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E-Book | Pub: 04 Apr 2013£7.49
Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggar’s Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020£7.99They may be coated in layers of myth and pious anecdote but dig deep enough and the pioneering leaders of Celtic Christianity are revealed as reassuringly human individuals, responding to their faith by deliberately living on the edges of...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£4.99
‘An exuberant and discursive historical novel, crammed with fascinating detail’ – The Independent 11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna,...
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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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Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021£30.00The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£4.99At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe...
