Scottish
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£5.99
Introducing Alice Rice, Edinburgh detective. Smart and capable, but battling disillusionment and loneliness, she must solve a string of brutal murders, set against the well-to-do background of Edinburgh’s New Town. Thrilling, chilling, and packed...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 May 2023£8.99Follow the knights as they battle their way into Edinburgh Castle; find the seals’ route under the Forth Bridge, help Mary, Queen of Scots escape from Loch Leven Castle; find the route to avoid the monster in the waters of Loch Ness; work out...
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Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£10.00
Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2020£8.99
When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the ’45 Rebellion has enraged the...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022£10.00
These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout. In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£5.99
The brow of the Gallowgate is where Albert Ogilvie buys his property in 1890 – the shop he has dreamed of for years, and above it, a house with nine rooms to accommodate the large family he and his beloved wife, Bathie, desire. As their babies...
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Dec 2022£7.99In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns’ death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celebrate his extraordinary life and to give thanks for his friendship. Over the years the informal...
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Hardback | Pub: 21 Oct 2021£35.00INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From ‘Aald Rock’ to ‘Zeenty-teenty’, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends,...
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Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£25.00Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland’s Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona,...
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Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£14.99This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a revolution in the hitherto staid world of Scotch Whisky. But by creating the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he gave whisky drinkers access to the finest distilled liquor...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022£9.99From the author of the bestselling D.C.I. Daley series comes a thrilling new tall tale from Kinloch. It’s December 1968. Having cheated Sandy Hoynes out of a rowing race and navigation certificate when they were young, Dreich MacCallum makes an...
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Hardback | Pub: 22 Jul 2021£30.00The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry’s Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2020£14.99Hailed by some as the most important Scottish poet since Burns, Hamish Henderson lived an epic life against the backdrop of some of the defining social, political and cultural battles – both national and international – of the twentieth century....
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Diary | Pub: 06 Jul 2023£14.99This hardback desk diary is illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides through the seasons. Featuring distinctive full-colour paintings by one of Scotland’s best-loved authors and artists, this exquisite...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£9.99
From Socrates to Arthur Montford, via Bovril, Buckfast and, of course, pies, this is a unique journey through the extraordinary world of Scottish football. Packed with anecdotes and observations, Andy Bollen wallows in a nostalgic haze, a time of...
