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E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012£14.99This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gaidhealtachd in the period 1700 – 1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, it brings together many little known and previously...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Apr 2018£20.00GARDEN MEDIA GUILD PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR Fruit and vegetables have formed a fundamental part of the Scottish diet for thousands of years. This fascinating and practical book explores the history of fruit, vegetable and herb growing in Scotland,...
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Hardback | Pub: 24 May 2016£12.99This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland’s Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as ‘Connecting...
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Hardback | Pub: 24 May 2016£12.99This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland’s Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as ‘Connecting...
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£12.99Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as ‘a full back slower than your average prop’, Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023£16.99
‘It’s a wildly satisfying and moving read … I loved this special book’ – Graham Norton Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a...
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025£10.99
MacLellan’s reminiscences were first recorded in Gaelic in the early 1960s, and later transcribed and translated by John Lorne Campbell into this outstanding English language autobiography. Written in an unusual yet captivating prose style, this...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£30.00John Gregorson Campbell (1834–91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working in Scotland during the nineteenth century. Based on materials which he had gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, his Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of...
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Jun 2018£12.99
Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage. The book includes notes, historical and social, and comparisons...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2015£12.99
Galloglas were mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in Ireland in the later 13th century and achieved an extraordinary prominence on Irish battlefields throughout the three hundred years following. Fighting as heavy...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022£8.99
‘For three minutes you will turn your eyes inward – into the darkness of the mind which I have taught you to make. Then – I will give the sign – you will look at the paper. There you will see words written, but only for one second....
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Apr 2020£9.99
A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
Gentlemen of the West, Agnes Owens’ debut novel, was first published in 1984 to wide critical acclaim. The novel follows the humorous exploits of Mac, a young bricklayer, who, along with a colourful cast of characters, seeks solace and escape in...
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Multiple-component | Pub: 04 Nov 2021£35.00Pick up a selection of our exquisite George Mackay Brown novels in this brilliant box that includes the rare publications, An Orkney Tapestry and A Time in a Red Coat, as well as the Booker-shortlisted Beside the Ocean of Time. This box includes: An...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Discover two of the 20th Century’s most important novels from the legendary George Orwell. First published in 1945, Animal Farm – the history of a revolution that went wrong – is Orwell’s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2026£10.99
In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. This collection is a poetic photo album. Through these poems, Van Winkle...
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012£4.99
This is the extraordinary story of a remarkable woman. Doris Davidson was born in Aberdeen in 1922, the daughter of a master butcher and country lass. Her idyllic childhood was shattered in 1934 with the death of her father, after which, in order to...
