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• The Easdale Doctor

  Paperback | Pub: 12 Apr 2018

  £12.99

  When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh’s distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed him, and his university...

• The Man Who Gave Away His Island

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £9.99

  In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it becoming a rich man’s playground (like so many other islands and Highland estates), to preserve a part of traditional Gaelic culture and show that...

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  The Shepherd and the Morning Star

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  The 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...

• Without Quarter

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Jul 2018

  £12.99

  Journalist 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 in...