Scottish
A Scots Quair is Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic trilogy of novels. Each novel relates a chapter in the life of Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to...
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The folklore of the north-east has provided a rich tapestry for the tales within; from Celtic and Pictish origins meet witches, selkies, smugglers, fairies, monsters, despicable...
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Patrick Paniter was James IV's right-hand man, a diplomatic genius who was in charge of the guns at the disastrous battle of Flodden in September 1513 in which the English annihilated...
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From award-winning Angus Peter Campbell, this is the Gaelic language publication of his newest book, The Girl On The Ferryboat. This is a vividly-evoked Scottish tale of chance...
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'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland...
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Young Donald Peter Gillies, a Lovat scout soldier lies in hospital in Gallipoli in 1916, blinded by the Turks. There he falls in love with his Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise...
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Saints and sorcerers, haunted caves and bloody battles, fairy mounds and forsaken harpers – Argyll is teeming with folk tales. The region has played a key part in the history...
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For many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman MacCaig as a father figure. Months before his death, MacCaig's enigmatic final request to Greig was that he fish for him at the...
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Detective James Avalon is a man in turmoil, he knows he needs to make changes in his life, but what and how? A sudden secondment to the Highlands of Scotland forces his hand.
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James Avalon faces a new menace in the second book in the Avalon series, Auld Clootie.
In Avalon's second major case, change and upheaval within the police forve sees him struggle...
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Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams...
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"I began to think I heard something else than merely the noise of my own footsteps . . . the eerie crunch, crunch, sounded behind me, I was
seized with terror and took to my heels...
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Twelve of Scotland's top crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are gripping, chilling and redemptive.
These incredible authors...
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Peter MacAulay sits down to write his will. The process sets in motion a compulsive series of reflections: a history of his own lifetime and a subjective account of how key events...
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"The Book of St Andrews" juxtaposes poems, stories and memoirs with scant regard to chronological order, but in the confidence that each contribution, lively in its own right,...
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The Breadmakers Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery...
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The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the...
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This generous new selection offers Burns's work as it was first encountered by contemporary readers, presenting the texts in the contexts in which they were originally published...
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In this, George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out an obsession with his home Orkney, its dark and violent...
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Once the prerogative of country dwellers, game is now found in butchers' shops and supermarkets all over the country. Yet despite this, many people are still apprehensive about...
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A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin...
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As the title suggests, this hardback book is a complete guide to all the poetry and songs of Rabbie Burns.
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Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The...
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The eviction of the crofters from their homes between 1792 and the 1850s was one of the cruellest episodes in Scotland's history. In this novel Iain Crichton Smith captures the...
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An experimental novel on a grand scale, beautifully carried through. A Perth minister takes in a traumatised stranger who calls himself 'the son and heir to being lost'. When the...
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DCI Jim Daley is sent from the city to investigate a murder after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland. Far away from urban resources...
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James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated...
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When a senior Edinburgh civil servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch harbour, DCI Jim Daley comes face to face with the murky world of politics. To add to his woes...
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It s December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. Shannon International is one of the world s biggest private...
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As the Second World War nears its end, a man is stabbed to death on the shoreline of Kinloch, in the shadow of the great warships in the harbour.
Many years later, the postman...
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The perfect book for fans of Denzil Meyrick, this volume brings together six short stories, two of which are previously unpublished. These tales range from Jim Daley's early days...
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As a catastrophic virus devastates the Scottish countryside, killing cattle and destroying lives, a body is discovered in a dug-up field. Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming finds...
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