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Alistair Moffat
Bannockburn

Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought …

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Alistair Moffat
Glasgow: A New History

Scotland's largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country.This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From …

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Alistair Moffat
To See Ourselves

Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 195…

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Christine Muir
Orkney Days

This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After her marriage to an islander, Christine Muir went to live on the tiny island of North Ronaldsay, where she and her husb…

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Eilidh Muldoon
My First Scottish 1 2 3

Colorful counting adventure engages young readers as Eilidh Muldoon guides through Scotland's animals.My First Scottish 1 2 3 is a colourful counting book. Eilidh Muldoon's distinctive illustrations guide…

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Eilidh Muldoon
My First Scottish A B C

Eilidh Muldoon guides children through Scotland's imaginative alphabet journey, linking letters to vivid landmarks and creatures.Eilidh Muldoon brings the alphabet colourfully to life in this adventure st…

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Holger Nehring, Michael Penman, Tom Turpie
Heart of Scotland

From pre-Roman times, Stirling was seen as a strategic location because of its position at the crossing of the river Forth. In many accounts it appears as the key link between Britain, Scotland and the wo…

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David O'Donnell
The Heydrich Legacy

In 1942 Police Chief Inspector Rolf Schneider is ordered by Adolf Hitler to investigate the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. During his investigation of Heydrich's secret files he inadvertently discove…

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Richard D. Oram
Where Wind and Water Cleave

Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome environmental history.When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its…

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Agnes Owens
A Working Mother

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

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
Bad Attitudes

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing…

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Agnes Owens
For the Love of Willie

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Peggy's wartime romance unfolds through a hopeful, compassionate lens confronting teenage dilemmas.Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the menta…

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Agnes Owens
Gentlemen of the West

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

A vivid portrait of a 22-year-old bricklayer's life reveals stark, enduring realities.Gentlemen of the West is Agnes Owens' first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the na…

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Agnes Owens
Jen's Party

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

In Jen's Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle's plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town's entire male p…

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Agnes Owens
Like Birds in the Wilderness

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

In the north, a man pursues fortune while wrestling addiction and precarious work.The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed and Mac leaves for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he so…

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Agnes Owens
People Like That

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Lean Tales comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her …

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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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Bill Paterson
Tales from the Back Green

Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir.It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set ag…

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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 t…

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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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