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View from North Lochs, A    View from North Lochs, A
ISBN:9781841586304
Category: Fiction, Humour, Essays
Author: Aimsir Eachainn
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
Writing under the alias of ‘Aimsir Eachann’, Hector Macdonald was a weekly columnist who gave a voice to the Scottish Gael. This book is a collection of the very best of those remarkable columns.
        
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Bering    Bering
ISBN:9781904598114
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Edward John Crockett
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This extraordinary novel charts the thrilling progress of one of the greatest but least-known journeys of exploration.


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Football Haiku    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

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Synopsis:

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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Early in Orcadia    Early in Orcadia
ISBN:9781899863501
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
The pre-historic people of the Orkney Islands were ordinary men and women who were mostly content to win the fight for survival in their harsh world. Two of them are driven by a burning curiosity and desire for more; they dare to build a boat and travel into the unknown.

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Kane's Ladder    Kane's Ladder
ISBN:9781846970474
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Carlos Alba
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:
A funny, touching heart-warming debut novel that will strike a chord with anyone who has been an awkward kid at least once in their life.    

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Stevenson's Scotland    Stevenson's Scotland
ISBN:9781841830568
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication Date: August 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: 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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Bestiary, The    Bestiary, The
ISBN:9781846970467
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Sam Meekings
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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...    And the Judges Said...
ISBN:9781846970528
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
A collection of captivating essays in which Kelman discusses a wide range of issues connected to his views about the world, and the people and events that have influenced his writing.

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Labanotation    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

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis:

A short story collection, capturing the lives of council estate dopeheads, single parents, awkward young men and lonely old women.

        
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Dark Twin, The    Dark Twin, The
ISBN:9781899863525
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Marion Campbell
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

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    Today Tomorrow
ISBN:9780748662999
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: George Bruce
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

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    Pilgrims of the Mist
ISBN:9781841587523
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Sheila Stewart
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
A diverse collection of stories gathered by singer, storyteller and author Sheila Stewart, one of the last in the line of Scotland’s travelling people.

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Dark Twin, The    Dark Twin, The
ISBN:9781899863419
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Marion Campbell
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Jimmy Swan
ISBN:9781841582030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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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Shipbuilders, The    Shipbuilders, The
ISBN:9781841581637
Category: Fiction, Shipbuilding, Social History, Anthologies
Author: Martin Bellamy
Publication Date: October 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

One of the defining images of the Clyde and Glasgow are the great ships and yards which have dominated them through much of their history. In them was defined not simply a way of life, but a people and a nation. A great book that offers great tribute to a time now lost, and is now recorded in this one book.

    
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Unbearable Lightness of Scones, The    Unbearable Lightness of Scones, The
ISBN:9781846970573
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth instalment of 44 Scotland Street alongside the familiar cast of favourites – Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others.

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Where the Shadow Falls    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

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Synopsis:

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    Children of the Tempest
ISBN:9781899863990
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A tale of greed and love, smugglers and kidnapping set in the wild Outer Hebrides.


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Blood is Strong, The    Blood is Strong, The
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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Synopsis:
In this touching love story, a young Canadian girl returns to the remote Hebridean island from which her ancestors emigrated and finds herself swept into the past of those very ancestors.

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Magnus    Magnus
ISBN:9781846970627
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

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    Greyhound for Breakfast
ISBN:9781846970542
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:
A brilliant collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.

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Wish I Was Here    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

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Synopsis:

Wish I Was Here represents the diversity of languages, dialects and cultures in contemporary Scotland.


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McGonagall    McGonagall
ISBN:9781874744115
Category: Fiction, Poetry
Author: William McGonagall
Publication Date: January 1993
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is an essential short introduction to a man who is a byword for poetic awfulness, as well as providing a fascinating snapshot of Victorian Scotland.


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Lightning Tree, The    Lightning Tree, The
ISBN:9780748663262
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Valerie Gillies
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Valerie Gillies' vibrant new collection takes us on a journey across Scotland, exploring the inhabited landscape and the wild places.


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Well at the World's End, The    Well at the World's End, The
ISBN:9781846970276
Category: Fiction, Classics
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
The academic Peter Munro travels an emotional and physical trail that leads him into the Scottish Highlands, helping him to discover a great realisation. A classic Polygon novel.

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Scottish Traditional Tales    Scottish Traditional Tales
ISBN:9781841582641
Category: Cultural Studies, Fiction, Folklore, Short Stories
Author: (Editors) A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Fall From Grace
ISBN:9781846970504
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis:

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    Hard Man
ISBN:9781846970221
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Writing Scotland
ISBN:9781904598237
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Carl MacDougall
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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William McGonagall    William McGonagall
ISBN:9781841584775
Category: Fiction, Poetry
Author: William McGonagall
Publication Date: November 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

William McGonagall’s poetry is Scotland’s alternative to Robert Burns, and as every bit engaging in this comprehensive collection.

            
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William Dunbar, 'The Nobill Poyet'    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

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Synopsis:

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.


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Time Shall Reap    Time Shall Reap
ISBN:9781841585987
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

An intriguing piece of fiction of a single mother set in the harsh conditions of post-war Britain.         
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Monday Girl    Monday Girl
ISBN:9781841585970
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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For Promised Joy    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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Synopsis:
Based on the life of our own Flora MacDonald, this historical novel sweeps the heroine from her home in Skye to the Carolinas of Revolutionary America. The young girl who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade his pursuers is now a mature woman who takes the bold decision to seek a new life across the ocean.

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Tales From Barra    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

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Synopsis: 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    Hard Man
ISBN:9781846970047
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Burns the Radical    Burns the Radical
ISBN:9781862321779
Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Author: Liam McIlvanney
Publication Date: March 2002
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Liam McIlvanney provides detailed new readings of Burns’s major poems, and also offers new research on his links with Irish poets and radicals, providing a radical reinterpretation of the man who is coming to be recognised as the poet laureate of the radical Enlightenment.

    
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Lost Pibroch, The    Lost Pibroch, The
ISBN:9781899863105
Category: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 1996
Format: PB
Price: £7.95
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Blood on the Borders    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

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Synopsis:

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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Stories from South Uist    Stories from South Uist
ISBN:9781874744269
Category: Fiction, Short Stories
Author: Angus MacLellan
Publication Date: February 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Blood in the Water    Blood in the Water
ISBN:9781846970740
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The first exciting crime thriller book of the Alice Rice Mystery series by Gillian Galbriath, we are introduced to the implacable Alice Rice - intelligent, pragmatic and yet despite this is somehow disillusioned.


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Blood in the Water    Blood in the Water
ISBN:9781841831121
Category: Fiction, Crime
Author: Gillian Galbraith
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: 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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Murdo    Murdo
ISBN:9781841580586
Category: Humour, Literature, Fiction
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.


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Fall From Grace    Fall From Grace
ISBN:9781846970078
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    No More Heroes
ISBN:9781846970139
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Those Other Times
ISBN:9781841580593
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Bess Ross
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Curewife, The    Curewife, The
ISBN:9780954407544
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Claire-Marie Watson
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Alias MacAlias
ISBN:9781904598213
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: Hamish Henderson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis:

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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Hope That Kills Us, The    Hope That Kills Us, The
ISBN:9781904598008
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Adrian Searle
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Specially commissioned stories from some of our country’s best contemporary writers and startling new voices.

    
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Red Door, The    Red Door, The
ISBN:9781841581606
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: November 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis: 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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Where the Whaups are Crying    Where the Whaups are Crying
ISBN:9781841581491
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Innes MacLeod
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A vibrant and vivid anthology from Scotland’s greatest writers.


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Nickum, The    Nickum, The
ISBN:9781841587158
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Waters of the Heart    Waters of the Heart
ISBN:9781841587264
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Cissie McGregor finds herself homeless and her child has been taken. She will fight back, but she must finally confront the consequences of those events long ago in Aberdeen when her childhood innocence was shattered …


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Killer Angels, The    Killer Angels, The
ISBN:9781846970863
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Michael Shaara
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Outside In
ISBN:9781846970689
Category: Essays, Fiction
Author: Alastair Reid
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Inside Out
ISBN:9781846970696
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Alastair Reid
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    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

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Synopsis:

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    Midwinter
ISBN:9781846970702
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    Witch Wood
ISBN:9781846970719
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Blanket of the Dark, The    Blanket of the Dark, The
ISBN:9781846970726
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    McLevy
ISBN:9781841587417
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James McLevy
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: 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    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

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Synopsis: Two classic novels of travel, romance and adventure by one of Edinburgh's most celebrated writer's.
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Masked Fisherman and Other Stories, The    Masked Fisherman and Other Stories, The
ISBN:9781846970849
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: 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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Golden Bird, The    Golden Bird, The
ISBN:9781846970856
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis: 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    Hypocrites' Isle
ISBN:9781846970870
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Ken McClure
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: HB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis: 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    Craiters
ISBN:9781898410737
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: March 1995
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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    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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Synopsis:
Original literary fiction that tackles the tricky eighteenth-century problem of how to dissect an elephant.

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Two-way Split    Two-way Split
ISBN:9781904598572
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Abridged History, An    Abridged History, An
ISBN:9781904598091
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: 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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Hand-book of Volapuk, A    Hand-book of Volapuk, A
ISBN:9781904598671
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Andrew Drummond
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

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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Old Pub Near the Angel, An    Old Pub Near the Angel, An
ISBN:9781846970375
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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    Not Not While the Giro
ISBN:9781846970382
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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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Busconductor Hines, The    Busconductor Hines, The
ISBN:9781846970399
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock