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#UntitledTwo: Neu! Reekie!
Birlinn GeneralCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50This anthology promises more of the up-and-coming and established names in British poetry, who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill. Many of the w...
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101 Rums to Try Before You Die
Ian BuxtonCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Rum, once the poor relation of the spirit world, has undergone a revival and is no longer seen just as the preferred tipple for tipsy pirates. The ...
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four: New Edition of the Twentieth Century''s Dystopian Masterpiece
George OrwellCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99THE JURA EDITION with new introduction by Alex Massie 'For him Jura was home' - Richard Blair on his father George Orwell 'The book of the twenti...
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A Breath on Dying Embers: A D.C.I. Daley Thriller
Denzil MeyrickCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2019 From the pen of the biggest selling crime writer published in Scotland... When the luxury cruiser, hasti...
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A Country of Eternal Light
Paul DalgarnoCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Margaret Bryce has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. In a place beyond, we join Margaret as she revisits her life, from her Aberdeen pr...
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A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
James HunterCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, the emigration from Skye has occasioned. The vis...
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A Day Like Any Other
Isla DewarCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99You cant change your past. You can only use the experiences you live through to make your future better, wiser. Anna and her best friend George mee...
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A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695: A Late Voyage to St Kilda
Martin MartinCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Sc...
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A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable
Ian CroftonCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From Aald Rock to Zeenty-teenty, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable galli...
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A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey
Jim SillarsCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Jim Sillars, among the last of his generations working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decade...
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A Drop in the Ocean: Lawrence MacEwen and the Isle of Muck
Polly PullarCurrent price €11.83Original price €15.99Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small communities through the colourful anecdotes of Lawrence MacEwe...
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A Far Cry From Kensington
Muriel SparkCurrent price €13.93Original price €16.99After young publishing assistant and war widow Mrs Hawkins crosses swords with writer Hector Bartlett the repercussions are swift. Set in postwar l...
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A Full Back Slower Than Your Average Prop
Ian SmithCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as a full back slower than your average...
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A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems
Birlinn GeneralCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but the...
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A Handsel: New and Collected Poems
Liz LochheadCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Liz Lochhead is one of the countrys leading poets. Her work has paved the way and inspired some of the most inspirational voices writing in Scotlan...
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A History of Scottish Football in 100 Objects: The Mayhem, Mavericks and Magic of the Beautiful Game
Andy BollenCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From Socrates to Arthur Montford, via Bovril, Buckfast and, of course, pies, this is a unique journey through the extraordinary world of Scottish f...
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A Large Measure of Snow: A Tale From Kinloch
Denzil MeyrickCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99It's December 1967, and the town of Kinloch is cut off by heavy snow. With all roads closed, the only way to feed and water the townsfolk is for th...
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A Life in the Hills: The Katharine Stewart Omnibus
Katharine StewartCurrent price €15.52Original price €19.90Katharine Stewart, who died in 2013, was one of Scotland''''s best-loved writers on rural life in the Highlands. A Croft in the Hills, her first bo...
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A Natural History of St. Kilda
David HamiltonCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50In 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, travelled to St Kilda to study the islands flora and fauna and to learn about the now e...
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A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway
Andrew DrummondCurrent price €20.94Original price €26.50In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid ar...
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A Rattle of Bones: A Rebecca Connolly Thriller
Douglas SkeltonCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Longlisted for McIlvanney Scottish Crime Book of the Year In 1752, Seamus aGhlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government m...
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A Richness of Martens: Wildlife Tales from the Highlands
Polly PullarCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 When Les and Chris Humphreys moved to Ardnamurchan 15 years ago, little did they realise they would be...
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A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Karl SabbaghCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast ...
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A School in South Uist: Reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890-1913
Frederick ReaCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99In 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 of...
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