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Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022£9.99
Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in...
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Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023£30.00Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of...
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Hardback | Pub: 08 Oct 2020£20.00
Longlisted for The Highland Book Prize 2020 Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These ‘white martyrs’ sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022£10.99
‘[an] exploration of Scotland’s past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker … Magnificent’ – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic...
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£30.00
Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive...
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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: 13 Aug 2020£4.99
Sarah Sutherland wanted to be an archaeologist but now she is struggling to cope with the demands of work and caring for her elderly father, who has his own secret troubles. Her fascination with the past still remains, and she feels a special...
