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The Queen’s Lender: Now Available in Paperback ...

Jean Findlay

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A young art student's return to the island of Harris and his crofting parents is the framework for a masterclass in repressed emotion and the weight of expectation. By the author of Shuggie ... read more

John of John

Douglas Stuart

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A love letter to the glens, woods and hills of the north, and a lament for what is being lost to modernity in the dash for clean energy.

Borrowed Land: A Highland Story

Kapka Kassabova

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The osprey conservation efforts at Aigus Field Centre, near Inverness, by the distinguished naturalist.

Osprey

John Lister-Kaye

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Documents the Isle of Jura in the outer Hebrides, where Orwell lived for three years and wrote 1984. Eerie, atmospheric shots.

An Extremely Un-get-atable Place

Craig Easton

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£55.00

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Shares an editor with the 4-vol Letters of Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963

Dan Gunn

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Scotland (Fashion Eye)

Alasdair McLellan

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A re-issue of MH's six-month journey around the Western Isles, illustrated with her watercolours. She lived on the island of Coll for many years, and is the author of the charming Katie Mora... read more

An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey

Mairi Hedderwick

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Taken over three months on South Uist in 1954, this poetic collection of photographs captures the austere allure of life in the Western Isles. Strand's ability to capture the relationship be... read more

Tir Amhurain

Paul Strand

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Short essays from the Scottish poet, and author of the superb essay collections Findings and Sightlines

Cairn

Kathleen Jamie

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ...

James Hogg

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Rose Nicolson: a vivid and passionate tale of 16th Century Scotland ...

Andrew Greig

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Hart began a new life in a white-washed cottage in Wigtown - her Innisfree - while recovering from cancer. There she finds that swimming in a cold sea, nattering with lobster pot men, beekee... read more

Devorgilla Days: finding hope and healing in Scotland’s book tow ...

Kathleen Hart

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Another short novel from the author of the widely admired West, this is set in 1843 on a remote Scottish island.

Clear

Carys Davies

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Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on O... read more

Shadows and Light: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey ...

Alasdair Soussi

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Born in 1833, Watt was a servant from the age of nine; later, she sold her husband's catch from door to door. After the death of most of her male relatives at sea, she was cared for in the C... read more

The Christian Watt Papers: Memoirs of a Fraserburgh Fishwife ...

Christian Watt

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A student vanishes from her Edinburgh doorstep - exactly as described in an unfinished manuscript by a writer who, on closer inspection, turns out to be dead.

Past Lying

Val McDermid

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Prose poetry by Nell Dunn's eco-activist son, who lives as off-grid as possible on a small Scottish island. From a tiny independent press

Burnt Rain

Roc Sandford

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Grimoire: New Scottish Folk Tales

Robin Robertson

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Skeins o Geese

Kathleen Jamie

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Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

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The fourth instalment in the epic tale of the Neilsons, a Scottish family in French service in the 1800s. For fans of Kidnapped or Patrick O'Brian.

The House of Widows

James Buchan

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A Scots Quair: The Mearns Trilogy

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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A stripey-jacketed anthology from Everyman; includes stories by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Muriel Spark, Author Conan Doyle, James Hogg, Margaret Oliphant, Ali Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson,... read more

Scottish Stories

Gerard Carruthers

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The Bonniest Companie

Kathleen Jamie

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Jamie has won the Forward Prize, the Saltire Prize, the Scottish Book of the Year Award and had umpteen shortlistings for each of her slim volumes. Her non-fiction is also wonderful. She is... read more

Selected Poems

Kathleen Jamie

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The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse

Mick Imlah

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From the doyenne of Scottish poets, role model for Kathleen Jamie, Ali Smith and countless others.

A Handsel: New and Collected Poems

Liz Lochhead

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May Day

Jackie Kay

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Independence or Union: Scotland’s Past and Scotland’s Pres ...

T. M. Devine

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The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island ...

Tom Steel

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Unpublished at the author's death in 2003, this book has not previously been available

The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History

Hugh Trevor-Roper

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SCOTLAND’S FIRST SETTLERS

Caroline Wickham-Jones

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Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present

Murray Pittock

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Scotland’s Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora ...

T. M. Devine

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Scotland: A Concise History

Fitzroy Maclean

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