Biography & Memoir
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Hardback | Pub: 26 Oct 2016£25.00This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the main antagonist of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2017£17.99This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the most accomplished spies Britain ever produced and the main antagonist of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Sep 2011£8.99In September 1939, groups of horsemen in battledress cantered down a broad, grassy plain on the western edge of Europe. The young men of the Western Isles were going to war again. They included a tall, shy 24-year-old called Angus MacPhee (1916-97)....
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Paperback | Pub: 10 May 2018£7.99
One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the enchanted, magical beauty of this much-loved area of the country. Margaret Leigh was already a successful author when her longing for freedom and independence...
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Paperback | Pub: 09 Aug 2018£7.99
In this moving memoir of an unusual childhood, John Muir recalls his younger days in East Lothian with a startling clarity, depicting a wild boy whose quiet individuality and determination were already emerging. Born in mid nineteenth-century...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2007£7.99John Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in education spanned 50 years, during which time he inspected many schools in the Highlands and Islands,...
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Jun 2018£9.99
In this enchanting and moving memoir, Christina Hall writes with sharp observation about her childhood on the Hebridean island of South Uist in the 1940s and 50s. Humour and anguish reflect the spirit of a girl living through a time of dramatic...
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Paperback | Pub: 13 Feb 2020£7.99The Braes of Glenlivet lie on the eastern edge of the Grampian mountains, in one of Scotland’s most active whisky-producing areas. This collection of stories and memories spans a century of life on farms and around Chapeltown and...
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Hardback | Pub: 25 Aug 2010£16.99
In this, the sequel to the successful The Truth Tells Twice, Charlie Allan continues the wonderful story of his family farm and surrounding community in the North-east of Scotland, as the running of the farm comes under his guidance. Filled with the...
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Hardback | Pub: 23 Aug 2018£9.99
Judith McClure is known to many in Scotland and indeed in the wider world as an innovative and outward-looking educationalist. But what many people do not know – and that applies to her countless friends in all walks of life – is that...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Jul 2018£12.99Journalist and statesman Tom Johnston (1881-1965) was considered by many as the greatest Scotsman of his time. In founding the popular Glasgow-based newspaper, Forward, in 1906, he created a platform for lively socialist and nationalist debate...
