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Queen Amang the Heather |
ISBN:9781841585284 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Sheila Stewart
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The incredible story of Belle Stewart, one of Scotland’s most famous travellers and folk singers, written by her daughter. Includes a selection of the Stewarts’ songs and stories.
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Fearchair-a-Ghunna |
ISBN:9781899863020 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Farquhar
Publication Date: January 1995
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Presenting the life and sayings of a 19th century packman, nicknamed for his passion for gun-powder. Farquhar dressed in rags ornamented with guns, pebbles, links of chain and scraps of paper, and led a vagabond life at a time when such travellers were often welcomed in the villages they visited.
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John Knox |
ISBN:9781841587219 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rosalind K. Marshall
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This compelling biography untangles the truth from the mythology surrounding this determined and extraordinary man.
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Wallace Book, The |
ISBN:9780859766524 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Scottish History, History
Author: (Editor) Edward J. Cowan
Publication Date: February 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: A team of leading historians and critics from both Scotland and England investigate what is known of medieval warrior William Wallace's career from contemporary sources, most of which, unusually for a national hero, were created by his enemies.
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Lydia |
ISBN:9781862322219 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Elizabeth Sutherland
Publication Date: March 2002
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The name and writings of Hugh Miller, born in Cromarty in 1802, have always been and still are well known. Apart from an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, his wife, Lydia, born in Invemess in 1812, has remained undeservedly in obscurity. Now, in this book, she is at last brought on stage.
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Findlay MacQueen of St Kilda |
ISBN:9781899863457 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: W R Mitchell
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: In 1930, the remnants of the proud, self-reliant population of St Kilda, were evacuated to the mainland. This is the story of the last days of remote island life.
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Hired Lad, The |
ISBN:9781841831145 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ian Campbell Thomson
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Ian Campbell Thomson relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. It is a touching coming-of-age tale and a tribute, full of humour, to a disappearing culture.
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That's Fourpence You're Eating! |
ISBN:9781841584072 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Frances Rimington
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: That’s Fourpence You’re Eating! takes the reader back to another period, recounting a middle-class upbringing in Victorian and Edwardian Perth and Edinburgh.
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Burning and Turning |
ISBN:9781841831114 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: James A. Begg
Publication Date: August 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Ayrshire GP Jimmy Begg continues his story with more of his exploits with the helicopter rescue team at HMS Gannet.
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Seal Morning |
ISBN:9781841586908 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rowena Farre
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Rowena Farre’s simply powerful and touching autobiography is a moving insight into the private affectation of the raw Scottish Highlands on an unassuming girl. Seal Morning is a fascinating read of discovery and identity.
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Horsieman, The |
ISBN:9781841586922 Category: Folklore, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Duncan Williamson
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.
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Mackerel at Midnight |
ISBN:9781841831107 Category: Food And Drink, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ethel G. Hofman
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Ethel Hofman grew up in the only Jewish family on Shetland. This is the story of her family and childhood, accompanied by recipes for Jewish and Shetland food cooked by her mother.
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Dog Collar Diary |
ISBN:9781899863037 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Alexander Cameron
Publication Date: January 1995
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: Continuing his anecdotal account of pastoral work, this book includes the shock and the pain of the Lockerbie disaster, but concentrates on life, love and humour in a rural ministry.
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Strange and Wild Place, A |
ISBN:9781841582863 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Sandra MacPherson
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This is the story of Glentrium - a family estate. Enduring many changes in volatile times, Sandra Hall vivaciously and fondly depicts the many industrious adventures she embarks upon in order to enjoy and survive the realities of Highland life.
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Neil Munro |
ISBN:9781899863914 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Lesley Lendrum
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: Neil Munro was regarded in his lifetime as the natural successor to Robert Louis Stevenson, and most widely known today for his great comic creation Para Handy, He was also a distinguished journalist and an important figure in British and especially Scottish literary circles of the first quarter of the twentieth century.
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Catherine Carswell |
ISBN:9780859766852 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jan Pilditch
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Catherine Carswell, the Scottish novelist, biographer, and critic is recognised as a substantial figure in the Scottish literary Renaissance.
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Bothy to Big Ben ... and Beyond |
ISBN:9781841830278 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ben Coutts
Publication Date: August 2004
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Ben Coutts writes his extraordinary life story charting his time as a shepherd, farmer, soldier, broadcaster and politician.
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Tales from the Tent |
ISBN:9781841587196 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jess Smith
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: In Tales from the Tent, Jess Smith – Scottish traveller, hawker, gypsy, ’gan-about’ and storyteller – continues the unforgettable story of her life on the road. Unable to adjust to settled life working in a factory after leaving school, she finds herself drawn once again to the wild countryside of Scotland.
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Flying Scotsman, The |
ISBN:9781841583358 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Graeme Obree
Publication Date: June 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This is the amazing story of the cyclist who took on the world and rewrote the record books, a story that has been made into a major feature film starring Johnny Lee Miller and produced by Peter Broughan.
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At the Edge of Empire |
ISBN:9781841585444 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Gardiner
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: Born in Aberdeenshire in 1838, Thomas Blake Glover was a widely-travelled merchant and a key figure in the industrialisation of Japan.
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One, The |
ISBN:9781841830551 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Paul Reed
Publication Date: October 2003
Format: PB
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Synopsis: The One is a first novel of rare power and originality. It takes the reader to a place that has never been documented in this way before—inside the mind of someone suffering the torments of schizophrenia. Written with a sure grasp of the Edinburgh vernacular and a merciful leavening of black humour, it grips like a thriller from beginning to end.
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River of Memory |
ISBN:9781841831060 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Joe Pieri
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Following the success of his history of Italian immigration to Scotland, The Scots-Italians, Joe Pieri tells his own eventful life story.
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Shirley McKie |
ISBN:9781841585758 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Current Affairs, Law
Author: Iain McKie and Michael Russell
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: What happened to Shirley could happen to anyone. Might you be the next person to pay the terrible price of innocence? A true story of persistence and endurance brought to the forefront of the Scottish political consciousness by a mere fingerprint.
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George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727 |
ISBN:9781862321328 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Scottish History, History
Author: Daniel Szechi
Publication Date: June 2002
Format: PB
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Price: £20.00
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| Synopsis: This is the first book-length analysis of the Jacobite mind and it challenges the prevailing stereotypes about the kind of man who became a Jacobite.
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James Cumming |
ISBN:9781873644362 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jack Firth
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher |
ISBN:9781841585956 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Roderick Grant
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer’s childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes.
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Cardinal of Scotland |
ISBN:9780859765220 Category: History of Religion, History, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Margaret Sanderson
Publication Date: March 2001
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The murder of David Beaton lies like a great shadow over the Scottish Reformation and this is the first modern account of this great prince of the church.
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William Wallace |
ISBN:9781841585932 Category: Autobiography/Biography, History, Scottish History
Author: Andrew Fisher
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Featuring new sections on the Wallace of literature and present-day perceptions, this book provides a more authentic picture of the greatest of Scotland’s heroes than has been previously available, placing the crude distortions and inaccuracies such as Braveheart in their proper context.
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Fletcher's Game |
ISBN:9781841830582 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Fletcher
Publication Date: October 2003
Format: PB
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Synopsis: A campaigning autobiography which combines Fletcher's lifelong involvement with deer with thought-provoking views on the relationship between animals and those who eat them.
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Dundas Despotism, The |
ISBN:9780859765886 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael Fry
Publication Date: March 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £20.00
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| Synopsis: This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851).
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Wheel of Fortune |
ISBN:9781841830643 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Archie Morrison and Joe Pieri
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
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Yellow on the Broom, The |
ISBN:9781841581354 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Betsy Whyte
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Betsy Whyte’s story is a unique description of a largely vanished way of life and the story of a people who have suffered much hardship and intolerance.
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Silver Smith |
ISBN:9781841587530 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Neil Drysdale
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This remarkable biography of Walter Smith reflects on the life and times of a man who went from football enthusiast as a boy to being propelled into the limelight as one of football’s most notorious managers in Britain.
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Jessie's Journey |
ISBN:9781841587028 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jess Smith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: A Scottish bestseller since its first publication, this humorous and poignant biography has a wide and modern appeal bringing to us the forgotten and naive ways of the travelling family.
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Iceman, The |
ISBN:9781841587608 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jim Wilson and Russell Findlay
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The Iceman tells the astonishing story of Jamie Stevenson’s rise and subsequent fall as Scotland’s biggest crime lord whose empire spanned the globe and poured tons of drugs and guns onto the streets of Scotland.
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Lord Cockburn |
ISBN:9780859766302 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: (Editor) Alan Bell
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: HB
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Price: £25.00
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| Synopsis: This selection of 180 [new] letters - destined to become another classic in the tradition of the Memorials - provides much fresh information about his career as advocate, judge, Whig activist, genial family man and pioneer in building conservation.
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James IV |
ISBN:9780862416553 Category: Kings and Queens, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Douglas MacKenzie
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Fully illustrated throughout, the Merlin series is designed to provide introductions to key periods of Scottish history.
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House of Elrig, The |
ISBN:9781841582580 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Gavin Maxwell
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: This is the personal story of Gavin Maxwell's boyhood, most of which he spent, in fact or in fancy, at the House of Elrig, a lonely, windswept house on the moorlands of Galloway.
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Voice of the Bard, The |
ISBN:9780862418427 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
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Price: £20.00
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| Synopsis: The Voice of the Bard presents biographical portraits of fourteen poets and singers.
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Don, The |
ISBN:9781841586182 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Willie Miller with Rob Robertson
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: The first biography for eighteen years of one of Scotland’s greatest domestic and international players. The book gives a unique insight into professional football during Miller’s era, what it was like to be the first successful captain in a team managed by Sir Alex Ferguson – including their European Cup-Winners’ Cup victory over Real Madrid on May 11, 1983.
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Lion Looks Back, A |
ISBN:9780859765015 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jim Craig
Publication Date: March 1998
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: Unlike previous accounts of Celtic, this book discusses the tactics of the different historical periods, compares the players and managers of yesteryear with their modern counterparts and assesses the quality players in each generation.
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Polar Crusader |
ISBN:9781841585437 Category: Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography, Exploration
Author: Michael Smith
Publication Date: April 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.
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Small Talk |
ISBN:9781899863471 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Naomi Mitchison
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This double volume covers Naomi Mitchison's Edwardian childhood in Oxford and Scotland, as well as the development of her very personal thoughts and ideas during her teenage years as she grew to womanhood.
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Don, The |
ISBN:9781841587233 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Willie Miller with Rob Robertson
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: The first biography for eighteen years of one of Scotland’s greatest domestic and international players and now a popular TV and radio pundit.
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Some People are Crazy |
ISBN:9781846970580 Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Neil Munro
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: A well-researched biography of one of Britain’s best musicians renowned for his rock antics.
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Christian Watt Papers, The |
ISBN:9781841583082 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Christian Watt
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: At the age of forty-seven Christian Watt began to write down recollections of her life; she continued until her death at the age of ninety in 1923. Her writings offer a vivid insight not only into the life of the north-east of Scotland during the middle and later part of the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth, but also on events of national and international interest. Previously privately published, this book has not been widely available for many years.
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Field of Sighing, The |
ISBN:9781841582566 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Literature, Fiction
Author: Donald Cameron
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Part autobiography, part fiction, this is a beautifully written story of crofting life in the run up to the Second World War.
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Whisky Dream |
ISBN:9781841586816 Category: Food And Drink, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Stuart Rivans
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: An extraordinary tale of surprising endeavours involving one man’s struggle to resuscitate two whisky distilleries from the brink of no return - Bruichladdich and Port Charlotte distilleries - on the small Hebridean island of Islay.
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Endless Tide, The |
ISBN:9781841584539 Category: Crofting, Social History, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Iain R. Thomson
Publication Date: October 2005
Format: HB
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Price: £16.99
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| Synopsis: Iain Thomson mixes his own personal story with Scotland’s historical past in a melting-pot of ideas, snapshots and autobiographical accounts, which conjure up the vital past and continuing force of the elusive Highland spirit.
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For the Islands I Sing |
ISBN:9781846970832 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £6.99
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| Synopsis: George Mackay Brown wrote this beautiful and touching book in the years before his death in 1996. He did not want it published while he lived. An astonishing posthumous autobiography.
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Janet Kennedy, Royal Mistress |
ISBN:9780859766784 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ishbel Barnes
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: Janet Kennedy is the biography of a Scottish woman at court in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
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Red Rowans and Wild Honey |
ISBN:9781841580708 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Betsy Whyte
Publication Date: November 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £6.99
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| Synopsis: Betsy Whyte was a gifted, natural storyteller and this remarkable memoir brings to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet ’red rowans’ and ’wild honey’ - in a way that no work of the imagination can.
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Tea at Miss Cranston's |
ISBN:9781841584447 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Anna Blair
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Anna Blair recreates a bygone era through the recollections of countless Glaswegians who shared their memories with her during extensive interviews.
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Gift from the Gallowgate, A |
ISBN:9781841584157 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: July 2005
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: The striking autobiography of the prolific author Doris Davidson.
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Para Handy |
ISBN:9781841582276 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
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Price: £8.99
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| Synopsis: Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in Neil Munro’s lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001.
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Hamish Henderson |
ISBN:9781904598473 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: November 2007
Format: HB
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Price: £25.00
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Synopsis: The official authorised biography with author access to Hamish Henderson’s archive and previously unpublished poems and letters.
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Hunt for Rob Roy, The |
ISBN:9781841584836 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: David Stevenson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: The Hunt for Rob Roy investigates new and controversial sources that shake modern conceptions of a well-marked man.
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Stop the World |
ISBN:9781841582399 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Winnie Ewing
Publication Date: May 2004
Format: HB
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Price: £16.99
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| Synopsis: Instantly recognisable wherever she goes, Winnie Ewing is one of the most influential Scotswomen of her generation.
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Highland Lady in Dublin 1851-1856, The |
ISBN:9781841584089 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: (Editors) Patricia Pelly and Andrew Tod
Publication Date: September 2005
Format: PB
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Price: £14.99
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| Synopsis: This is the penultimate volume of Elizabeth Grant's vivid memoirs and diaries.
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Architect of Victory |
ISBN:9781841585178 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Walter Reid
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: HB
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Price: £25.00
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| Synopsis: Walter Reid’s ground-breaking biography is the first study of Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available.
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Soap Man, The |
ISBN:9781841583273 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
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Price: £8.99
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| Synopsis: The Soap Man brings to light a little known civil war between crofter and laird, lower and upper class, on the isle of Lewis.
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Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560 |
ISBN:9781862321847 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Scottish History, History
Author: Pamela Ritchie
Publication Date: March 2002
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that she was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politician.
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Great Infidel, The |
ISBN:9781841585208 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Roderick Graham
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The Great Infidel gives a rounded picture of the man, the century in which he lived, his thought, and, above all, his humanity.
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Sea Wolf, The |
ISBN:9781843410072 Category: Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography, Maritime
Author: Ian Grimble
Publication Date: December 2001
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The Sea Wolf is the gripping biography of Thomas Cochrane, one of the most daring and brilliant naval commanders in British maritime history.
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Life of Soolivan, A |
ISBN:9781841583280 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Calum Ferguson
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This is the tale of John MacLean - a rebel, a streetfighter, an international traveller, a seafarer - born from a sleepy Hebridean society. An extraordinary tale.
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Road to Glen Spean, The |
ISBN:9781841584348 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Christina Hall
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: This is the sequel to Christina Hall’s charming autobiographies about her youth, To the Edge of the Sea andTwice Around the Bay.
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Television and Me |
ISBN:9781841830636 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Logie Baird
Publication Date: May 2004
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Edited by his son, this illustrated autobiography of John Logie Baird covers the wild escapades of his early career and the dramatic pioneering days when he transmitted the very first television pictures.
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Nine Against the Unknown |
ISBN:9780748662708 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers; passionately written, the biographies are fascinating and revealing, the journeys dramatic and breathtaking.
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No More Beyond |
ISBN:9781841585192 Category: Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography, Exploration
Author: Simon Nasht
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: An astonishing biography of a little-known Australian explorer.
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Story of My Boyhood and Youth, The |
ISBN:9781841584683 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Muir
Publication Date: July 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: From East Lothian to Wisconsin, this vivid yet subtle autobiography charts the journey across the pond and the trepid development of a child to an adult with an extraordinary natural talent.
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Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland, An |
ISBN:9781862320345 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Politics And Economics
Author: Michael Mitchie
Publication Date: March 1997
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire.
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Tales and Travels of a School Inspector |
ISBN:9781841585260 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Wilson
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: First published in 1928, the personal account of John Wilson’s experiences is both compassionate and humorous, providing a valuable insight into the social and educational conditions of the Gaelic Highlands and Islands.
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Furrow Behind Me, The |
ISBN:9781874744276 Category: Crofting, Social History, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Angus MacLellan
Publication Date: January 1997
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Throughout his lifetime, Angus MacLellan was regarded as one of Scotland’s finest traditional Gaelic storytellers - this definitive autobiography demonstrates his rich skill of the oral tradition.
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Ultima Thule |
ISBN:9781904598367 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rhona Rauszer
Publication Date: June 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: AVAILABLE NOW
The stories collected here make up Rhona Rauszer’s biography, an oral narrative composed and recorded by her over a period of twelve years (1992–2004).
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Isolation Shepherd |
ISBN:9781841586151 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Iain R. Thomson
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Iain Thomson’s classic book vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland’s most awesome landscapes that shaped his family’s life.
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Man Who Challenged America, The |
ISBN:9781841585789 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Laurence Brady
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: One of the world’s first global entrepeneurs, Sir Thomas Lipton’s life is one of fascination.
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Jo Grimond |
ISBN:9781843410065 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael McManus
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: HB
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| Synopsis: This is the first biography to be written of a man who can truly be said to have changed the face of British political life.
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Noblest Work of God, The |
ISBN:9781841583921 Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Peter Aitchison
Publication Date: February 2005
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Two epic s |