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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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Time to Keep, A    Time to Keep, A
ISBN:9781904598657
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

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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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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Speak of the Mearns, The    Speak of the Mearns, The
ISBN:9780748661671
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: 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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Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights    Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights
ISBN:9780748662319
Category: Short Stories, Literature
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights is a complete set of stories first published in the early thirties, revealing an author whose interests lie far beyond the Scottish and rural.

    
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Island of the Women, The    Island of the Women, The
ISBN:9781904598909
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

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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Calendar of Love, A    Calendar of Love, A
ISBN:9781904598732
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

A Calendar of Love is George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories set in Orkney.

        
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Agnes Owens    Agnes Owens
ISBN:9781846970597
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Agnes Owens
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
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Synopsis:

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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Jaunty Jock    Jaunty Jock
ISBN:9781899863150
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
A collection of short stories in which Munro extends his geographical and cultural scope outside his native Argyll. He continues to depict the life of the Highlander, and uses Gaelic words and phrases.

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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
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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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Hawkfall    Hawkfall
ISBN:9781904598183
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

This collection of eleven stories demonstrates the full range of George MacKay Brown’s literary talent.

        
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Time in Carnbeg    Time in Carnbeg
ISBN:9780954407551
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Ronald Frame
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

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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Damage Land    Damage Land
ISBN:9780748662845
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Alan Bissett
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

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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Burning Mirror, The    Burning Mirror, The
ISBN:9780748662937
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Suhayl Saadi
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: 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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One City    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
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Synopsis:

Three internationally bestselling authors write three interlinking stories focused on Edinburgh.

        
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Escalator    Escalator
ISBN:9781904598626
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Michael Gardiner
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

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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Craiters    Craiters
ISBN:9781898410737
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alexander Fenton
Publication Date: March 1995
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
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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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Visiting the Bard    Visiting the Bard
ISBN:9781904598022
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alasdair Campbell
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

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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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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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
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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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Black Halo, The    Black Halo, The
ISBN:9781841581712
Category: Short Stories
Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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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. The pieces in this collection form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the full range and versatility of his literary talent.


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Bit of Crack and Car Culture, A    Bit of Crack and Car Culture, A
ISBN:9781841580432
Category: Short Stories
Author: Bess Ross
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

Few writers in Scotland can catch a sense of place and time in the way that Bess Ross can. Her warmth and humanity have ensured her a growing audience over the years.


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Furthermore    Furthermore
ISBN:9781904598343
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Susie Maguire
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis: 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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Work    Work
ISBN:9781904598831
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Bernard MacLaverty
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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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Coloured Lights    Coloured Lights
ISBN:9781904598534
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Leila Aboulela
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis: Coloured Lights is the first collection of short stories from award-winning writer Leila Aboulela, author of the award-winning The Translator (1999).
    
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Brimster Tales    Brimster Tales
ISBN:9781841583129
Category: Short Stories
Author: James Miller
Publication Date: September 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This is the first appearance in book form of a popular long-running serial from the Caithness weekly paper, the John o' Groat Journal.


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Little Black Dress    Little Black Dress
ISBN:9781846970030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Susie Maguire
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

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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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
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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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Speak of the Mearns, The    Speak of the Mearns, The
ISBN:9781846970207
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:
This essential collection from Lewis Grassic Gibbon comprises short stories, essays and a novel, The Speak of the Mearns, which was unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1935.
        
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Winter Tales    Winter Tales
ISBN:9781904598879
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

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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Light Fantastic, The    Light Fantastic, The
ISBN:9781904598350
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: June 2005
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis: 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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Little Black Dress    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

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Synopsis: 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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Consider an Island / Eilean Sgitheanach    Consider an Island / Eilean Sgitheanach
ISBN:9781904598121
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

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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Tales of Whisky and Smuggling    Tales of Whisky and Smuggling
ISBN:9781899863815
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
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Synopsis:

This is the story of a war between a hostile London government and an army of cottage whisky-makers, mostly in the Highlands of Scotland, illustrating the indomitable spirit of the Highlander and the importance of Whisky in Scottish culture.


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McLevy    McLevy
ISBN:9781841587417
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James McLevy
Publication Date: October 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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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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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
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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
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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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People of the Wildcat Country    People of the Wildcat Country
ISBN:9781841584485
Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore, Short Stories
Author: Sandra MacPherson
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Sandra Macpherson’s last book, A Strange and Wild Place, was hugely successful in 2003 and reprinted in 2004. Thisa book contains a delightful variety of tales old and new from Monarch of the Glen country.

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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
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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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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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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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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children    Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
ISBN:9781841588148
Category: Short Stories, Folklore
Author: Duncan Williamson
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis: Duncan Williamson was a Scottish traveller who went on to become one of Britain’s master story-tellers. Fireside Tales, his first book, reveals this artistry and mastery in all its glory.
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