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  Burke and Hare

  Paperback | Pub: 09 Oct 2014

  £14.99

  In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr....

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  The History of Orkney Literature

  Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021

  £25.00

  Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the...

• The Poor Had No Lawyers

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2015

  £14.99

  Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in...

• Scotland: Her Story

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £12.99

  Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe...