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E-Book | Pub: 16 Jun 2015£7.99The People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) is an Iranian opposition movement in exile and the key component of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Regarded as a terrorist organization in the EU until 2009, and in the USA and Canada until...
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Feb 2012£4.99It is the late seventeenth century and still the movement of the planets remains a mystery despite the revolutionary work of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Tycho Brahe almost a hundred years previously. Edmond Halley – dynamic adventurer...
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Jul 2015£9.99Your perfect introduction to the geology of Scotland. The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
The Shadow of the Sycamores traces the fortunes of the Rae family, from Henry Rae’s birth in 1871, when his drunken father, a blacksmith, forgets the name chosen for him, to his old age in the 1940s. We follow Henry’s story as he leaves...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Jan 2026£9.99
Sins never stay buried. You may call it a sin; I say it was an act of desperation. Like all pathologists, Cuthbert finds dealing with dead children the hardest part of his job. However, when the body of a young boy is found in the grounds of a...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£6.99An epic true story of resilience and survival. Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland, and in his teens was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Soon afterwards, the...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019£9.99The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012£9.99The Royal Navy has always been seen as an English institution, despite a large Scottish contribution, from Admiral Duncan at Camperdown in 1797 to Andrew Cunningham in the Second World War. The Royal Navy’s most dramatic effect on Scotland,...
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012£5.79
Ayrshire policewoman Shirley McKie suffered the loss of her job, a trial for perjury, a breakdown in her health and had to undertake a nine-year campaign before she cleared her name and triumphed over a supposedly infallible science. Her crime...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Jun 2014£5.99Foreword by Gilberto Silva. The Brazilian game has become synonymous with excellence, success and beautiful, irresistible football. Supporters from every part of the globe are able to recount joyful tales about Brazil’s unmatched...
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Paperback | Pub: 09 May 2019£14.99This is the definitive account of the Royal Bank of Scotland scandal. For a few brief months in 2007 and 2009, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the largest bank in the world. Then the Edinburgh-based giant – having rapidly grown its footprint to...
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Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2007£8.99
Sir Edward Leithen – perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan’s characters – is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025£9.99
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen....
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| Pub: 06 May 2027£9.99
This notebook features a cover with artwork by artist Louise Day. The Silver Birch notebook has blank, unlined paper and contains head-and-tail bans, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened.
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Dec 2021£9.99
Walter Smith was one of the most respected managers in British football. This insightful biography casts a reflective and analytical eye over his life and career, examining this shrewd professional through the many highs and lows that he has...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2016£0.99
It’s 1989, and Jim Daley is now a fully-fledged detective constable, working in the heart of Glasgow. When ruthless gangster James Machie’s accountant, known as the Magician, is found stabbed to death in a multi-storey car park it’s clear all...
