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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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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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An excellent biography of the author of our dangerously funny fourth Cuckoo Press pamphlet The Quest for Lavishes Ghast (1998). She is clearly better known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ... read more

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark

Frances Wilson

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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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Catalogue of the retrospective at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, with text by the artist.

Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years

Andy Goldsworthy

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Scotland (Fashion Eye)

Alasdair McLellan

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A book of black and white photographs of the steep, rugged moorland on a 6,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands - Kinloch Hourn - and of the careful management of its herd of red deer. ... read more

The Hill

Garlinda Birkbeck

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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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Looks at the history of the celebrated Mackintosh building, including the fires of 2014 and 2018. Many illustrations.

The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art ...

Robyne Calvert

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The Dark Remains

Ian Rankin

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

James Hogg

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Rose Nicolson: Memoir of William Fowler of Edinburgh: student, trader, ...

Andrew Greig

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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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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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From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Outer Hebrides: she and her partner travelled – slowly – by horse and wagon. She gave up music, disillusioned with the pop ... read more

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Vashti Bunyan

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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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The impact of C18th moral philosophers such as Hume and Smith on European art, including that of Cezanne and Monet.

Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art

Duncan Macmillan

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An illustrated history of furniture-making in Scotland from the C16th to the C20th; published by the National Museums Scotland.

Scottish Furniture

Stephen Jackson

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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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This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotl ...

Nan Shepherd

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This intensely lyrical and radical 'memoir' of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist an... read more

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotl ...

Nan Shepherd

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The poet's first twenty years, beginning in 1963 in Dundee: gritty, funny, messy, buoyant. And exquisitely written. He's also a jazz fiend.

Toy Fights: A Boyhood

Don Paterson

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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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After her adventures with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the aftermath of Culloden, Flora MacDonald emigrated to North Carolina, married, and got caught up in the War of Independence. This is an a... read more

Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

Flora Fraser

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The Scottish Highlands are facing climate chaos too, despite being so far north, and its effects are already being felt. Crumley's meditations on the seasons in one volume.

Seasons of Storm and Wonder

Jim Crumley

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From James VI's accession to the English throne: Highland Jacobites, imperial diaspora...

Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present

Murray Pittock

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Weaves tales of his own together with those of his ancient family.

A River Runs Through Me: A Life of Salmon Fishing in Scotland ...

Andrew Douglas-Home

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A powerful second novel from the author of Shuggie Bain: love across the sectarian divide in working-class Glasgow.

Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

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