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Memoirs

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  • Hardback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025
    £10.00

    This memoir of the author’s early years details the advantages of a weirdly dysfunctional family, a mysterious Irish ancestry, a violent and expensive prep school (where he failed to blow up the headmaster with gunpowder), some good teaching –...

  • Paperback | Pub: 22 Aug 2024
    £14.99

    Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched...

  • Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £9.99

    In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the...

  • Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026
    £9.99

    Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir. It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set against the background of the changes and...

  • Hardback | Pub: 12 Jun 2025
    £18.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £10.99

    Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...