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Agnes Owens
A Working Mother

A Working Mother is a wildly entertaining cautionary tale: while Betty's husband, Adam, broods and drinks (to be matched at times by Betty, just to be sociable) she flirts with their best friend Brendan a…

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Agnes Owens
For the Love of Willie

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills …

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Agnes Owens
Gentlemen of the West

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Gentlemen of the West is Agnes Owens' first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the narrator, a 22-year-old bricklayer whose situation and lifestyle will be immediately ide…

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Agnes Owens
Like Birds in the Wilderness

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed and Mac leaves for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he soon finds himself out in the wilderness, chasing the promise of a job. In the meant…

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Marian Pallister
Argyll Curiosities

In this book Marian Pallister has looked extensively into places, people and events which are curiously layered, and has created a book that is overflowing with enchanting 'curiosities' and local historie…

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Ray Perman
James Hutton

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we …

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Frederick Rea
A School in South Uist

In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorlan…

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Susan Rennie,
The 12 Days o Yule

Take a deep breath and prepare for a journey through all twelve days of Yuletide with a cast of skaters skooshin, lassies birlin, sheep a-shooglin and the all-important five gowden rings.The stunningly be…

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Hugo Rifkind
Rabbits

Rabbits is the much-anticipated, long awaited new novel from columnist Hugo Rifkind. It is a story of drugs, aristocracy, death and disputed inheritance, set in the 1990s - it's Iain Banks meets The Secre…

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Jo Sharp, Val McDermid
This Door of the Seas

The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. It took place on the other side of the world, amid the jungle-coastline at the…

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Ron Shaw
St Cuthbert's Way

This 100k (60 mile) walk was opened in 1996 and has rapidly increased in popularity, with thousands of walkers walking all or parts of it every year. Visiting a number of places closely associated with St…

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Douglas Skelton
The Other Side of Fear

The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers

Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want. Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals, plu…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, but while Miss Brodie manipulates and charms 'her girls' - known as the Brodie Set - wit…

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R. Scott Spurlock
Cromwell and Scotland

This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Analysis of the printed propaganda produced by the Scots and the English makes it …

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Martin Stewart
Loose Threads

Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase. When Dr David Cairney, a politics lecturer, goes missing on the way home from his retirement party, his wife asks ex-boxer and journ…

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Lucy Stewart
The Japanese Garden

At the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventurer Ella Christie returned home from a trip to Japan inspired to build her own Japanese garden.As might be expected from a woman who thought nothing o…

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Frances Stickley,
Fly High, Little Puffling

In the new book by award-winning children's author Frances Stickley, join Little Puffling as he gains the confidence to make his first flight, sure in the knowledge there is always someone there to help h…

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Dougie Strang
The Bone Cave

The Bone Cave is a vivid account of a month-long journey in the Scottish Highlands. Walking and occasionally hitching, Dougie Strang follows a series of folktales to the locations in which they're set, en…

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Alison Stroak, Fiona Shepherd, Jonathan Trew
Glasgow's Greatest Hits

Dive in to Glasgow's vibrant musical heritage with this guide to the people, places and events which have shaped the city's world-renowned music scene. With decades of experience between them, Fiona Sheph…

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Alessandra Thom
Summer Hours

A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story…

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