This book provides a unique record of the long contest of verbal warfare across the Border over the centuries.

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

Norman Harper and Robbie Shepherd are back with a third collection of stories which show the wit and wisdom of North-East Scotland at their finest.

For the first time, over fifty of Robbie Shepherd’s Press and Journal Doric columns have been brought together in one collection, with superb illustrations by Graham MacLennan.

All is revealed (well, not quite all – this is Scotland) in The Cannae Sutra, a ground-breaking exposé of the nation’s best-kept secrets.

The inimitable humour of the Highlander through the ages.

A real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland’s warrior king. Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.

When Sir Harry Lauder left a concert on Deeside he was mystified that his jokes had not got the response received elsewhere; it perked him up when, from the spilling audience, he heard a voice say, ’Fit a gran comic. It took me aa ma time nae ti lach.’

Glasgow humour has always been characterised by a scant regard for caution and reserve, and its extrovert and often surreal nature. No one exemplifies all these aspects better than Stanley Baxter, Glasgow’s best known and greatest comic genius.

In this new and expanded edition of his best-selling book, Michael Munro has produced a hilarious compendium of the wit and wisdom of Glasgow.

In this fascinating book, Dane Love uncovers a strange collection of tales of devious fraudsters and curious hoaxes.

A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. One hundred years after he first appeared in print, Erchie brilliantly displays Munro’s gift for humour and characterisation.

Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularising their city’s dialect, universally known as ’the patter’.

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