Category: Fiction
Author: Catherine Carswell
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and ‘loveliness’. Certainly the bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promises much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known hitherto. Her studies in the School of Art open up new horizons of independence and love, and Joanna reaches for them all.
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Lying Awake
ISBN: 9780862416836
Category: Fiction
Author: Catherine Carswell
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
The distillation of Carswell's thoughts on her own life and indeed on the nature of identity and autobiography itself.
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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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Sartor Resartus
ISBN: 9781841952789
Category: Fiction
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
At one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism, a radically deconstructive vision reveals the very highest symbols of belief as just that – merely symbols. How to believe in anything after such an insight is the question asked in Carlyle's masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter.
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A Question Of Loyalties
ISBN: 9781841952994
Category: Fiction
Author: Allan Massie
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
Etienne de Balafré, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his own father. Was Lucien de Balafré a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?
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Sun Circle
ISBN: 9780862415877
Category: Fiction
Author: Neil M Gunn
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
A story of love and awakening, Breeta's people are the ancient, newly Christianized Pictish tribes living in Northern Scotland in the 9th century. Assailed by the pagan Vikings from across the sea, the clash of old and new is a conflict from which the Scottish nation is forged.
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The Three Perils Of Man
ISBN: 9780862416461
Category: Fiction
Author: James Hogg
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Tales Of Adventure
ISBN: 9780862416874
Category: Fiction
Author: R L Stevenson
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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The Serpent
ISBN: 9780862417284
Category: Fiction
Author: Neil M Gunn
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock
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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Nova Scotia
ISBN: 9781841830865
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Andrew Wilson & Neil Williamson
Publication Date: August 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock
Some of the best Scottish writing comes from the imaginative genres that can be grouped under the heading of 'speculative fiction'. These genres include science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism and alternate history. This book showcases work which addresses the nature of Scotland and Scottishness from fresh and unexpected angles.
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