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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
Lizann Jappy is the daughter of a fisherman from the close community of Buckie. Having led a sheltered girlhood, her life is turned upside-down when it is discovered that the man she loves is married – for divorce is an unthinkable disgrace...
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Box Set | Pub: 04 Mar 2027£19.99This stunning collage of Glasgow features more than 60 iconic buildings and other landmarks spanning many centuries, from Glasgow Cathedral. Glasgow School of Art and Kelvingrove Museum to the Armadillo, Kingston Bridge and the Finnieston Crane. ...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 May 2023£12.99There is a story in the name of almost every street and district in Glasgow, with some tracing their origins to pagan times, long before Glasgow could even be called a city. In this hugely informative and entertaining book, Carol Foreman not only...
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025£14.99Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Feb 2027£10.99Scotland’s largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country. This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From prehistory to the Romans, to Mungo and the...
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Hardback | Pub: 16 Oct 2015£30.00Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 70 maps which have been selected for the particular stories they reveal about different political, commercial and social aspects...
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2023£12.99It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow’s place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the...
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E-Book | Pub: 29 Aug 2025£8.99Music-hall stars such as Jack Buchanan, Charles Coburn, Harry Lauder, Dan Leno and Vesta Tilley all trod the boards at what started life as the Britannia Music Hall, as did a certain Stan Laurel, who made his debut there in 1906. Under the...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£30.00
Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national...
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Hardback | Pub: 11 Aug 2014£25.00This book marks the centenary of Neil MacLeod’s death in 1913 with the republication of some of his work. It also publishes for the first time all of the identifiable work of his brother, Iain Dubh (1847 – 1901), and of their father,...
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E-Book | Pub: 21 Jan 2014£4.99
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Nov 2024£12.99A superstar, a role model, an inspiration. Even before his 21st birthday Jude Bellingham had proved to be all of those things after a stratospheric surge to the peak of world football. The Real Madrid and England hero has broken new ground on his...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£9.99
Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful canvas, the last work by the artistic...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018£8.99Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her...
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Mar 2014£4.99
A man lies in a pool of blood at the bishop’s house, and the comfortable and uneventful existence of Father Vincent Ross is about to be turned upside down. Ugly secrets are being concealed by the church that he serves, a murderer is on the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025£12.99‘You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place – but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but its relationship with us in the West has been...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
The titular Mr Dixon is not the novel’s main character but the creation of the novel’s main character, Tom Spence. Spence describes himself as “an embryo novelist”; he has had the odd job – for example, delivering mail...
