Birlinn Catalogue 2013

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Birlinn Limited was established in 1992,

by Managing Director Hugh Andrew, and is comprised of a number of imprints. Birlinn publishes Scottish interest books, from biography to history, military history, sport and Scottish Gaelic. The name comes from the old Norse word ‘birlinn’, meaning a long boat or small galley used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages.

Polygon publishes literary fiction and poetry, both classic and modern, from Scottish writers such as Robin Jenkins, George Mackay Brown and the author of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, as well as selected music and film titles. Polygon was originally set up by students of Edinburgh University in the late 1960s.

Arena Sport is Birlinn’s sport imprint and is designed for the general trade. The sport books range from football and rugby, to golf and cycling. These books have an international as well as national appeal.

Five or six titles per year are planned for publication. Arena’s first titles were published in June 2013.

John Donald publishes academic books about Scotland.

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THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND A stunning hardback book illustrated with every panel from The Great Tapestry of Scotland, this tells the history detailed in the panels and puts individual events firmly in context. A beautiful gift for anyone with an interest in embroidery, history or art.

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of Scottish history and achievement from the end of the last Ice Age to the 21st century. More than 1,000 volunteer stitchers, led by stitch coordinator Dorie Wilkie, worked for 55,000 hours using 300 miles of wool to create the 160 panels of this extraordinary work of art.

Using a range of embroidery skills and working on Scottish linen, men, women and youngsters from every corner of the country translated Andrew Crummy’s artwork into a colourful, skilful and textural depiction of the history of Scotland and in doing so recorded a remarkable people’s story.

THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND Alistair Moffat Foreword by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 9781780271606 07 November 2013 Price £30.00 Hbk TPS 250x246mm Extent 288pp Illustrations Colour throughout Category Art/History

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This is the second of two complementary books published by Birlinn to celebrate the launch of the Great Tapestry of Scotland, featuring full-colour photographs of each of the completed panels, accompanied by explanatory material about the history behind each.

The companion paperback book contains photographs of the work in its various stages of completion, along with a selection of the finished panels and Andrew Crummy’s designs. Together, these two volumes tell the story of the biggest community arts project ever to have taken place in Scotland.

NEW This is the story behind the making of The Great Tapestry of Scotland – the story of drawing history, finding wools and linens, searching for stitchers, stunning embroidery and a world-record beating work of art.

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of Scottish history and achievement from the end of the last Ice Age to the 21st century. More than 1,000 volunteer stitchers, led by stitch coordinator Dorie Wilkie, worked for 55,000 hours using 300 miles of wool to create the 160 panels of this extraordinary work of art.

Using a range of embroidery skills and working on Scottish linen, men, women and youngsters from every corner of the country translated Andrew Crummy’s artwork into a colourful, skilful and textural depiction of the history of Scotland and in doing so recorded a remarkable people’s story.

THE GREAT TAPESTRY OF SCOTLAND The Making of a Masterpiece Susan Mansfield with Alistair Moffat Foreword by Alexander McCall Smith ISBN 9781780271330 03 September 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 234 x 190mm Extent 128pp Illustrations colour throughout Category Art/History

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‘[T]he most ambitious attempt to capture the past in needle and thread since the Bayeux Tapestry . . . The result is not just visually stunning but intensely moving and occasionally very funny’ – The Times ‘This remarkable teamwork has made Andrew Crummy’s artistic vision a reality, and The Great Tapestry of Scotland is now a gift to the nation’ – Edinburgh Life

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IRON ROAD The Railway in Scotland P.J.G. Ransom ISBN 9781841587288 20 August 2013 Price £20.00 Pbk TPS 250x246mm Extent 336pp Illustrations b/w & colour throughout Category Scottish/Transport

PINK! Lynne Rickards Illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain ISBN 9781780271767 16 April 2013 Price £6.99 Pbk TPS 280x230mm landscape Extent 32pp Illustrations colour throughout

THE TOBERMORY CAT Written and Illustrated by Debi Gliori ISBN 9781780271316 04 July 2013 Price £5.99 Pbk TPS 224x259mm Extent 32pp Illustrations colour throughout Category Childrens’ Fiction

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WAITING FOR THE MAGIC The Photography of Oscar Marzaroli With essays by Anne Marzaroli, Jim Grassie, Robert Crawford and Peter Ross ISBN 9781780271484 03 October 2013 Price £25.00 Hbk TPS 275x218mm Extent 224pp Category Photography

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The story of Scotland’s railways begins in the 18th century, when horses pulled coal wagons along rails of wood. In the Victorian era a national railway network was built, and during the golden age of Edwardian times steam trains carried everything and everybody. The railway’s dominance as a transport network was first challenged by the Depression, but overwhelming competition appeared with the prosperity of the 1960s.

Yet fifty years on, in the present day, passenger numbers and railway mileage are on the increase again, and heritage railways and museums are working hard to preserve Scotland’s railway identity.

What’s a penguin to think when he wakes up pink?!

In the village of Tobermory, on the Scottish island of Mull, lives a very special ginger cat. But once upon a time he didn’t think he was special at all – not like the woolly cats of Loch Ba, the singing cats of Staffa or the fishing cats of Fishnish.

Oscar Marzaroli was Scotland’s most prestigious photographer of the twentieth century. This book celebrates his extraordinary talent with a selection of previously unpublished photographs, including many of his family and friends, as well as the iconic images for which he is renowned. Together they display his consummate technical skill and his innate ability to capture the essence of his subjects, whether they be people or places.

Iron Road is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the Scottish railways. A pleasure for any railway enthusiast, it tells the story of technical developments in their social and cultural context. ‘a classic book . . . no standard-fare journey: it’s first class all the way’ — Scotsman

Patrick wakes up one day to find out he’s turned pink overnight! What will his friends think? Believing none of them will want to play with him anymore, Patrick runs away in search of pink playmates. He crosses the ocean where he finds some flamingos – but will they want to play with him?

Patrick soon learns that friendship is never black and white, but that real friends will accept you whatever.

Lynne Rickards’ book is a heartwarming story of learning to be a different, for children aged between four and six.

But now everyone knows about him.

He’s the cat who has become a legend in his own lifetime by simply being himself. He’s the cat who dances on top of the fish van; the cat who speaks to otters; the cat who drives the big yellow digger; the cat who rides on top of cars. He’s the Tobermory Cat. ‘Gliori’s gentle story is appealing but her clever illustrations steal the show.

Full of detail , allusion and charm they can be returned to time and again.

What an ad for Tobermory – and cats!’

- Scotsman

The book also includes a number of specially commissioned essays.

Anne Marzaroli sketches a biography of her late husband and introduces a selection of his early photographs.

Robert Crawford responds to Marzaroli’s pictures of Glasgow.

Peter Ross examines Marzaroli’s portraits, which display a remarkable empathy with his subjects in their natural surroundings. The late Jim Grassie, who worked with Marzaroli on many film projects, discusses the photographer’s response to the natural environment in conjunction with a series of land and seascapes, which offer a different perspective on Marzaroli’s work.

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SO MUCH WIND The Myth of Green Energy Struan Stevenson Foreword by Bill Jamieson ISBN 9781780271132 21 February 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 192pp Illustrations 8pp colour plates Category Current affairs

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SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE Weighing Up the Economics Gavin McCrone Foreword by Magnus Linklater ISBN 9781780271590 01 August 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 176pp Category Scottish/Politics

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SCOTLAND’S SHAME Why Lockerbie Still Matters John Ashton ISBN 9781780271675 03 October 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Also available Extent 176pp as an eBook Category Politics/Current Affairs

WHO PAYS THE FERRYMAN? The Great Scottish Ferries Swindle Roy Pedersen ISBN 9781780271224 12 September 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk Also available TPS 198x129mm as an eBook Extent 208pp Illustrations 8pp colour plates Category Scottish Transport/ Politics

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Energy security is one of the most pressing issues of the century. Whilst the UK Government has pledged to achieve 20 per cent electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020, the Scottish government has committed to targets five times more ambitious.

In the autumn of 2014 those living in Scotland will face the most important political decision of a lifetime. Whether Scotland becomes an independent state once again, as it was before 1707, or remains within the United Kingdom will have profound consequences for everyone in Britain.

With over 100,000 of its population island dwellers, ferries play a hugely important role in contemporary Scottish life. Yet current levels of ferry services are scandalously inadequate.

The truth is that wind turbines violate the principle of fairness by transferring vast amounts of money from the poor to the rich. They despoil our landscape; they risk plunging us into a devastating energy crisis; they abuse the health and welfare of people and animals; they produce a trickle of electricity at vast cost to the consumer; and they do not even significantly reduce CO2 emissions. In this book, Struan Stevenson evaluates the Scottish Government’s obsession with renewable energy, and looks at alternative sources of power.

A key part of the debate centres around the question of whether Scotland would prosper more or less after independence. How well off are we? Would we have a faster or slower growing economy if we were independent? What currency would we use? What should our energy policy be? Would we continue to be in the EU? In this impartial and thought-provoking book, economist Gavin McCrone addresses these, and many other, questions which are of vital importance in the run up to the referendum.

The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was one of the most notorious acts of terrorism in recent history. Its political and foreign policy repercussions have been enormous, and 25 years after the atrocity in which 270 lost their lives, debate still rages over the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, as well as his controversial release on compassionate grounds by Scotland’s SNP government in 2009.

‘a timely and important book’ — Martin Livermore, Director, Scientific Alliance

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John Ashton argues that the guilty verdict, delivered by some of Scotland’s most senior judges, was perverse and irrational, and details how prosecutors withheld numerous items of evidence that were favourable to Megrahi.

It accuses successive Scottish governments of turning their back on the scandal and pretending that the country’s treasured independent criminal justice system remains untainted. With numerous observers believing the Crown Office is out of control and the judiciary stuck in the last century, politicians must address these problems or their aspirations for Scotland to become a modern European social democracy are bound to fail.

This is an informative and critical analysis of Scotland’s ferry services. It describes the ‘glory days’ of how, from modest beginnings, Scotland once led the world in maritime development. It contrasts the achievements of the past with the failures, waste and inadequacy of much of today’s state-funded ferry provision. Drawing on best practice at home and overseas, it sets out how Scottish ferry services can be revolutionised to be, once again, amongst the best in the world.

‘There is no doubting Pedersen’s grasp of the issues involved . . . In all, a book worthy of serious attention’ – Ileach

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THE POOR HAD NO LAWYERS Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It Andy Wightman

HUBRIS How HBOS Wrecked the Best Bank in Britain Ray Perman Foreword by Alistair Darling

GLORY AND HONOUR The Renaissance in Scotland Andrea Thomas ISBN 9781841588728 07 November 2013 Price £25.00 Hbk TPS 250x246mm Extent 240pp Illustrations colour throughout Category Scottish History

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THE BRITISH A Genetic Journey Alistair Moffat ISBN 9781780270753 07 November 2013 Price £17.99 Hbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 272pp Category History

ISBN 9781780271149 04 April 2013 Also available Price £12.99 Pbk as an eBook 198x129mm Extent 480pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates Category Environmental/Politics

ISBN 9781780271323 01 August 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk Extent 288pp Illustrations 8pp colour plates Category Current affairs

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Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back?

In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain’s oldest commercial bank. Voted ‘most admired bank’, respected by competitors, applauded by investors and trusted by customers, it looked forward to the next 300. Less than 15 years later it was bust, reviled as part of the spectacular collapse of HBOS, the conglomerate it had joined. One of the high-profile victims of the credit crunch, its spectacular fall caused seismic shock waves throughout the financial world.

The Renaissance was the pre-eminent cultural and intellectual movement of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and spread from its home in Italy throughout Europe. For many years it was believed that the Renaissance had no impact in Scotland, but this is a myth. Glory and Honour is the first book to provide a fully illustrated survey of the unique, little-known and remarkable heritage of the Renaissance in Scotland. Renaissance impulses often reached Scotland through intermediaries in other countries, so the Scottish version of Renaissance culture was a hybrid, drawing on multiple influences, adapted to suit the needs of Scottish patrons.

Hidden inside all of us – every human being on Earth – is the story of our ancestry. Printed on our DNA are the origins of our lineages, the time in history and prehistory when they arose, and the epic journeys people have made across the globe.

Andy Wightman, author of the bestselling Who Owns Scotland, updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland to find out how and why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross and from James V to Donald Dewar, land has conferred political and economic power. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference and what are the full implications of the recent debt-fuelled housing bubble? ‘frank, fearless and at times ferocious...a remarkable book’ — Herald ‘compulsive reading’ – Roger Hutchinson ‘superlative’ – Scotsman

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What went wrong? Ray Perman, who has followed the bank since the 1970s, when he was a Financial Times journalist, uncovers the story from documents and dozens of interviews with people at the top in Bank of Scotland and HBOS – from being the bank of choice for the high-rolling Monte Carlo mega-rich to losing £54 billion. It was the worst banking collapse in modern history. This edition has been updated and extended to cover the damning reports from the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. ‘a timely guide to the bank’s spectacular 2008 demise’ — Reuters ‘a powerful story of failure, foolishness and greed’ — Scotsman

The Stewart monarchs and the Scottish aristocracy were poorer than many other princes and nobles but keen to assert their equality in dignity and status. They sought to participate fully in the European mainstream, and saw their cultural patronage as a powerful way to facilitate that aim.

The buildings, books and artefacts of the period tell the story of a vibrant and cosmopolitan culture that was innovative and confident as well as imitative and aspirational.

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Based on exciting new research involving the most wide-ranging sampling of DNA ever made in Britain, Alistair Moffat, author of the bestselling The Scots: A Genetic Journey, shows how all of us who live on these islands are immigrants. The last ice age erased any trace of more ancient inhabitants, and the ancestors of everyone who now lives in Britain came here after the glaciers retreated and the land greened once more. In an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain. Instead of the usual parade of the usual suspects – kings, queens, saints, warriors and the notorious – this is a people’s history, a narrative made from stories only DNA can tell which offers insights into who we are and where we come from.

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THE PICTS A History Tim Clarkson ISBN 9781780271682 06 June 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Also available Extent 240pp as an eBook Illustrations 16pp colour plates Category Scottish History

REISSUE The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they remain shrouded in myth and misconception.

Absorbed by the kingdom of the Scots in the ninth century, they lost their unique identity, their language and their vibrant artistic culture. Amongst their few surviving traces are standing stones decorated with incredible skill and covered with enigmatic symbols – vivid memorials of a powerful and gifted people who have bequeathed no chronicles to tell their story, no sagas to describe the deeds of their kings and heroes. In this book Tim Clarkson pieces together the evidence to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance. ‘a valuable resource’ — Scottish Genealogist

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THE MAKERS OF SCOTLAND Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings Tim Clarkson ISBN 9781780271736 01 August 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk Publication 1 August 2013 TPS 198x129mm

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Extent 256pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates; maps Category Scottish History

JOHN KNOX Rosalind K. Marshall ISBN 9781841587219 18 April 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 256pp Illustrations 16pp b/w plates Category History

THE UNION England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707 Michael Fry

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ISBN 9781780271552 01 August 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 352pp Category Scottish/History

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During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were tribal chiefs, Roman generals or rulers of small kingdoms. Later, after the Romans departed, the initiative was seized by dynamic warrior-kings who campaigned far beyond their own borders. Armies of Picts, Scots, Vikings, Britons and Anglo-Saxons fought each other for supremacy. From Lothian to Orkney, from Fife to the Isle of Skye, fierce battles were won and lost. By AD 1000 the political situation had changed for ever. Led by a dynasty of Gaelic-speaking kings, the Picts and Scots began to forge a single, unified nation which transcended past enmities.

In this best-selling biography, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of one of the Reformation’s central figures.

In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, Michael Fry focuses on the years which led up to the Union of 1707, setting the political history of Scotland and England against the backdrop of war in Europe and the emergence of imperialism.

Untangling truth from mythology, she follows his international career, explaining the issues and beliefs which concerned him so deeply and focusing on his relationship with the opposite sex. The result is a rich and complex portrayal of both sixteenth-century Scotland and Knox, which places him clearly within the context of the change and reformation sweeping the whole of Europe. ‘a rare gift to the reading public’ — International Review of Scottish Studies ‘a pleasure to read . . . refreshing’ — English Churchman

He rejects the long-held assumption that the economy was of overwhelming importance in the Scots’ acceptance of the terms of the Treaty, showing how they were able to exploit English ignorance of and indifference to Scotland to steer the settlement in their own favour.

The implications of this have influenced the dynamics of the Union ever since, and are only being fully worked out in our own time. ‘lively and intelligent’ — Scotsman

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A NEW RACE OF MEN Scotland 1815 - 1914 Michael Fry

THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES Eric Richards

ISBN 9781780271422 03 October 2013 Price £25.00 Hbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 480pp Illustrations 8pp b/w & 8pp colour plates

ISBN 9781780271651 06 June 2013 Price £12.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 512pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates Category History

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ANGELS OF MERCY A Women’s Hospital on the Western Front 1914 - 1918 Eileen Crofton Foreword by Tam Dalyell

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ISBN 9781843410638 26 July 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 336pp

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IN THE FRONT LINE A Doctor in War and Peace Alec Glen ISBN 9781780271309 29 August 2013 Price £16.99 Hbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 272pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates Category Autobiography

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In this book, acclaimed historian Michael Fry goes well beyond the conventional analyses of economy and society to which previous histories have confined themselves. Here the central thread of the story is not steady assimilation to the norms of the United Kingdom but the survival of distinct forms of Scottishness that both derived from an independent past and laid the foundations for the reassertion of nationality in the present time. The emphasis is therefore not on those aspects in which Scotland became more like the rest of Britain – though these are acknowledged and described – rather on the ways in which Scotland remained different.

The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland.

They may have been angels of mercy.

But they were also angels with attitude – real women, with real guts.

This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many ‘attempted’ solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.

This is the little-known story of the gritty and free-spirited women who, in 1914, put aside their fight for the vote to set up a hospital in an abandoned French abbey to treat the appalling injuries sustained on the Western Front.

Uniquely, the hospital was staffed entirely by women – doctors, surgeons, nurses, bacteriologists, radiographers, orderlies and ambulance drivers.

At the outbreak of the First World War, recently qualified young doctor Alec Glen joined the army and served as a medical officer for the duration. Early on he provides a shattering account of the hopeless slaughter at Gallipoli, where he survived almost certain death many times as his companions fell around him. Only 100 men survived of his battalion of 1,000. His later service in the Middle East and Mesopotamia is an astonishing tale of courage and endurance, interwoven with spells of leave, during which the Scot encountered exotic experiences undreamed of back home.

Through detailed new research, particular attention is paid to the development of politics and government in the Victorian era.

Above all Michael Fry points to the condition of Scottish culture, in both its triumphs and its failings, as the key to understanding what made the nation falter in some respects yet in others to survive and at length prosper once again. Throughout, for this exemplary era of Scottish individualism, he relies not on theories and statistics but on the experience of individual Scots men and women to bring out the essential achievement of Scotland’s greatest century to date.

In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of the events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.

‘Eric Richards is a fluent, lucid writer’ — Herald

In the face of many hardships, including opposition from the military and medical establishments, they succeeded in establishing one of the most effective and longest serving frontline military hospitals of the First World War. ‘a remarkable story of women’s achievement . . .’ — Times Literary Supplement ‘beautifully written . . . informed, accessible and finely crafted’ — Herald

After the war Glen became a GP in Govan, one of the poorest areas in Britain, at a time long before the National Health Service.

Preventable illnesses were often a death sentence for old and young alike.

The extremes of poverty and suffering he witnessed brought home to him that he was in the front line once more, but in a different kind of warfare.

‘The memoirs are a fascinating personal history of a period of change’ – Scotsman

The result is a refreshing and very human perspective of a dynamic period of change and progress.

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IF HITLER COMES Preparing for Invasion: Scotland 1940 Gordon Barclay

EMPIRE OF SAND How Britain Made the Middle East Walter Reid

FASCIST SCOTLAND Caledonia and the Far Right Gavin Bowd

A TIME OF TYRANTS Scotland and the Second World War Trevor Royle

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ISBN 9781780270524 04 April 2013 Price £12.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 320pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates

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Between May 1940 and the summer of 1941 the British people expected a German invasion that, had it succeeded, would have enslaved them into the Nazis’ racist war. This period saw an unparalleled effort to prepare the defence of the UK against invasion.

In Scotland, vital Royal Navy bases, nationally important heavy industries, and one of the UK’s key ports were very vulnerable to airborne attack.

At the end of the First World War the victorious powers, Britain, and to a lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were handed to them, to be carved up arbitrarily. New frontiers were devised and alien dynasties imposed on native populations with scant regard to ethnic or sectarian divisions.

Although fascism in Britain is normally associated with England, especially the East End of London – and even then dismissed as a marginal political phenomenon – it did find support north of the border. When fascism crossed the Cheviots, it found itself in a restless part of a multi-nation state, riven by sectarian hatreds.

Throughout the country one of the main ideologies of the first half of the twentieth century found its standardbearers and Scotland provided its own cohort of idealists, fanatics and traitors for extreme racist, nationalist and authoritarian politics.

Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives.

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Although the 1939–45 War is the most written-about war in history, until now there has been no account of the heroic efforts made in those months to prepare Scotland for the inevitable invasion, and how the defences were intended to be used. This book tells that story against the wider history of the period and its people, and describes what was built, and what now survives.

‘This is a book of great quality’ – Casemate

How far was Britain to blame for the resulting instability, the tensions in the region that threaten the twenty-first century? Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain’s role in the creation of Iraq and Jordan, the establishment of a Zionist state, and a whole-scale redrawing of the Middle Eastern map that left Jews and Arabs locked in confrontation. Covering the period from the early twentieth century to the upheaval after the Second World War, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why the Middle East is as it is or how it is likely to develop. A preface to this new edition links that narrative to continuing developments of the Arab Spring.

‘Reid is judicious; his very capable prose just begs to be read’ — Michael Nye, Scotsman

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In this book Gavin Bowd relates a fascinating and little-known part of Scottish history which reveals some uncomfortable truths which are bound to stimulate debate even now. ‘a thorough and well-researched social, political and cultural study that is truly national in scope’ — Scotland on Sunday

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Throughout the conflict the country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war equipment and reinforcements, for conducting naval and aerial operations and for training regular and specialist forces. The role played by women was also essential to the war effort: for the first time they were conscripted and worked on the land, in forestry and in munitions factories. In addition to the important military aspects – including the exploits of the Army’s renowned 15th Scottish, 51st Highland and 52nd Lowland Divisions in Europe and North Africa and the role played by the RAF and the Royal Navy from Scottish bases – Scotland was also vital as an industrial power house and acted as the nation’s larder.

Based on previously unseen archives in the National Archives of Scotland, A Time of Tyrants is the first comprehensive history of the unique part played by Scotland and the Scots in the global war to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. ‘finely observed . . . an accessible and rigorous history of Scotland’s war’ — Scotsman

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FLORA CELTICA Plants and People in Scotland William Milliken and Sam Bridgewater ISBN 9781780271699 01 August 2013 Price £20.00 Pbk TPS 250x246mm Extent 328pp Illustrations Colour photography Category Natural History/Reference

A SEASON IN STRATHGLASS John Fowler ISBN 9781780271576 26 July 2013 Price £8.99 Pbk Also available TPS 200x148mm as an eBook Extent 176pp Illustrations 8pp colour plates Category Scottish/Local History

ARGYLL Land of Blood and Beauty Mary McGrigor Foreword by The Duke of Argyll ISBN 9781780270715 30 August 2013 Price £10.99 Pbk TPS 248x178mm Extent 116pp

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THE HISTORY OF ST KILDA Kenneth Macaulay Introduction by Roger Hutchinson ISBN 9781780271217 02 May 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 160pp Category Scottish History

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Flora Celtica: Plants and People in Scotland documents the evolving relationship between the Scots and their environment from the Stone Age to the present day. Based on a mixture of detailed research and information provided by the public, it explores the remarkable range of ways that native plants have been, and continue to be, used in Scotland. The information is presented in a clear and accessible format and is laced with quotations, illustrations, case studies and practical tips. This book covers the complete spectrum of plant uses, addressing their diverse roles in our diet, healthcare, culture, housing, language, environment, crafts, and much more. It is a book to delight, inspire and inform.

Strathglass is a place of craggy hills, ancient pinewoods and many waters.

John Fowler has made numerous journeys there throughout the years, ranging widely and getting to know its people well. He has accompanied deer stalkers on the hill, joined foresters, naturalists and ecologists in the field, fishermen on loch and river, wandered among the majestic pinewoods of the Caledonian forest, and trekked across mountainous terrain in all weathers. Among the many remarkable characters he has come to know are Sister Petra Clare, the hermit nun whose fame as a maker of lustrous icons has spread far and wide; Stuart the wood craftsman, short of stature, who lives in the woods in a little house like a hobbit’s he built himself, a cabinet of delights; old ‘Dunky Affric’ and his son ‘Johnny Affric’, skilled stalkers in a long family tradition; Dennis the peerless fishing gillie with an endless fund of fishing tales – these and many more, including a handful of wealthy landowners, one of whom, a rare visitor, is a man of mystery to the locals. In this book John Fowler offers an insightful and affectionate portrait of this captivating land and its people.

Argyll is one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland, and has played a significant role in the story of the country over a period of thousands of years. Its great names, deeds and institutions resonate through the annals of Scottish history.

As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination for travellers from mainland Britain and beyond. The unique way of life and customs of its inhabitants has generated an enormous amount of literature over a period of hundreds of years. Kenneth Macaulay’s book is one of the most significant works ever written about the islands, and is a description of what he saw there on his visit of 1763, at which time the island population had dwindled to just 88.

‘a cornucopia of Caledonian plant lore, a true encyclopaedia botanica’ — Daily Mail ‘an outstanding achievement . . . imaginative and entertaining’ — Plant Life

In this book, Mary McGrigor, who has lived in Argyll for many years, brings the past alive in a fascinating account which not only introduces the history, but also describes the physical remains which are Argyll’s direct links with its past, from pre-Christian and Medieval sculpture to churches, great castles and houses. She also explores the industry of the area, from farming and forestry to fishing and whisky distilling, and introduces the main towns.

Illustrated with spectacular, specially commissioned photography, this book captures Argyll’s inexplicable magic, which continues to cast its spell over those who know and love the area; it is also a magnificent introduction for people yet to be enthralled by this ‘land of blood and beauty’.

In addition to giving vivid descriptions of the islanders themselves and their living conditions, Macaualay also offers a huge amount of information on the animals and birds found there – the sheep and cattle, and above all the wildfowl, which were used for a huge variety of purposes, including oil, shoes and medicine as well as food. ‘a hugely important piece of social history’ — Scottish Field

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ARRAN A History Thorbjørn Campbell ISBN 9781780271101 04 April 2013 Price £10.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 306pp Illustrations 16pp b/w Category Local History

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THE WEST HIGHLAND WAY THE OFFICIAL GUIDE Bob Aitken and Roger Smith

LOST INVERNESS Inverness’s Lost Architectural Heritage Norman S. Newton

LOST DUNDEE Charles McKean and Patricia Whatley with Kenneth Baxter

ISBN 9781780271156 05 July 2013 Price £16.99 Pbk TPS 220x136mm Extent 176pp Illustrations colour throughout

ISBN 9781841588742 07 November 2013 Price £14.99 Pbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 224pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates

ISBN 9781780271064 22 August 2013 Price £14.99 Pbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 296pp Illustrations b/w throughout

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Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure house as well as an island of stunning natural beauty.

Its history stretches back more than 5,000 years to the great stone circles of Machrie. Early Christian hermits, Vikings and even King Arthur have all left traces in Arran place-names.

Opened in 1980, the West Highland Way was Scotland’s first long distance route and remains the most popular, with more than 15,000 walkers tackling it each year. It runs from Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, to Fort William. The 152km route passes along the east of Loch Lomond, the largest expanse of fresh water in Britain, and across Rannoch Moor, Scotland’s grandest wilderness, through some of the finest scenery of mountain and stream, woodland and moorland, that Scotland has to offer. This tenth edition of the official guide has been revised and updated to include recent modifications to the route, is accompanied by a full-colour folding map and packaged in a practical plastic wallet.

Lost Inverness, using many images which have never before been published, explores the lost architectural heritage of the capital of the Highlands. The list of vanished buildings and streets is a long one.

The medieval town was gutted by our mid-Victorian ancestors in a frenzy of redevelopment, without a trace of sentimentality, and in the process many fine public buildings were created.

Lost Dundee brings the second city of renaissance Scotland back to life through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, showing the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. It illustrates Dundee’s transition into a major Georgian town at the centre of the flax trade between St Petersburg and the USA, with the development of major public buildings a result of the influx of wealth into the region. The book goes on to examine Dundee’s next transition into the jute capital of the world. Its identity was transformed by the arrival of railways, which separated the town from the sea, and by the great mills and factories which engulfed it on both sides. The pressures upon medieval Dundee proved so great that in 1871 the process of replacing it with grandiose Victorian boulevards began.

The island was repeatedly caught up and devastated in the savage dynastic struggles of medieval Scotland, playing an important part in Robert the Bruce’s struggle for Scottish independence.

Later, the application of crude freemarket ideology during the Agricultural Revolution led to widespread misery in the Clearances in Arran and exaggerated the suffering of the people in the Irish (and Scottish) Potato Famine of 1845.

After these traumas, however, Arran settled down through an increasingly stable mixture of agriculture and tourism in the 19th and 20th centuries, and in the 21st looks forward to a prosperous future.

In this book, Thorbjørn Campbell gives an original, fascinating and comprehensive account of Arran’s long and eventful history, and also includes a selection of traditional Arran songs and stories. ‘this book is a must-have’ — Arran Voice

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‘If the objective of a guide book is to impart essential information, then this guide achieves that and famously; minute directional detail, location of campsites, bunkhouses, hostels, huts and bothies, services and supplies, equipment, training and preparation, countryside code, even a map... But this guide exceeds that purpose. It is an evocation of all that is best about Scotland and its countryside’ – Bruce Sandison, Herald

Sadly, the post-war ‘improvements’ in the town centre, especially in the 1960s, have left an embarrassing legacy of architectural blight.

Fortunately many fascinating old photographs and drawings survive, allowing us to celebrate much of what has been lost. This book draws on the resources of Highland archives, libraries and museums to create a memorable record of a missing urban landscape, from the speculative sites of Pictish forts and Macbeth’s castle, to Queen Mary’s house and the old suspension bridge below Inverness Castle, itself blown up by the Jacobites in 1746 and replaced by the 1830s prison and courthouse.

This book will appeal to all who know the town of Inverness, whether as natives or visitors, and to exiles everywhere, as it revives memories of shops, offices and public buildings now replaced by a homogenised streetscape.

The final section illustrates the changes wrought in the twentieth century with the death of jute and its replacement as the city’s major employer by tertiary education. This book draws particularly upon the rich visual history sources of Charles Lawson’s drawings of old Dundee in the Central Library, the DC Thomson photographic collection, and the University of Dundee Archives.

Essential to the understanding of this constantly re-generating city, this book contains 150 drawings, photographs and plans of Dundee.

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HARPOON AT A VENTURE Gavin Maxwell ISBN 9781780271804 12 September 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Also available Extent 336pp as an eBook Illustrations 32pp b/w plates, maps Category Biography/Memoir

THE GRAND DESIGNER Third Marquess of Bute Rosemary Hannah ISBN 9781780271347 04 July 2013 Price £14.99 Pbk Also available TPS 234x156mm as an eBook Extent 448pp Illustrations b/w and colour plate sections

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LIFE CYCLE A Bike Ride Round Scotland (and Back to Childhood) Gary Sutherland

ISBN 9781780271392 19 November 2013 Price £9.99 Hbk TPS 198x129mm Illustrations b/w line

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A shark fishery based on the tiny Hebridean island of Soay was the beginning of Gavin Maxwell’s enduring love affair with the west coast of Scotland. This, his first book, tells the whole story – the challenge and drama of the shark hunt, the development of catching techniques and equipment, the men who worked with him and some of the frustrations of starting a new enterprise in post-war Scotland.

Every chapter is packed with action and anecdote. In each there are also beautifully observed descriptions of sky, sea and the individual islands of the Hebrides as well as their wildlife – from gannets, puffins, Manx shearwaters and fulmars to seals, dolphins and whales.

When the third Marquess of Bute (1847–1900) met the renowned Gothic designer William Burges it marked the start of a lifetime’s collaboration with architects and artists, producing work ranging from the High Victorian Gothic exuberance of Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch to the ostentation of Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute and the sumptuous restoration of the Renaissance Falkland Palace. This fascinating biography tells the story of a rich eccentric, whose learning, insight and kindness produced extraordinary results in architecture and life, a man who combined being amongst the richest men of the age with artistic patronage of an almost incomprehensible scale.

Cats have always had a special appeal to poets – they exhibit so many human attributes, not least that characteristic Scottish trait, thrawnness. According to legend, the Scots were the first northern people to keep cats (Fergus I of Scotland is said to have brought one from Portugal in the fourth century BC), and Scots have taken cats to their hearts ever since.

A casual conversation between Gary Sutherland and his brother Stewart about going on a bike ride leads to an extraordinary trip in which they travel the length and breadth of Scotland.

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This anthology of over 60 poems explores the relationship between people and felines – from Henryson’s 15th-century account of ‘Gib Hunter, our Jolie Cat’, through 18th century Aesopian tales, 19th-century catand-mouse tussles to more modern depictions of this domestic yet mysterious animal by poets such as Alastair Reid, who explore the ambivalent side of ‘the tiger who eats from the hand’.

In order to recapture some of the magic of childhood years spent cycling around their home town of Hopeman on the Morayshire coast, the Sutherland brothers – older but none the wiser – set off from the back gate of the house they grew up in on a journey of a thousand miles. From the mountains of the Highlands to the traffic-snarled streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow, they ate up Scotland on two wheels and became boys again, pedalling for all they were worth on a road trip of a lifetime that brought pain and laughter in equal measure.

Life Cycle is the story of their journey.

A heart-warming book about bikes and brotherhood, it is also a humorous and keenly-observed account of the places and people they encountered along the way.

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GLEN LYON Kenneth Steven ISBN 9781780271774 19 September 2013 Price £7.99 TPS 198x129mm Extent 160pp Category Fiction

THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL A Poem Sir Walter Scott ISBN 9781780271859 18 June 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 112pp Category Poetry/Literature

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THE SPIRIT OF SUCCESS How to Connect Your Heart to Your Head in Work and Life Norman Drummond ISBN 9781780271569 16 May 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 200x148mm Extent 256pp Category Self-help/Business

THE GLASGOW CURSE William Lobban ISBN 9781780271262 19 November 2013 Price £9.99 Pbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 288pp Category True Crime

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What is the real story behind the young man who comes to Glen Lyon and begins building a house with his own hands? It’s only when Somerled Stewart comes down after the winter to the village and sets eyes on Anna, the daughter of the blacksmith, that the mists begin to clear. As he longs to build a perfect world in wood and stone, so he yearns also to create a flawless happiness with Anna. But when he discovers that she will have a child, fears from his past return to haunt him and jeopardize everything he has striven so hard to make.

One of Sir Walter Scott’s most celebrated and accessible works, The Lay of the Last Minstrel was a huge publishing phenomenon when it first appeared in 1802, with six editions appearing in three years and sales of 27,000 in a decade. Its impact on Border tourism was vast, as countless people, moved by Scott’s evocative description of the moonlit Melrose Abbey, flocked to the area. Painters too were inspired by the scene, and such was its fame that even prime minister William Pitt recited sections from it in front of dinner guests.

Who are you? Why are you living and working in the way that you are? What might you yet become and do with your life?

This chilling and disturbing memoir tells the story of one of Glasgow’s most notorious criminals. In his own words, William Lobban tells how he was born in Exeter Prison to a violent, schizophrenic mother.

Glen Lyon is a powerful story about damaged men and women, and the transformative power of love in healing brokenness.

Told by an ageing minstrel to Ann, Duchess of Buccleuch in return for hospitality at Newark Castle, The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a powerful and dramatic tale concerning love, murder and kidnapping. A strong supernatural element lies at its heart, making it one of the most significant gothic tales ever written.

‘a poetic voice of great sensitivity’ — Alexander McCall Smith

The answer to these three fundamental questions lie at the heart of this revolutionary guide to changing the way we live and work. If we work with our heart as well as our head, we can get beyond simply functioning to realise our true potential. We will discover the things in life which make us feel whole, excited, creative and motivated. In touch with our humanity, we will become better leaders too – more inspirational, more visionary, more understanding. Introducing us to the invaluable principles and practices which can redefine our lives – as they have countless others – Norman Drummond gives meaning and purpose back to our working lives – and connect us to the true spirit of success. ‘an important guiding influence for all of us’ — Sir Terry Wogan

Aged only 15 he masterminded a daring break-in to a Glasgow pub, and many years of armed robberies, dealing class A drugs and gang fights followed.

When he wasn’t causing mayhem on the streets, Lobban was serving terms in various young offenders’ institutions and prisons, where he was involved in some of the most serious prison riots of recent years.

In his criminal career Lobban became closely associated with the infamous Paul Ferris, who was later to incriminate him as the murderer of fellow gangster Arthur Thompson Jr. Police also believed that Lobban was the man behind the brutal double killing of Bobby Glover and Joe ‘Bananas’ Hanlon, but none of these charges was made to stick.

Finally released from prison in 1998, Lobban decided to walk away from a life of crime, but at first it proved impossible for him to break the way of life that had moulded him, and only in recent years has he found a measure of peace and stability. In this searing exposé of the Glasgow underworld he reveals the true facts behind those crimes which he really committed, and those of which he is falsely accused.

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CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE Scotland’s Deadliest Drugs War Russell Findlay ISBN 9781780271637 07 March 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 256pp Illustrations 8pp b/w plates Category True Crime

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THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS The Greatest Strikers Scotland Never Had Tom Maxwell Introduction by Denis Law

IN COLOURS GREEN AND WHITE A Post-War History of Hibs: Volume Two John Campbell Foreword by Pat Stanton

ISBN 9781780271743 19 September 2013 Price £14.99 Hbk TPS 234x156mm

ISBN 9781841589961 19 November 2013 Price £25.00 Pbk TPS 234x156mm

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Scotland’s deadliest gang war of a generation – the Daniel family versus the Lyons – was sparked by a cocaine theft from a house party which unleashed a decade of murderous violence. Devastation ensued... beatings, slashings, abductions and torture. Caught in the crossfire were brave parents in Milton, Glasgow, who opposed their community centre being used as a taxpayer-funded gang hut by the Lyons. Against the odds, they won their six-year battle which exposed a murky nexus between police officers, politicians and the underworld. This is the explosive story of how the Daniel– Lyons feud engulfed a community and spread from the mean streets into the corridors of power.

With a total of more than 500 goals in careers that saw them turn out for the likes of Hibernian, St Mirren, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Torino, Joe and Gerry Baker are two of the greatest strikers Scotland never had.

While Liverpool-born Hibs legend Joe became the first man to make his England debut having never played in the English league, his US-born brother Gerry, a hero of St Mirren’s Scottish Cup-winning side of 1959, was the first top-flight European footballer to turn out for the USA. Even though he spoke with a broad Scottish accent, Joe was in Alf Ramsey’s initial squad for the 1966 World Cup. With unprecedented access to the Baker family archives, including contributions from Gerry Baker, before he died in August 2013, and the late Joe’s son Colin, The Fabulous Baker Boys is a unique tale of Scotland’s most celebrated sporting siblings and contains exclusive interviews with the likes of Denis Law, Lawrie Reilly, John Robertson, Alex Young, Pat Stanton, Bob Wilson and George Eastham.

The days of the ‘Famous Five’ and League Championship successes may have begun to fade in the memory of Hibs fans but the period that followed brought with it some outstanding milestones in the history of the club.

As pioneers in Europe it was always something special when the team ran out under the floodlights at Easter Road to face yet more European opposition, and on a number of memorable nights the men in green and white rose majestically to the occasion – whether the opposition be Italian, German, Portuguese or English, with giants such as Napoli, Sporting Lisbon, Hamburg and Liverpool all leaving Edinburgh empty handed.

With recollections of a host of legends at Easter Road from Pat Stanton and Gordon Rae to Des Bremner, Alex Edwards, Jimmy O’Rourke, Ally McLeod, Alan Rough and the mercurial genius of George Best, In Colours Green and White continues John Campbell’s epic historic trilogy with both style and colour.

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HEBRIDEAN DESK DIARY 2014 Mairi Hedderwick ISBN 9781780271248 Price £12.99 (inc VAT) TPS 230x170mm Hbk Extent 128pp Illustrations full colour throughout Category Stationery

HEBRIDEAN POCKET DIARY 2014 Mairi Hedderwick ISBN 9781780271255 Price £7.99 (inc VAT) TPS 156x110mm Hbk Extent 128pp Illustrations full colour throughout Category Stationery Featuring distinctive full-colour paintings by one of Scotland’s best-loved authors and artists, these exquisite stationery items are a wonderful celebration of the extraordinary natural beauty of the Hebrides.

The paintings have been collected over the past forty years and show the changing faces of the landscapes.

Mairi’s sketches range across many of the isles from Arran to Tiree, expertly capturing the essence of these beautiful and diverse islands.

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THE SCOTTISH SALMON BIBLE Claire Macdonald Illustrated by Bob Dewar

THE ARBROATH SMOKIE BIBLE Iain R. Spink Illustrated by Bob Dewar

ISBN 9781780271811 03 October 2013 Price £4.99 Pbk TPS 156x111mm Extent 128pp Illustrations b/w line drawings throughout Category Food & Drink

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Due to its high protein content, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D, salmon is one of the most nutritious fish available. Award-winning chef Claire Macdonald demonstrates the enormous versatility of salmon in forty mouth-watering recipes. Hot-smoked salmon, cold-smoked salmon, salmon fillets and gravlax (salmon cured with sugar, salt and dill) all feature, together with a huge range of imaginative accompaniments, from beetroot, cheese and cream to bananas, tomatoes, garlic and prosciutto.

The Arbroath Smokie is one of Scotland’s best loved traditional fish delicacies. Unlike its famous fishy relatives, Finnan Haddies and Loch Fyne kippers, Arbroath Smokies are uniquely hot-smoked, making them ready to eat straight from the smoker.

Attitudes to food and cooking have undergone a radical transformation in recent years, and the concept of using local produce has revolutionised the culinary world. Nowhere has this been taken up more enthusiastically than in Scotland, which boasts a vast and varied assortment of home-grown produce, including cheese, fish, game and vegetables. Catherine Brown’s acclaimed Scottish Cookery was one of the first books to highlight the richness and diversity of Scotland’s local larder, explaining how to get the best out of such ingredients in hundreds of mouthwatering and imaginative recipes. This new edition features all the original recipes which sealed the book’s reputation as the leading Scottish cookery book, as well as many new dishes, fascinating culinary anecdotes and practical information on sourcing Scottish produce.

In 1975 the last surviving Clyde Puffer was found derelict in Whitby Harbour. It was lovingly restored and now plies up and down the West Coast of Scotland every summer, carrying thousands of passengers on an idyllic cruise through some of the finest scenery on earth.

Part of the experience which has drawn Puffer enthusiasts back again and again are the delicious meals prepared for them in the tiny galley, which has no electricity but limitless supplies of boiling water – as befits a steam vessel! Mandy Hamilton and David Hawson have had the inspired idea of combining the wonderfully varied recipes that have been cooked on board over the years with stunning photography of unforgettable land and seascapes, and with David’s exuberant paintings of food, fish, flowers, fauna and the wonderful Puffer itself. The result is a unique cookbook that captures the magic of the Clyde and the Hebrides.

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The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible ISBN 9781841589084 Price £4.99 Pbk TPS 156x111mm Extent 128pp

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In this book, Iain R. Spink, whose family have been involved in this traditional way of cooking haddock for five generations explores its enormous versatility in 30 mouth-watering recipes for all occasions.

SCOTTISH COOKERY Catherine Brown ISBN 9781780271088 04 July 2013 Price £12.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 496pp Illustrations b/w line art throughout Category Food & Drink

THE PUFFER COOKBOOK Mandy Hamilton and David Hawson

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ISBN 9781780271040 04 July 2013 Price £14.99 Hbk TPS 234x190mm Extent 160pp Illustrations Colour throughout Category Food & Drink

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THE CRACK The Best of Glasgow Humour Michael Munro

THE GLASGOW SMILE An A–Z of the Funniest City on Earth Allan Brown

WORLD WAR I Scottish Tales of Adventure Allan Burnett

ISBN 9781780271828 03 October 2013 Price £5.99 Pbk Also available TPS 198x129mm as an eBook Extent 176pp llustrations Cartoons throughout Category Scottish/Humour

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Glaswegians have always enjoyed a good laugh, and the home-grown variety best of all. This new and expanded edition of Michael Munro’s best-selling book is a hilarious compendium of Glasgow humour. In addition to classics that never fail to amuse, it also features new jokes and stories.

No city matches Glasgow’s contribution to world comedy. New York and London come close but, as Allan Brown observes in this encyclopaedic survey, each of those draws in talent from thousands of miles around. The humour of Glasgow, meanwhile, is strictly home-grown – a mirror, rather than a window, in which Glaswegians ‘see’ their tumultuous home. Since the start of the 20th century the city by the Clyde has expressed this restless, unyielding spirit in a torrent of irrepressible wit, adored for its confrontational and uncompromising character.

World War I: Scottish Tales of Adventure is a gripping collection of true-life stories from the battlefields of the First World War. It recounts the terrible struggle for survival in muddy trenches where young soldiers dodged bullets, poison gas and explosive shells while waiting for the order to go over the top and face the enemy. It brings to life the thrills and spills of the Royal Flying Corp, where airmen flew daring reconnaissance missions under heavy fire. It tells of brave doctors and nurses who treated the wounded in makeshift wards in tents amid the bombs and gunfire. These stories of excitement, heartache, heroism and victory, all based on personal diaries, letters and memoirs, bring to life a variety of Scottish war stories from the Western Front, Gallipoli and Africa in a way that will leave young readers informed, moved and inspired.

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THE COMPLETE PATTER Michael Munro ISBN 9781780271460 03 October 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 224pp Illustrations Cartoons throughout Category Scottish Humour Bic code WHL, GBC

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From the Panopticon Theatre of Victorian times to the contemporary comedy of Kevin Bridges – by way of Billy Connolly, Ivor Cutler, Bill Forsyth, John Byrne, The Steamie, Susan Calman, Francie and Josie and countless others – Glasgow has forged a formidable reputation for no-holdsbarred humour. Fittingly, The Glasgow Smile combines biography, analysis and anecdote to capture the raw levity of a city described by novelist William McIlvanney as ‘a 24-hour cabaret’.

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THE PEOPLE’S SCULPTOR The Life and Art of William Lamb (1893–1951) John Stansfeld Foreword by Duncan Macmillan ISBN 9781780271620 Also available 26 September 2013 as an eBook Price £14.99 Pbk TPS 240x190mm Extent 208pp Category Art Illustrations Integrated b/w; 16pp colour section

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Tracing the life and work the life of Scottish sculptor William Lamb (1893– 1951) this is a story of indomitable will and irrepressible creativity. The son of an alcoholic father and a survivor of the ‘lost generation’ who came of age in 1914, it was with courage and determination that Lamb overcame the obstacles life put in his path. Traumatised in the trenches at Passchendaele during the First World War and blighted by depression, Lamb was also severely wounded in his right hand. With characteristic resolve he retrained with his left hand – at Edinburgh College of Art and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Despite the uncertainty of an art market rocked by world war, Lamb established his reputation in Montrose with sculptures of the townspeople and fishermen of east Scotland. The Second World War dried up his supplies of materials, so he turned to wood carving and, when death finally put an end to his creativity, he left a large collection of his artwork as a legacy to the Scottish people.

Do you have a baldy clue as to who the bears and junglies are? Confused by the thought of some cheekywatter from your cargo? Confused? You need this book. Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularising their city’s dialect, universally known as the ‘patter’. This book is the most extensive collection of this rich and expressive language ever made. ‘superbly creative’ — William McIlvanney

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VA VA FROOME The Remarkable Rise of Chris Froome David Sharp

DENIS LAW King and Country Alex Gordon Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson

ISBN 9781780271293 16 May 2013 Price £7.99 Pbk Extent 256pp TPS 198x129mm Illustrations 16pp colour plates Category Sport

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BRADLEY WIGGINS Tour de Force John Deering

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THE PROMISED LAND Manchester United’s Historic Treble Daniel Harris ISBN 9781909715059 03 October 2013 Price £12.99 Pbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 256pp Illustrations 16pp colour plates

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On 21 July 2013 Chris Froome made history as the second British cyclist to win the Tour de France – in the 100th edition of the world’s most famous bike race – and the first ever African-born rider to wear the coveted maillot jaune on the top step of the podium in Paris.

Rising from an inner city background, abandoned by his procyclist father as a toddler, Bradley Wiggins became a prodigious talent. World Junior Champion, World Champion and Olympic Champion were all titles that came his way at a startlingly young age, but what he really wanted was success on the road. ‘Wiggo’s’ reinvention on the path to becoming Britain’s first Tour de France winner in over a hundred years of racing is one of sport’s most uplifting and inspiring stories.

Denis Law is undoubtedly Scottish football’s favourite son. He is joint top record scorer for his country with an impressive strike rate of 30 goals in 52 games and scored in the famous 3–2 win over world champions England at Wembley in 1967. As well as his prolific strike rate, he was also part of the Scotland team that won their way through to the 1974 World Cup Finals in West Germany – the first time the Scots had reached the finals in 16 years.

In April 1956 and in April 2011, Ken Venturi and Rory McIlroy each carried commanding leads of four shots into the final day of the US Masters at Augusta National. The green jacket was theirs for the taking, but in their final rounds, both men self-destructed, each shooting 80 over their final 18 holes. For each player the collapse was complete and damning.

Froome’s path into the elite ranks of road racing – from mountain biking alongside wild animals on the dusty roads of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to the giddy heights of the Tour de France – has been unlike any other in the annals of the sport. Born in Nairobi to British parents he was educated in South Africa, but abandoned his university degree to take up a professional cycling contract in Europe.

Incredibly, within two years he’d signed for cycling’s biggest team, Sir Dave Brailsford’s Team Sky, finished second overall in the Vuelta a España, and was instrumental in helping teammate Bradley Wiggins claim Britain’s first ever Tour de France title in 2012. At the turn of 2013 Froome superseded Wiggins as Sky’s team leader and went on to win four out of the five stage races he entered, including the prestigious Critérium du Dauphiné, before dominating the 2013 Tour de France on a relentless pursuit of the ultimate prize in cycling.

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In this captivating and insightful narrative, Wiggins’ old friend and colleague John Deering sets this remarkable story against the backdrop of Wiggins’ crushing Tour victory, his races along the thousands of kilometres of French tarmac, telling the tale of his brutal procession from Liege to Paris in counterpoint to his fascinating life. From a Kilburn council estate to the Champs Elysees via the Olympics, Paul Weller and the world’s most glorious sideburns, the legend of Bradley Wiggins is unravelled like never before.

‘The greatest British cyclist of all time, I have no qualms about saying that. One of the top British sportsmen, also’ – Chris Boardman, Olympic gold medallist and BBC Sport summariser, commenting after Wiggins’ gold medal triumph at the Olympics

In this unique portrait of Denis Law, which is the first book solely devoted to his illustrious international career, Alex Gordon interviews a vast array of former teammates, including Willie Henderson, Davie Hay, John Greig, Pat Crerand, Tommy Gemmell, and international opponents such as Gordon Banks, George Best and Bobby Charlton.

‘He was the finest player that Scotland has ever produced and one of the greatest the world has ever seen. He was my idol as a player’ – Sir Alex Ferguson

Remarkably, after their shattering losses at Augusta, both men found salvation in the US Open at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.

Liam Hayes brilliantly pits the incredible struggles and victories of perhaps the single most naturally talented golfer from the 1950s and ’60s against the most naturally talented golfer of today. Masters of Men uniquely, and dramatically, brings Venturi and McIlroy together in time, teeing off side by side, walking the same fairways, and facing the greatest challenges of their golfing lives.

Over 50 years apart, Venturi and McIlroy experienced extremes of fortune, losing and winning on a scale seldom witnessed in sport. This is their extraordinary story.

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BEHIND THE LIONS Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions Stephen Jones, Tom English, Nick Cain and David Barnes An Official Licensed Product of the British & Irish Lions ISBN 9781909715127 Also available 19 September 2013 as an eBook Price £19.99 Hbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 448pp Illustrations 32pp col & b/w plate section Category Sport

MASTERS OF MEN Ken Venturi, Rory McIlroy and One Epic Golf Journey Liam Hayes

WHITE GOLD England’s Journey to Rugby World Cup Glory Peter Burns

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JEWEL IN THE GLEN Gleneagles, Golf and the Ryder Cup Ed Hodge Foreword by Jack Nicklaus ISBN 9781909715028 22 August 2013 Price £25.00 Hbk TPS 250x246mm Extent 336pp

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For 125 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a peerless emblem in world sport. This unique account of the best from the four Home Nations examines every tour in the Lions’ history, including the victorious 2013 tour to Hong Kong and Australia, told in the players’ words.

Uniquely, it pits the incredible struggles and victories of perhaps the single most naturally talented golfer from the 1950s and ’60s (Ken Venturi, US Open champion, 1964) against the game’s most naturally talented golfer of today (Rory McIlroy, US Open champion, 2011).

Behind the Lions sees four esteemed rugby writers from each of the Home Nations delve to the heart of what it means to be a Lion, interviewing a vast array of former and current players to uncover the passion, pride and exhilaration experienced when wearing the famous red jersey. It is a tale of heart-break and ecstasy, humour and poignancy that is at once inspirational, moving and utterly compelling. This is the story of the British & Irish Lions… in their own words.

It puts them on the same tee boxes, on the same greens, on the same day.

White Gold is a study of how and why England, the biggest and wealthiest rugby country on the planet, never dominated the game it invented on a global scale – until Clive Woodward took charge from 1997 to 2004. Ten years on from the greatest triumph in English rugby history, Peter Burns traces the key influences that shaped Woodward’s attitude to playing and coaching, inspiring his introduction of business practices to the sporting arena and creating an elite culture for his England players. By leaving no possible stone unturned in his preparation, demanding a no-excuses mindset in his team and accepting nothing but the very best from players, backroom staff and the RFU, Woodward drove England to the pinnacle of the rugby world.

The Ryder Cup is coming home to where it all began; the 40th staging of golf’s showpiece event is returning to Gleneagles, Scotland.

This new edition will include stories, anecdotes, interviews and images from the 2013 Lions tour, the controversial and hugely exciting Test series that witnessed the Lions, greatest triumph for 16 years.

Masters of Men is the story of one journey taken, over half a century apart, by two outstanding golfers. But, this is more than a golf book. It’s the story of two young men, and the people who filled their lives – the mentor who dominated Ken Venturi, the agent who loomed too large over Rory McIlroy, and the two young girls who became their first loves and lost their men as they became champions.

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Masters of Men uniquely, and dramatically, brings together for two days, two remarkable golfers from two different ages in golf – on the final day of their greatest failure, and the final day of their most remarkable triumph.

With in-depth profiles of each of the key players in the team, the management and the coaching set-up and a style that recalls great sporting stories such as Invictus, Moneyball, The Damned United and The Grudge, White Gold analyses the 2003 World Cup campaign like never before, revealing fascinating new insights into the extraordinary journey that Woodward and his team enjoyed as they changed the rugby landscape forever.

‘A fascinating collection of insights’ — Sunday Times

‘A superb read’ – Stephen Jones, Sunday Times

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‘A fascinating new analysis of one of British sport’s greatest triumphs’ – Tom English

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‘Utterly compelling’ — Planet Rugby

Tracing the history of the Ryder Cup back to that famous forerunner match at Gleneagles in 1921, this book intertwines the histories of the coveted prize with the five-star resort’s own rich heritage, on and off the course. Through a series of over 80 in-depth interviews with an array of national and international celebrities, including Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Sir Jackie Stewart, Andy Murray and Stephen Hendry, Jewel in the Glen reveals what the Ryder Cup and Gleneagles means to them while examining the impact of the tournament on the local community and the wider Scottish society, culture, and economy.

With a foreword from golf’s greatest player, Jack Nicklaus, designer of the Ryder Cup 2014 course, The PGA Centenary, and a hole-by-hole guide by Ryder Cup legend Colin Montgomerie, this volume paints a unique and absorbing portrait of Gleneagles and Scottish golf as a whole.

‘I have always thought Gleneagles is one of the greatest places in the world to play golf’ – Jack Nicklaus

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voices of scottish Journalists recollections by 22 veteran scottish journalists of their life and work

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THE NORTHERN EARLDOMS Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 Barbara E. Crawford

PIPING TRADITIONS OF THE OUTER ISLES of the West Coast of Scotland Bridget Mackenzie

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ISBN 9781906566715 20 August 2013 Price £25.00 Pbk TPS 234x156mm Extent 288pp

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Illustrations 16pp b/w plates, 3 maps Category Traditional Music

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The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. This unlikely combination of island and mainland territory survived as a single lordship for 600 years, against the odds. Growing out of the Viking maelstrom of the early Middle Ages, it became an established and wealthy principality which dominated northern waters, with a renowned dynasty of earls.

Despite their peripheral location these earls were fully in touch with the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland and increasingly subject to the rulers of these kingdoms. How they maintained their independence and how they survived the clash of loyalties are themes explored in this book from the early Viking age to the late medieval era when the powerful feudal Sinclair earls ruled the islands and regained possession of Caithness. This is a story of the time when the Northern Isles of Scotland were part of a different national entity which explains the background to the non-Gaelic culture of this locality, when links across the North Sea were as important as links with the kingdom of Scotland to the south.

This is the fifth and last book in the piping traditions series and covers the Outer Isles from Mingulay to Lewis.

Written for all piping enthusiasts, this is not an academic study but instead aims to pass on the piping lore that used to be handed down with the music to piping pupils, but is no longer.

Written in a light and readable style, the book takes a wide sweep of the pipers, places and piping stories of the islands, including many renowned 20th-century pipers such as ‘Wee Donald’ MacLeod and the Peters MacLeod, as well as pipers from the 18th and 19th centuries. Old Gaelic poems about pipers give a glimpse of piping in the Uists and Benbecula in the 18th century. Notes on the tunes also give guidance to the mood of a piece. This book is essential reading for any piper who wants to know about the background of the music.

In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People’s History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution.

But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as ‘copyboys’ running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess’s landing near Eaglesham to royal visits, and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains ‘a swathe of Scottish social history’: virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job – and above all one full of human interest.

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ALSO AVAILABLE Piping Traditions of the Isle of Skye ISBN 9781906566555 Pbk £25.00 Piping Traditions of the Inner Isles ISBN 9781906566548 Pbk £25.00

VOICES OF SCOTTISH JOURNALISTS Recollections by 22 Veteran Scottish Journalists of their Life and Work Ian MacDougall ISBN 9781906566630 07 November 2013 Price £25.00 Pbk TPS 234x156mm

SCOTTISH LIFE AND SOCIETY AN INTRODUCTION TO SCOTTISH ETHNOLOGY A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 1 Edited by Alexander Fenton and Margaret A. Mackay ISBN 9781906566067

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The publication of An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context.

This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.

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WILLIAM WALLACE Andrew Fisher

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NIGHTMARE AT SCAPA FLOW The Truth about the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak H.J. Weaver ISBN 9781843410423 Price £7.99 Pbk TPS 198x129mm Extent 192pp Illustrations 8pp b/w Category Military History Also available as an eBook

THE TARTAN PIMPERNEL Donald Caskie

SCAPA Britain’s Famous Wartime Naval Base James Miller

LOST GLASGOW Carol Foreman

LOST EAST LOTHIAN Craig Statham

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HAND, HEART AND SOUL The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland Elizabeth Cumming

ST VALERY The Impossible Odds Edited by Bill Innes

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST Scotland and the First World War Trevor Royle

ORKNEY A Historical Guide Caroline WickhamJones

THE BORDERS A History of the Borders from Earliest Times Alistair Moffat

Shallow Graves in Siberia Michael Krupa Introduction by Neal Ascherson

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BOB SERVANT Hero of Dundee Neil Forsyth

MIDGES Alasdair Roberts Illustrated by Bob Dewar

PARA HANDY Neil Munro

THE CALEDONIAN CANAL A.D. Cameron

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NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN The Twilight of a Crofting Family Alasdair Maclean ISBN 9781841581590 Price £8.99 TPS 198x129mm Extent 224pp Category History/ Crofting

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THE BRIGGERS The Story of the Men Who Built the Forth Bridge Elspeth Wills ISBN 9781841587615 Price £16.99 Pbk TPS 280x240mm Extent 152pp Category Local History

TRACING YOUR SCOTTISH ANCESTORS The Official Guide – Sixth Edition The National Archives of Scotland ISBN 9781780270227 Price £12.99 Pbk TPS 216x138mm Extent 272pp Illustrations throughout Category Reference/ Genealogy

LAND OF MOUNTAIN AND FLOOD The Geology and Landforms of Scotland Alan McKirdy, John Gordon and Roger Crofts ISBN 9781841586267 Price £20.00 Pbk TPS 230x228mm Extent 336pp Illustrations colour throughout Category History

THE FORTH BRIDGE A Picture History Sheila Mackay ISBN 9781841589350 Price £10.99 Pbk TPS 220x290mm Extent 112pp Category Local History Rights World

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WHEN I HEARD THE BELL The Loss of the Iolaire John MacLeod

DRIFTWOOD AND TANGLE Margaret Leigh

CALUM’S ROAD Roger Hutchinson

ON THE CROFTER’S TRAIL David Craig

HEBRIDEAN SHARKER Tex Geddes

THE HIGHLAND BAGPIPE AND ITS MUSIC Roderick D. Cannon

TEA AT MISS CRANSTON’S Anna Blair

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CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END Patrick MacGill Introduction by Brian D. Osborne

THE MAN WHO GAVE AWAY HIS ISLAND A Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna Ray Perman

THE SILENT WEAVER The Extraordinary Life and Work of Angus MacPhee Roger Hutchinson

THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH John Muir Introduction by David M. Anderson

A GIFT OF TIME A Memoir Flora Maxwell Stuart

SEAL MORNING Rowena Farre

WILD FLOWERS OF THE NORTH HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND Ken Butler and Ken Crossan

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SCOTTISH PLACENAMES W. F. H. Nicolaisen

BOSWELL’S EDINBURGH JOURNALS, 1767–1786 Hugh M. Milne

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