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

        
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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of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.

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

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

        
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Ronald Frame’s deceptively gentle writing spins a taut web of desire, betrayal and loss as his characters play out their roles in the intimate and claustrophobic amphitheatre of Carnbeg.

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

        
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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James Kelman’s oblique, wry and open-ended short stories reveal him to be a master of the form, and this selection offers some of his best work.
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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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This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form.
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A collection of short stories celebrating life and love.
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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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This selection of J.M. Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes to be found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy, sexual anxiety, social comedy and proto-feminism.
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Collected for the first time are twenty-six tales, superbly edited and introduced by Linda Williamson, from Scotland - and arguably Britain's - finest storyteller.
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James Hogg's incomparable stories of the supernatural hark back to the oral traditions of his own upbringing and tales of wonder around the fireside.
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Considered by Douglas Gifford to ‘rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have’, this collection sees one of Scotland's finest playwrights and poets sharing his favourite childhood memories in a set of twenty-four short stories narrated in the Scots dialect.
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Ranging from inner promptings towards self-discovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, the voices in these stories display the peaks of Smith’s wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in re-telling the past.
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Stories of possession, doubleness and terror reveal more clearly than ever their Scottish roots, and that fascination with the uncanny which brought the creator of Mr Hyde screamingly awake one winter's night over one hundred years ago.
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These mysterious and fascinating legends retain their spellbinding enchantment through the luminous quality of Thomson’s prose. In the Selkie legends he found the perfect expression of a Celtic world where fiction and truth intertwine, and his book is a window onto that vanished world.
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This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer.
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A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophesies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures.
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Taken from the novel Redgauntlet, and told in colloquial Scots, 'Wandering Willie's Tale' is one of Scott's best known stories of the supernatural and a pact with the devil, while 'The Two Drovers' tells of a quarrel over Highland honour and the fatal intervention of the second sight.
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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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