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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.
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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. Mercat Press, founded in 1970 and acquired by Birlinn in 2007, is now an imprint publishing walking and climbing guides. Mercat is the Scots language word for ‘market’ or ‘trade’.
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contents
NEW TITLES AUTUMN 2012.......................................................................................5 NORTH EAST................................................................................................................15 HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS......................................................................................18
highlands............................................................................................................18
crofting and rural.............................................................................................21
central highlands..............................................................................................22
islands..................................................................................................................24
Northern Isles......................................................................................... 24
St Kilda...................................................................................................25
Western Isles........................................................................................... 25
Uist and Barra.........................................................................................26
Skye and Raasay...................................................................................... 27
Argylll and Islands.................................................................................. 28
Mainland..........................................................................................28 Islands...............................................................................................29 . . Mull and Iona............................................................................... 29 . . Small Isles..................................................................................... 30 DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY AND THE BORDERS............................................... 31 GLASGOW, CLYDESIDE AND AYRSHIRE................................................................. 33 EDINBURGH AND LOTHIAN....................................................................................34
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FIFE AND TAYSIDE ....................................................................................................37 PERTHSIRE AND CENTRAL SCOTLAND................................................................ 38 BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.................................................................................... 39 HISTORY........................................................................................................................40
general history...................................................................................................50
historic scotland...............................................................................................52
documents .........................................................................................................53 scotichronicron.................................................................................................53
scottish, life and society..................................................................................54
GAELIC..........................................................................................................................55 TRAVELLER, FOLKLORE, CUSTOMS AND MUSIC................................................ 57 HUMOUR......................................................................................................................60 SPORT............................................................................................................................62 CLASSICS.......................................................................................................................64 CHILDREN....................................................................................................................68 GENERAL......................................................................................................................70 FICTION AND POETRY..............................................................................................73 RURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY............................................................................. 75 STATIONERY.................................................................................................................77 MILITARY AND ADVENTURE................................................................................... 78 CRIME............................................................................................................................80 ART ..............................................................................................................................81 REFERENCE..................................................................................................................81 FOOD AND DRINK ....................................................................................................82 MACLEAN DUBOIS ....................................................................................................84 POLITICS.......................................................................................................................85 LIMITED EDITIONS....................................................................................................86
NEW TITLES AUTUMN 2012 ITALIAN SAUSAGE BIBLE Mary Contini Illustrated by Bob Dewar
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ISBN 9781780270500 Category: Cookery Price £4.99 pbk, 156x111mm, 96pp, b/w illustrations throughout Publication 2nd August 2012 From the Luganega to the Calabrese, Italian sausages come in all shapes and sizes – short and fat, long and thin, horseshoe-shaped and even circular. Sausages form an integral part of Italian culture and cuisine, and the two are inexorably linked. There is even a patron saint of sausages, Sant’ Antonio, who is always seen with a pig at his side and whose Feast Day, 17 January, is celebrated with much porcine squealing as pigs are slaughtered for the annual sausage-making festival. In this practical and humorous book, acclaimed cookery writer Mary Contini explores the Italian fascination with salsiccie, tracing its history and displaying its remarkable versatility with over 55 mouth-watering recipes, including Il Panino di San Gennaro – the best sausage roll in the world – Philip’s Fabulous Fonteluna Sugo, and Peperoni Pizza Twice!
The Importance of New Being Awkward: The Edition Autobiography of Tam Dalyell Foreword by Peter Hennessy ISBN 9781780270890 Category Autobiography/Politics Price £9.99pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w illustrations Publication 2nd August 2012
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ISBN 9781780270470 Category Autobiography Rights World Price £17.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 16pp black and white plates Publication 2nd August 2012
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ALSO AVAILABLE: Entertaining Solo ISBN 9781780270487 pbk £14.99 Fish ISBN 9781780270807 pbk £14.99 Simply Seasonal ISBN 9781780270838 pbk £14.99 The Claire Macdonald Cookery Book ISBN 9781780270814 hbk £25.00
HUNTING GROUNDS: New A Scottish Football Edition Safari Gary Sutherland Introduction by Stuart Cosgrove
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ISBN 9781780270968 Category Travel/Humour/Football Price £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 8pp colour plates Publication 2nd August 2012 Some people bag Munros; Gary Sutherland hunts grounds. Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, he visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing, the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon (and sometimes Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays too). Taking each ground as it comes, Hunting Grounds offers an alternative travelogue round Scotland that covers every aspect of our beloved national game: the town and their teams, the fans and their obsessions; from practical factors like public transport and facilities, to the more important things like snacks and pubs.
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When veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell retired as Father of the House in 2005, the Commons lost one of its most colourful and outspoken politicians. In a parliamentary career that spanned 43 years and the administrations of eight Prime Ministers (from Macmillan to Blair), Dalyell was never a stranger to controversy. His vehemently independent views might have denied him a career on the front bench, but have ensured that his name has seldom been out of the headlines. In this memoir, based on personal papers as well as official documents – many of them only recently declassified – he looks back over a lifetime of dedicated service as MP for West Lothian and Linlithgow.
Lifting the Lid: A Life at Kinloch Lodge, Skye Claire Macdonald
Claire Macdonald is one of the best known figures in the culinary world today. A hugely successful and critically acclaimed cookery writer for over thirty years, she has garnered numerous awards and has appeared regularly on TV and at cookery demonstrations and courses all over the globe. In addition to all this, for forty years she ran the award-winning and internationally renowned Kinloch House Lodge on Skye. Cited as one of the world’s top 25 small hotels in Conde Nast Traveller magazine. In this book Claire looks back over four eventful decades to tell the story of how she, her husband, clan chief Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald, and their family built up Kinloch from insignificant beginnings in a remote but spectacularly beautiful corner of Skye to the great culinary institution it is today.
Lost East Lothian Craig Statham
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ISBN 9781841589657 Category Local History Price £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout Publication 2nd August 2012 In this beautifully illustrated book, featuring over 100 old photographs, maps and prints, Craig Statham explores an enormous range of lost buildings which have been central to all aspects of the history of the county over a period of thousands of years, but which now no longer exist, lie in ruins or are no longer used for their original function. Grouped by theme, the book includes all types of lost buildings, from castles, mansion houses, streets and even whole villages to hospitals, factories, churches, schools, hotels and even swimming pools.
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SCOTLAND: MAPPING New THE NATION Edition Christopher Fleet, Margaret Wilkes and Charles W.J. Withers Foreword by Michael Anderson
Soor Plooms Reprint and Sair Knees: Growing Up in Scotland after the War Written and illustrated by Bob Dewar ISBN 9781841588629 Category Humour Price £12.99 pbk, 260x210mm, 112pp colour illustrations throughout Publication 6th September 2012
ISBN 9781780270913 Category History/Cartography Price £20 pbk, 250x246mm, 336pp, colour illustrations throughout Publication 2nd August 2012 Maps can delight, educate and illuminate a nation’s history and geography. Where written documents are obvious resources in helping shape views of the past, maps powerfully illustrate how and why nations have come to be seen as they are. Scotland: Mapping the Nation is the first book to take Scotland’s maps seriously as a form of Scottish history, from the earliest representations of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent mapping and geographical representation in GIS, satellite imagery and SATNAV. Written by experts who have spent their lives working with maps and map history, Scotland: Mapping the Nation offers a fascinating and thought-provoking perspective on Scottish history and geography. The book, produced in association with the National Library of Scotland, is beautifully illustrated with details of the most significant manuscript and printed maps of Scotland including those by Timothy Pont, Joan Blaeu, William Roy and the Bartholomew firm amongst many others.
HUBRIS: The Rise and Fall of the Bank of Scotland Ray Perman
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ISBN 9781780270517 Category Current affairs Price £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, 8pp colour plates Publication 6th September 2012
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 three hundred. 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. What went wrong? Ray Perman, who has followed the Bank since the 1970s when he was a Financial Times journalist, uncovered 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 highrolling Monte Carlo megarich to losing £10 billion. It is a cautionary tale for our times. In the complex world of modern global finance, the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.
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Soor Plooms and Sair Knees is a hilarious and moving recollection of the writer’s childhood in a small Scottish east coast town during the immediate post-war years. In this warm-hearted, funny, and magnificent portrait, Bob Dewar recalls the community spirit of 1940s Scotland with perfectly balanced nostalgic recollections and glorious illustrations. Touching and illuminating, he brilliantly recalls details large and small, from stand-your-spoon-up Scotch broth, to olive oil bought from the chemist to clean out your ears or to be used as suntan oil. He evocatively recalls a time when poor children wore gym shoes or wellies all year round, when one walked everywhere – peering round corners on the carefully chosen long route to school, watching workers in boilersuits and bike clips sprinting to the factory, hanging about the sweetie shop penny tray planning what to buy on Saturday, hurrying past the fruit shop in case the deadly banana spider rumour was true, or running into school through the boy’s gate. Male teachers who smelled of damp Harris tweed and Brylcreem, lady teachers of Californian Poppy with just a hint of Trex. It was a time of the Sunday family walk wearing the hated tourniquet garters to keep your hand-knitted socks up, tattie holidays, wash day – all day on a Monday – in the outdoor wash house, woollen bathing trunks, small holders, schools’ radio, cowboys and coal. Wonderfully unique and richly evocative, this book is an inimitable tribute to a vanished – but much loved – way of life.
WHISKY GALORE Compton Mackenzie
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ISBN 9781780270920 Category Fiction Price £9.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 288pp Publication 6th September 2012 It’s 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of the world. Morale is at rock bottom. George Campbell needs a wee dram to give him the courage to stand up to is mother and marry Catriona. The priest, the doctor and, of course, the landlord at the inn are all having a very thin time of it. There’s no conversation, no jollity, no fun – until a shipwreck off the coast brings a piece of extraordinary good fortune …
AT EASTER ROAD THEY New PLAY: A Post-War History of Hibs Volume One John Campbell Foreword by club legend, Lawrie Reilly ISBN 9781841589893 Category Sport Rights World Price £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 304pp,16pp b/w plates Publication 6th September 2012 Since 1875 Hibernian Football Club has been an integral part of sporting life in the City of Edinburgh and Port of Leith; its early history up to 1946 has been brilliantly documented in The Making of Hibernian trilogy by Alan Lugton. John Campbell’s At Easter Road they Play is the first part of a new trilogy that brings the history up to date, picking up the story from 1946 and covering what was the most successful part of the club’s history when Hibernian won three Championship titles and became the first British club to play in the European Cup, reaching the semi-final. Packed with anecdotal tales of the times, it gives a fascinating insight into life at the club when the Famous Five were in their heyday right through to the mid-sixties when a young lad by the name of Joe Baker burst onto the scene.
Way of the Wanderers: The Story of New Travellers in Scotland Jess Smith ISBN 9781780270784 Category History/Biography Rights World Price £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 272pp, 16pp b/w illustrations Publication 6th September TV programmes like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, books like Gypsy Boy and the recent disturbances at Dale Farm have created enormous interest in the history and lifestyle of gypsies. Scottish gypsies, known as travellers, have wandered Scotland’s roads and byways for centuries, and their turbulent history is captured in this passionate new book by Jess Smith, the bestselling author of Jessie’s Journey. This is less a conventional history than a personal pilgrimage through the stories, songs and culture of a people for whom freedom is more important than security and a campfire under the stars is preferable to a warm hearth within stone walls. Settled society has always discriminated against travellers and Jess tells shocking stories of bullying, violence, the enforced break-up of families and separate schooling. But drawing on her own and her family’s experiences, she also captures the magic and drama of days wandering the roads and working the land, and brings to life the travellers’ rich and vibrant traditions. ALSO AVAILABLE Jessies Journey 9781841587028 pbk £7.99 Tales from the Tent 9781841587196 pbk £7.99 Tears for a Tinker 9781841587141 pbk £7.99
STALIN’S LEGACY: The Soviet War on Nature Struan Stevenson
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ISBN 9781780270906 Category Current affairs Price £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 8pp colour plates Publication 6th September 2012 As undisputed leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was directly responsible for the deaths of up to 60 million of his fellow citizens, a truly horrific figure which confirms him as one of the most notorious mass murderers in history. But Stalin not only waged war against his own people he and his successors regarded nature as an enemy that could be overcome by the might of Soviet technology and the brute force of slave labour. The building of vast networks of canals and the diversion of major rivers has created untold environmental damage, whilst Soviet nuclear and biological weapons programmes contaminated vast areas and caused unimaginable agony for human and animal life. In this book Struan Stevenson travels to the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and Tajikistan. He presents a grim catalogue of environmental catastrophe. As well as talking with those whose lives continue to be cruelly affected by this terrible legacy, he also meets those who are trying to deal with its wider consequences as it threatens to impact far beyond the steppes of Central Asia. Despite almost insurmountable challenges, however, there ultimately is a strong message of hope as both local and international organizations face up to the effects of disastrous and inhuman Soviet policies.
WIGTOWN PLOUGHMAN New PART OF HIS LIFE John McNeillie Edited with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie ISBN 9781780270869 Category Fiction Price £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp Publication 6th September 2012 In following the growth to manhood of young Andy Walker, the novel provides a realistic depiction of the lives and living conditions of the labouring poor – the ‘cotfolk’ – in the Machars of Wigtownshire. The son of an abusive father, Andy leaves school at thirteen and works for a succession of corrupt and cruel landowners. Driven from one estate for refusing to marry the mother of his illegitimate child, he drifts into a life of petty crime, all the time sinking further into a continuing cycle of violence and poverty. A chance encounter leads to the prospect of a professional boxing career, but realizing himself to be a true son of the soil, Andy returns to farm work, accepting his destiny with elegiac resignation. An uncompromisingly gritty tale filled with relentless violence and unrelieved squalor, its impact on publication in 1938 was widespread and extraordinary. Public reaction was sharply divided between those who loathed it and those who thought it true; and the controversy aroundit even reached the House of Commons.
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LOST EDINBURGH Hamish Coghill
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. 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.
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ISBN 9781841587479 Category Local History Price £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, b/w illustrations throughout Publication 6th September 2012
From mean beginnings – ‘wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds’, visiting French knights complained in 1341 – the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural wonders of the world. But over the centuries many of its fine buildings have gone. Although invasion and civil strife played their part, some buildings simply collapsed of old age and neglect. Others were swept away in the ‘improvements’ of the nineteenth century; yet more fell in the developers’ swathe of destruction in the twentieth century as shifting patterns of social habits, industry, housing and road systems demanded change on a massive scale. In this informative and stimulating book, Hamish Coghill sets out to trace many of Edinburgh’s lost buildings – from imposing city centre edifices to domestic dwellings – and find out why they were doomed. Lavishly illustrated, Lost Edinburgh is a fascinating insight into a cityscape that has been constantly reinvented over the years and continues to develop in the most unexpected and dramatic ways in the twenty-first century.
Churchill 1940–1945: Under Friendly Fire Walter Reid
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ISBN 9781843410591 Category History/Biography Price £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 416pp, 16pp b/w plates Publication 6th September 2012
The Tobermory Cat Written and Illustrated by Debi Gliori
ISBN 9781780270999 Category Childrens’ Fiction Price £9.99 hbk, 224x259mm, 32pp, illustrated in colour throughout Publication 2nd October 2012
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ISBN 9781780271033 Category Sport Rights World Price £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, 16pp colour plates Publication 1st October 2012 Rising from an inner city background, abandoned by his pro cyclist father as a toddler, Bradley Wiggins
Once upon a time, the little Hebridean village of Tobermory, on the isle of Mull, was fortunate to number among its citizens a very special ginger cat – the cat who had ‘special’ writ large all over him, but was too modest to know it. He was the cat who walked to the beat of his own drum; the cat who lived by himself; the cat who spoke to the otters; the cat who drove the big yellow digger; the cat who rode the cars; the cat who was a legend in his own lifetime. Ladies, gentlemen – and cats – we give you The Tobermory Cat. This is his story. In this delightful book, which will appeal to all readers of five and over, acclaimed author and illustrator Debi Gliori follows the exploits of this world-famous cat as he samples all kinds of places to find the ideal spot for the perfect snooze.
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In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, ‘There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!’ When he became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940 Churchill was without allies. Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain saved Britain from immediate defeat, but it was evident that Britain alone could never win the war. Churchill looked to America. But would Roosevelt have entered the war if Pearl Harbor had not taken place? Until then his pronouncements were ambivalent, and even afterwards America’s policy was largely shaped by self-interest and her idea of what a post-war world should be like. Walter Reid, the author of several acclaimed works on 20th-century military history, brings together the result of recent research to create a powerful narrative which reveals how much time and energy Churchill devoted to fighting the war that was excluded from the official accounts: the war with his allies.
BRADLEY WIGGINS Tour de Force John Deering
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AULD ENEMIES: The Scots and the English David Ross Illustrated by Rupert Besley
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ISBN 9781780270494 Category Humour Rights World Price £5.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp b/w illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012 For almost a thousand years, Scotland and England have been neighbour nations. For more than half that time, they were foreign countries, often at war. Four hundred years ago, they began to share a monarchy; three hundred years ago, they joined in a United Kingdom. A new concept of ‘Britishness’ arose, but for most purposes Scots remained Scots and English remained English, and the old sense of rivalry remained. In olden times, a war of words and propaganda accompanied the fighting. As the countries got to know each other better and the fighting died down, the verbal exchanges continued, and became sharper, more wide-ranging, and funnier. This book provides a unique record of the long contest of verbal warfare across the Border, from its beginnings right up to the present day. Auld Enemies will be a useful handbook that can be enjoyed whichever side you’re on.
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The Iceman: The Rise and Fall of Reprint a Crime Lord Jim Wilson And Russell Findlay ISBN : 978 1 84158 871 1 Category: True crime/ Biography 198 x 129 mm Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304 pp, 8pp colour plates Publication: 4th October 2012 The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland’s biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders – including the gangland assassination of his best friend – Stevenson’s decadelong rise was built on ruthless ambition, strategic cunning and calculated, brutal violence. It left him at the head of one of Europe’s biggest smuggling operations pouring tons of drugs and guns onto the streets of Scotland. The Iceman tells the astonishing story of Stevenson’s rise and fall, offering a unique and explosive insight into Operation Folklore, the unprecedented four-year investigation that ended in his arrest.
The Flying Scotsman Graeme Obree Foreword by Sir Chris Hoy
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ISBN : 978 1 84158 335 8 Category Sport/Autobiography Format: 198 x 129 mm Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates Publication 4th October 2012
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ISBN 9781780270623 Category Humour Price £16.99 hbk, 246x189mm, 240pp, b/w illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012 Few cities can rival Glasgow for their contribution to the history of British humour. From the gladiatorial atmosphere of the old Empire Theatre, dubbed the ‘graveyard of English comics’, to the front-page controversies of Frankie Boyle today, the city and its citizens have trademarked their own two-fisted brand
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BEATNIKS AND New BEEHIVES: The Swinging Sixties Written and illustrated by Bob Dewar ISBN 9781780270135 Category Humour Rights World Price £12.99 pbk, 260x210mm, 128pp, colour illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012
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On 17 July 1993, Graeme Obree stunned the international cycling world when he emerged from obscurity to smash Francesco Moser’s World Hour Record. The Flying Scotsman is Graeme Obree’s searing autobiography, from his tough upbringing in Ayrshire, where he found escape on the roads, to his head-to-head duels with Chris Boardman and becoming a major star on the European circuit. Obree created massive controversy in the professional cycling world with his unique riding style and his pioneering construction techniques – famously using washingmachine parts to complete the building of his ‘Old Faithful’. Yet all his sporting success was achieved in the shadow of manic depression and suicidal despair. His life continues to have its ups and downs and Obree brings his amazing life story up to date.
THE GLASGOW SMILE: A Celebration of Clydebuilt Comedy Allan Brown
of confrontational, but always hilarious, comedy. In this, the first dedicated overview, Allan Brown gives a historical, kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic account of the people, places, performers and procedures that have made Glasgow a by-word for a certain kind of rough, tough quick-wittedness. Every facet of Glaswegian life is considered, viewed through the prism of the city’s sense of humour; from the showbiz renown of Billy Connolly and Chic Murray, Kevin Bridges and Boyle, to the occasions the lighter side was seen in Glasgow’s history of television, film, literature, football, law, science, academe, crime and art. Through profiles, criticism, tales and anecdotes, The Glasgow Smile – fittingly also the term for infamous Glasgow gang punishment – is a treasury of the city’s past and present, and of its own very particular approach to the absurd.
The Sixties put an end to drab post-war austerity in a psychedelic explosion of colour, fashion, music, new attitudes and revolution (sexual and otherwise). In this follow-up to his best-selling Soor Plooms and Sair Knees: Growing up in Scotland after the War, Bob Dewar celebrates the grooviest decade ever in over a hundred pen and ink drawings which capture the spirit of the time when everyone (well, almost everyone) turned on, tuned in and dropped out – or at least just hung loose. From Flower Power, The Beatles, Mary Quant and G Plan furniture to marijuana, mini skirts, flush panel doors, Pan’s People and the hostess trolley, this is a warm and humorous homage that will appeal to all those cats and chicks who lived through the era as well as all those who dig the style, verve and panache of the Swinging Sixties.
THE GATHERING STREAM: The Story of the Moray Firth James Miller
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ISBN 9781841588292 Category Natural History/Scottish Price £14.99 pbk, 240x190mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout Publication 4h October 2012 The Moray Firth is the large triangle of sea that cuts into the north-east of Scotland. The Vikings called it Breiđafjođr, and to the Gaels it is Linne Mhoraibh. Once a centre of Pictish power it became with its adjoining coasts a contested region, as Gaels, Norsemen, Norman knights, royal dynasties and clan warlords fought to win control of its fertile soil, its grain and its timber, its cattle and its fish, while burgh merchants struggled to maintain trade links with the rest of Britain and Europe. In this struggle influences from the south prevailed to create the complicated conjunction between Highland and lowland that colours the region to this day. Now the Firth lands are
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a test-bed for the economies of the future - renewable energy from wind farms, green tourism (the Firth is home to the world’s most northerly population of bottlenose dolphins), and the sustainable exploitation of natural resources. In this sweeping, fast-paced account of the Firth over the last two thousand years, James Miller explores how the great shifts in Scottish history and culture have impacted on its shores and its peoples, and how time has acted to gather disparate heritages into one.
natural history of the island is represented, from its delicate maritime flowers to fish, crabs and lobsters. Return to One Man’s Island will be the publishing event of the year for those who loved Brockie’s original Isle of May book, as well as a whole new generation of readers and lovers of wildlife painting.
THE FIRTH OF FORTH: An Environmental History Christopher Smout and Mairi Stewart
ISBN 9781780270548 Category Local History Price £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, black and white illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012
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ISBN 9781780270647 Category Environmental History Price £14.99 pbk, 240x190mm, 240pp, b/w illustrations throughou Publication 4th October 2012 The Firth of Forth combines a rich wildlife with a history of long and intense human activity around its shores and in its waters. At one time, herring, cod and haddock, with many other edible fish, were vastly more numerous, but seals and seabirds much rarer than they are now. Once, the rivers running into the Firth were so polluted that people could set fire to some of the burns; now the water is often as pure as it has ever been since records began. Illustrated with black-andwhite and colour photographs, this is a capitivating exploration into the life of the Firth of Forth which considers a wide range of questions. How have people affected and exploited the wildlife, and how in turn has it determined the lives of people? What changes to the biodiversity of the Firth have taken place as a result of human interference? Why has pollution been easier to control than over-fishing? What were the unintended consequences to the natural heritage both of pollution and of cleaning-up, and what role has conservation had in bringing about changes?
RETURN TO ONE MAN’S ISLAND: Paintings and Sketches from the Isle of May Keith Brockie
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ISBN 9781841589749 Category Natural History/Art Rights World Price £25.00 hbk, 290x230mm, 160pp, full colour illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012
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Keith Brockie’s One Man’s Island: Paintings and Sketches from the Isle of May (1984), immediately became one of the bestselling Scottish natural history books of all time. The combination of breathtaking wildlife images with notes and background information, captured unforgettably the beauty of the Isle of May, a little gem of an island in the Firth of Forth. Since then Brockie has constantly returned to the Isle of May. From April through to October of 2010 he stayed on the island, working intensively to produce an entirely new set of drawings and paintings. With his eye for colour and characteristic attention to detail he has produced a huge number of artworks, mixing depictions of the majestic peregrine and white-tailed eagle with sketches of fluffy eider ducklings and kittiwake chicks. All the
LOST BANFF AND BUCHAN Daniel MacCannell
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The region north of Aberdeen and east of Moray is difficult to define. Neither highland or lowland, depopulated or populous, it is a land of surprising contrasts. In this book Daniel MacCannell uncovers many aspects of lost Banff and Buchan. In addition to buildings, transport networks, industries, and ways of life which now no longer exist, from whaling to open-air market trading, he also considers other elements which have been forgotten over time. There are lost people – those whose lives have been of enormous significance but are now forgotten – such as the member of the Barclay family who became a Russian field marshal and architect of the ‘scorched earth’ strategy used against Napoleon in 1812, and the pilots of the Banff Strike Wing who fought valiantly against the German Navy during World War II. There is also the lost University of Fraserburgh, founded in 1595 but defunct by 1605; the village of Burnhaven, destroyed to make room for Peterhead Prison; and a lost literary master – the Turriff man who wrote Argenis, arguably the first novel ever written by a British person.
LOST DUNDEE Charles McKean and Patricia Whatley with Kenneth Baxter
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ISBN 9781780271064 Category Local History Price £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, b/w illutstrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012 Lost Dundee brings the second city of renaissance Scotland back to life showing, through previously undiscovered photographs and drawings, the life and the maritime quarter of this great port. It illustrates Dundee’s transformation 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 transformation 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 mediaeval Dundee proved so great that in 1871 the process of replacing it with grandiose Victorian boulevards began. 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.
GLORY AND HONOUR: The Renaissance in Scotland Andrea Thomas
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ISBN 9781841588728 Category Scottish History Price £30.00 hbk, 250x246mm, 256pp, colour illustrations throughout Publication 4th October 2012 The Renaissance was the pre-eminent cultural and intellectual movement of fifteenth- and sixteenthcentury Europe. It began in Italy and spread elsewhere along trade routes and through diplomatic channels. Since the Scottish kingdom was relatively remote, Renaissance impulses were often filtered through intermediaries in other countries, although there was some direct Italian influence too. Consequently, the Scottish version of Renaissance culture was a hybrid with multiple antecedents, adapted to suit the needs of Scottish patrons. 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.
FAUNA SCOTICA: People and Animals in Scotland Mary Low and Polly Pullar
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ISBN 9781841585611 Category Natural History Price £30 hbk, 250x246mm, 288pp, illustrations and colour photography throughout Publication 4th October 2012 Scotland boasts a huge and diverse range of wildlife. This informative and beautifully illustrated book is the most complete companion to Scottish animals available. Themed around various habitats (mountain; bog and moor; woods; lochs and rivers; croft and farm; sea and seashore; urban), and including material on mythical beasts, it features a wealth of information on hundreds of species. As well as descriptions and biological information, the text is interspersed with much detail – historical, folklore, anecdotal and even culinary – which offers fascinating insights into the role of animals in our cultural life and the way man has interacted with them over a period of thousands of years.There are also details of all the main Scottish conservation bodies and Scotland’s major nature reserves, as well as information of the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable Ian Crofton
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ISBN 9781841589770 Category Reference/Scottish Price £30.00 hbk, 246x168mm, 512pp Publication 4th October 2012 This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A–Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots in Scythia to the contemporary Scotland of the Holyrood parliament and Trainspotting. Here Tartan Tories rub shoulders with Torry girls, the Misery from the Manse exchanges a nod with Stalin’s Granny, Thomas the Rhymer and
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the Wizard of Reay walk hand in hand with Bible John, and the reader is taken for a rollercoaster ride round Caledonia, from Furry Boots City to the Costa Clyde, via the Cold Shoulder of Scotland, the West Lothian Alps and the Reykjavik of the South. The result is a breathtaking and quirky celebration of Scotland, packed with fact and anecdote.
BEHIND THE LIONS: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions An Official Licensed Product of the British & Irish Lions Stephen Jones, Tom English, Nick Cain and David Barnes
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ISBN 9781780270982, eBook ISBN 9780857905291 Category Sport Rights World Price £19.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 432pp b/w and colour illustrations throughout Publication 1st November 2012 For 125 year the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a unique emblem in world sport. They represent the best of the best from the four Home Nations, coming together every four years under a united badge to take on the rugby greats of the Southern Hemisphere. Lions tours embody a revered legacy that is steeped in tradition yet maintains a vibrant standing in the modern era. Every four years the rugby world’s focus is drawn to a great red pilgrimage as the Lions embark on a brutal and exhilarating tour that challenges the very limits of their rugby ability. They travel to the far reaches of the earth to confront the great powers in the world game… and the weight of history itself. 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.
BRITAIN’S LAST FRONTIER: New A Journey Along the Highland Line Alistair Moffat Introduction by James Naughtie ISBN 9781841588292 Category History/Travel Price £17.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates Publication 2nd November 2012 The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognised by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) it divides the country both geologically and culturally, signalling the border between Highland and Lowland, Celtic and English-speaking, crofting and farming. In Britain’s Last Frontier best-selling author Alistair Moffat makes a journey of the imagination, tracing the route of the Line from the River Clyde through Perthshire and the North-east. In addition to exploring the huge importance of the Line over almost two thousand years, he also shows how it continues to influence life and attitudes in 21st-century Scotland. The result is a fascinating book, full of history and anecdote. ALSO AVAILABLE The Faded Map 9781841589589 pbk £9.99 The Borders 9781841584669 pbk £9.99 The Wall 9781841587899 pbk £9.99
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AGREEABLE CONNEXIONS New A HISTORY BOOK FOR SCOTS: Selections from Scotichronicon Walter Bower Edited by D. E. R. Watt
ALEXANDER II, KING OF SCOTS 1214–1249 Richard Oram
ISBN 9781906566593 Category Scottish History Price £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 312pp Publication 1 August 2012
By equal measure state-builder and political unifier and ruthless opportunist and bloody-handed aggressor, Alexander II has been praised or vilified by past historians but has rarely been viewed in the round. This book explores the king’s successes and failures, offering a fresh assessment of his contribution to the making of Scotland as a nation. It lifts the focus from an introspective national history to look at the man and his kingdom in wider British and European history, examining his international relationships and offering the first detailed analysis of the efforts to work out a lasting diplomatic solution to Anglo-Scottish conflict over his inherited claims to the northern counties of England. More than just a political narrative, the book also seeks to illuminate aspects of the king’s
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon: a history book for Scots. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh’s daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed, among them the wars of the Scots and the Picts; the poisoning of King Fergus by his wife; Macbeth’s usurpation and uneasy reign; the good deeds of Margaret, queen and saint; Bruce’s murder of the Red Comyn; the founding of Scotland’s first university at St Andrews; the ‘Burnt Candlemas’; and the endless troubles between Scotland and England. Weaving in and out of the events of Bower’s factual history, like a wonderful pageant, are other subjects that fascinated him: harrowing visions of hell and purgatory, extraordinary miracles; the exploits of knights and beggars, merchants and monks; the ravages of flood and fire; the terrors of the plague; and the answers to such puzzling questions as what makes a good king, and why Englishmen have tails. This selection from the complete nine-volume edition of Scotichronicon puts Bower’s epic of Scotland into the hands of the general reader. It is a marvellous and unforgettable story.
TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS: The Gordons of Huntly in SixteenthCentury Scotland Anne L. Forbes
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ISBN 9781906566524 Category Scottish History Price £25 pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w illustrations Publication 1st August 2012 This book first traces the rise of the Gordons from minor magnates in Berwickshire to major players in the north and nationally. They reached their zenith in the person of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, during the sixteenth century. The rest of the book focuses on his family, with the parallel biographies of four of his sons and two of his daughters. Their very different stories illuminate the period because they participated in, and were deeply affected by, the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son James, who were vital pawns in the European power play between England, France and Spain during a crucial time of religious and political change. This book is an important addition to the historiography of the Gordons of Huntly, rulers of the north of Scotland and involved in most significant events of sixteenth-century Scotland.
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ISBN 9781904607922 Category Scottish History Price £25 pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 8pp b/w plates Publication 6th September 2012
BISHOPS AND New COVENANTERS THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND, 1688–1691 Ann Shukman Foreword by Professor E.J. Cowan ISBN 9781906566586 Category Scottish History Price £16.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp, 8pp b/w plates Publication 6th September 2012 Why did the young Protestant monarch William of Orange fail to make his mark on Scotland? How did a particularly hard-line ‘Protester’ branch of Presbyterianism (the last off-shoot of the Convenanting movement) become the established Church in Scotland? And how did it come about that Scotland suffered a kind of ‘cultural revolution’ after the Williamite revolution, nipping in the bud the protoEnlightenment? This book reviews the political events that led to the abolition of episcopacy in 1689 and with it the concerted attack on the parish clergy. It explores for the first time the background and influences that led to the brutal ‘rabbling of the curates’ in south-west Scotland. It explores the mind-set of the notorious Covenanting tract Naphtali (1667), and of its author Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, who was the author of the Act establishing hard-line Presbyterianism in 1690, and became Lord Advocate of Scotland in 1692. The purges of the universities after the 1690 Act led to a hardening of attitudes, and the on-going purging of the parishes led ultimately to the emptying of two-thirds of all the parishes of Scotland. The book suggests how these events contributed to the notion of ‘King William’s ill years’.
EMPIRE AND CO-OPERATION: New How the British Empire used Co-operatives in its Development Strategies 1900–1970 Rita Rhodes ISBN 9781906566562 Category Economic History Price £25 pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w plates Publication 1st September 2012 Co-operative businesses, run by their own members, apply the principles of equality, mutuality, democracy and economy. Empire and Cooperation traces how and why the British Empire came to promote co-operatives as part of its development strategies in its dependent territories, and the global impact that this subsequently had. The book describes how co-operative development policies were implemented in widely varied settings and the results achieved. It also discusses the positive involvement of international non-governmental organisations such as the International Co-operative Alliance and the Plunkett Foundation. By the 1970s co-operatives had become the major alternative business form to investor-led businesses, and their global reach has been attributed to the fact that they are ‘versatile’ and ‘universal’. The British Empire, the largest the world has known, helped them to become universal by taking them to the four corners of the world.
FROM New AN ANTIQUE LAND: Visual Representations of the Highlands and Islands 1700– 1880 Anne MacLeod ISBN 9781906566531 Category Scottish History/Art History Price £25 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, 3x16pp b/w and 16pp colour plates Publication 16th October 2012 This book looks at visual images as an alternative and undervalued source of evidence for ideas about the Scottish Gàidhealtachd in the period 1700–1880. Illustrated with 100 plates, it brings together many little known and previously unrelated images. Addressing the textual bias inherent in Scottish historical studies, the book examines a broad range of maps, plans, paintings, drawings, sketches and printed images, arguing that the concept of antiquity was the single most powerful influence driving the visual representation of the Highlands and Islands from 1700 to 1880, and indeed beyond. Successive chapters look at archaeological, ethnological and geological motives for visualising the Highlands, and at the bias in favour of antiquity which resulted from the spread of these intellectual influences into the fine arts. The book concludes that the shadow of time which hallmarked visual representations of the region resulted in a preservationist mentality which has had powerful repercussions for approaches to Highland issues down to the present day. The book will appeal to historians, art historians, cultural geographers, and the general reader interested in Highland history and culture.
AGREEABLE CONNEXIONS: Scottish Enlightenment Links with France Alexander Broadie
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ISBN 9781906566517 Category Scottish History/Philosophy Price £25 pbk, 234x156mm, 288pp Publication 1st November 2012 Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Théodore Jouffroy.
BON RECORD: A History of Aberdeen New Grammar School Brian R. W. Lockhart and Arthur L. McCombie ISBN 9781906566463 Category Scottish History Price £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 448pp, 16pp b/w and 8pp colour illustrations Publication 7th November 2012 Aberdeen Grammar School has a long and distinguished history. Its origins are obscure but are believed to date from the late medieval period, some time before the foundation of Aberdeen’s two separate universities – King’s College and Marischal College – hence the claims that the Grammar School is one of the oldest schools in Britain. The title of the book, Bon Record, is the modern Grammar school motto; the book traces the fortunes of the School from its beginnings through the centuries to its recent transformation into a co-educational comprehensive school, serving much of the central and western districts of Aberdeen City. In doing so, the book also assesses the contribution of the School to the NorthEast of Scotland and pays tribute to over eight hundred former pupils, who rank amongst Aberdeen’s past and current most notable citizens.
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Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912
It is a boon to Scotsmen to have placed within their reach such a splendid delineation of their country in its varied physical aspects – a delineation so comprehensive in conception, so elaborate in its details, and so accurate in every respect. It is not less a credit to Scotland that both in conception and in execution the Atlas is the work of Scotsmen. Scottish enterprise projected it, and Scottish ingenuity, skill and taste have carried it through all its stages from first to last.
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with introductions by Chris Fleet and Karla Baker Published in conjunction with the National Library of Scotland Publication date 4th October 2012 Publication price £100 ISBN: 978 1 84158 864 3 • Format: 300 mm x 456 mm • 192pp with maps reproduced in full colour • sewn binding with ribbon marker • quarter bound with cloth cover • presented in an individual slipcase Every copy individually numbered. This is a limited edition of 800 copies.
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hen the Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, 1912 atlas was originally published, it received rapturous reviews. Dr Walter Scott Dalgleish wrote in the Scottish Geographical Magazine:
The Scotsman compared the Survey Atlas to the Blaeu Atlas (the first in our limited edition series) concluding that ‘Blaeu is to Bartholomew what the grub is to the butterfly.’
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• It was the first folio atlas of Scotland to be conceived, designed, printed and published, not only entirely within Scotland, but also under one roof, the Edinburgh Geographical Institute of John Bartholomew & Co. Ltd. • It was the first folio atlas of Scotland to be printed by colour lithography, employing this relatively new printing technology to produce an array of uniquely distinctive coloured maps. • It was the first major atlas of Scotland to be commercially successful. • It was also a scientific milestone, as the first atlas of Scotland to bring together national and international experts in the physical and natural sciences, who wrote text and drafted thematic maps for it.
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n this limited edition we reproduce the 1912 edition. It contains introductory texts on Scotland’s history, geology, climate and population, a history of Scottish cartography, thematic maps of Scotland (including a ‘Motoring Road Map’), 45 large topographical maps covering the whole of Scotland, and town plans of the major cities. In addition we have included the thematic mapping (mammals, birds, reptiles, deer forests, and languages of Scotland) that appeared in the 1895 edition but not in the 1912 edition, so that all the maps produced for this great atlas can be seen in one place. To accompany the Atlas, there are two introductory essays. • Chris Fleet, Senior Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland writes on ‘The making of the Survey Atlas’. • Karla Baker, the Bartholomew Archive Curator at the National Library of Scotland, provides a biography of the atlas’s creator, J. G. Bartholomew. Both essays draw on material recently discovered within the Bartholomew Archive.
NORTH EAST Lost Aberdeen:Aberdeen’s Lost Architectural Heritage Diane Morgan
Morrison to Cocky Hunter and Ma Cameron. It brings fascinating tales of war and peace and covers everything from school and university to the history of sport, cinema and theatre, stretching from Lille Langtry to Harry Gordon and Scotland the What?
Aberdeen 1800 to 2000: a new history (Editors) W.Hamish Fraser and Clive Lee
ISBN: 9781841583907 Category: Local History, History, Architecture Price: £10.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781862321083 Category: Local History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 190 x 245mm, 544pp colour & b/w illustrations
Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts Diane Morgan
Aberdeen is a city shaped by its geography, climate and architecture. Like the land from which it grew, it projects qualities of hard work and fortitude, firm solidity, a bold self-confidence and soaring aspiration.
ISBN: 9781841585505 Category: Local History, History Price: £16.99 hbk, 234 x 156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout ISBN: 9781841588070 Price: £10.99 pbk, 230x150mm, 224pp
Lost Aberdeen: The Freedom Lands Diane Morgan ISBN: 9781841588407 Category: Local History, History Price: £16.99 hbk, 234 x 156mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout In Lost Aberdeen, handsomely illustrated and rich in fact and lore, Diane Morgan investigates the history and fate of numerous city buildings which had considerable historic and architectural importance. Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts is the companion volume to the highly successful Lost Aberdeen. In her third book, The Freedom Lands, Diane Morgan uncovers forgotten villages and communities and reveals how roads and new routeways began to define this amorphous area.
Aberdeen Curiosities Robert Smith ISBN: 9781841584140 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216 x 138mm, 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout In this new and expanded edition of his much acclaimed book, Bob Smith introduces some of the most intriguing and eccentric details about the NorthEast’s premier city.
25 Walks: In and Around Aberdeen Robert Smith ISBN: 9781841830094 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 220 x 135mm, 128pp, colour illustrations throughout In and Around Aberdeen describes 25 walks in the city and the countryside. The book is aimed at visitors and Aberdonians alike, as local people will find that it throws new light on familiar scenes.
the Lost City: Old Aberdeen Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson
Lost Deeside Daniel MacCannell
ISBN: 9781841587387 Category: Local History Price: £25.00 ISBN: 9781841588131 Price: £14.99 pbk, 250 x 246mm, 176pp, colour photographs throughout
ISBN: 9781841589640 Category: History, Local History, Architecture Price: £14.99 pbk, 234 x 156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout
There is a ‘lost city’ lying to the north of the modern city of Aberdeen. It is Scotland’s most compact and least known architectural treasure-house. This work captures the cityscape and distinctive past of Old Aberdeen. It features illustrations drawn from the University’s library and museum collections.
Jack Webster’s Aberdeen Jack Webster ISBN: 9781841584782 Category: Local History, History Price: £20.00 hbk, 246 x 189mm, 336pp b/w illustrations throughout This thoroughly readable book highlights the people who have left their mark on Aberdeen, from Robert the Bruce to Willie Miller, from Isaac Benzie and Raggie
In this book Dan MacCannell looks at the rich and varied lost legacy of this haunting part of Scotland, from castles and houses to hospitals, illicit stills and even a loch.
Willie Gavin, Crofter Man: A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle David Kerr Cameron ISBN: 9781841587097 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £8.99 pbk, 198 x 129mm, 272pp, 12pp, b/w plates
Ballad and the Plough David Kerr Cameron ISBN: 9781841587080 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £8.99 pbk, 198 x 129mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w plates
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The Cornkister Days David Kerr Cameron ISBN: 9781841587103 Category: Music, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £8.99 pbk, 198 x 129mm, 336pp, 12pp b/w plates A rich and captivating insight into life in a Scottish farm town in the mid nineteenth century. Together with Willie Gavin, Crofter Man and The Cornkister Days, these volumes form a remarkable trilogy on life in rural Scotland. With an introduction by Jack Webster.
Farmer’s Boy John Allan ISBN: 9781841588223 Category: Agriculture And Farming, Social History, Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198 x 129mm, 176pp Weaves a tale of the author’s boyhood adventures growing up on a farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The Truth Tells Twice Charlie Allan
North-East Lowlands of Scotland John R. Allan ISBN: 9781841588308 Category: History Price: £16.99 hbk, 216 x 138mm, 280pp, 24pp b/w plates. The classic introduction to the North-east, from the North Esk to John o’ Groats, written with the passion and understanding of a man born and bred there. This edition includes an introduction by John R. Allan’s son, Charlie Allan, well known in the North-east and beyond as a farmer, writer and ballad singer.
Land of the Lost: Exploring the North-East’s Vanished Townships Robert Smith ISBN: 9781841589428 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, b/w illustrations throughout Robert Smith takes us on a journey into the forgotten towns and villages of the north-east. He takes us to discover the rich histories of the towns and villages that have come dangerously close to slipping from our national memory.
ISBN: 9781841588001 PBK ISBN: 9781841587004 HB Category: Agriculture And Farming, Social History, Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 228x 155, 240pp, 16pp b/w plates Price: £8.99 pbk, 198 x 129mm, 240pp, 16pp b/w plates
Grampian Curiosities Robert Smith
This is an affectionate and humorous look at the life of the small Aberdeenshire farmer through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A fascinating social history/ family biography by the author of Farmer’s Diary.
ISBN: 9781841583976 Category: Local History, History Price: £8.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout
Them That Live the Longest Charlie Allan
Introducing a bizarre and intriguing collection of facts and fables about the people, events and places that have added colour to the history of the Grampian country over the centuries.
ISBN: 9781841588902 Category: Agriculture And Farming, Social History Price: £16.99 hbk, 234 x 156mm, 288pp, 16pp b/w plates
Grampian Ways Robert Smith
In this, the sequel to the successful The Truth Tells Twice, Charlie Allan continues the wonderful story of his family farm and surrounding community in the North-east of Scotland, as the running of the farm comes under his guidance. A lively, fresh and vivid account, joyous and absorbing, it is sure to become a household favourite.
ISBN: 9780859765701 Category: Walking And Climbing, Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm 240pp, 8pp colour plates, maps
THE CHRISTIAN WATT PAPERS David Fraser
The Road to Maggieknockater Robert Smith
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ISBN: 9781780270722 Category: Memoir Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp At the age of forty-seven Christian Watt began to write down recollections of her life until her death at the age of ninety in 1923. Her writings offer a vivid insight into the life of the north-east of Scotland during the middle and later part of the nineteenth century.
This new edition of Robert Smith’s best-selling book is both an exploration and celebration of the geography and history of this beautiful part of Scotland.
ISBN: 9781841583211 Category: Reference Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 232pp, b/w illustrations throughout The Road to Maggieknockater explores Aberdeen and the North-east through its place-names. It shows how place-names can tell you about the countryside, the weather, myths and legends, forgotten settlements and raiding cateran. It takes you to crofts with names like Cauldhame and Scrapehard, and to one mysteriously called Wealthytown.
The Road to Drumnafunner Robert Smith
A comprehensive guide, with a historical emphasis, to the ancient counties of Moray, Banff and Nairn.
ISBN: 9781841585062 Category: Travel Writing, Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 160pp, b/w illustrations throughout
The Klondykers: The Oilmen Onshore Bill Mackie
The Road to Drumnafunner is a journey through the secret history and legends of North-east Scotland. Beginning at Drumnafunner Farm, where the Donald family lived and where the poet Charles Murray – ‘Hamewith’ – walked over the moors to school, the road winds its way through many intriguing places, uncovering the stories and characters associated with them.
Songs from North-East Scotland Katherine Campbell ISBN: 9781906566012 Category: Music, Cultural Studies Price: £20.00 pbk, 246x189mm, 288pp, b/w illustrations throughout The Greig–Duncan Folk Song Collection, created in the early years of the twentieth century by Gavin Greig and James Bruce Duncan, is of national and international importance. This selection contains 150 songs from the collection and is designed primarily for performers.
TALES OF THE BRAES OF GLENLIVET Isobel Grant
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ISBN: 9781841580289 Category: Local History/Memoir Price: £7.99 pbk, 196x129mm, 192pp,
ISBN: 9781841583594 Category: Industry, Social History Publication Date: July 2006 Price: £14.99pbk, 260x189mm, 264pp, colour photographs throughout The Klondykers: The Oilmen Onshore is Mackie’s sequel to his The Oilmen: The North Sea Tigers, which shifts focus from the oilrig to how this historical development affected communities on land.
The Oilmen: the north sea tigers Bill Mackie ISBN: 9781841583020 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x189mm, 384pp, b/w illustrations throughout, maps This is the first of two graphic accounts of the industry’s three and a half decades of risk and reward, of drama and tragedy and of a remarkable achievement unrivalled in the industrial history of Scotland.
Dash O Doric: one for the road Robbie Shepherd and Norman Harper ISBN: 9781841583242 Category: Humour Price: £5.99 pbk, 196x129mm, 144pp, b/w line drawings
The Braes of Glenlivet lie on the eastern edge of the Grampian mountains, in one of Scotland’s most active whisky-producing areas. This book is mostly due to the work of Isobel Grant (with other reminiscences, and also sections on history and placenames), and it is a wonderful portrait of everyday country life and a fascinating social document of a district that lost most of its people between the two world wars.
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Lost Moray & Nairn Bruce Bishop
ISBN: 9781841585246 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp
ISBN: 9781841588759 Category: Local History Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout
For the first time, over fifty of Robbie Shepherd’s Press and Journal Doric columns have been brought together in one collection, with superb illustrations by Graham MacLennan.
Bruce Bishop traces what has been ‘lost’ from the old counties of Moray and Nairn, both architecturally and socially. Packed with illustrations of places, buildings and of aspects of life which are now vanished, and containing a history of various elements of life in the area, Bishop illustrates changes in the way of life of the people of the Burgh.
Discovering Moray Banff and Nairn Eric Simpson ISBN: 9780859764926 Category: Local History, History Price: £8.95 pbk, 210x135mm, 208pp, b/w illustrations throughout
Norman Harper and Robbie Shepherd are back with a third collection of stories which show the wit and wisdom of North-East Scotland at their finest.
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HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS highlands Highland Journey Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841587936 Category: Travel Writing, Travel Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x190mm, 208pp, colour illustrations throughout Combines two artists’ texts to provide a social commentary comparing two vastly contrasting eras, written by two complete strangers with a common distaste for tourist hordes and the impact of man’s encroachment in Scotland’s landscape.
Highland Journey Robin Gillanders ISBN: 9781841587820 Category: Photography, Travel Writing, Travel Price: £25.00 hbk, 290x230mm, 128pp, b/w photographs throughout Following in the footsteps of Edwin Muir’s famous Scottish Journey, Robin Gillanders presents a beautifully illustrated account of contemporary Highland life.
The West Highlands John MacPherson ISBN: 9781841583532 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 125pp, colour photographs throughout John MacPherson conveys the various moods of this remote and austere part of the British Isles in a series of photographs which convey the unique spirit of this extraordinary place.
The Dam Builders James Miller ISBN: 9781841582252 Category: Industry Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x189mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout The Dambuilders: Power from the Glens is a vivid account of the schemes, and includes eyewitness stories from many of the workers - from dam builders, engineers, tunnel tigers, linemen - who made the electrification of the Highlands a reality and now, often for the first time, tell what it was like.
The Foresters James Miller ISBN: 9781841588339 Category: Industry, Social History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 240x190mm, 240pp, b/w illustrations throughout
The Foresters is a thoughtful and engaging examination on forestry and the foresters in Scotland. It is a story that casts a captivating light on a long-neglected industry peopled with inspirational individuals.
Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher Roderick Grant ISBN: 9781841585956 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer’s childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes.
Strathalder Roderick Grant ISBN: 9781841585994 Category: Local History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 158x125mm, 208pp The composed and hierarchal country estate was once a great functional animal in the 1920s. It was efficient, structured and social, and is generally thought to be lost in the 21st century with the great rise of the Bourgeoisie. However, this interesting book reminds us of a time that still exists, quietly adapting with the demands of modern life.
Maxwell’s Ghost Richard Frere ISBN: 9781780270111 Category: Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 252pp, 8pp, b/w plates Maxwell’s Ghost is a classic account of the life and achievements of Gavin Maxwell, whose work and beliefs have attained an almost mythical status.
The Road to Glen Spean Christina Hall ISBN: 9781841584348 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 184pp, 8pp b/w plates This is the sequel to Christina Hall’s charming autobiographies about her youth, To the Edge of the Sea and Twice Around the Bay.
Spade Among the Rushes Margaret Leigh
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ISBN: 9781841589862 Category: History, Gaelic, Crofting, Biography, Agriculture And Farming Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp This lucid account of crofting life during the second World War has been a popular classic since its first publication in 1949.
Driftwood and Tangle Margaret Leigh
A real Highland classic that captures a city family moving to the Highlands to live the Good Life.
Garden in the Hills Katherine Stewart
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ISBN: 9781780270371 Category: Gardening Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp Takes the reader through a year in the life of the author’s garden. This work tells about the practicalities of gardening, cooking, bee-keeping and wine-making.
Isolation Shepherd Iain R. Thomson
ISBN: 9781841588988 Category: Local History, Autobiography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp
ISBN: 9781841586151 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 32pp b/w
A moving and poignant memoir of life in the northwest of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War, Margaret Leigh recounts the years she spent as a crofter, an activity which enabled her to experience the land in all its moods and capture the essence of this remote and beautiful part of Scotland in finely crafted prose.
The Long Horizon Iain R. Thomson
HIGHLAND HOMESPUN Margaret Leigh
ISBN: 9781841587073 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp, 24pp, b/w plates
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ISBN: 9781780270418 Category: Memoirs Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the burning of the land and ploughing in March, through planting and sowing in April to haymaking and harvesting in September.
Night Falls on Ardnamurchan Alasdair Maclean ISBN: 9781841581590 Category: Crofting, Social History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp Night Falls on Ardnamurchan is a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community.
A Hundred Years in the Highlands Osgood Hanbury MacKenzie
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ISBN: 9781874744290 Category: Scotland, History Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 8pp b/w plates The reminiscences of Osgood MacKenzie depict vividly the emotions and experiences of childhood and youth, offer an insight into the social and economic climate of the 19th-century Highlands, and reveal the inspiration for Osgood’s later work at the gardens of Inverewe.
A Croft in the Hills Katharine Stewart ISBN: 9781841587912 Category: Crofting, Social History Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp
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Iain Thomson’s classic book vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland’s most awesome landscapes that shaped his family’s life.
The Long Horizon is an extraordinary book. Much more than simply the chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands, it is also a wonderful collection of stories, both factual and fictional, which reflect the changes that have revolutionised Highland life and dramatically affected the natural environment over the centuries.
The Endless Tide Iain R. Thomson ISBN: 9781841584539 - HB ISBN: 9781841587066 - PB Category: Crofting, Social History, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 416pp, 32pp b/w plates Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 416pp, 32pp b/w plates Iain Thomson mixes his own personal story with Scotland’s historical past in a melting-pot of ideas, snapshots and autobiographical accounts, which conjure up the vital past and continuing force of the elusive Highland spirit.
Tales of the Morar Highlands Alasdair Roberts ISBN: 9781780270142 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp, 32pp, b/w plates Tales of the Morar Highlands is a tribute to the extraordinary incidents and remarkable characters, fictional and non-fictional that vividly portray the desolate yet beautiful landscape with unparalleled intensity. Inspired by bards, writers and images of the past, we are transported into heart of this remote and beguiling landscape.
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Arisaig and Morar Denis Rixson
My Little Town of Cromarty David Alston
ISBN: 9781841589787 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 184pp, 8pp, b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841585277 Category: Local History, History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 400pp, 24pp b/w plates
Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the ‘river-mouth bay’ and the ‘great water’, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands.
This book is a history of the small town of Cromarty, north of Inverness at the tip of the Black Isle peninsula. Although it has less than 750 inhabitants, Cromarty is viewed by its residents as a town rather than a village, which reflects the settlement’s beginnings as a royal burgh and its days as a leading port for the northern Highlands.
Moidart: Among the clanranalds Charles MacDonald ISBN: 9781841589848 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 272pp, 8pp b/w plates. This remains the essential history of Moidart and its people, and is not only a charming book for the general reader, but an important contribution to the literature of the Gaelic Highlands, preserving many unique records from oblivion.
Knoydart Denis Rixson ISBN: 9781841589572 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 8pp, b/w plates Knoydart – the northern edge of the ‘Rough Bounds’ is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day.
Lochaber Paula Martin ISBN: 9781841582412 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 240pp, 16pp, b/w plates A practical guidebook to this region of Scotland offering an extensive history from prehistoric to contemporary times.
Wild Land Mark Hamblin and Peter Cairns ISBN: 9781841586915 Category: Photograohic Price: £16.99 pbk, 232x305mm, 160pp, colour photographs throughout The diverse habitats in the Cairngorms, Britain’s largest National Park, are home to an unrivalled variety of wildlife, including the Golden Eagle and Osprey. This large-format book not only describes the history and management of each species, but also takes a look back at the animals of Scotland’s past and makes a plea for nurturing the land.
People of the Wildcat Country Sandra MacPherson ISBN: 9781841584485 Category: Short Stories, Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £8.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 216pp, 12pp b/w plates Sandra Macpherson’s last book, A Strange and Wild Place, was hugely successful in 2003 and reprinted in 2004. Thisa book contains a delightful variety of tales old and new from Monarch of the Glen country.
The Caledonian Canal A.D. Cameron ISBN: 9781841584034 Category: Industry Format: Paperback Price: £9.99 pbk, 212x136mm, 236pp The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland’s most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford’s first survey in 1801 into the twentyfirst century.
CRAPPIT HEIDS FOR TEA: Recollections of a Highland Keeper’s Daughter Compiled by Chris Fletcher Introduction by Annie Tindley
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ISBN: 9781780270821 Category: Local History Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, 8pp b/w plates This book provides a fascinating picture into life in and around the lodge during the early part of the twentieth century.
North Coast Diaries Frank Bardgett ISBN: 9781841584881 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 208pp, 8pp, b/w plates Frank Bardgett buttresses Rev. Alexander Young’s historical observations of the Highland Clearances providing further shrewd evidence in this tumultuous time in the early 20th century.
The Summer Walkers Timothy Neat ISBN: 9781841581996 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Format: PB Price: £14.99 pbk, 240x189mm, 240pp, b/w photographs throughout ’The Summer Walkers’ is the name the crofters of Scotland’s north-west Highlands gave the Travelling People – the itinerant tinsmiths, horse-dealers, hawkers and pearl fishers who made their living ‘on the road’. The Summer Walkers documents this archetypal and vanishing way of life.
Lost Badenoch and Strathspey Bruce Bishop
The Making of the Crofting Community James Hunter
ISBN: 9781841589633 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781841588537 Category: Crofting, Social History Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 336pp, 8pp b/w plates This book has been seminal in bringing once again to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.
Badenoch and Strathspey is a land of many contrasts, and in modern times a land of many uses. In this fascinating book, illustrated with over 100 period photographs, Bruce B. Bishop explores the changing face of the area over millennia, from the Ice Age, Pictish and Celtic times through the coming of Christianity, the Jacobite rebellions, the more leisured Victorian age, and the twentieth century.
WEST HIGHLAND TALES Fitzroy MacLean
Highland Folk Ways Isabel F. Grant
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Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.
Introducing yet again the 6th reprint of this successful title, this book continues to offer a marvellous introduction to the stories and islands of the West Highlands by one of its most famous authors and personalities.
The Highland Clearances Eric Richards ISBN: 9781841585420 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 512pp, 8pp b/w plates
The West Highland Way Roger Smith ISBN: 9781841831329 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £16.99 pbk, 220x134mm, 176pp, colour photographs throughout, map The official guide to the West Highland Way, Scotland’s first, and most popular, long distance route. Running from Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, to Fort William, it passes through some of Scotland’s finest scenery, all fully explored in this ninth edition.
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Mountaineer and historian Affleck Grey explores one of Scotland’s most chilling unsolved mysteries in his acclaimed account of the terrifying figure said to haunt the desolate passes and summit of Britain’s second highest mountain.
The Poor Had No Lawyers Andy Wightman ISBN: 9781841589602 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 352pp, 8pp b/w plates
The Hired Lad Ian Campbell Thomson ISBN: 9781841587905 Category: rural life, Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, 4pp b/w plates
On the Crofter’s Trail Craig David ISBN: 9781841588018 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 384pp, 8pp b/w plates
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Ever wondered why so much of Scotland’s land belongs to so few? In this fascinating account Andy Wightman revisits the facts, figures and stories first introduced in Who Owns Scotland and updates the tale to take account of our current economic climate.
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This is the first fully documented study for many years of one of Scotland’s most emotive subjects. It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s, showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
The author relives his time as a young farm worker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. This title lets you see the author make new friends and romances while finding his own way in a changing world. It describes the passing of age-old country ways, as technology begins to replace traditional farming methods.
ISBN: 9781874744207 Category: Mystery Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 156pp, 16pp b/w plates
crofting and rural
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ISBN: 9781874744429 Category: Scottish Culture, Folklore Price: £12.99 pbk, 214x135mm, 392pp
ISBN: 9781841587035 Category: Scottish History Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp
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In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts – once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland – were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. The author sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendants.
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The Drove Roads of Scotland A.R.B. Haldane ISBN: 9781841586953 Category: Agriculture And Farming, Social History Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp, 16pp b/w plates One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland’s droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland.
Country Life in Scotland Alexander Fenton ISBN: 9781841586991 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x135mm, 208pp, b/w illustrations throughout Alexander Fenton is acknowledged as Scotland’s leading expert on rural life and offers his readers an improved version of the classic Scottish Country Life.
Making of the Scottish Countryside Rosemary Gibson ISBN: 9780859766869 Category: History Price: £25.00 hbk, 243x185mm, 208pp, colour illustrations throughout Makes use of the extensive plans holdings of the National Archives of Scotland to illustrate the great change on the face of the country, this selection from the 100,000 plans shows the value of these sources for many aspects of Scotland’s past and to display snapshots of the landscape through three centuries of change.
The Furrow Behind Me Angus MacLellan ISBN: 9781874744276 Category: Crofting, Social History, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 8pp b/w plates Throughout his lifetime, Angus MacLellan was regarded as one of Scotland’s finest traditional Gaelic storytellers – this definitive autobiography demonstrates his rich skill of the oral tradition.
central highlands The Hebrides Angus MacDonald and Patricia MacDonald ISBN: 9781841583150 Category: Natural History/ Photographic Price: £30.00 hbk, 250x246mm, 336pp, colour photographs throughout The Hebrides of Scotland – around 500 diverse islands – form the north-western Atlantic fringe of Europe. This book surveys the cultural landscape of this dramatically beautiful, complex and conflicted area, with emphasis on what may be interpreted through aerial photography.
SEA CHANGE New The Summer Voyage Edition from East to West Scotland of the Anassa Mari Hedderwick ISBN: 9781780270210 Category: Art, poetry Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x190mm, 208pp, illustrated in colour throughout ISBN: 9781841587868 Category: Travel/Art Price: £20.00 hbk, 260x190, 192pp, colour illustrations throughout In Sea Change, writer and artist Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-week summer voyage from the east to the west of Scotland in the antique teak, 26foot long cruising yacht the Anassa, sailing through the Caledonian Canal to the fjords of the west: and visiting, among others, Lochs Linnhe, Etive, Ailort, Moidart, Nevis and Leven.
An Eye on the Hebrides Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841587943 Category: Travel Writing, Travel Price: £10.99 pbk, 260x190mm, 144pp, colour illustrations throughout Portrays the islands from Arran to Lewis in all their diversity, with swift and perceptive cameos of everyday life drawn with humor and affection alongside gorgeous landscapes which capture the magical beauty of the Hebrides.
Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith ISBN: 9781841950822 Price: £4.99 pbk, 258x242mm, 176pp, colour illustrations throughout Hamish Haswell-Smith follows on from his best-selling The Scottish Islands with this new book, An Island Odyssey. And odyssey it is. It is a year-long voyage through the Scottish islands presenting an island a week – 52 in all. Each is coupled with artist Haswell-Smith’s full-page, watercolour illustration of the island as well as its history, legends, local characters, and landscape.
The Kingdom of MacBrayne Donald E. Meek and Nicholas S. Robins ISBN: 9781841586014 Category: Industry, Shipbuilding, Social History Price: £20.00 pbk, 246x230mm, 304 pp, colour illustrations throughout The Kingdom of MacBrayne tells the story of David MacBrayne, his ships and his company, his predecessors, rivals and successors.
The Unknown Hebrides John MacPherson ISBN: 9781841583525 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 125pp, colour photographs throughout This book forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.
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Hebrides at War Mike Hughes
Hebridean sharker Tex Geddes
ISBN: 9781841581439 Category: History, Photography Price: £10.99 pbk, 265x200mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781780270340 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, 16pp b/w plates
A collection of photographs of the key west coast bases in Scotland during World War 2. The Hebrides were an important but little known theatre of the war and the photographs are accompanied by first-hand accounts of U-boat attacks, convoy attacks and the preparation for D-Day, from both military and civilian sources.
A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695 Martin Martin ISBN: 9781841580203 Category: Exploration Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 360pp A unique and authoritative account of Martin Martin’s great journey around the Western Isles, Orkneys and Shetlands.
To The Hebrides Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour James Boswell, Samuel Johnson and Ronald Black ISBN: 9781780270319 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 672pp, 8pp b/w plates
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In Hebridean Sharker Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch,between the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Using an adapted whaling harpoon, he and his crew stalked these huge fish often in perilous conditions, the liver of which is a valuable source of oil. Always a maverick, before World War Two Geddes had been a boxer and a rumrunner to Newfoundland.
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ISLES OF THE WEST Ian Mitchell
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ISBN: 9781841589503 Category: Travel Writing Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp, 16pp colour plates
Isles of the West describes a three-month voyage made in the summer of 1996 around the Hebrides. The author explores the major issues peculiar to these fascinating islands.
Hebridean Island Hopping Martin Coventry
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ISBN: 9781841588865 Category: Guides, Travel Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 320pp, b/w images throughout Illustrated throughout with photographs and maps, and including practical information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat, how to get there and how to get around, this is an eminently practical, portable and essential guide for the independent traveller.
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Here, they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment.
Photographers of the Western IsleS Martin Padget
Island Going Robert Atkinson
ISBN: 9780859767040 Category: Photography Price: £30.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 64pp, b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841587127 Category: Ornithology, Natural History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 384pp, 32pp b/w plates What began as a simple sailing adventure to find a rare bird species turns out to be much more a revelation into the quiet and unassuming world of the Hebridean life. A personal and humanistic perspective.
Tales and Travels of a School Inspector John Wilson ISBN: 9781841585260 Category: Autobiography/Biography Format: PB Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp First published in 1928, the personal account of John Wilson’s experiences is both compassionate and humorous, providing a valuable insight into the social and educational conditions of the Gaelic Highlands and Islands.
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This book discusses why and how photographers such as Paul Strand, Robert Adamson, Margaret Fay Shaw, Erskine Beveridge and more have been drawn to the fascinating islands off the West coast of Scotland.
The History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland Donald Gregory ISBN: 9781904607571 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £25.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 464pp In this re-issue of a continuing classic, Donald Gregory explores the turbulent and compelling past of Scotland’s Highlands and Islands in the medieval era, concentrating on the years between 1493 and 1625.
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The History of Orkney Literature Simon Hall
Northern Isles
ISBN: 9781906566210 Category: Scottish Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, 8pp colour plates
The Isle of Foula Ian Stoughton Holbourn ISBN: 9781841581613 Category: Local History, History Price: £12.99 pbk, 230x150mm, 272pp, b/w plates A book of extraordinary rarity, The Isle of Foula remains the classic account of this lonely and beautiful island off of Shetland.
ISLES OF THE NORTH Ian Mitchell
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ISBN: 9781841589442 Category: Travel Writing Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 336pp, 16pp colour plates
The first full survey of literary writing from and about the Orkney Islands. The book presents readings of uncomplicatedly Orcadian writers such as Walter Traill Dennison, Edwin Muir, Eric Linklater, Robert Rendall and George Mackay Brown and shows how the archipelago, rather than the nation, can indeed be the defining locus of a compact and vibrant literary tradition.
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In the summer of 2002, Mitchell set sail aboard the 30foot yacht Foggy Dew on a voyage that took him from his home through the Western Isles to Orkney and Shetland and on to the west coast of Norway. Against the backdrop of one of the world’s most spectacular coastlines, he sailed up the Nordfjord, down to Bergen, then out to Utsira, and back home via Inverness.
The New History of Orkney William P. L. Thomson
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ISBN: 9781841586960 Category: Local History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 544pp A comprehensive and complete guide to the mysterious islands of Orkney ranging in its breadth from prehistoric settlements to ongoing contemporary controversies of oil and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Scandanavian allegiance.
Shetland Rambles Mairi Hedderwick
This Great Harbour W.S Hewison
ISBN: 9781841589985 Category: Scottish, Art Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x190mm, 176pp, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781843410263 Category: Maritime, Military and Adventure Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 400pp
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Shetland Rambles is a beautiful, poignant and entertaining journey through the islands by one of Scotland’s best loved authors and illustrators and packed with incidental detail and charm.
Scapa Flow is known worldwide. In two world wars it was the northern base which sheltered ships of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets from both storm and enemy attack. This book tells a fascinating history of a little seaway in the furthest reaches of Scotland’s coast.
Mackerel at Midnight Ethel G. Hofman
Scapa James Miller
ISBN: 9781841831107 Category: Food And Drink, Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 176pp
ISBN: 9781843410058 Category: Maritime, Military and Adventure Price: £9.99 pbk, 260x170mm, 176pp, b/w plates, maps
Ethel Hofman grew up in the only Jewish family on Shetland. This is the story of her family and childhood, accompanied by recipes for Jewish and Shetland food cooked by her mother. In this fascinating yet poignant study, Marian Pallister introduces the many varied aspects of lost Argyll, showing how ancient and even relatively modern landscapes have changed inexorably, often with little thought for conservation or preservation.
Orkney Caroline Wickham-Jones ISBN: 9781780270012 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 195x129mm, 256pp, 8pp b/w plates, b/w illustrations throughout Orkney: A Historical Guide is a marvellous companion to the fascinating Orkney islands, offering a broad overview of their history.
Scapa Flow, one of the greatest naval bases in history, resonates through the annals of the Royal Navy during the two great wars of the twentieth century, and this book solidifies that reputation in this remarkable book.
The Grand Scuttle Dan van der Vat
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ISBN: 9781843410386 Category: History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 16pp b/w plates At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built, was deliberately sent to the bottom of the British Grand Fleet’s principal anchorage at Orkney by its own officers and men. This book presents the story of the scuttling of this fleet in Scapa Flow.
Jutland to Junkyard S. C. George ISBN: 9781843410102 Category: Maritime, Military History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, 48pp b/w plates In 1919 the German High Seas Fleet began in unison to sink in Scapa Flow. Shortly after the Admiralty stated that salving the ships was an impossibility. From 1924, using techniques at the frontiers of science, the battlefleet was raised and scrapped. This is the story of the salvage operation.
And on This Rock: The Italian Chapel Donald S. Murray
The Italian Chapel on Orkney was built during World War Two by Italian prisoners of war. This book tells the story of the strength and tenacity, laughter and tears of the men who built it, showing how spirits defeated and despondent during years of exile were lifted by its creation.
St Kilda
ISBN: 9781780271026 Category: Natural History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp
None Dare Oppose John Macleod ISBN: 9781841589091 Category: local History Price: £16.99 hbk, 200x148mm, 304pp John McLeod’s latest offering promises the reader a fascinating journey through a tumultuous period in the history of the Isle of Lewis. For both the seasoned historian and the amateur alike this is a must read.
When I Heard The Bell John MacLeod ISBN: 9781841588582 Category: Military History Price: £9.99 pbk, 200x148mm, 304pp
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St Kilda George Seton
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George Seton visited St Kilda in the summer of 1876 and wrote this account immediately afterwards. He brilliantly summarises previous material about the islands, surveys local incidents from the beginning of the seventeenth century, and provides a wealth of information about the daily life and unique customs which were soon to die out under the impact of increasing exposure to the outside world.
Natural History of St Kilda John A Love
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On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. This work tells the story of the Iolaire, the commitment of the people of Lewis to the war against the Kaiser, and the way of life that was destroyed.
Children of the Black House Calum Ferguson ISBN: 9781841582689 Category: Crofting Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x189mm, 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout 2006 RATCLIFF PRIZE - HIGHLY COMMENDED Children of the Black House is a fascinating glimpse into life on the Hebridean island of Lewis from the closing years of the nineteenth century up to the 1970s in which Calum Ferguson draws on his mother Mairead’s reminiscences, presenting her experiences and conversation in the first person.
Lewis in the Passing Calum Ferguson
ISBN: 9781841587974 Category: Natural History Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 364pp, 8pp colour plates
ISBN: 9781841585475 Category: Local History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w plates
Focussing on the natural history of this fascinating island, John Love gives us a history of discoveries from the many naturalists and scientists who have studied St Kilda, showing just how important wildlife was to the survival of the islanders.
Lewis in the Passing is a form of time-capsule, containing twenty-one autobiographical sketches of Lewis natives, all born before the Second World War. All the subjects are interviewed by fellow islander Calum Ferguson, who, in presenting their stories and journeys, reveals the magnetism and appeal of this rain- and wind-swept island.
The Truth About St Kilda Donald Gillies ISBN: 9781906566074 Category: Autobiography, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp, 8pp b/w plates A unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the island of Hirta. It provides a first-hand account of the living conditions, social structure and economy of the community in the early 1900s, before the evacuation of the remaining residents in 1930.
Lewis in History and Legend: The West Coast Bill Lawson ISBN: 9781841583686 Category: Local History, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 288pp, b/w illustrations througout Lewis in History and Legend: The West Coast is the first volume by Bill Lawson about the history of the Isle of Lewis. A beautifully rendered portrait of the social and cultural history of the Isle of Lewis, from its early inhabitants to its modern day residents.
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Lewis in History and Legend: EAST COAST Bill Lawson ISBN: 9781841583693 Category: Local History, Scottish Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 272pp, b/w illustrations throughout Lewis in History and Legend: The East Coast is the second volume by Bill Lawson about the history of the Isle of Lewis A beautifully rendered portrait of the social and cultural history of the Isle of Lewis, from its early inhabitants to its modern day residents.
Tales and Traditions of the Lews Donald MacDonald ISBN: 9781841580555 Category: Scottish History, Folklore Price: £7.99 pbk, 196x126mm, 288pp Tales and Traditions of the Lews is a marvellous pot pourri of local history, myth and legend from prehistoric times to the present day; it brings alive the island of Lewis in a way few other histories can.
Around the Peat Fire Anthology Calum Smith ISBN:9781841589046 Category: Memior Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 4pp b/w plates Full of humour and life, his memoirs are a celebration of a still largely Gaelic culture and society in the throes of great change. His boyhood and education took place in and around Stornoway (at Shawbost and Laxdale) and the book is peopled with characters and families well known in Lewis to this day.
The Guga Hunters Donald S. Murray ISBN: 9781841586847 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 272pp, 16pp b/w plates The Guga Hunters tells the story of the men who voyage to Sulasgeir each year and the district they hail from, bringing out the full colour of their lives, humour and the drama of their exploits.
The Soap Man Roger Hutchinson ISBN: 9781841583273 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 16pp b/w plates
Victorian shooting lodge near Glenfinnan, and a study of the history of that small once-Gaelic place.
Banner in the West John MacLeod ISBN: 9781841588520 Category: History of Religion, History Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 416pp, 16pp b/w plates This is a story of the inhabitants of Lewis and Harris – a tale of a people as indomitable as their landscape and a faith as profound as the Hebridean sea.
More Views From North Lochs Aimsir Eachainn ISBN: 9781841588056 Category: Humour Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 352pp Giving a voice to the Scottish Gael at the end of the 20th century, the late Hector Macdonald (writing as the great Aimsir Eachainn) scribed the brilliant weekly column A View from North Lochs for the West Highland Free Press. This book is the second collection of columns.
HARRIS IN HISTORY AND LEGEND Bill Lawson ISBN: 9781841585239 Category: Local History, Scottish Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 240pp In this book, Bill Lawson, who has lived on Harris for many years, not only introduces the reader to the events that have shaped the island’s history but also dips into the local legends, traditions and tales as well as his own personal reminiscences. The result is a unique insight into Harris life, industry and its people through the ages.
Uist And Barra The Silent Weaver The Extraordinary Life and Work of Angus MacPhee Roger Hutchinson
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ISBN: 9781841589718 Category: Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 8pp colour 8pp b/w plates A rich, moving and enthralling exploration of mental health, the creative process, human frailty and ancient traditions, The Silent Weaver recounts the life of Angus MacPhee who returned from World War 2 traumatised into silence, then spent the next 50 years weaving miraculous artworks from grass, leaves and wool.
The Soap Man brings to light a little known civil war between crofter and laird, lower and upper class, on the isle of Lewis.
Father Allan Roger Hutchison
the Back o’ the Hill Highland Yesterdays John G. Gibson
ISBN: 9781841585482 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 16pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841586380 Category: Local History, History Price: £14.99, pbk 234x156mm, 288pp, 16pp b/w plates
A compelling tale of a remarkable life this story is also one that is implicitly tied in with the history of the north-west Highlands in the late nineteenth century and the Catholic Hebrides in their transcendent prime, where culture overflows with myth and adventure, colour, character and extraordinary unspoilt beauty.
This book is a blend of memories of a boyhood spent, just after the war, at Craigag, the earl of Morton’s
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Tales from an Island Christina Hall
The Vatersay Raiders Ben Buxton
ISBN: 9781841587059 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 364 pp
ISBN: 9781841585536 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 16pp b/w plates
This omnibus edition of Christina Hall’s memoirs brings together her two books, To the Edge of the Sea and Twice around the Bay.
Stories from South Uist Angus MacLellan
This book, the first about Vatersay, draws on detailed records to tell the remarkable story of the raiders: their struggle to escape from the poverty which, they claimed, the policies of the absentee landowner forced them to endure, the raiding and settlement of the island and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts.
ISBN: 9781874744269 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp
Strange Things John Lorne Campbell, Trevor H.Hall
This collection of 42 stories comprises every type of tale found on the island of South Uist, including heroic Fingalian stories, international folktales, ghost stories and local historical and humorous anecdotes.
a school in soUth uist Frederick Rea
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ISBN: 9781874744870 Category: Local History/Memoir Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp Frederick G. Rea was an English teacher who became headmaster of Garrynamonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. His love and respect for the islands is wonderfully conveyed in this vivid testament.
Tales From Barra John MacPherson (The Coddy) ISBN: 9781874744030 Category: Fiction, Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp, 8pp b/w plates A warm book of folklore and tales told by one of the most well-known storytellers of the Western Isles.
NORTH UIST IN HISTORY AND LEGEND Bill Lawson
ISBN: 9781841584584 Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 368pp, 8pp b/w plates Now reprinted for the first time since 1968, this is a collection of stories about the supernatural, collected in the late 1890s by Father Allan McDonald, parish priest of the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.
Skye & Raasay A Summer in Skye Alexander Smith
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ISBN: 9781874744382 Category: Travel, Scotland Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp This paean to Skye lives in the memory and reveals the extent to which Alexander Smith fell in love with the subtle and mystical charm of the island.
Skye: The island and its legends Otta Swire
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ISBN: 9781841584799 Local History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp
ISBN: 9781780270760 Category: Local History Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 246pp, b/w illustrations throught
This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still, and of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair.
In this informative book, Bill Lawson writes about the island and its people, drawing on recorded history and also the rich tradition of story and song in which the informal history of the people was passed down.
50 Best rouTes on skye and raasay Ralph Storer
North Uist Erskine Beveridge
ISBN: 9781780270425 Category: Walking Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp, b/w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781841581644 Category: History Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 528pp, b/w illustrations throughout An account of the archaeology and topography of North Uist. Included are sections on clan history, climate, topography and place names. 150 plates showing the island and its sites in a condition from which many have greatly changed.
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Skye’s bristling mountains and sweeping coastline offer an enormous selection of walking and climbing routes through some of the most beautiful and dramatic landscapes in Scotland. For this popular guide, Ralph Storer has selected the very best walks on the island to demonstrate the variety it has to offer new visitors and seasoned campaigners alike.
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25 Walks: Skye and Kintail Hamish Brown
OLD SKYE TALES: TRADITIONS, REFLECTIONS AND MEMORIES William Mackenzie
ISBN: 9781841830070 Category: Walking and Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 220x135mm, 224pp, colour photographs throughout From the well-known and picturesque Old Man of Storr to the wildlife and prehistoric remains at Rubh’ an Dunain; from the legends surrounding the Five Sisters to the rocks and crags above Plockton, this book guides the walker to areas of outstanding beauty and solitude.
Calum’s Road Roger Hutchinson ISBN: 9781841586779 Category: Local History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
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ISBN: 9781841582016 Category: Folk Tales Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 180pp
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Tells the story of a stubbornly heroic resistance and of extraordinary personal achievement – the story of a statement made from the depths of one man’s heart in the most practical and indisputable of ways against the unnecessary destruction of his homeland.
Mackenzie’s Old Skye Tales is an extraordinary compilation of lore, legend, tradition and incident from the Isle of Skye, collected and written by a man of considerable intelligence and observation.
The Soay of our Forefathers Laurance Reed ISBN: 9781841582290 Category: Local History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 196x126mm, 112pp, 8pp b/w plates The little known hebridean island of Soay has its history set in stone in this comprehensive book.
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The Land Where I Belong Mary Carmichael
Mainland
ISBN: 9781841588414 Category: Photographic Price: £20.00 pbk, 230x290mm, 128pp, b/w photographs throughout
Butt and Ben A Highland Boyhood Re-issue Donald Sutherland Introduction by Graeme Pagan
Duncan Macpherson (1882-1966), a pharmacist at Kyle of Lochalsh, created a vast photographic record of Highland life. His collection is little known outside the area, but yet must rank as one of the most significant photographic archives in the country. This book reproduces some of the best images from the collection.
The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh Roger Miket and David Roberts ISBN: 9781841586137 Category: Local History, History, Architecture Price: £10.99 pbk, 240x190mm, 144pp, b/w illustrations throughout, 8pp colour illustrations The castles of Hebridean myth and story are brought to life in this scholarly yet easy-to-read book. Roger Miket explores the history and architecture of the settings associated with blood-curdling dramas such as the murderous goings-on at Dun Sgaith or the far-fetched yarns of Saucy Mary and Cú Chulainn
ISBN: 9781874744283 Category: Autobiography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp Donald Sutherland grew up in Oban at the beginning of the twentieth century. In this charming and perceptive memoir, he reminisces about his early life there, painting a detailed picture of those halcyon years just before the outbreak of the First World War.
Walking with Murder: on the ‘Kidnapped’ trail Ian Nimmo ISBN: 9781841584096 Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x135mm, 208pp, 12pp colour plates Few who have read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped can resist its appeal. Ian Nimmo takes us on the very same journey of Stevenson’s classic novel.
Skye Cailean MacLean
Argyll Curiosities Marian Pallister
ISBN: 9781841583518 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x256mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout
ISBN: 9781841585314 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout
In a series of beautiful colour photographs, Cailean Maclean celebrates the huge variety of scenery Skye has to offer. This book forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most spectacular scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.
A unique insight into the eclectic collection of ‘curious’ archaeology, geography, geology and genealogy of Argyll.
Argyll Allan Wright ISBN: 9781841583556 Category: Photography Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 128pp, colour photography throughout
Argyll – the enduring heartland – with a coastline longer than that of France is one of the most beautiful counties in Scotland and also one of the most varied.
Colintraive and Glendaruel Bridget Paterson
The Argyll Book (Editor) Donald Omand
ISBN: 9781841584003 Category: Local History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 305pp, 24pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841582535 – HB ISBN: 9781841584805 – PB Category: Scotland, Social History, Natural History, History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 24pp b/w plates Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 24pp b/w plates Argyll, Dalriada or Earra-ghaidheal, ‘the Coastland’ or ‘Boundary of the Gael’, is one of the most beautiful and historically significant parts of Scotland. A unique and comprehensive picture of an area rich in history, archaeology and geology
This is the first history of this beautiful part of the Cowal peninsula since Archibald Brown’s acclaimed book of 1908, and presents the story of Colintraive and Glendaruel from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day.
Ferry Tales of Argyll and the Isles Walter Weyndling
Villages of Northern Argyll Mary Withall
ISBN: 9781841582702 Category: Maritime Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp, b/w photographs throughout
ISBN: 9780859765848 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout
Ferry Tales of Argyll and the Isles is a touching portrayal of the many lives dependant on, affected by and connected to the ebb and flow of the ferry services of the western isles.
Argyll’s historical importance goes back for thousands of years. As the centre of the kingdom of Dalriada the area was of seminal importance in terms of Gaelic culture, and was also of extreme significance in the spread of Celtic Christianity.
The Appin Murder Seamus Carney
Villages of Southern Argyll Marian Pallister ISBN: 9780859765831 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout Award-winning journalist Marian Pallister has brought together historical fact and contemporary reminiscence to give a fascinating insight into the origins and development of human settlement in this beautiful outpost of Scotland.
Skipness Angus Graham ISBN: 9781841584201 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp, 16pp b/w plates Angus Graham’s book is an endearing account and history of a highland estate stretching over many decades and ownerships from the Victorian period until well into the twentieth century.
The Easdale Doctor Mary Withall ISBN: 9781841584379 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £10.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 244pp, b/w illustrations throughout A biography of an extraordinary man, this book also paints a remarkable portrait of the life and times of a beautiful part of Scotland from the late Victorian era to the middle of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 9781841589817 Category: Crime, History, Clans Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 20pp b/w plates The Appin murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in Scottish history. With its dark undercurrents of Jacobitism, intrigue, greed and revenge this incident has caught the popular imagination. Theories abound as to who actually fired the fatal shot at Colin Campbell of Glenure.Seamus Carney’s account remains the definitive account of this still baffling mystery.
islands Mull and Iona Mull Jo Currie ISBN: 9781904607984 Category: Scottish Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 400pp, 8pp colour plates, 16pp b/w plates The first serious history ever written of one of the most beautiful and most visited of Hebridean islands, this text is the product of fifteen years’ research. It is lavishly illustrated with a wealth of previously unpublished pictures. The result is one of the most important books on Hebridean history yet written, told throughout with humour and masterful characterisation.
Mull and Iona John MacPherson ISBN: 9781841584430 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout
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This collection of photographs of the island of Mull and its neighbouring isles forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.
Four Ducks on a Pond Annabel Carothers ISBN: 9781841588766 Category: Fiction Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w line art throughout
Eccentric Wealth Alastair Scott
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ISBN: 9781841589558 Category: Scottish History/Biography Publication Date: May 2011 Price: £9.99 pbk, (ebook available) 198x129mm, 272pp, 16pp b/w plates
Nicholas the cat keenly observed the comings and goings of three generations of his family and their animals in a remote area of the Isle of Mull, and recorded it all – the funny, dramatic, heart-warming and harrowing events that make up family life. Rediscover Annabel Carother’s tender tales of pastoral romance.
As It Was Donald W. Mackenzie
As It Was serves as an autobiography and as a history of the island of Ulva. His recollections of childhood friends gradually recognising the landscape of eviction is particularly moving.
This book extensively covers the history of Islay up to the present day with a particular focus on the people of the island, those who have left their mark centuries ago and those who inhabit the island even today.
ISBN: 978 1 84158 2009 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 396pp, 16pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841589299 Category: Biography, History Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, 16pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9781780270005 Category: Local History, History Price: £8.99 pbk, 196x126mm, 224pp, 8pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9781841583587 Category: Local History, History Price: £30.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 416pp, 24pp b/w plates
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The Man Who Gave Away His Island Ray Perman
The Small Isles Denis Rixson
Islay David Caldwell
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The tiny island of Canna has been touched by the major historical trends of the Hebrides, from St Columba to the Jacobite risings and the Clearances of the 19th Century.
Alastair Scott traces the life of Lancashire industrialist Sir George Bullough in this absorbing biography which explores his family’s connection with the Hebridean island of Rum, particularly the building of Kinloch Castle, the most intact preserve of Edwardian high-living to be found in Britain and the many scandals linked to it.
This is the first book ever to be written on the collective history of the little group of islands between Ardnamurchan and Skye. Amongst the best known of the Hebrides, they are also amongst the least documented. A highly enlightening book on these little-studied islands.
ISBN: 9781780270104 Category: Scottish, Memoir Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp, 8pp b/w plates
CANNA: THE STORY OF A HEBRIDEAN ISLAND John Lorne Campbell Edited by Hugh Cheape
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Islay, Jura and Colonsay David Caldwell ISBN: 9781841589619 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 272pp, 16pp b/w plates
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In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Isle of Canna. He wanted to preserve part of the traditional Gaelic culture and show that efficient farming methods could be compatible with wildlife conservation and sustainability. This is the story of a remarkable man and his triumph over adversity, bank managers and bureaucrats to fulfil his dream.
From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides Margaret Fay Shaw ISBN: 9781841587707 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp, 24pp b/w plates This autobiography is testament to a remarkable woman as well as a powerful plea in defence of a Gaelic culture and world under threat.
Part of Birlinn’s series of Scottish Historical Guides, Dr. Caldwell’s book draws on a great deal of primary research and local knowledge to create a detailed account of the history of these relic strewn Hebridean Islands. Essential reading for local and tourist alike.
Islay and Jura George Robertson ISBN: 9781841584287 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout This book forms part of a new series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.
The Last Laird of Coll Mairi Hedderwick
DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY AND THE BORDERS
ISBN: 9781780270197 Category: Biography, Local Interest Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 96pp, 8pp b/w plates
The Borders Alistair Moffat
Lismore: the great garden Robert Hay ISBN: 9781841585659 Category: Local History, History Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 208pp, 12pp b/w plates Because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Great Glen and its fertility, as a limestone island, Lismore played an important part in the prehistory and early history of the West Highlands and Islands, not least as the headquarters of the community of Celtic monks founded by St Moluag. This is a guidebook to the story of Lismore.
Mairi Hedderwick has known Kenneth Stewart over fifty years. Two people who love the island of Coll share their memories of it. An exploration of the role of the Laird, his relation to the land, and the cruelty of debt and Island life.
God’s Islanders Catherine Czerkawska ISBN: 9781841582979 Category: Local History, History Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 20pp b/w plates A personal account of a writer’s close relationship with a unique and evocative landscape.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KINGS: A New Guide to Walks in and Around Kilmartin Glen Sharon Webb ISBN 9780953367443 Category Walking Guide Price £7.99 pbk, 224pp, colour illustrations throught This walking guide leads you through 25 of the finest walks in Kilmartin Glen and the Craignish Peninsula. The book introduces you to the story of the heart of Argyll and its fascinating archaeological monuments, unique landscape and natural history. All proceeds from the sale of ‘In the Footsteps of Kings’ will go towards furthering the work of Kilmatin House which operates Kilmartin House Museum. The Museum’s mission is to protect, interpret and enhance your enjoyment of the archaeology and natural history of Kilmartin Glen and the surrounding area.
ISBN: 9781841584669 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 608pp, 8pp, colour plates In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of the inhabitants who have made the Borders their home and who have created the traditions, myths and romance that define it so strongly.
The Reivers Alistair Moffat
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ISBN: 9781841586748 Category: British History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 336pp, 16pp, colour plates The Reivers is an extraordinary book which tells the historical tale of a land that was at all times no-man’sland but a land over which blood was shed on both sides of an invisible border.
Kelsae Alistair Moffat ISBN: 9781841584577 Category: Local History, History Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 224pp Kelsae is a definitive and comprehensive guide of the historical Border town, Kelso.
Where The Whaups Are Crying Innes Macleod ISBN: 9781841581491 Category: Anthology Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 464pp This anthology of Scottish writers and writing includes work by John Buchan, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, James Boswell, Daniel Defoe, John Welsley, J.M. Barrie and John Keats. Also included are a range of anecdotes and non fiction concerning the area.
The Southern Upland Way Roger Smith ISBN: 9781841830773 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £17.99 pbk, 220x135mm, 245pp, colour photographs throughout plus map The Official Guide to the Southern Upland Way,
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Britain’s first official coast-to-coast footpath. In its 212-mile route across southern Scotland it crosses a remarkable variety of scenery, from the coastal cliffs at Portpatrick to the fertile glens by St Mary’s Loch and Traquair, and ending in the east at Cockburnspath.
St Cuthbert’s Way Ron Shaw and Roger Smith ISBN: 9781841831312 Category: Walking And Climbing, Travel Price: £12.99 pbk, 220x135mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout This completely revised edition of the Official Guide takes us through a number of places closely associated with St Cuthbert’s life. The journey is full of historical interest and natural beauty.
25 Walks: Borders Peter Jackson ISBN: 9781841831299 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 160x114mm, 128pp Features 25 walks in the Lammermuir, Moorfoot and Tweedsmuir Hills, an area steeped in history and legend.
25 Walks: Dumfries and Galloway Tom Whitty ISBN: 9781841831183 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 220x135mm, 128pp 25 Walks: Dumfries and Galloway describes 25 walks in the beautiful southwest corner of Scotland.
GLASGOW, CLYDESIDE AND AYRSHIRE ARYSHIRE AND ARRAN Glasgow Shops Carol Foreman ISBN: 9781841589039 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 pbk, 250x230mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout Glasgow Shops: Past and Present contains a fascinating selection of photographs of shops and advertisements ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day. It is a fascinating collection that charts the changing face of Glasgow over the years, each photograph brought to life by one of the foremost experts of Glasgow history and culture.
Glasgow Street Names Carol Foreman ISBN: 9781841585888 Category: Reference Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 184pp, b/w illustrations throughout This new revised edition examines the famous street names in the city centre from the M8 to the north bank of the River Clyde, to Glasgow Green and Bridgeton in the east and to Kingston Bridge in the west, with new material examining the Gorbals and the West End of the city, and with newly acquired illustrations and photography.
Stan Laurel and Other Stars of the Panopticon Judith Bowers ISBN: 9781841586175 Category: Theatre, Cultural Studies Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x135mm, 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout This book brings to life the little known history of Britain’s oldest and surviving music hall. Set in the centre of Glasgow, the Britannia, as it was originally called, was famed for hosting many debuts to many artists who went on to successful careers and continues today as a museum to its past.
Stanley Baxter’s Bedside Book of glasgow Humour Stanley Baxter with Alex Mitchell ISBN: 978181582467 Category: Humour Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 112pp, 16pp, b/w plates Glasgow humour has always been characterised by a
Urban Walks Roger Smith
scant regard for caution and reserve, and its extrovert and often surreal nature. No one exemplifies all these aspects better than Stanley Baxter, Glasgow’s best known and greatest comic genius.
ISBN: 9781841831237 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 170x115mm, 144pp, colour photographs throughout
The Parliamo Glasgow Omnibus Stanley Baxter
Scotland’s towns and cities are packed with historical and scenic interest, and all of them have wonderful stories to tell. Well-known outdoors writer Roger Smith has gathered 30 fascinating urban walks, some from his popular column in The Herald, covering Glasgow and the West, into a volume that is sure to interest a wide audience.
ISBN: 9781841587745 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp For the first time this hilarious book is available on audio CD. It is the essential guide to understanding the intricacies and nuances of one of Britian’s most colourful dialects by the multi-faceted comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter.
25 Walks: In and Around Glasgow Alan Forbes
Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams Eric Graham
ISBN: 9781841831282 Category: Walking And Climbing Price: £9.99 pbk, 170x115mm, 128pp, colour photographs throughout
ISBN: 9781841585840 Category: Maritime, Shipbuilding, Social History Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 16pp, b/w plates
Explores the great variety of Glasgow’s green areas – from formal parks like Kelvingrove to less known nature trails, many with views of the Clyde. This book includes easily accessible walks outside the city with more challenging moorland and mountain routes.
This highly engaging book provides an original perspective on the examination of the American civil war and how the Scots and Scottish shipbuilding was crucial to the battle of nations.
25 Cycle Routes: In and Around Glasgow Erl B. Wilkie
West Coast Tales Walter Weyndling
ISBN: 9781841830957 Category: Cycling, Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 218x135mm, 125pp, colour photographs throughout
ISBN: 9781841583464 Category: Social History, Shipbuilding, Industry Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 176pp, b/w illustrations throughout West Coast Tales, like Weyndling’s first book of stories Ferry Tales, is a collection of memories from the beginning of his career as an apprentice in a Glasgow shipyard during the Second World War to his time working as a ship surveyor.
River of Fire John Macleod
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ISBN: 9781841589688 Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 448pp, 8pp, b/w plates With reference to written sources and the memories of those who survived the experience, John MacLeod tells the story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and devastation, speculating on why its incineration has been so widely forgotten and its ordeal denied any place in national honour.
Sure as the Sunrise: A History of Albion Motors Sam McKinstry ISBN: 9781904607243 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 205pp, b/w illustrations throughout This is the first detailed history of Albion Motors, Scotland’s most successful motor-manufacturing company, established in Glasgow in 1899.
From the semi-rural charm of the Forth-Clyde Canal to the wild heights of northern Ayrshire; and from the parklands of Mugdock and the Carron Forest to the Edwardian grandeur of the city centre, the variety of rides is wide and unexpected. Much to tempt experienced and novice cyclists alike.
Renfrewshire: A Scottish County’s Hidden Past New Derek Alexander ISBN: 9781841587998 Category: Local History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 312pp, 8pp, colour plates Derek Alexander provides an enthralling account of the archaeological history of Renfrewshire, one of Scotland’s least investigated countys.
Lost Ayrshire Dane Love ISBN: 9781841584362 Category: Local History, Architecture Price: £10.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout Over the centuries, countless buildings have been built and demolished throughout the county of Ayrshire. This informative and beautifully illustrated book looks at a wide selection of these, from castles and country houses to mines and mills from Ayrshire’s rich industrial past.
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Ayrshire Historical Guide Thorbjorn Campbell ISBN: 9781841582672 Category: Local History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 304pp, 8pp, b/w plates A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Ayrshire from prehistoric times to the present day, including maps of the region, site plans and illustrations of the major buildings and ruins.
Arran Thorbjorn Campbell ISBN: 9781841585291 Category: Local History Price: £20.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp, b/w plates “An astonishingly detailed account of Arran’s past...a must-have.” - Arran Voice Thorbjorn Campbell gives an original, fascinating and comprehensive account of Arran’s long and eventful history.
EDINBURGH AND LOTHIAN The Sword and the Grail Andrew Sinclair ISBN: 9781841583969 Category: History of Religion, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp, 32pp, b/w plates Based on stunning new archaeological evidence from across the pond and in Britain The Sword and the Grail details the involvment of the Order of the Knights of the Templar as the true discoverers of America.
Inside Edinburgh David Torrance ISBN: 9781841587875 Category: Price: £20.00, pbk, 250x246mm, 224pp, colour photographs throughout A compelling, luminous and beautiful record of Edinburgh’s grand interiors, from those that are open for all to see, to those that are seldom recognised.
Canonmills and Inverleith Joyce M Wallace ISBN: 9780859764001 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.95, pbk, 208x160mm, 220pp Joyce M Wallace lovingly retells the history and heritage of these areas combined with lively anecdotes about the characters who populated them.
Living Memories Jennifer Veitch ISBN: 9781841584522 Category: Local History, History, Photography, Art Price: £12.99pbk, 270x220mm, 144pp, b/w illustrations throughout In Living Memories, Jennifer Veitch delves into photographic archives to tell the story of the city’s transformation through the 20th century, from provincial centre to a cosmopolitan city.
Capital Caricatures (Editor) Sheila Szatkowski ISBN: 9781841586588 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 hbk, 198x144mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout This book represents a selection of the very best of John Kay’s famous caricatures of Edinburgh characters. His works illustrate a fascinating epoch in the history of the Scottish capital.
Lord Cockburn: The Letters (Editor) Alan Bell
He was ‘dazzled’ by the Scottish capital and paints an unforgettable picture of Edinburgh in the 1940s.
ISBN: 9780859766302 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £25.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp
Taxi! Never a Dull Day Douglas J. Findlay
This selection of 180 [new] letters – destined to become another classic in the tradition of the Memorials – provides much fresh information about his career as advocate, judge, Whig activist, genial family man and pioneer in building conservation.
Jinglin’ Geordie’s Legacy Brian R W Lockhart ISBN: 9781906566098 Category: History, Scottish History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 448pp, b/w illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781841588964 Category: Memoir Price: £8.99pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp A memoir of the author’s time as a cabbie in post-war Edinburgh that helps you to meet Charlie the Gangster, Pedro the Pirate, Jo-Jo, Mr Goldbaum and his Housewives’ Friend, the gin-slinging Lavender Ladies, as well as Dorah Noyce, Edinburgh’s infamous madam, and a representative of the Scottish Republican Army.
Black Friday: The Eyemouth Fishing Disaster of 1881 Peter Aitchison
A fresh and modern slant on the history of an Edinburgh icon and a unique place in Scottish education.
ISBN: 9781841589824 Category: Local History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 384pp, 8pp, b/w plates
McLevy: The Edinburgh Detective James McLevy
Previously published as Children of the Sea, Black Friday tells of Scotland’s equivalent to the ‘Perfect Storm’ and its tragic aftermath.
ISBN: 9781841587417 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
Rosslyn Chapel Angelo Maggi
The collection of stories in this book are based on some of the 2,220 cases he dealt with in the course of James McLevy’s career, wonderfully evoking the spirit of the city, and the vivid descriptions of its criminal classes. Introduced by Quintin Jardine.
The McGovan Casebook James McGovan ISBN: 9781841830506 Category: Crime, Literature Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 200pp In the 1870s there appeared a series purporting to be the autobiographical writings of an Edinburgh policeman, James McGovan. Honeyman, the real author, had created one of the first detectives in crime fiction.
Papermaking on the Water of Leith Sarah Bromage, David Finklestein and Alasdair McCleery ISBN: 9780859766722 Category: History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, 8pp, b/w plates Examines the papermaking industry on the Water of Leith during the twentieth century, from before the second World War through to the closure of the last mill in 1989.
The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh Chiang Yee ISBN: 9781841830483 Category: Travel Writing Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 244pp, b/w illustrations throughout Exiled from China in 1933, Chiang Yee produced some of the most evocative travel books ever written.
ISBN: 9781841587240 Category: History Price: £25.00, hbk, 285x215mm, 192pp, colour throughout The mysterious and charismatic Rosslyn Chapel has captured the imagination of the public since it was built in the 15th century with visitors continuing to flock to this beautiful building, intrigued by the myths and romance that surround it. This book presents an account of the chapel’s history and architecture.
Forth Bridge A Picture History Sheila Mackay ISBN: 9781841589350 Category: History Price: £10.99 pbk, 220x290mm, 112pp, b/w illustrations throughout The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of mankind. The Forth Bridge: A Picture History, tells the dramatic story of its construction using rare archive photographs.
The Briggers Elspeth Wills ISBN: 9781841587615 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £16.99 pbk, 280x240mm, 150pp, b/w illustrations throughout Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning archive images, Elspeth Wills uncovers the human story behind the building of the Forth Bridge: the story of the Briggers. It is a story that has never been told before – of ordinary men working on an extraordinary structure in an often hostile and dangerous environment.
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Exploring the Edinburgh and Glasgow Canals Hamish Brown
CAPITAL OF THE MIND: HOW EDINBURGH CHANGED THE WORLD James Buchan
ISBN: 9781841830964 Category: Walking Price: £12.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 125pp, colour illustrations throughout
ISBN: 9781841586397 Category: Local History, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 448pp
The canals themselves were the cutting-edge technology of their day in the great age of the Industrial Revolution. Illustrated in colour, and with maps of every section of the canals, this guide describes their history; and shows you how to make the most of a swathe of rural tranquility in the heart of lowland Scotland.
James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh, home to some of the finest minds and breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies.
Lothian: A HISTORICAL GUIDE Mark Collard ISBN: 9781874744450 Category: Local History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, maps and line art throughout This book details the abundance of superb archaeological remains and places of great historic interest to be found in this very particular region of Scotland.
Secrets of Rosslyn Roddy Martine
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ISBN: 9781841587882 Category: History of Religion, History Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 16pp, colour plates
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Ever since its creation in the mid 15th century, Rosslyn Chapel has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited it. Nestling in an exquisite glen barely seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, it exudes an extraordinary atmosphere, serene yet charged, as if it holds the secret of some vast, unearthly mystery.
This Too Shall Pass Roddy Martine ISBN: 9781841586052 Category: Local History, History Price: £20.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 255pp, 32pp, colour and b/w plates Presents the author’s ancestors’ history of East Lothian with tales and anecdotes to embrace the 20th and 21st centuries.
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FIFE AND TAYSIDE
Illustrated with evocative woodcuts and photographs Fringe of Gold is the first anthology of its kind which offers a unique introduction to an often overlooked area of Scotland. A rich and diverse compilation in honour of the Kingdom of Fife.
The Beginning and the End of the World Robert Crawford ISBN: 9781841589800 Category: Local History/ Photography Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, 32pp, b/w plates
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A celebration of St. Andrews, the first town in the Englishapeaking world to have it’s people, buildings, and natural environment documented through photography.
St Andrews Raymond Lamont-Brown ISBN: 9781841584508 Category: Local History, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout Raymond Lamont-Brown presents in his insightful book the history of St Andrews bridging from the time of the Picts to the 21st century. A comprehensive and complete history of this remarkable Scottish town.
Anstruther Stephanie Stevenson
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ISBN: 9781904607441 Category: Local History, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, b/w illustrations throughout Anstruther: A History is written by a local author with a deep understanding of Anstruther, who conveys her enthusiasm for her subject in elegant prose and well-chosen pictures.
Kilrenny and Cellardyke Harry D. Watson
Along the Fife Coastal Path Hamish Brown ISBN: 9781841830575 Category: Guides Price: £12.99 pbk, 216x136mm, 176pp Illustrated with colour maps and photographs, this guide introduces the visitor to the wealth of castles, churches, harbours, milestones and red-roofed ‘little houses’ that Fife has to offer.
Discovering Dundee Andrew Murray Scott ISBN: 9781873644881 Category: Guides, Travel Price: £8.99 pbk, 230x152mm, 112pp A fascinating and entertainingly written book which traces the history of the city famed for jam, jute and journalism.
The Sidlaws Maurice Fleming ISBN: 9781841830063 Category: Folklore Price: £9.99 pbk, 230x154mm, 160pp The Sidlaws are a low range of hills running from Montrose in the east to Perth in the west. They are a rich source of traditional tales, legends, historical incidents and songs.
The Winter Whale Jim Crumley ISBN: 9781841587325 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99. pbk, 193x130mm, 211pp A remarkable historical set piece about a humpback whale that followed herring shoals into the Tay estuary, and travelled as far upstream as Dundee docks.
ISBN: 9781904607083 Category: Local History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout
Poet McGonagall Norman Watson
A book for anyone with an interest in the East Neuk of Fife, this is a history of the parish and burgh of Kilrenny from the twelfth century to the present day.
ISBN: 9781841588841 Category: Biography Price: £20.00, hbk, 230x160mm, 224pp
Recollections of East Fife Fisher Folk Belle Patrick
William McGonagall is one of the best known names in the printed world. Yet he’s largely escaped the biographer’s pen – until now. This definitive biography of the world’s worst poet is the remarkable, revealing and compelling story of a one-time Dundee weaver who continues to fascinate the world beyond Scotland a century after his passing.
ISBN: 9781841582818 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 112pp, 8pp, b/w plates This book is a charming yet insightful memoir of a bygone way of life. From it emerges a detailed picture of fisherfolk and fishing: their boats, methods of fishing, life and customs.
Fringe of Gold (Editors) Duncan Glen, Tom Hubbard ISBN: 9781841587042 Category: Local History Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, b/w illustrations throughout
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PERTHSHIRE AND CENTRAL SCOTLAND Atholl and Gowrie A HISTORICAL GUIDE Lindsay MacGregor, Richard Oram ISBN: 9781841580296 Category: Local History Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Atholl and Gowrie from prehistoric times to the present day.
Lost Perth Jeremy Duncan ISBN: 9781841589664 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 hbk, 230x150mm, 256pp Superbly illustrated with over 100 old photos and engravings, this book makes lost Perth visible again to new generations.
Lost Perthshire Ann Lindsay ISBN: 9781841585574 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 hbk, 230x150mm, 212pp A journey through the architectural, geographical, industrial, and archaeological heritage of Perthshire.
Out of Atholl James Irvine Robertson ISBN: 9781841587660 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £14.99 pbk, 230x150mm, 206pp This family saga emerged through the chance survival of an archive of documents covering a dozen generations of a family that lived in Atholl in Highland Perthshire.
The Perthshire Book Donald Omand ISBN: 9781874744849 Category: Local History, History Price: £16.99 hbk, 238x154mm, 255pp This comprehensive collection of essays provides fascinating information about this part of Scotland. The natural, historical and cultural treasures of this popular part of Scotland are revealed here in all their glorious variety.
Kinross-shire Margaret Cuthbert ISBN: 9781906566326 Category: Local History Price: £16.99 pbk, 230x154mm, 288pp
This work attempts to breathe life into a now close to forgotten period of Scottish life before the effects of centralisation came into force. The stories contained within draw on the recollections of over thirty inhabitants from the Kinross-shire area.
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs P. J. G. Ransom ISBN: 9780859765862 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 264pp, b/w illustrations throughout Here are the stories of the famous people who came to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, why they came, how they travelled and what they found.
Discover Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Martin Valery ISBN: 9781841588353 Category: Guides, Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 250x140mm, 144pp This practical guide to Scotland’s first national park will help to you to discover the rich mosaic of history and nature of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs. Its scenic beauty, wildlife and local culture offer recreation, tranquillity, remoteness, enjoyment and relaxation.
The Trossachs Allan Wright ISBN: 9781841583549 Category: Photography, Art Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x250mm, 128pp, colour illustrations throughout Made famous by Sir Walter Scott, the Trossachs retains its hold on the Scottish imagination as one of the most romantic areas of the country.
25 Walks: Heart of Scotland Roger Smith ISBN: 9781841831152 Category: Walking And Climbing, Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 170x121mm, 113pp Part of the 25 Walks Series published by Mercat Press, this long-awaited Heart of Scotland edition covers Scotland’s central belt. Packed full of interesting historical facts and includes many routes through intriguing areas of interest.
SET ON A HILL: A Strategic View over Scottish History Robin Bell
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ISBN: 9781841589947 Category: Local History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w and colour pics Offering a refreshing change from standard histories, which so often tell a nation’s story in terms of big events and personalities, Set on a Hill is an engrossing and entertaining book which looks at the broad sweep of Scotland’s history from the perspective of just one small Scottish town – Auchterarder.
BIOGRAPHY/ MEMOIRS
ISBN: 9781780270173 Category: Crime, Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 8pp b/w plates Jock Murray looks back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography.
The Man Who Challenged America Laurence Brady ISBN: 9781841585789 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, 16pp, b/w plates One of the world’s first global entrepeneurs, Sir Thomas Lipton’s life is one of fascination.
Marjory’s Book Marjory Fleming and Barbara MacLean ISBN: 9781873644966 Category: Diaries and Letters Price: £7.99 pbk, 172x122mm, 128pp
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ISBN: 9781780270272 Category: Biography/Architecture Price: £25.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 456pp b/w and colour plates 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.
THE FINAL CURTSEY: A Royal Memoir by the Queen’s Cousin Margaret Rhodes
A Life of Soolivan: Based on the Recollections of John MacLeod, Gael, Traveller, Rebel, Convict and Raconteur Calum Ferguson ISBN: 9781841583280 Category: Biography Price: £14.99 pbk, 260x189mm, 288pp, b/w illustrations trhoughout This book is a remarkable portrait of one of Lewis’ most famous sons and a celebration of a truly free spirit.
This book is about Marjory Fleming, a little girl who lived in the east of Scotland in the early part of the nineteenth century. Between the ages of seven and eight she kept a journal into which she poured her thoughts on every subject that took her fancy.
THE GRAND DESIGNER: THIRD MARQUESS OF BUTE Rosemary Hannah
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The Whaler of Scotland Yard Jock Murray
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ISBN: 9781780270852 Category: Memoir Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 16pp colour plates This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The Leper’s Bell Norman MacLean ISBN: 9781841588919 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk (ebook available), 198x129mm, 352pp A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly’s, this is a frank, funny and unique autobiography of a comedy legend.
James Colquhoun Irvine Julia Melvin ISBN: 9781906566319 Category: Biography Price: £30.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 16pp b/w plates This fully researched biography recounts the history of James Colquhoun’s roots in the west of Scotland; the influences of his boyhood and his work as a pioneering organic chemist.
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I Remember John Nicolson ISBN: 9781841582221 Category: Local History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 8pp plates John Nicolson’s book offers a poignant glimpse into a way of life now lost forever and a celebration of one of Scotland’s most beautiful islands.
The Noblest Work of God: The Memoirs of James Lough and John Craig Peter Aitchison
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ISBN: 9781841583921 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp In 1928 Lough returned to America where he helped in the compilation of a family tribute to John Craig. Like Lough, Craig was a self-made man. He had backed Lincoln in the Civil War, had made a fortune during Reconstruction, and then lost it again in speculative ventures, before establishing a shipyard on the Great Lakes. James Lough received a copy of the Craig book Episodes of my Life in late 1928 and, unknown to his own family, he then wrote down his own long and remarkable life story which he sent back to his kin in America. It lay forgotten there until a chance encounter drew the document back to Scotland and to Lough’s great-great grandson, Peter Aitchison.The two works are now combined in a single volume along with a detailed commentary which brings the story up to date.
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Burning and Turning James A. Begg
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ISBN: 9781841831114 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp
The Sea Kingdoms Alistair Moffat
Ayrshire GP Jimmy Begg continues his story with more of his exploits with the helicopter rescue team at HMS Gannet.
ISBN: 9781841587172 Category: British History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 158x129mm, 336pp, 16pp b/w plates
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A unique perspective on the history of Great Britain as we know it. Surpassing modern boundaries, Alistair Moffat brings together a country that was once united in its Celtic culture and history.
West Highland Galley Denis Rixson ISBN: 9781874744863 Category: History Price: £20.00, hbk, 216x138, 256pp, 8pp, b/w plates This text provides an assessment of the importance of the galley in the economy of the Scottish Highlands as a means of transporting mercenaries to Ireland. It argues that surplus manpower following the Union of the Crowns became a major factor in the collapse of Scotland into civil war.
WITNESS TO REBELLION: Reprint JOHN MACLEAN’S JOURNAL OF THE ‘FORTY-FIVE’ AND THE PENICUIK DRAWINGS Editors Iain Gordon Brown and Hugh Cheape ISBN: 9781906566142 Category: History Price: £14.99 pbk, 246x189mm, 96pp, b/w illustrations throughout A fascinating first-hand account of the experiences of an officer of Prince Charles Edward’s army from August 1745 to the Battle of Culloden, where John Maclean was killed.
SCOTLAND IN New DEFINITION: A HISTORY OF SCOTTISH DICTIONARIES Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (editors) ISBN: 9781906566494 Category: Linguistics, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp, b/w illustrations throughout This book gives an account of Scots and Gaelic dictionaries and glossaries, and also of the contribution by many Scots to the lexicography of English, from medieval times to the major electronic projects of the twenty-first century.
THE STEWART EARLS OF ORKNEY Peter Anderson ISBN: 9781904607465 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w plates This book has its foundations in two previous books by Peter Anderson about the Stewart earls, Robert Stewart
and his son Earl Patrick (‘Black Patie’) who were rulers of the islands of Orkney and Shetland in the late 16th century. This book builds on more recent research by the author and other historians.
BACK To CALEDONIA: New SCOTTISH HOMECOMINGS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT Edited by Mario Varricchio ISBN: 9781906566449 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w plates The contributors to this volume shed light on the experience of Scottish emigrants who decided to head back home, through five centuries of Scottish history, by exploiting analytical tools from history, anthropology, sociology and literature.
THE MAKERS OF SCOTLAND: PICTS, ROMANS, GAELS AND VIKINGS Tim Clarkson
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ISBN: 9781906566296 Category: Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 8pp b/w plates 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. In this book the remarkable story of how ancient North Britain became the medieval kingdom of Scotland is told.
Columba Tim Clarkson
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SCOTLAND’S FIRST OIL BOOM: tHE SCOTTISH SHALE OIL INDUSTRY, 1851-1914 John McKay
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ISBN: 9781906566500 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w plates This book tells the history of this unique industry for the first time.
Burt’s Letters Edmund Burt
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ISBN: 9781874744900 Category: Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 320pp Burt’s Letters from the North of Scotland is one of the most detailed yet entertaining sources of information on life and customs in the Highlands during the eighteenth century
At the Edge of Empire Michael Gardine ISBN: 9781841585444 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 230x156mm, 229pp Born in Aberdeenshire in 1838, Thomas Blake Glover was a widely-travelled merchant and a key figure in the industrialisation of Japan. Using material which has only recently become available, Michael Gardiner’s highly readable and informative biography of this remarkable man offers a balanced view of his legacy.
The Member for Scotland Willis Pickard
ISBN: 9780859767118 Category: Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, maps and tables
ISBN: 9781906566418 Category: Scottish History Price: £20.00, pbk, 220x156mm, 320pp
Who was Saint Columba? How did this Irish aristocrat become the most important figure in early Scottish Christianity? In seeking answers to these questions this book examines the different roles played by the saint in life and death, tracing his career in Ireland and Scotland before looking at the development of his cult in later times.
This biography is based on a wide range of political and family letters never previously used. It opens a door on Victorian public and family life and contributes to an understanding of why Scotland so ardently embraced Gladstonian Liberalism.
The Early Stewart Kings: robert ii and robert iii 1371-1406 Stephen Boardman
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ISBN: 9781904607687 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 368pp, 8pp b/w plates This volume is number one in The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series and is also the first scholarly biography of the two kings who established medieval Scotland’s most famous and durable royal dynasty.
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The Wall Alistair Moffat ISBN: 9781841587899 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x127mm, 270pp
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enemies of the Picts. Here, the various fragments are drawn together to tell the story of this mysterious people from their emergence in Roman times to their eventual disappearance.
Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland Marjorie O. Anderson
Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. This book considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow.
ISBN: 9781906566302 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 240x154mm, 328pp
The Antonine Wall David Breeze
Marjorie O. Anderson has made a fresh critical analysis of the evidence available from regnal lists and Irish annals, covering the sixth to ninth centuries.
ISBN: 9780859766555 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout
The Kings of Alba Alasdair Ross ISBN: 9781906566159 Category: Scottish History Price: £20.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 240pp
A commanding history of the most northern outpost of the Roman Empire.
Roman Scotland David Breeze
A hugely rewarding voyage of discovery for anyone interested in the formation of the kingdom of the Scots.
ISBN: 9780713489958 Category: History, Scottish History Price: £15.99 pbk, 242x188mm, 128pp
Vikings in America Graeme Davis
Two thousand years ago the Roman army, one of the world’s most successful fighting machines, set out to conquer Scotland. Three invasions were attempted, and each ended in withdrawal. This book investigates why the Romans chose to invade and failed.
Men of the North Tim Clarkson
The Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings, they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their story is often neglected or ignored. This book redresses the balance by studying the northern Britons from the departure of Rome to the birth of medieval Scotland.
ISBN: 9781841589589 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x127mm, 272pp A whirlwind tour of Scotland as it existed two thousand years ago. Moffat provides insight into oldWelsh speaking Celtic societies, defies the modern notion of geographical and linguistic constancy, and takes us back to when the Sons of Prophecy ruled and when the English kings of Bernicia held sway over vast swathes of what is now Scotland.
The Picts: A History Tim Clarkson ISBN: 9781906566258 Category: Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 213x137mm, 192pp Pictish history is recorded only in fragments presented by writers whose lords and masters were often bitter
A groundbreaking new study on the discovery of America which preceded the voyage of Christopher Columbus.
Kings, Mormaers andRebels John Marsden
ISBN: 9781906566180 Category: History Price: £20.00, pbk, 231x155mm, 325pp
The Faded Map Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781841589596 Category: World History Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x130mm, 224pp
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ISBN: 9781906566197 Category: Scottish Price: £20.00, pbk, 228x154mm, 224pp By the author of a number of books about northern medieval history, this book traces the story of the Cenél Loairn and its descendent kindreds through more than six hundred years to throw an unfamiliar side-light on the emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots.
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Somerled and the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland John Marsden ISBN: 9781904607809 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 212pp Exhaustively researched yet eminently readable, this first book-length account of the historical Somerled assembles, evaluates and interprets the full spectrum of evidence.
The Cross of St Andrew Ursula Hall ISBN: 9781841585185 Category: History of Religion, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 212x138mm, 180pp A fully-illustrated study of the written and iconographic material relating to the death of St Andrew, with discussion of the evidence which may
Kingdom of the Isles R.A MacDonald
initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation’s freedom and independence. This title investigates what is known of the medieval warrior’s career. It examines his reputation, from the time of his horrendous execution onwards.
ISBN: 9781904607793 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 232x154mm, 288pp
The Wars of the Bruces Colm McNamee
help to determine when, where, and why the X-shaped cross was imported into the tradition.
This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of the Isles.
Mighty Subjects Elsa Hamilton ISBN: 9781904607946 Category: Scottish Price: £25.00, pbk, 230x154mm, 288pp
Robert Bruce Colm McNamee ISBN: 9781841584751 Category: History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 12pp, b/w plates
The Balliol Dynasty Amanda Beam ISBN: 9781904607731 Category: British History, History Price: £30.00, pbk, 231x155mm, 288pp Amanda Beam offers an alternative perspective to the Balliols who have continuously been cast as weak and ineffectual throughout Scottish history. Beam provides an interesting insight and removes any misconceptions.
Under the Hammer Fiona Watson
William Wallace Andrew Fisher
Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, Wallace
For Freedom Alone The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 Edward J Cowan
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The Fall of the House of Percy Richard Lomas
Featuring new sections on the Wallace of literature and present-day perceptions, this book provides a more authentic picture of the greatest of Scotland’s heroes than has been previously available, placing the crude distortions and inaccuracies such as Braveheart in their proper context.
ISBN: 9781906566241 Category: History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, 16pp, b/w plates
The life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, Bruce became a gifted military leader and a wise statesman. This book aims to encourage popular reassessment of Bruce as politician, warrior, monarch and saviour of Scottish identity from extinction at the hands of the Edwardian superstate.
This is the first book-length study to examine the origins of the Declaration of Arbroath and the ideas upon which it drew, while tracing the rise of its mystic status in Scotland and exploring its possible impact upon Revolutionary America.
ISBN: 9781841585932 Category: Scottish History, History, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp, 8pp, b/w plates
The Wallace Book Edward J. Cowan
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ISBN: 9781841586328 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £8.99 pbk, 193x130mm, 174pp
ISBN: 9780859766067 Category: Military History, Military and Adventure Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 234pp, 8pp, b/w plates Fiona Watson examines the process of conquest and attempted colonisation of one medieval kingdom by another, concentrating on that most vital aspect of conquest: the maintenance of garrisons.
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ISBN: 9780859766531 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £14.99pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp Biographies have appeared of the various leading personalities involved, but this is the first systematic study to link up the various theatres of war and to discuss the effects of the Bruce Wars.
The story of a great family in the evolving kingdom of the Scots, cross-border lords who gave unambiguous allegiance to the Scottish Crown, mighty subjects of successive Scottish kings.
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ISBN: 9780859766470 Category: British History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp, b/w illustrations and maps The only book on the turbulent last years of the Percy dynasty.
The Black Douglases Michael Brown
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ISBN: 9781904607595 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 368pp, 8pp, b/w plates Michael Brown analyses the rise and fall of the family as the dominant magnates of the south, from the deeds of the Good Sir James Douglas in the service of Bruce to the violent destruction of the Douglas earls in the 1450s.
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Border Bloodshed Alastair J. MacDonald
James IV Norman MacDougall
ISBN: 9781904607663 Category: Military History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 8pp, b/w plates
ISBN: 9780859766630 Category: Kings and Queens, History, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 12pp, b/w plates
Scottish military offensives against England from 1369 were largely the product of government policy, were launched with careful timing and in the reign of Robert II Involved close co-operation with France.
An intriguing biography of one of Scotland’s most famous and greatest kings.
David II Michael Penman ISBN: 9780859766036 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 496pp, 8pp, b/w plates This major study of a formidable Scottish monarch is also the first in-depth treatment of four decades of crucially formative Scottish history.
The Lords of the Isles Raymond Campbell Paterson ISBN: 9781841587189 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 193x130mm, 174pp This book is the first modern account of one of the epic stories of Scottish History: the rise and fall of Clan Donald.
George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727 Daniel Szechi ISBN: 9781862321328 Category: Autobiography/Biography, Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 232pp This is the first book-length analysis of the Jacobite mind and it challenges the prevailing stereotypes about the kind of man who became a Jacobite.
Galloglas John Marsden ISBN: 9781862322516 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 176pp, 8pp, b/w plates A new account of the galloglas warriors written from a decidedly Scottish perspective, tracing the origins of six kindreds and investigating the circumstances which brought about their relocation to Ireland.
James III Norman MacDougall ISBN: 9781904607878 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £30.00, pbk, 232x156mm, 352pp In this new study, the author explores the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland.
James V Jamie Cameron ISBN: 9781904607786 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £25.00 pbk, 234x156mm Jamie Cameron concentrates on James V’s style of governance and relations with his nobility. He challenges the widely held view of a vindictive and irrational king, motivated largely by greed, who antagonised most of his leading magnates and met his just deserts when they refused to support him in 1542.
The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament Roland Tanner ISBN: 9781862321748 Category: Politics And Economics, Scottish History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 328pp In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended.
The Search for Salvation Audrey-Beth Fitch ISBN: 9781906566036 Category: History, Religion Price: £25.00, hbk, 241x163mm, 336pp An innovative and interdisciplinary study of lay faith in Scotland in the later Milddle Ages, examining both the religious ideas and practices of the people, and the ways in which these were shaped by images in literature, art, and church writings.
The People Above Alexander Murdoch ISBN: 9781904607342 Category: Politics And Economics Price: £20.00, pbk, 228x154mm, 212pp This important book incorporates an outline of the structure of government in Scotland after the Treaty of Union with a study of the politics of Scotland from 1747 to 1784.
She is But A Woman Fiona Downie ISBN: 9780859766562 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp She is but a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the fifteenth-century Scottish court. Fiona Downie explores the art of queenship as practiced by Joan Beaufort (d. 1445) and Mary of Guelders (1433-1463), queens of James I and James II.
Princelie Majestie Andrea Thomas
The Nation Survey’d (Editor) Ian Cunningham
ISBN: 9780859766111 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 224pp
ISBN: 9780859766807 Category: Geography Price: £20.00, pbk, 273x220mm, 172pp, b/w and colour illustrations
For many years the reputation of James V has been overshadowed by the tragic glamour of his father, James IV, killed at Flodden, and his daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Princelie Majestie reveals that he was an energetic and innovative patron, who in a brief fourteen years created a court culture of remarkable quality and diversity.
Around 1583–1596 Timothy Pont, a young graduate of the University of St Andrews, undertook the remarkable task of mapping Scotland. As far as we know, he was the first person to survey Scotland in any detail, and his maps would later form the basis of the first atlas of Scotland, produced by Blaeu in 1654. In this book, a range of experts from different disciplines shed new light on Pont’s mapping and on the insight he gives into 16th century Scotland, while the many illustrations provide a fascinating commentary on the past.
Rough Wooings Marcus Merriman ISBN: 9781862320901 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £12.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 448pp, 12pp, colour plates with b/w illustrations throughout This is the story of the beginnings of Mary, Queen of Scots, a rich and vibrant epic involving many of the major figures of early modern history. Henry VIII of England, Francois I and Henri II of France bestride the canvas, but even they cannot obscure the beguiling figure of the young Mary Queen of Scots.
An Accidental Tragedy Roderick Graham ISBN: 9781841588032 Category: History, Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 194x130mm, 480pp
Scotland: Mapping the Nation Christopher Fleet, Charles W.J. Withers and Margaret Wilkes
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Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view of the past, maps too can say much about a nation’s history. This is the first book to take maps seriously as a form of history, from the earliest representations of Scotland by Ptolemy in the second century AD to the most recent form of Scotland’s mapping and geographical representation in GIS, satellite imagery and SATNAV.
Anna, Countess of the Covenant Mary McGrigor
Cardinal of Scotland Margaret Sanderson
ISBN: 9781841586687 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 193x130mm, 244pp
ISBN: 9780859765220 Category: History of Religion, History, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £16.99 pbk, 234x136mm, 324pp
This is the extraordinary and rare account of the life of a seventeenth-century lady, based on a unique and moving collection of letters.
The Scottish Revolution 1637-44 David Stevenson ISBN: 9780859765855 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 232x156mm, 416pp In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I: the events that followed have traditionally been interpreted in terms of religious conflict. This study, first published in 1973, was pioneering in seeking to interpret the great upheaval of these years in Scotland not in isolation but as part of the wars of the three kingdoms.
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ISBN: 9781841589695 Price: £30.00 hbk, 250x246mm, 336pp, illustrated in colour throughout
Based on contemporary documents and histories, Roderick Graham paints a unique picture of Mary, Queen of Scots, as a young girl adrift in the dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics and examines the events that would tragically lead her to the executioner’s block.
The murder of David Beaton lies like a great shadow over the Scottish Reformation and this is the first modern account of this great prince of the church.
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The British Confederate Allan I. MacInnes ISBN: 9781904607960 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 8pp b/w plates ‘In this major new study of Campbell’s life – a formidably learned work which is the product of 20 years’ research – Allan Macinnes provides a highly detailed portrait of Argyll, which offers especially vivid insights into the British political context in which he operated,’ – BBC History Magazine The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell. This history rehabilitates Argyll’s reputation as a Covenanting hero rather than a Covenanting villain.
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Cromwell and Scotland R. Scott Spurlock ISBN: 9781904607779 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 288pp This study seeks to restore the causal role of religion to its proper place in the story of Oliver Cromwell’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland.
Lordship and Power in the North of Scotland Barry Robertson ISBN: 9781906566340 Category: History, Scottish Price: £25.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 288pp This book is the first modern account devoted to the major Scottish noble family the Gordons of Huntly.
No Tragic Story Raymond Campbell Paterson ISBN: 9780859765541 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 193x124mm, 192pp In this book – the first full account of the Argyll rising – Raymond Campbell Paterson places the events of 1685 in the context of late Stewart politics, both in Scotland and Britain as a whole.
Dearest Brother Maurice Lee ISBN: 9781906566166 Category: History Price: £25.00, hbk, 236x158mm, 288pp A substantial and original contribution to the history of Restoration Scotland, this book provides the first detailed account of the course of Scottish politics in Charles II’s reign. For the only time in the Restoration era, Scottish political leaders could make policies with largely independently, and with Scottish interests chiefly in mind.
The Hunt for Rob Roy David Stevenson ISBN: 9781841584836 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 194x130mm, 339pp The Hunt for Rob Roy investigates new and controversial sources that shake modern conceptions of a wellmarked man.
Rob Roy W H Murray ISBN: 9780862415389 Category: History Price: £6.99 pbk, 197x128mm, 314pp W H Murray has brought together new interpretations of Rob Roy’s life in order to produce a clearer understanding of the character, actions and motives of a man who became a myth and a symbol of Scotland.
The Scottish Enlightenment Alexander Broadie ISBN: 9781841586403 Category: Histroy Price: £8.99 pbk, 194x130mm, 240pp Written for general reader, considers the achievement of this particular period of Scottish history. This book attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a noted moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith.
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Militia Issue John Robertson ISBN: 9781906566128 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 280pp Examines how the question of military organisation was a major interest of the leading thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith.
Men of Spirit and Enterprse Suzanne Rigg ISBN: 9781906566371 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 232x156mm, 288pp This book tells the remarkable story of how these temporary migrants, men ‘of spirit and enterprise’, endured dangerous work, freezing temperatures and separation from their kin in Scotland with the expectation of making some money and eventually returning to better prospects at home.
Missions to the Gaels Fiona A.MacDonald ISBN: 9780859766180 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £30.00, pbk, 232x158mm, 256pp This book is the first extended study, in the PostReformation period, of the impact of the Gaels (in the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland) on each others’ religious heritage.
The Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume Roderick Graham ISBN: 9781841585208 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 201x132mm, 448pp The Great Infidel gives a rounded picture of the man, the century in which he lived, his thought, and, above all, his humanity.
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Arbiter of Elegance Roderick Graham ISBN: 9781841588025 Category: Biography Price: £25.00, hbk, 234x166mm, 400pp The first personal biography of the brilliant eighteenthcentury architect, Robert Adam.
The Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844 C. J. A. Robertson ISBN: 9781904607403 Category: Railways, Transport Price: £25.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 432pp Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians; this study fills the gaps for the earliest period of Scottish railway history.
Clearance and Improvement T. M. Devine ISBN: 9781906566234 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 230x156mm, 288pp Based on thirty years of research by Professor Tom Devine, this book is a collection of essays covering the great transformation of rural Scotland which broadly occurred between the 1760s and the middle decades of the nineteenth century.
The Great Highland Famine T. M. Devine
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ISBN: 9781904607427 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 228x156mm Stock Status: reprinting An unusually detailed account of Highland and Scottish history, including clearance, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
Scotland Farewell Donald MacKay ISBN: 9781841584591 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 213x140mm, 352pp Tells the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773. These intrepid emigrants went for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, and the raw hunger of landless men to own land of their own.
Burke and Hare Owen Dudley Edwards ISBN: 9781841589855 Category: True Crime Price: £9.99 pbk, 212x136mm, 320pp The unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders.
AN Unstoppable Force Lucille H Campey
Lydia Elizabeth Sutherland
ISBN: 9781841587738 Category: World History, Scottish History, History Price: £14.99 pbk, 228x148mm, 336pp
ISBN: 9781862322219 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 212x138mm, 208pp
This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. This book is essential reading for those who wish to understand why they came and the enormity of their achievements in Canada.
The name and writings of Hugh Miller, born in Cromarty in 1802, have always been and still are well known. Apart from an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, his wife, Lydia, born in Invemess in 1812, has remained undeservedly in obscurity. Now, in this book, she is at last brought on stage.
More Fruitful than the Soil Andrew Mackillop ISBN: 9781862321618 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 233x157mm, 282pp This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815.
Glencoe and Beyond Iain S. Macdonald ISBN: 9780859766197 Category: Agriculture And Farming, Social History Price: £25.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 316pp An examination of the early sheep-farming period in the Highlands, which was characterised by a great deal of geographical, social and financial movement.
Lairds and Luxury Stana Nenadic ISBN: 9781904607717 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 232x156mm, 288pp This book is a critical account of the social, economic and cultural experience of consumption and luxury of the Highlands in the eighteenth century.
The Dundas Despotism Michael Fry ISBN: 9780859765886 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £20.00, pbk, 226x156mm, 438pp This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851).
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The Tsar’s Doctor Mary McGrigor ISBN: 9781841588810 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 8pp b/w plates Mary McGrigor explores a thrilling period of European history in this biography of James Wylie, Scottish-born personal physician to the Russian tsars in the early nineteenth century. A pioneer field surgeon who saved the lives of countless soldiers, Wylie was present at some of the seminal moments of the Napoleonic Wars, including the battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Borodino, and also involved in some of the most astonishing intrigues of the imperial court.
The King’s Jaunt John Prebble ISBN: 9781841580685 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 212x136mm, 399pp George IV’s great journey to Scotland in 1822 is one of the defining moments in the creation of our country. Prebble has created a thoroughly investigated book, which makes a great read for any history enthusiast.
All Men are Brethren Ian MacDougall ISBN: 9781904607724 Category: History, British History Price: £25.00, pbk, 231x155mm, 928pp An impressive compendium which thoroughly investigates French and other prisoners of war during the period of the Napoleonic War.
Scotland’s Methodists Margaret Batty ISBN: 9781906566265 Category: Histtory Price: £30.00, pbk, 236x158mm, 304pp This book brings to light the human side of Methodist Scotland and will appeal to historians and students alike. From 1750-2000 it traces Christian activity in Scotland and on route weaves an insightful and illuminating tale.
New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland (Editor) Martin J. Mitchell ISBN: 9781904607830 Category: British History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 231x155mm, 288pp This book contains a collection of essays on the Irish in Scotland for almost 20 years. It provides a reassessment of the Irish immigrant experience and offers social, cultural and religious development of Scotland over the past several years.
A Surgical Revolution Peter Jones ISBN: 9780859766845 Category: History of Science, History, Medicine Price: £20.00, pbk, 231x155mm, 240pp This is the story of some pioneers who, during the nineteenth century, transformed the practice of surgery.
Simpson: The Turbulent Life of a Medical Pioneer Morris McCrae ISBN: 9781906566173 Category: Biography Price: £12.99 pbk, 206x128mm, 320pp
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In 1847, challenging the firmly held convictions of the medical profession of the time, James Young Simpson demonstrated for the first time that a woman could be safely relieved of the pains of difficult and traumatic labour by the administration of a general anaesthetic. He later added to his fame when he introduced a new and better anaesthetic, chloroform, which soon became the most popular general anaesthetic for use in general surgery as well as midwifery.
The Flowers of the Forest Trevor Royle ISBN: 9781843410409 Category: Military History, Military and Adventure Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x128mm, 384pp In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes – the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarisation of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women’s role in society following on from wartime employment.
Architect of Victory: douglas haig Walter Reid ISBN: 9781843410454 Category: Military History, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 194x130, 496pp
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The first biography of Douglas Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available.
An Anarchist’s Story Chris Dolan ISBN: 9781841586854 Category: History, Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 194x130mm, 224pp In 1936, with civil war sweeping through Spain, Ethel Macdonald – a working-class girl from Motherwell – was to become, for a year, one of the world’s most famous voices. She was perhaps the first example of an ‘embedded reporter’, sending dispatches and broadcasts back from the Spanish Anarchist camp in Barcelona to the UK.
Flight of the Titan George Rosie ISBN: 9781841588636 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x130mm, 256pp The flight of the R34 was one of the great feats of British aviation and it has been shamefully forgotten but there is a wealth of information out there. Weaving
shape iron in furnaces, forges, mills and foundries before, during, and after the industrial revolution.
all of this together, George Rosie paints a vivid picture of the great feats of early 19th Century aviation and one of which Scotland should be immensely proud.
The Tartan Airforce Deborah Lake
National Health Service in Scotland Morrice McCrae
ISBN: 9781841588063 Category: Military History Price: £8.99 pbk, 196x128mm, 272pp
ISBN: 9781862322165 Category: Medicine Price: £25.00, hbk, 238x157mm, 288pp
Spanning a century, this book investigates Scotland’s contribution to military flying in Britain.
This book traces the background to the setting up of the National Health Services established in Scotland and England in 1948.
The Polish Invasion Ksawery Pruszynski
The Flag in the Wind Dr John MacCormick
ISBN: 9781843410485 Category: Military History, Military and Adventure Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x127mm, 128pp This book, first published in 1941, is a witty and perceptive account of the impact of Poles coming into Scotland, following their contribution to the Second World War.
A Time of Tyrants Trevor Royle ISBN: 9781843410553 Category: History Price: £25.00, hbk, 234x164mm, 416pp A stunning exploration of Scotland’s place during the Second World War and the role she played both as a strategic outlay but also as a humanitarian haven.
The Tartan Pimpernel Donald Caskie ISBN: 9781843410355 Category: Military Histor, Military and Adventure, Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 199x128mm, 288pp
ISBN: 9781841587806 Category: Politics And Economics Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x124mm, 226pp This updated edition of John MacCormick’s seminal work examines the early years of the twentieth-century Nationalist movement in Scotland, providing an invaluable insight into the creation of the SNP and its campaign to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly.
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The Tartan Pimpernel is the remarkable autobiography of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940. A true story of heroism and sacrifice in occupied France during the Second World War.
Morningside Mata Haris Douglas MacLeod ISBN: 9781843410218 Category: Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 212x138mm, 256pp
Douglas MacLeod traces the astonishing and untold story of a spy ring at the very centre of Scotland’s high society. At the end of the Second World War, Kitty, Duchess of Atholl, and Mrs Elma Dangerfield set up the Scottish League for European Freedom, ostensibly as a response to the extensive refugee crisis in Eastern Europe.
Sons of Vulcan Robert Duncan ISBN: 9781841587691 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £14.99 pbk, 236x190mm, 240pp Presents Scotland’s industrial history and the people who helped to shape it. This book focuses on the men and boys who mastered heat and fire to make and
ISBN: 9781906566081 Category: History Price: £20.00, hbk, 229x157mm, 352pp A thematic account of Scotland’s twentieth century that examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period.
Be Well! Jewish Immigrant Health and Welfare in Glasgow, 1860-1914 Kenneth Collins ISBN: 9781862321298 Category: Emigration, Social History Price: £12.99 pbk, 215x139mm, 160pp This book looks at the response of the Jewish community in Glasgow to its health problems and the complex community based welfare infrastructure it created.
The Tradition of Scottish Philosophy Alexander Broadie ISBN: 9781906566401 Category: Philosophy, Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 212x138mm, 154pp Broadie looks at the evolution of philosophy from the beginning of the fifteenth century in Scotland.
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general history ARTHUR AND THE LOST KINGDOMS Alistair Moffat
wealth and the Polish presence in Scotland during the twentieth and early twenty-first century.
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Scottish Battles John Sadler ISBN: 9781843410478 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 196x127mm, 156pp
ISBN: 9781780270791 Category: Philosophy, Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 8pp colour plates
The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But how much of what we read about him in stories that date back to the Dark Ages is true? Alistair Moffat shatters all existing assumptions about Britain’s most enigmatic hero.
New The Lowland Clearances SCOTLAND’S SILENT REVOLUTION Peter Aitchison & Andrew Cassell
The Scots:A Genetic Journey Alistair Moffat & James F. Wilson
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ISBN: 9781780270326 Category: Philosophy, Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 272pp, 8pp colour plates
From Mons Graupius to Culloden, this book on the history of warfare in Scotland shows how terrain and politics shaped the campaigns and decisive engagements still remembered today. Each chapter also features sections on the developments of warfare: its tactics, equipment and styles of fighting.
Scottish Queens 1034 – 1714 Rosalind K. Marshall ISBN: 9780859766777 Category: Kings and Queens, History Price: £10.99 pbk, 232x156mm, 240pp The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been obscured and neglected. Rosalind K. Marshall addresses this oversight with a collection of mini-biographies.
ISBN: 9781780270692 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp Based on pioneering historical research, this book tells the story of the Lowland Clearances, establishing them as a wider part of the process of Clearance which affected the whole country and changed the face of Scotland forever.
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Scottish Medicine Helen Dingwall, David Hamilton, Iain MacIntyre, Morrice McCrae and David Wright ISBN: 9781780270180 Category: Scottish History Price: £30.00, hbk, 278x223mm, 304pp
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In The Scots: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat and James F. Wilson explore the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncover the detail of where we are from, who we are, and in so doing vividly paints a DNA map of Scotland.
Written by leading Scottish medical historians of our time, this book tells the dramatic story of how medicine in Scotland developed from its origins in prehistory.
Blood on the Wave John Sadler ISBN: 9781841588650 Category: Military History, Maritime Price: £20.00, hbk, 234x157mm, 348pp
A History Book for Scots Walter Bower
A brilliant, insightful and unique portrait of the Scottish war at sea, examining an array of skirmishes including the Wars of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, the Second World War, and cold war spying missions.
ISBN: 9781906566593 Category: Scottish History Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 312pp
Scotland’s Castle Culture Audrey Dakin, Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie (Editors)
Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon – a ‘history book for Scots’. This fascinating selection is made from the modern 9-volume edition produced by Professor D.E.R. Watt and his team.
ISBN: 9781906566333 Category: Scottish History / Architecture Price: £25.00, hbk, 244x192mm, 288pp
Scotland and Poland T.M. Devine and David Hesse ISBN: 9781906566272 Category: Scottish History Price: £20.00, pbk, 232x156mm, 224pp This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish–Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish–Lithuanian common
This book covers the entire history of Scotland’s castles, from the very first stone castles in the 13th century to those of the present day.
The Scottish Country Miller 1700-1900 Enid Gauldie ISBN: 9780859765114 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £14.99 pbk, 226x154mm, 264pp Enid Gauldie’s fascinating study discusses in detail the origins of milling, the social context and daily life of the miller, as well as the technical aspects of the industry.
Scottish Handwriting 1150 – 1650 Grant Simpson ISBN: 9781906566111 Category: History Price: £20.00, pbk, 246x183mm, 148pp Dr Grant Simpson uncovers the lost art of reading ancient transcripts in the first comprehensive study of Scottish handwriting in over 250 years.
An Honest Trade: Booksellers and Bookselling in Scotland (Editors) Alistair McCleery, David Finklestein and Jennie Renton ISBN: 9780859766739 Category: History and Culture Price: £7.99 pbk, 193x127mm, 192pp This book provides a lively account of bookselling and booksellers through the life histories of key and representative figures in the Scottish trade, told in their own words.
Law of Succession Sir Iain Moncreiffe ISBN: 9781904607861 Category: Genealogy, History Price: £60.00, hbk, 299x213mm, 368pp A masterful study that traces the Scots law of succession from the earliest period of recorded Scottish history to the twentieth century.
The Scottish Nation: Identity and History Alexander Murdoch ISBN: 9781904607694 Category: British History Price: £30.00, hbk, 234x158mm, 224pp Scotland’s leading historians, old colleagues and former students have come together to celebrate the controversial quality of William Ferguson’s achievements.
The Trade Victoria Coules ISBN: 9781841585321 Category: British History, History, West Country Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp In presenting the full story of Bristol’s involvement in the slave trade, as well as its subsequent demise, Victoria Coules’ original and timely book shows how port cities around Britain profited from the slave trade.
Fantastical Imaginations Lizanne Henderson ISBN: 9781906566029 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 231x154mm, 288pp This collection of essays, by some of the foremost commentators in the field, is the first to tackle such topics as prophecy, astrology, witchcraft, fairy belief, amulets and charming.
The European Sun (Editor) Kenneth Simpson ISBN: 9781898410973 Category: Cultural Studies Price: £25.00, pbk, 232x156mm, 300pp A description of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scottish language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).
The Mineworkers Robert Duncan ISBN: 9781841583655 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £14.99 pbk, 256x190mm, 256pp The first substantial social history of mineworkers in Scotland to encompass the entire span of commercial mining, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the extinction of deep coal mining.
Catherine Carswell Jan Pilditch ISBN: 9780859766852 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £20.00, pbk, 230x156mm, 320pp Catherine Carswell, the Scottish novelist, biographer, and critic is recognised as a substantial figure in the Scottish literary Renaissance. Jan Pilditch’s vivid account of her life tells us much about women and their writing in the early years of the twentieth century.
Water is Best: The Hydros and Health Tourism in Scotland 1840-1940 Alastair J. Durie ISBN: 9780859766579 Category: History Price:: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, 12pp b/w plates This study examines the enthusiasts and practioners who ran the hydros, the personnel and patients, the visitors and the guests, and looks at why the Scottish hydros were so successful whereas the Scottish spas faded.
Nationalism in Stateless States Robert Thomsen ISBN: 9781906566203 Category: Political Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 288pp Explores national identities and nationalist movements since 1967, using the examples of Scotland and Newfoundland. This book argues that ethnically rooted nationalism in modern liberal democracies need not, as argued by theories of ‘classic’ nationalist movements, strive for full independence.
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historic scotland
accessible and up-to-date introductions to key themes and periods in Scottish history and prehistory.
ALBA: GAELIC KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND Stephen Driscoll
Saints and Sea Kings Ewan Campbell
ISBN: 9781841581453 Category: Scottish History, History Publication Date: March 2006 Price: £6.99 pbk, 252x186mm, 64pp In AD 800 Scotland was shared between four peoples: the powerful kingdom of the Picts, who held sway over most of the landmass of Scotland; the kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll; the kingdom of the Britons in Strathclyde; and the divided and declining king
Wild Harvesters Bill Finlayson ISBN: 9781841583822 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 252x186mm, 64pp Wild Harvesters is an introduction to the first people to live in Scotland.
Farmers, Temples and Tombs Gordon Barclay ISBN: 9781841583808 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 252x186mm, 64pp Farmers, Temples and Tombs describes the revolutionary period in early Scottish history when hunter-gathers gave way to the first farmers and the beginnings of settled society in Scotland.
A Gathering of Eagles Gordon Maxwell
ISBN: 9780862418748 Category: History Price: £6.99 pbk, 254x186mm, 64pp Archaeological evidence has become available regarding the arrival of the kingdom of the Dalriada, the first kingdom of the Scots. This text, part of “The Making of Scotland” series, describes its influence and the impact that the Ionian community had on culture and religion after A.D. 503.
Surviving in Symbols Martin Carver ISBN: 9781841583815 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 252x186mm, 64pp With new archaeological research, the ‘material culture’ of the Picts – their settlement, ways of life and burial practice – is slowly coming into focus and is fully represented in this fascinating book.
Alba E.J Cowan and R. Andrew McDonald, Editor(s)
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ISBN:9781906566579 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00, pbk, 222x152mm, 282pp Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era is the first such volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-todate research.
ISBN: 9781841583846 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 254x186mm, 64pp
The Sea Road Olwyn Owen
A Gathering of Eagles describes the formative period in Scottish history when Caledonia was the northern frontier of the mighty Roman Empire.
ISBN: 9780862418731 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £5.99 pbk, 252x184mm, 64pp
Settlement and Sacrifice Richard Hingley
First and foremost the Vikings were travellers, roaming far to the east, south and west in their magnificent ships – the lords of the seas.
ISBN: 9781841583839 Category: Scottish History, History Format: Paperback Price: £6.99 pbk, 252x186mm, 64pp Settlement and Sacrifice is an introduction to the people who lived in Scotland from around 1500 BC to AD 200. It was a time when people built impressive houses and settlements, but also one of war and human sacrifice as society was disturbed by quarrels over resources, land and wealth.
Angels, Fools and Tyrants Chris Lowe ISBN: 9780862418755 Category: Scottish History, British History, History Price: £5.99 pbk, 252x184mm, 64pp As the last Roman troops left Britain, a new phase opened in the history of what was to become Scotland. This book is part of a series produced by Historic Scotland and Canongate which provides lively,
The Age of the Clans Robert Dodgshon ISBN: 9781841581446 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 254x188mm, 64pp This is the first overview of Highland society ever to be written which covers the period from the rise of Somerled to the first clearances.
Puir Labourers and Busy Husbandmen Piers Dixon ISBN: 9781841581460 Category: History Price: £6.99 pbk, 256x186mm, 64pp This title explores the new way of life brought to the Scottish medieval countryside by feudalism, the threat of revolution, and the spread of Benedictine
monasticism. It focuses on the day-to-day activities of farming, peat extraction, woodland management, milling, malting, baking and brewing.
Burgess, Merchant and Priest Derek Hall ISBN: 9781841581477 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £6.99 pbk, 256x176mm, 64pp The first popular synthesis to be attempted of what life was like in the new communities of Perth, Aberdeen, Elgin, Edinburgh and Glasgow, grown from planned medieval burghs in the 12th century.
documents Mercat Anthology of Early Scottish Literature 1375 1707 R D S Jack and P A T Rozendaal ISBN: 9781906566005 Category: Anthologies, Literary Criticism Price: £20.00, pbk, 235x155mm, 532pp An anthology of early Scottish literature. It is suitable as a teaching text for school and university students.
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 1 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9781904607601 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 236x174mm This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 2 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9781904607618 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 240x170mm This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 3 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9781904607625 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 240x170mm This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 4 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9781904607632 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 240x170mm This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the Present Volume 5 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9781904607649 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £16.99 pbk, 320pp This volume is one of a series of five which have been published as teaching and learning materials for the University of Dundee/ Open University Distance Learning Course in Modern Scottish History.
People and Society in Scotland, Vol. 3 A. Cooke, I. Donnachie, A. MacSween and C. A. Whatley ISBN: 9780859762120 Category: Social History Price: £14.99 pbk, 230x156mm, 287pp First published to critical acclaim in the 1990s, People and Society in Scotland quickly established itself as a major new text for all interested in modern Scottish social history, incorporating the very best of new research and analysis.
A Political History of Scotland 1832-1914 I. G. C. Hutchison ISBN: 9781904607328 Category: Politics And Economics, Scottish History, History Price: £25.00, pbk, 384pp A study of the main political parties in Scotland, examining in particular their electoral fortunes from the time of the First Reform Bill to the emergence of the Labour.
scotichronicron Walter Bower’s SCOTICHRONICRON was composed in Latin in the 1440s whilst its author was abbot of the Augustinian abbey of Inchcolm, an island in the Firth of Forth. Though several copies of this work were circulated in manuscript within sixty years or so, the whole work was not printed until 1759 when it was published in two folio volumes in Edinburgh under the editorhip of Walter Goodall. This has remained the only edition until now, and no translation from Latin into English has previously been attempted.
Scotichronicron Volume 1 Walter Bower amd D.E.R. Watt ISBN: 9781873644218 Category: Price: £35.00, hbk, 232x156mm, 450pp
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Scotichronicon Volume 2 Walter Bower, John MacQueen and Winifred MacQueen
Scottish Life and Society VOL 5: The Food of the Scots Alexander Fenton
ISBN: 9780080364100 Category: Price: £35.00, hbk, 228x160mm, 400pp
ISBN: 9780859766968 Category: Ethnology Series, Food And Drink Price: £40.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 520pp
Scotichronicron Volume 4 Walter Bower and D.E.R. Watt
Through extensive research and examination of long-held customs, the author provides a detailed appraisal of the realities and complexities of the Scottish diet.
ISBN: 9781873644355 Category: Price: £35.00, hbk, 704pp
Scotichronicron Volume 6 Walter Bower amd F. Norman ISBN: 9780080412221 Category: History Price: £35.00, hbk, 228x154mm, 626pp
Scotichronicron Volume 8 History Walter Bower ISBN: 9780080345277 Category: History Price: £35.00, hbk, 226x156mm, 440pp
Scotichronicron Volume 9 Walter Bower and Walter D.E.R. ISBN: 9781873644645 Category: History Price: £35.00, hbk, 230x150mm, 584pp
scottish life and society Scottish Life and Society VOL 2: Farming and the Land Alexander Fenton and Kenneth Veitch (Editors) ISBN: 9781906566050 Category: History Price: £60.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 1216pp This multi-author volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of farming and the land.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 3: Scotland’s Buildings (Editors) Geoffrey Stell, John Shaw, Susan Storrier ISBN: 9781862321236 Category: Ethnology Series, Architecture Price: £40.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 794pp This third volume in the Scottish Life and Society series investigates the history of Scotland’s buildings and other functional structures, including gardens and canals.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 4: Boats, Fishing and the Sea (Editors) James Coull, Alexander Fenton, Kenneth Veitch ISBN: 9781904607748 Category: Ethnology Series, Industry, Social History Price: £40.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 656pp This title explores the coastal environment, traditional and modern boat – and shipbuilding and maritime trade, as are the various types of fishing that have been practised in Scotland over the centuries.
Scottish Life Society VOL 6: Scotland’s Domestic Life John Burnett, Elizabeth Cumming, Alexander Fenton, Heather Holmes, Joyce Miller, David Riches, Christopher Whatley ISBN: 9780859766494 Category: Ethnology Series, Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £50.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 960pp This wide-ranging volume considers Scotland’s domestic life by examining that variety and considering changes in the structures in which Scots have lived and the ways in which they have lived in those homes.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 7: The Working Life of the Scots Mark Mulhern, John Beech and Elaine Thompson ISBN: 9781904607854 Category: Ethnology Series, Social History Price: £40.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 704pp As well as outlining the history of settlement and work, this volume considers the working lives of those engaged in feeding, housing and protecting the population, those who work to keep the population healthy, and those who are engaged in work of the imagination rather than work to meet material needs.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 8: Transport and Communication Kenneth Veitch ISBN: 9781904607885 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £50.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 1008pp This multi-author volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of transport and communications.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 9: The Individual and Community Life (Editors) John Beech, Owen Hand, Mark Mulhern, Jeremy Weston ISBN: 9780859766326 Category: Ethnology Series, Social History Price: £30.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 702pp The Individual and Community Life is the fourth volume to appear in the planned fourteen volume series, A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, the major project of the European Ethnological Research Centre.
Scottish Life and Society vol10: Oral Literature and Performance Culture (Editors) John Beech, Owen Hand, Mark Mulhern, Jeremy Weston ISBN: 9780859766791 Category: Folklore, Ethnology Series, History Format: Hardback Price: £45.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 638pp The impressive range of this volume demonstrates the many ways in which Scots have communicated and continue to communicate with each other regarding the local and national and the communal and the intimate concerns of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
GAELIC Duanaire Na Sracaire (Song Book of the Pillagers) (Editors) Meg Bateman and Wilson McLeod ISBN: 9781841581811 Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic Price: £20.00 pbk, 216x138mm, 560pp This anthology spans almost a thousand years of Gaelic verse, bringing together for the first time the poetry from the millennium c.600–1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 11: INSTUTUTIONS OF SCOTLAND: Education H.Holmes
an Lasair / The Flame (Editor) Ronald Black
ISBN: 9781862321861 Category: Ethnology Series, Education Price: £25.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 586pp
ISBN: 9781841580920 Category: Gaelic Poetry Price: £16.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 400pp
This volume brings together a team of contributors, who were each asked to prepare their chapter with a particular slant, so that Scottish education at all levels could be related to social change.
This is the first book ever to be dedicated to the full range and versatility of one of the golden ages of Gaelic culture and features poets of European stature and significance.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 12: Religion (Editors) Colin MacLean and Kenneth Veitch ISBN: 9780859766500 Category: Ethnology Series, History of Religion, History Price: £40.00, hbk, 234x164mm, 768pp This volume surveys Scotland’s complex religious landscape from an ethnological perspective. Bringing together 28 contributors and ranging from the arrival of Christianity to religious diversity in the twenty-first century, it provides an authoritative commentary on the role that religion has played over the centuries in all aspects of Scottish life and society.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 13: THE LAW Edited by Mark A. Mulhern ISBN: 9781906566043 Category: Ethnology Series, Law, History Price: £60.00, hbk, 234x164mm, 800pp, b/w illustrations throughout This volume surveys Scotland’s complex religious landscape from an ethnological perspective. Bringing together 28 contributors and ranging from the arrival of Christianity to religious diversity in the twenty-first century.
Scottish Life and Society VOL 14: Bibliography (Editor) Alexander Fenton ISBN: 9781862322417 Category: Ethnology Series, Reference Price: £50.00, hbk, 234x156mm, 638pp This bibliographic compilation, primarily of Scottish but with some comparative material, makes a substantial contribution to the resources available as guides to research and teaching.
The Harps’ Cry / Gair nan Clarsach Colm O Baoill, Meg Bateman, Editor(s) ISBN: 9781874744139 Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 256pp This anthology gives us a last glimpse of the heroic age in Europe through the resonant poetry of the Gaelic tradition. English translations included.
Caran An-t-Saoghail / The Wiles of the World (Editor) Donald Meek ISBN: 9781874744672 Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic Price: £16.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 256pp The first general anthology of Gaelic verse and song of the nineteenth century to be published since 1879. Including translations, together with notes on sources and themes and an extended introduction.
Songs of Gaelic Scotland Anne Lorne Gillies ISBN: 9781841588797 Category: Gaelic Price: £20.00 pbk, 272x195mm, 592pp The Hebrides and Gaelic Highlands are one of the world’s great treasure-houses of song. In this new anthology, world-renowned singer Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together 175 of her favourite Gaelic songs to paint a vivid picture of life among the Gaelicspeaking peoples, filling many of the gaps left by official histories and documents.
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Warriors of the Word Michael Newton ISBN: 9781841588261 Category: Gaelic, History Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 448pp Offers an overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, exploring such topics as folklore, literature, social organization, ethnic identity, and the role of language.
Brigh an Orain: A Story in Every Song Lauchie Maclellan ISBN: 9780773520639 Category: Gaelic Price: £14.99 pbk, 246x189mm, 592pp The first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. Forty-eight songs and nine folktales by Lauchie MacLellan are included in the collection, transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, complete with English translation.
Duthchas nan Gaidheal John MacInnes ISBN: 9781841588872 Category: Gaelic Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 560pp THE NLS SALTIRE RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2006 This collection of seminal articles by the foremost living authority on the oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands covers many aspects of life, history and literature, from clan sagas to Clearances, from the supernatural to Sorley MacLean.
Everyday Gaelic Morag MacNeill ISBN: 9781841583402 Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic Format: Paperback Price: £7.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp An accessible and useful book which will be of benefit to all levels and ages of Gaelic learners.
Everyday Gaelic with CD Morag MacNeill ISBN: 9781841583709 Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic Format: PB Price: £12.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp An accessible and useful book which will be of benefit to all levels and ages of Gaelic learners. This is a new and updated edition of the bestselling title, now with an Audio CD to improve pronunciation and comprehension.
EVERYDAY GAELIC CD ONLY Morag MacNeil ISBN: 9781841588438 Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic Price: £5.99
Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks Roibeard O Maolalaigh and Iain Macaonghuis ISBN: 9781841586434 Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic Format: Paperback Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 240pp
Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks (with Audio CD) Roibeard O Maolalaigh and Iain Macaonghuis ISBN: 9781841586441 Category: Learn Gaelic, Gaelic Price: £20.00 pbk, 216x138mm, 240pp Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks has been written both as a self-tuition course for beginners and also for use within the classroom. Each lesson in the book contains some essential points of grammar explained and illustrated, exercises, a list of new vocabulary (with a guide to pronunciation, in International Phonetics notation), and an item of conversation.
The Essential GaelicEnglish / EnglishGaelic Dictionary Angus Watson
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ISBN: 9781841583679 Category: Reference Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 448pp Angus Watson’s Essential Gaelic–English and English– Gaelic dictionary is well-established as one of the leading dictionaries of the Gaelic language. This combined dictionary is ideal for learners of Gaelic at all levels.
Gaelic Proverbs Alexander Nicolson ISBN: 9781841589831 Category: Reference, Gaelic Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 512pp This classic nineteenth-century anthology is the largest and best-known collections of Gaelic proverbs in the world.
The Gaelic Otherworld John Gregorson Campbell ISBN: 9781841587332 Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic, Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 848pp A fantastic volume embracing the supernatural in Gaelic superstition from the mid-nineteenth century.
The Voice of the Bard Reprint Timothy Neat ISBN: 9780862418427 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £20.00 pbk, 260x189mm, 356pp, b/w illustrations throughout The Voice of the Bard presents biographical portraits of fourteen poets and singers. It reveals a fascinating, hidden layer in the long history of the Scottish Gaidhealtach and paints a mini-history of Highland life and thought in the twentieth century.
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TRAVELLER, FOLKLORE, CUSTOMS, MUSIC Jessie’s Journey Jess Smith
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ISBN: 9781841587028 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 8pp b/w plates A Scottish bestseller since its first publication, this humorous and poignant biography has a wide and modern appeal bringing to us the forgotten and naive ways of the travelling family.
Tales from the Tent Jess Smith
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ISBN: 9781841587196 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 256pp, 8pp b/w plates
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Jess Smith – Scottish traveller, hawker, gypsy, ’gan-about’ and storyteller – continues the unforgettable story of her life on the road. Unable to adjust to settled life working in a factory after leaving school, she finds herself drawn once again to the wild countryside of Scotland.
Tears for a Tinker Jess Smith
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ISBN: 9781841587141 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp, 8pp b/w plates
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In the third and final book of Jess Smith’s autobiographical trilogy, Jess traces her eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together.
A Traveller’s Life Sheila Stewart
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ISBN: 9781841589794 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp The acclaimed story teller and ballad singer takes us through the story of her life, from working on farms, experiencing the highs and lows of the travelling lifestyle, to becoming a star of the folk scene.
Queen Amang the Heather Sheila Stewart ISBN: 9781841585284 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 8pp b/w plates The incredible story of Belle Stewart, one of Scotland’s most famous travellers and folk singers, written by her daughter. Includes a selection of the Stewarts’ songs and stories.
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Pilgrims of the Mist Sheila Stewart
Jack and the Devil’s Purse Duncan Williamson
ISBN: 9781841587523 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
ISBN: 9781841589510 Category: Fiction Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp
A diverse collection of stories gathered by singer, storyteller and author Sheila Stewart, one of the last in the line of Scotland’s travelling people.
The Last of the Tinsmiths Sheila Douglas
An expanded edition of Duncan Williamson’s best selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye! Twenty tales surviving from oral tradition are re-told by one of Scotlands master yarn spinners. Williamson provides fascinating insight into the beliefs about evil, suffering, and temptation held by travellers.
ISBN: 9781841585116 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 208pp, 16pp b/w plates
The Horsieman Duncan Williamson
A powerful and entertaining book that offers a deep insight into traditional traveller culture.
The Yellow on the Broom Betsy Whyte
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ISBN: 9781841581354 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 16pp b/w plates Betsy Whyte’s story is a unique description of a largely vanished way of life and the story of a people who have suffered much hardship and intolerance.
Red Rowans and Wild Honey Betsy Whyte ISBN: 9781841580708 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £6.99 pbk, 196x126mm, 196pp, 240pp Betsy Whyte was a gifted, natural storyteller and this remarkable memoir brings to life her joys and sorrows the bitter and sweet ’red rowans’ and ’wild honey’ - in a way that no work of the imagination can.
Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children Duncan Williamson ISBN: 9781841588148 Category: Short Stories, Folklore Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp Duncan Williamson was a Scottish traveller who went on to become one of Britain’s master story-tellers. Fireside Tales, his first book, reveals this artistry and mastery in all its glory.
Land of the Seal People Duncan Williamson ISBN: 9781841588803 Category: Folklore Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp Scotland’s greatest contemporary storyteller re-lives joyous silkie folklore from the oral tradition of the West Coast. These stories are a vital part of Scotland’s heritage for both adults and children alike, and magically link the two worlds of sea and land, animal and human.
ISBN: 9781841586922 Category: Folklore, Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 352pp, 8pp b/w plates
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In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.
The Fantastical Feats of Finn McCoul Norah Montgomerie and Julian Brooks ISBN: 9781841588179 Category: Folklore Price: £12.99 This fabulous and evoking collection of heroic tales about the Celtic hero Finn MacCoul is magical and bloodthirsty compendium full of humour, love and courage.
Folk Tales of Scotland William Montgomerie
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ISBN: 9781841586946 Category: Cultural Studies, Folklore Price: £12.99 hbk, 216x138mm, 272pp These stories are drawn from traditions in all parts of Scotland, for example ‘The Well at the World’s End’ from Islay; ‘The King of Lochlin’s Three Daughters’ from Inveraray; ‘Tam Scott and the Fin-Man’ from Orkney; and ‘The Last of the Picts’ from the Lowlands.
Reek Roon a Camp Fire Stanley Robertson ISBN: 9781841587950 Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp A magnificent collection of epic traveller tales full of wonder. There are tales of the supernatural as well as tales of everyday life.
Scottish Traditional Tales (Editors) A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald ISBN: 9781841582641 Category: Short Stories, Fiction, Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £12.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 496pp A.J. Bruford and D.A. MacDonald present an entertaining collection of the oral tales that have been passed down by generations of Scottish storytellers, and
have been recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years.
Folk in Print (Editors) Edward J. Cowan and Michael Paterson ISBN: 9781904607519 Category: Industry, Social History Price: £25.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 432pp Until now, the people’s print has not attracted a serious modern study. This collection presents a user-friendly introduction to the genre and a sampling of the attractions and possibilities, set, where appropriate, in the relevant cultural and historical contexts.
Scottish Fairy Belief Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan ISBN: 9781904607588 Category: Folklore, Cultural Studies Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 256pp This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.
When Piping was Strong provides an unprecedented history of Gaelic Scotland’s most resilient of musical treasures: the piping tradition of the southern Outer Hebrides.
PIPING TRADITIONS OF THE INNER ISLES OF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND Bridget Mackenzie
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ISBN: 9781906566548 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp, 16pp b/w plates A follow-on from two earlier books on piping traditions, Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland and Piping Traditions of Argyll, this book covers the inner isles from Arran to Rassay (excluding Skye whch is covered in a separate book).
PIPING TRADITIONS OF THE isle of skye Bridget Mackenzie
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ISBN: 9781906566555 Category: Scottish History Price: £25.00, pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp, 16pp b/w plates
Not of this World Maurice Fleming
A follow-on from two earlier books on piping traditions, Piping Traditions of the North of Scotland and Piping Traditions of Argyll, this book covers the the isle of Skye.
ISBN: 9781841830407 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp
The Folklore of Orkney Ernest Marwick
A field guide to Bauchans, Blue Men of the Minch, Black Dogs, Changelings, Gruagachs, Mermaids, Urisks, Vampires, Warlocks... some of the strange creatures that haunt the folk tales and old beliefs of Scotland.
ISBN: 9781780270081 Category: Folklore/ Mythology Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 216pp
Scottish Customs Margaret Bennett ISBN: 9781841582931 Category: Scottish Culture, Cultural Studies Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 368pp, 16pp b/w plates Scottish Customs is a highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, drawn from a broad range of literary sources dating back to the 16th century.
The Highland Bagpipe and its Music Roderick Cannon ISBN: 9781841586663 Category: Scottish Culture, Music Price: £10.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 216pp, 8pp b/w plates The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.
When Piping Was Strong Joshua Dickson ISBN: 9781904607526 Category: Music, Cultural Studies Price: £25.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp
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The standard account of the rich cultural heritage found on the islands of Orkney.
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The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection was described by the late Patrick Shuldhamshaw as ‘Scotland’s biggest and finest manuscript collection of folk song, biggest in sheer size and finest on account of integrity, breadth of vision and high scholastic ability of its collectors,’
Greig-Duncan Folk Song VOL 1 Patrick Shuldham-Shaw and Emily B. Lyle ISBN: 9780080257594 Category: Folk Music Price: £35.00 hbk
HUMOUR Why Me? Bob Servant with Neil Forsyth ISBN: 9781780270098 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp In these genuine emails, Bob Servant looks to the Internet’s worst con merchants and charlatans for answers to his many woes.
Delete This at Your Peril Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth ISBN: 9781841589190 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp A side-splitting romp through the wonderful world of Bob Servant where we see him engage with hapless spam-merchants as he tries to outwit them with some outlandish schemes of his own.
Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth ISBN: 9781841589206 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp This latest installment from Bob Servant continues in the same hilarious vein as its predecessor as we follow Bob from his rise from a childhood of abject poverty, through a career in the merchant navy, his establishment of the largest window-cleaning round in Western Europe and his part in Dundee’s infamous Cheeseburger Wars.
Awa’ An’ Bile Yer Heid! David Ross ISBN: 9781841585949 Category: Humour Price: £5.99 pbk, 177x111mm, 192pp A comprehensive guide to Scottish insults – sharp, witty and funny!
The Cannae Sutra Rupert Besley ISBN: 9781841584843 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp All is revealed (well, not quite all – this is Scotland) in The Cannae Sutra, a ground-breaking exposé of the nation’s best-kept secrets.
Chic Murray’s Funnyosities (Editor) Robbie Grigor ISBN: 9781841588483 Category: Humour Price: £6.99 pbk, 156x112, 160pp The definitive collection of Chic Murray’s one-liners and best comedic moments.
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Just Daft Robbie Grigor
Jimmy Swan Neil Munro
ISBN: 9781841588469 Category: Biography Price: £14.99 pbk, 246x189mm, 240pp, b/w photographs throughout
ISBN: 9781841582030 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
Just Daft is the story of one of Scotland’s greatest comedians, Chic Murray, from his birth in Greenock in 1919, charting his rise through his amateur beginnings in the 1930s, all the way to his 1956 performance in the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium and his appearances on the big screen.
Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveller, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist.
Midges Alasdair Roberts
Just Daft DVD
ISBN: 9781841583860 Category: Humour Price: £4.99 pbk, 180x130, 96pp
The Complete Patter Michael Munro
Nothing saves you from the savage bloodthirst of the Highland midge, scourge of Scotland and the tourist industry’s guilty secret. Such a small creature can do little harm in isolation, but with an unusual life cycle that produces two generations every season, the millions of resulting midges bring devastation to the skin of man and beast.
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ISBN: 9781841581286 Category: Humour Price: £5.99 Michael Munro has won the eternal gratitude of Glaswegians for his efforts in popularising their city’s dialect, universally known as ‘the patter’.
The Crack (Revised Edition) Michael Munro ISBN: 9781841589237 Category: Humour Price: £5.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp Michael Munro re-introduces us to the wit and humour of Glasgow and her residents. No subject is off limits and this makes for a hilarious and side-splitting journey from the sweet to the profane.
Para Handy Neil Munro ISBN: 9781841582276 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 464pp Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in Neil Munro’s lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001.
Erchie Neil Munro ISBN: 9781841582023 Category: Fiction Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 592pp A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. Meet Erchie Macpherson, waiter and Kirk Deacon, his wife Jinnet, and his friend Duffy, the coal merchant, three pawky characters, putting the world to rights in Edwardian Glasgow.
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Midges in Scotland George Hendry ISBN: 9781841589381 Category: Natural History Price: £9.99 pbk, 176x120, 80pp An informative but very readable and amusing investigation into the various types of flying pest. This new edition includes more up-to-date information on the highland midge, its biology and why it bites. This book explains the midge’s dominant role in ecology, and highland culture, and also how it keeps the worst human depredations under control.
William McGonagall collected poems William McGonagall ISBN: 9781841584775 Category: Poetry, Fiction (eBook also available) Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 624pp William McGonagall’s poetry is Scotland’s alternative to Robert Burns, and as every bit engaging in this comprehensive collection.
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SPORT The Flying Scotsman Graeme Obree ISBN: 9781841583358 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography Price: £5.99 pbk, 197x126mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates
Ferguson – including their European Cup-Winners’ Cup victory over Real Madrid on May 11, 1983.
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ISBN: 9781780270289 Category: Sport, Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates
This is the amazing story of the cyclist who took on the world and rewrote the record books, a story that has been made into a major feature film starring Johnny Lee Miller and produced by Peter Broughan.
The Management Michael Grant & Rob Robertson ISBN: 9781841588193 Hbk Category: Sport Price: £18.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 448pp, 16pp colour plates ISBN: 9781780270166 Pbk Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 448pp, 16pp colour plates A lively account of the Scottish football managers who brought their skills and personalities to bear on the beautiful game at home and abroad.
Silversmith Neil Drysdale ISBN: 9781841589923 Category: Sport, Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 12pp colour plates Walter Smith is one of the most talked about and respected managers in British football. This insightful biography casts a reflective and analytical eye over his life and career, examining this shrewd professional through the many highs and lows that he has experienced as a player and manager.
To Barcelona and Beyond Paul Smith ISBN: 9781841589954 Category: Sport Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 16pp b/w white plates The captivating real story of the 11 heroes of Glasgow Rangers’ victorious 1972 European Cup Winner’s Cup campaign, tracing the twists and turns, as experienced by the players, of the team’s progress to that triumphant night in the Nou Camp.
The Don Willie Miller with Rob Robertson ISBN: 9781841587233 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates The first biography for eighteen years of one of Scotland’s greatest domestic and international players. The book gives a unique insight into professional football during Miller’s era, what it was like to be the first successful captain in a team managed by Sir Alex
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There’s Only One Dixie Deans Dixie Deans with Ken McNab
This is a fascinating story, at times uplifting, heartrending, inspiring and haunting, proving that there really is only one, inimitable, Dixie Deans.
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When George Came to Edinburgh Neil John Munro ISBN: 9781841588896 Category: Sport/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 200x148mm, 192pp, b/w photographs throughout Played 24, won 10, lost 10 and drawn four. Three goals, three benders, one suspension and one sacking. This is the inside story of what happened when the world’s most famous footballer joined the tenth best team in Scotland – THE definitive story of what happened when George Best came to Edinburgh.
Book Book Heartfelt Aidan Smith
ISBN: 9781841585109 Category: Sport Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp A lifelong Hibs fan takes on the challenge that TV’s Faking It and Wifeswap were too scared to even contemplate as he tries to follow his team’s hated rivals Hearts for an entire season.
Dundee United Peter Rundo and Mike Watson ISBN: 9781841588285 Category: Sport Price: £25.00 hbk, 280x240mm, 288pp, colour and b/w photographs throughout
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Dundee United celebrate its centenary in 2009. This official history, is the most comprehensive account of Dundee United’s history ever published.
King Joey Joe Harper
ISBN: 9781841587677 Category: Sport, Autobiography/Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 256pp, 16pp b/w plates A no-nonsense autobiography by one of Scottish football’s greatest goalscorers. Find out the truth about the infamous Copenhagen nightclub and the incident that saw him banned from the Scotland squad.
THE ROAD TO LISBON Martin Greig & Charles McGarry
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ISBN: 9781780270845 Category: Fiction, Sport Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon’s Estádio Nacional and took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown
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Scotland’s Sporting Curiosities Jim Craig
journeymen trotted out to face Inter Milan, the charismatic superstars of Italian football, in the European Cup final. Martin Greig and Charlie McGarry’s extraordinary novel delves to the very heart of that incredible season through the eyes of Stein.
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ISBN: 9781841583365 Category: Sport Format: HB Price: £9.99
Confessions of a Highland Hero Steve Paterson & Frank Gilfeather
Jim Craig’s unique style and presentation, allied with his superb professional knowledge, make this book a fascinating window into the Scots and their sporting world.
ISBN: 9781841589169 Pbk Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 16pp colour plates Steve Paterson was set for fame and stardom with Manchester United in the 1970s, but from the age of sixteen he became gripped by an addiction to gambling before descending into alcoholism and debt. This memoir recounts the heady days of footballing success, twinned with the devastating hubris of his addictive personality.
Behind The Thistle David Barnes and Peter Burns
The Toon Roger Hutchison
Based on exclusive interviews with players past and present, Behind the Thistle gives a unique insight into the drama and emotion of representing Scotland in that most rarefied of environments – Test match rugby. Absorbing, illuminating and compelling, this is a musthave for all supporters who have dreamed the dream of playing for Scotland.
ISBN: 9781841589152 Category: Sport Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp, 16pp colour plates Hutchinson’s great strength is his apparent love for this Newcatle team, from its birth to its current incarnation. He will take you on a journey through the team’s highs and lows and leave you wanting more... or at least wanting to buy some season tickets.
Flawed Genius Stephen McGowan ISBN: 9781841588421 Category: Sport Price: £14.99 hbk, 256pp, b/w photographs throughout A collection of testimonies that brings together the stories of all those wayward Scottish footballers who have made the game great.
Hunting Grounds Gary Sutherland ISBN: 9781841587356 Category: Sport Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 240pp, 8pp colour plates Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, Gary Sutherland visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing and the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon.
The Sporting Scot (Editors) Brian D. Osborne and Ronald Armstrong ISBN: 9781841582825 Category: Sport Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 320pp The Sporting Scot reveals the immense diversity and heroics of sportsmen and women in Scotland and is a wonderful celebration of the Scots’ literary love affair with sport.
ISBN: 9781841586533 Category: Sport Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 480pp, colour and b/w images throughout
Southern Comfort The Story of Border Rugby Neil Drysdale
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ISBN: 9781841589978 Category: Sport, History Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 288pp, 16pp colour plates
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An in-depth look at why the Borders is the heartland of Scottish rugby, featuring interviews with dozens of major figures in Border rugby history, Southern Comfort reveals the humour, comradeship and local rivalries which fuel the region’s passion for rugby, and make so many local players into international stars.
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Tom Morris of St Andrews David Malcolm and Peter E. Crabtree
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ISBN: 98781780270937 Category: Sport Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp, 16pp colour plates This is the first biography in over 100 years of the great Tom Morris of St Andrews, who presided over one of the most illustrious periods in the history of golf, who – more than anyone before or since in any game – stamped his individual character upon his sport and who, in large measure, made golf what it is today.
A Major Obsession Kenny Reid ISBN: 9781841588599 Category: Sport Price: £12.99 pbk, 200x148mm, 240pp, 12pp colour plates Original, quirky and brilliantly insightful, this fan’seye account of the four golf majors of 2009 is a must for all lovers of sport and of golf; it is entertainment, travelogue and user manual to the most spectacular golf tournaments in the world.
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Head to Head: Great Golf Debates Jeremy Ellwood and Fergus Bisset ISBN: 9781841587776 Category: Sport Price: £9.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 208pp Forty head-to-head discussions on golf ’s most discussed talking points, from ‘Tiger Woods vs Jack Nicklaus’ to ‘Pull carts vs Carry bags’. It will appeal directly to every British golfer’s argumentative nature.
Scotland’s Golf Courses Robert Price ISBN: 9781841830308 Category: Guides, Sport Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, illustrated in colour throughout This new edition shows how Scottish courses are the most challenging in the world. Full of colour photographs and specially drawn maps, this book is the definitive guide for the serious golf enthusiast.
The Scottish Golf Guide David Hamilton ISBN: 9781841587967 Category: Sport Foreword by Sean Connery £9.99 pbk, 272pp, line arr throughout
ISBN: 9781841587516 Category: Sport Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 16pp b/w plates Including an introduction by Sir Ian Botham, this book tells the remarkable story of how the cricketers of a little Scottish village marched all the way to Lord’s and won the National Village Cup in 1985. Despite their tiny population of 1476, Freuchie captured the nation’s imagination with a starling victory, against all the odds.
Camanachd! The Story of Shinty Roger Hutchinson ISBN: 9781841583266 Category: Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughtout In this revised and updated edition of his muchacclaimed book, Roger Hutchison provides a definitive history of the game of shinty.
ISBN: 9780862411428 Price: £7.99 pbk, 190x119mm, 576pp Opening at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, this thinly disguised autobiographical tale, narrates the journey of Jean Ramsay, an aggressively practical woman from a peasant background, and her weak-willed, poetic husband, David.
Farewell Julie Logan – Barrie Omnibus J M Barrie ISBN: 9781841950037 Price: £4.99 pbk, 197x127mm, 320pp
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A new and expanded edition of this popular guide gives helpful information and advice about all aspects of play in the home of golf as well as offering fascinating lists, details of extraordinary and dramatic golfing feats, quirky facts and much more.
Dad’s Army Neil Drysdale
Land Of The Leal James Barke
This selection of J.M. Barrie’s work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes to be found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy, sexual anxiety, social comedy and proto-feminism.
Scottish Enlightenment A (Ed.) Broadie
ISBN: 9780862417383 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 16pp b/w plates To many, the Enlightenment of the 18th century represents Scotland’s Golden Age. In philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences, Scots were key players in changing the way the world was viewed. This anthology gathers together the well known and the lesser known amongst the writing of the time.
Sartor Resartus Thomas Carlyle ISBN: 9781841952789 Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x128mm, 384pp At one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism, a radically deconstructive vision reveals the very highest symbols of belief as just that – merely symbols. How to believe in anything after such an insight is the question asked in Carlyle’s masterpiece of invention, parody and profound laughter.
Triumph Tree Thomas Owen Clancy ISBN: 9780862417871 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 400pp This anthology brings together for the first time the poetry of five languages - Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse – in an accessible, scholarly anthology of translations that form a spectacular window on Scotland’s past. Ranging from war to religion, nature to love, the quality and power of these poems display the riches of a vanished world.
Two Worlds David Daiches
Key Of The Chest Neil M Gunn
ISBN: 9780862417048 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 224pp
ISBN: 9780862417703 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 320pp
Covering his childhood and student years, David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars. One of the sons of Edinburgh’s Chief Rabbi, his autobiography is a meditation on religious tolerance, and his father’s vision of a society that could respect and synthesize cultural difference is of relevance to modern Scotland.
When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead – but was his death accidental? And did the chest once contain money?
Divided Loyalties Janet Teissier Du Cros ISBN: 9780862413750 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 352pp Out of the war years comes this memoir of life as a wife and mother in occupied France during World War II. Candid and poignant, du Cros powerfully evokes the international political atmosphere of the time and its effects within her own family.
Member And The Radical John Galt ISBN: 9780862416423 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 512pp Galt’s two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings. The Radical is a study of narrow-minded, humourless fanaticism.
Magnus Merriman Eric Linklater ISBN: 9780862413132 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 308pp This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman – wouldbe lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter – moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat.
Dance Of The Apprentices Edward Gaitens ISBN: 9780862412975 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 256pp Caught in the melting pot of social injustice, revolution, war and pacifism, this powerful book gives a vivid account of the experiences and struggles of a Glasgow family from the First World War and into the Depression at the end of the Twenties.
Highland Lady In Ireland Elizabeth Grant ISBN: 9780862413613 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 560pp The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady, has had an avid readership since the book’s first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys.
Sun Circle Neil M Gunn ISBN: 9780862415877 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 304pp A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophesies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures.
Wallace Blind Harry ISBN: 9781841954134 Category: Price: £14.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 448pp Looking back to the days of Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry’s poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the vagaries of war and the brutal realities of battle, wounding and betrayal, all seen from the point of view of the troops in the field.
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg ISBN: 9780862413408 Category: Fcition Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 224pp James Hogg’s masterpiece is a brilliant portrayal of the power of evil. Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders.
Three Perils Of Man James Hogg ISBN: 9780862416461 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 576pp Regarded as Hogg’s most ambitious work of fiction, this tale is an extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the story is to be found in the Scottish Borders.
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Flemington And Tales From Angus Violet Jacob
explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds.
ISBN: 9780862417840 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 144pp
Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis Sir David Lindsay
Jacob’s fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising: tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author’s own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose.
Just Duffy Robin Jenkins ISBN: 9780862415518 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 256pp Set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, Duffy declares war on society. Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to a terrifying conclusion.
Selected Stories (Kelman) James Kelman
ISBN: 9780862411916 Price: £5.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 240pp The Three Estaitis was first performed in the midsixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places.
Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems D (Ed.) Macaulay ISBN: 9780862414948 Price: £6.99 pbk, 196x126mm, 224pp This indispensible anthology contains selections of the best works by Scotland’s most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets.
ISBN: 9781841951591 Price: £7.49 pbk, 198x129mm, 144pp
Death Of Men Allan Massie
James Kelman’s oblique, wry and open-ended short stories reveal him to be a master of the form and this selection offers some of his best work.
ISBN: 9781841955049 Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 320pp
Household Ghosts James Kenneway
A stylish and enthralling thriller set in 1978, which explores America’s influence on Europe and the causes of terrorism.
ISBN: 9781841951256 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 480pp
Linmill Stories Robert Mclellan
This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway: Tunes of Glory – a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and brutality of post-war army life: Household Ghosts – a claustrophobic tale of family tension, love triangles and the persistence of the past: and Silence, which tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence.
ISBN: 9780862412821 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 224pp
Private Angelo Eric Linklater
Modern Scot. Women Poets Dorothy Mcmillan
ISBN: 9780862413767 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 272pp
ISBN: 9781841955261 Price: £14.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 320pp
Angelo, a private in Mussolini’s ‘ever-glorious’ Italian army, may possess the virtues of love and an engaging innocence, but he lacks the gift of courage. However, due to circumstances beyond his control, he ends up fighting not only for Italy, but also for the British and German armies...
With over 200 poems, this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history.
Haunted Woman Sir David Lindsay ISBN: 9780862411626 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 192pp Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Lomont leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They
Considered by Douglas Gifford to ‘rank [among] the finest prose-poetry of Scottish childhood that we have’, this collection sees one of Scotland’s finest playwrights and poets sharing his favourite childhood memories in a set of twenty-four short stories narrated in the Scots dialect.
Silver Bough Marian Mcneill ISBN: 9780862412319 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 256pp A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophesies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures.
Blood Of The Martyrs Naomi Mitchison
Listen To The Voice Iain Crichton Smith
ISBN: 9780862411923 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 416pp
ISBN: 9780862414344 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 336pp
Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, this is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church, thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable.
Ranging from inner promptings towards selfdiscovery, through the unconscious comedy of everyday speech, to the rantings of near madness, the voices in these stories display the peaks of Smith’s wry, surrealistic humour, and his confessional mode in retelling the past.
Before Burns Christopher Mclachlin ISBN: 9781841952536 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 336pp A collection of the Scots poems and songs from the eighteenth century which created a literary tradition of vernacular directness which Burns drew upon and shared.
Childhood in Scotland Christian Miller ISBN: 9780862412302 Category: Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 112pp
Queen Of Science Mary Somerville ISBN: 9781841951362 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 448pp Equally interested in art, algebra, literature and nature, Somerville’s lively memoirs give a fascinating picture of her life and times from childhood in Burntisland to international recognition and retirement in Naples.
Growing Up In The West Various ISBN: 9781841952628 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 720pp
Christian Miller’s perceptive but unpretentious autobiography recalls her privileged yet simultaneously deprived 1920s upper-class childhood in a castle in the Scottish highlands.
This collection of stories presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Gowk Storm Nancy Brysson Morrison
King And The Lamp Duncan Williamson
ISBN: 9780862412227 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 176pp
ISBN: 9781841950631 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 320pp
Morrisson tells the anguished story of the three daughters of a minister and his wife living in a remote Highland manse. The youngest narrates the love affairs of her sisters, each of whom falls in love with a man deemed an unacceptable match by their patriarchal, rigid and prejudiced society.
Collected for the first time are twenty-six tales, superbly edited and introduced by Linda Williamson, from Scotland– and arguably Britain’s – finest storyteller.
An Autobiography: Edwin Muir Edwin Muir ISBN: 9780862414238 Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 304pp From his dream notebooks to his travels in Eastern Europe, Muir paints an unforgettable picture of the slow and sometimes painful growth of a poet’s sensibility as he comes to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the twentieth century.
Beleaguered City Margaret Oliphant ISBN: 9781841950600 Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 432pp An extraordinary novel, haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland. These tales are now recognised as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times.
The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books: Selected Short Stories Elspeth Davie ISBN: 9781841952000 Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 288pp Elspeth Davie was one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition. This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer. Introduced by Giles Gordon.
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CHILDREN 1314 And All That Scoular Anderson ISBN: 9781841580517 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, b/w illustrations throughout Was Bannockburn a cake? How Bonnie was Prince Charlie? And . . . wha’s like us? All too often books on Scottish history ignore the central questions about our past. This situation has finally been changed with the arrival of Scoular Anderson’s book.
1745 And All That Scoular Anderson ISBN: 9781841581293 Category: Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 176pp, b/w illustrations throughout This title focuses on the history of the Highlands from earliest times to the present day. With sections on key areas of Highland history and life such as clanship, whisky and shinty amongst others.
Columba and All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841585710 Category: Children’s History Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp Columba And All That is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about the legendary Celtic saint.
Macbeth And All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841585741 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout Journey back to the dark ages where the throne is splattered in blood and death lurks in every corner. Chilling and gory Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
William Wallace And All That Allan Burnett
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ISBN: 9781841584980 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/willustrations throughout Bursting with brilliant illustrations, this book will have you shouting ’Freedom!’ after every page!
Robert Burns And All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841585734 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99
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Join Burns’s quest to rescue a lost musical treasure – and get chased by ghouls as he explores the dark side of life. Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
Robert the Bruce And All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841584973 Category: Humour, Children’s Non-Fiction Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout A real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland’s warrior king. Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
Mary, Queen Of Scots And All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841584997 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining. Crowned with exciting illustrations, this book is a heartbreaking royal romance that will leave you laughing your head off. One of eight volumes of the ‘And All That’ series.
Rob Roy And All That Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841585727 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout
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Gary Smailes introduces 32 Scottish inventors and their brilliant and ingenius inventions and discusses their attempts to put Scotland on the map.
ABC, My Grannie Caught a Flea Ewen McVicar ISBN: 9781841589374 Category: Children’s Price: £9.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 224pp,
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A condensed compendium of the ‘hidden’ songs of Scots childhood, gathered from over 40 schools. McVicar’s investigation of Scots childrens’ lyric lore looks at what has been lost, what has developed over time, and what has survived the ages. The book relishes in the arcane riches of the past as well as the absurd glories of today.
I Dinna Like the Midge: Scots Poems for Children Anne Forsyth ISBN: 9781841589435 Category: Poetry Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, b/w illustrations throughout
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This delightfully illustrated anthology has been selected from the whole range of Scots poetry.
Bairn Rhymes Scots Verse for Children J. K. Annand
Follow Rob’s quest through glens, dungeons and river rapids as his enemies close in for the kill . . . Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
ISBN: 9781873644850 Price: £6.99 pbk, 230x116mm, 112pp, b/w illustrations throughout
Bonnie Prince Charlie And All That Allan Burnett
The well-loved poems in Scots for very young children, now in a new edition. Grouped under headings such as ‘For the Wee Anes’ and ‘Games and Beasts’, they are accompanied by Dennis Carabine’s humorous drawings.
ISBN: 9781841584966 Category: Children’s Non-Fiction, Children’s Price: £2.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout
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Herself and Janet Reachfar Jane Duncan
Stuffed with superb illustrations, this brilliant book will have you bounding through the heather on an exciting escapade with Bonnie Prince Charlie! Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
ISBN: 9781841582092 Category: Children’s Fiction, Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 253x198mm, 32pp, colour illustrations throughout
Scottish Criminals Gary Smailes
Jane Duncan’s stories of a little girl called Janet and her life on ‘Reachfar’ farm are evocatively illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick and have become children’s classics.
ISBN: 9781841589312 Category: History, Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout Featuring 25 true stories from the sixteenth century to the present day, Scottish Criminals introduces a motley crew of Scots (as well as a couple of heroes who might not have been so heroic after all), who have made their infamous mark in history.
Scottish Inventors Gary Smailes ISBN: 9781841589305 Category: History, Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp, b/w illustrations throughout
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Janet Reachfar and Chickabird Jane Duncan ISBN: 9781841582085 Category: Children’s Fiction, Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 253x198mm, 32pp, colour illustrations throughout
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The third of Jane Duncan’s stories about a little girl growing up on a remote Highland farm with her dog, Fly, her sometimes fierce grandmother, Herself, and her special friends, the farmhands, George and Tom.
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Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie Jane Duncan ISBN: 9781841582108 Category: Children’s Fiction, Children’s Price: £4.99 pbk, 253x198mm, 32pp, colour illustrations throughout
William Dunbar, ‘The Nobill Poyet’ Sally Mapstone, Editor(s)
A haunting story from Jane Duncan’s series about a little girl called Janet, illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick.
ISBN: 9781862321960 Category: Essays, Fiction Price: £20.00 pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp
Oh No, Peedie Peebles Mairi Hedderwick
The publication of Priscilla Bawcutt’s complete edition of The Poems of William Dunbar provides the opportunity for a critical stocktaking on Dunbar studies and the chance to map out areas in which more extensive enquiry should be undertaken.
ISBN: 978178027029 Category: Children’s Price: £5.99 pbk, 219x290mm, 28pp, colour illustrations throughout
Stone of Destiny Ian R. Hamilton
Mairi Hedderwick perfectly captures the child’s-eye view in this endearing picture book, which will help the youngest child to see the fun – and results – of paint mixing. Follow Peedie Peebles as he paints his parents new house - all by himself!
ISBN: 9781841587295 Category: History, Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 8pp b/w plates
Peedie Peebles’ Summer or Winter Book Mairi Hedderwick
Possibly one of the greatest and most daring political stunts ever attempted is retold with spellbinding intensity in Stone of Destiny. With a foreword by Alex Salmond.
ISBN: 9781780270036 Category: Children’s Price: £5.99 pbk, 189x260mm, 36pp, colour illustrations throughout
Invented in Scotland Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841585666 Category: History Price: £12.99 pbk, 228x240mm, 112pp colour illsutrated throughout
A lift the flap book for small children, illustrated by author featuring the engaging exploits of toddler, Peedie Peebles.
Sookin Berries Jess Smith ISBN: 9781841587783 Category: Traditional Stories/Childrens’ Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp A collection of stories suitable for younger readers from the author of Jessie’s Journey.
Scottish Tales of Adventure: World War II Allan Burnett ISBN: 9781841589336 Category: Children’s/History Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 128pp Acclaimed children’s author Allan Burnett turns his attention to the Second World War in a book of explosively exciting and emotionally charged tales of bravery and adventure. Featuring the true exploits of soldiers, spies, pilots, sailors and many others, these stories, all based on interviews with these heroes themselves or their descendants, offer a unique, personal insight into the Second World War that no conventional history book can ever hope to match.
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In the home, on the road, in business, the classroom, sport, finance, medicine, farming, travel, crime and war, Scottish inventors have revolutionised the modern world. This lavishly illustrated account examines the life and works of a host of remarkable individuals whose inventions propelled humanity into a brighter future.
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Made in Scotland Carol Foreman ISBN: 9781841587257 Category: History Price: £12.99 pbk, 228x240mm, 112pp colour illsutrated throughout Of the wide range of British products that are household names, the Scots can take pride in the fact that many of them began in Scotland. This edition features the stories behind many of the best-known household names that originated in Scotland. It includes photographs of old advertisements, slogans and trademarks of all the products featured.
Hidden Scotland Ann Lindsay ISBN: 9781841583488 Category: Local History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 232pp, b/w illustrations throughout Hidden Scotland is an indispensable guide to those keen to explore the more alternative histories and destinations on Scotland’s tourist trail.
The Burns Supper Companion Nancy Marshall
Heaven-Taught Fergusson (Editor) Robert Crawford ISBN: 9781862322011 Category: Literary Criticism, Fiction Price: £14.99 pbk, 250x160mm, 224pp
ISBN: 9781841585833 Category: Scottish Culture Price: £5.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 144pp From the casual to the formal, this book is an essential guide for anyone intending to hold or attend a Burns Night
A Sense of Belonging to Scotland Andy Hall
Eminent poets and critics combine in unique tribute to a poet of whom even Robert Burns stood in awe.
Terry Farrell in Scotland Terry Farrell ISBN: 9781862322752 Category: Architecture Price: £20.00 pbk, 230x241, 96pp
ISBN: 9781841831077 Category: Photography Price: £20.00 pbk, 264x260mm, 224pp, colour photography throughout Beautiful and stunning photography of well-known to quiet and quaint scenes of Scotland as chosen and endorsed by celebrities from all over the world. This book incorporates two acclaimed volumes into the one perfect collection.
Touched by Robert Burns Andy Hall
In the decade since Terry Farrell and Partners founded their office in Scotland, three major buildings and two public squares have been designed and constructed in the capital. This book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, explores the philosophy.
The Healers David Hamilton ISBN: 9781841830513 Category: Medicine Price: £10.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 336pp
ISBN: 9781841586885 Category: Photography, Art Price: £20.00 hbk, 256x264, 160pp, colour photography throughout
The inspiring but occasionally gruesome story of medicine in Scotland – from folk healers through to doctors like David Livingstone who made Scottish medicine world-famous.
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be celebrated in 2009. Touched by Robert Burns is Andy Hall’s unique tribute, in words and photographs, to the great poet.
Walking to America Roger Hutchinson
So Foul and Fair a Day Alastair Dawson
ISBN: 9781841587837 Category: Travel Writing, Autobiography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp
ISBN: 9781841585673 Category: Natural History Price: £20.00 pbk, 240x190mm, 240pp, 16pp b/w plates
In this moving travelogue and family history, Roger Hutchinson follows his ancestors as they cover thousands of miles in search of a medical miracle.
In the first detailed history of how floods, storms, blizzards, droughts and volcanic eruptions shaped Scotland by the author of the critically acclaimed Ice Age Earth and Global Climate Change, So Foul a Fair Day is set to change the way Scotland’s climatic history is viewed.
Royal Commemorative Mugs and Beakers Peter Lockton
Tuscany Alistair Moffat ISBN: 9781841588605 Category: Travel Writing, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp, 24pp colour plates Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. Alistair Moffat trys to understand why in this the first, definitive history of Tuscany written in English.
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ISBN: 9781862322653 Category: Reference, Kings and Queens, History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 224pp This book aims to increase the passion of existing collectors of commemorative mugs and beakers, and to introduce new enthusiasts to this exciting field of collecting.
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Haunted Scotland Roddy Martine ISBN: 9781841587400 Category: History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 8pp b/w plates
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Drawing on archive materials and interviews, Roddy Martine takes us on a tour of haunted Scotland, from Highlands to Lowlands in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past.
Shirley McKie The Price of Innocence Iain McKie and Michael Russell ISBN: 9781841585758 Category: Law, Current Affairs, Autobiography/ Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 288pp, 8pp b/w plates What happened to Shirley could happen to anyone. Might you be the next person to pay the terrible price of innocence? A true story of persistence and endurance brought to the forefront of the Scottish political consciousness by a mere fingerprint.
Paying the Piper Brian Monteith ISBN: 9781841585871 Category: Politics And Economics, Current Affairs Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp Paying the Piper offers an intriguing and stimulating debate about taxation.
Wheel of Fortune Archie Morrison and Joe Pieri ISBN: 9781841830643 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £8.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 160pp The story of Archie Morrison who found an exit route from the slums of Glasgow through his skills as a croupier. Starting in the Stakis casinos in Scotland, he was eventually lured to the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.
A Scottish Journey David Paterson ISBN: 9780952190882 Category: Photography, Art Price: £14.95 pbk, 260x229, 144pp In this first title from Wildcountry Press, photographer David Paterson travels the length and breadth of Scotland, from the Borders to the Shetlands and from Aberdeenshire to the Outer Hebrides, in search for the landscapes which he captures in time for this beautiful book.
Great Balls of Fire Gary Sutherland ISBN: 9781841587684 Category: Travel Writing, Scottish Culture Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp A description of the multiple strange, fascinating, and fun festivals celebrated across Scotland. It charts a year of madness which leads the author on a hilarious and insightful journey around Scotland’s most bizarre and fantastic festivals.
A Cup of Kindness Justine Taylor ISBN: 9781862322929 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 320pp
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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Royal Scottish Corporation, covering four centuries of Scottish aid in the English capital from 1603-2003.
Silent Traveller in Lakeland Chiang Yee ISBN: 9781841830674 Category: Travel Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 112pp Chiang Yee was exiled from his homeland of China for over 40 years, during which time he wrote and illustrated a number of travel classics. ‘The Silent Traveller’ series, which also includes titles on London and Edinburgh, began with this book about the Lake District.
FICTION, POETRY
Duplicity and Other Stories Doris Davidson
A Bit of Crack and Car Culture Bess Ross
ISBN: 9781841588247 Category: Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 320pp A brand new novella and fantastic collection of short stories by Scotland’s favourite novelist.
ISBN: 9781841580432 Category: Short Stories Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
The Three Kings Doris Davidson
Few writers in Scotland can catch a sense of place and time in the way that Bess Ross can. Her warmth and humanity have ensured her a growing audience over the years.
ISBN: 9781841588254 Category: Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 432pp
The Nessman Alasdair Campbell
Forced into service at the age of fourteen, orphan Katie Mair must enter the bleak and cut off household, Howe of Denty, that turns out to be not as respectable as it first appears. One desperate act of defence from Katie is to a start a chain of despair, passion and revenge.
ISBN: 9781841580906 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x126mm, 224pp A moving, honest and yet humorous coming-of-age biography of a young boy from the Hebrides.
Time Shall Reap Doris Davidson
Visiting the Bard Alasdair Campbell
ISBN: 9781841585987 Category: Literature, Fiction Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 400pp
ISBN: 9781904598022 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £8.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 224pp The astonishing range and scope of Alasdair Campbell’s writing is highlighted in this collection of short stories set in Lewis.
Dr Finlay’s Casebook A.J Cronin ISBN: 9781841588544 Category: Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp
Julia De Roubigne Henry Mackenzie ISBN: 9781862320475 Category: Literature, Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 246x189mm, 272pp This edition aims to draw new readers to Mackenzie’s compelling final experiment in the novel of sentiment. Edited an with an introduction by Susan Manning.
Dearest Dacha Norman Maclean ISBN: 9781780270067 Category: Fiction Price: £5.99 pbk, 156x112mm, 96pp
Monday Girl Doris Davidson ISBN: 9781841585970 Category: Literature, Fiction Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp Set in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War and after the death of her father, Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. The impressionable Renee begins to form unusual attachments and romantic self-illusions which only spurs a cycle of self-effacement. A subtle treatment of human relationships during a time of flux.
ISBN: 9781841584560 Category: Literature Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 540pp
An intriguing piece of fiction of a single mother set in the harsh conditions of post-war Britain.
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A glorious omnibus edition of Dr Finlay’s adventures during the inter-war years, based on the author’s own experience as a doctor. This collection revives Conin’s masterpiece and celebrates favourite characters from the BBC-adapted perennial favourite.
Brow of the Gallowgate Doris Davidson
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An adrenaline-fueled adventure based in Uist in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam. Based around a memorable cast of characters including three inept crooks, an excommuncant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer and a pair of Russian weightlifters who raise ostriches.
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Tricksters Norman Maclean
The Red Door Iain Crichton Smith
ISBN: 9781780270074 Category: Fiction Price: £5.99 pbk, 156x112mm, 96pp
ISBN: 9781841581606 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm,
A hilarious journey into the alcohol blurred depths of the Scottish professional acting and directing community. A tale of insane scheming, fraught relationships, and Presbyterian heretics.
CONTRACTS Norman Maclean
Although best known as one of Scotland’s greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. Here in one volume is a comprehensive collection demonstrating the versatility of Crichton Smith’s range.
Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction Andrew Wilson & Neil Williamson
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ISBN: 9781780270654 Category: Fiction Price: £7.99 pbk, 156x112mm, 176pp In Contracts, the concluding novel of his highly acclaimed comedy trilogy, Norman Maclean writes with insight and élan about the birth and horrible growing pains of a new creature: Gaelic television.
Those Other Times Bess Ross ISBN: 9781841580593 Category: Literature, Fiction Price: £6.99pbk, 196x126mm, 208pp A powerful and perceptive semi-autobiographical novel, which captures the true spirit of a traditional fishing community in the very north of Scotland’s isolated coasts.
The Black Halo Iain Crichton Smith ISBN: 9781841581712 Category: Short Stories Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 608pp Although best known as one of Scotland’s greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. The pieces in this collection form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the full range and versatility of his literary talent.
ISBN: 9781841830865 Category: Short Stories, Fiction Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 288pp Some of the best Scottish writing comes from the imaginative genres that can be grouped under the heading of ‘speculative fiction’. These genres include science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism and alternate history. This book showcases work which addresses the nature of Scotland and Scottishness from fresh and unexpected angles.
Blood on the Borders Judith Cook ISBN: 9781862322875 Category: Crime, Fiction Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 280pp Dr Simon Forman finds himself accused of harbouring enemies of the state after a night of revelry. In his haste to clear his name he gets caught up in a secret spying mission and death stalks him as he tries to discover the identity of a murderer.
Murdo Iain Crichton Smith ISBN: 9781841580586 Category: Humour, Literature, Fiction Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.
Bruar’s Rest Jess Smith ISBN: 9781841589367 Category: Literature Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 336pp An epic tale of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of World War One. Megan, a Highland traveller, sets off on a perilous journey to find her husband Bruar, reported missing in action.
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RURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY FRUIT AND VEGETABLES New FOR SCOTLAND: What to Grow and How to Grow It Kenneth Cox and Caroline Beaton ISBN: 9781780270463 Category: Gardening Price: £20.00 pbk, 246x189mm, 240pp, illustrated in colour throughout Fruit and vegetables have formed a fundamental part of the Scottish diet for thousands of years. This fascinating and practical book explores the history of fruit, vegetable and herb growing in Scotland, and provides a contemporary guide to the best techniques for growing produce, whether in a garden, allotment, patio or window box.
School of the Moon Stuart McHardy ISBN: 9781841583006 Category: Scottish History, History Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 288pp Combining exciting traditional tales that illustrate the background of the practice of Highland cattle-raiding with extensive historical research, School of the Moon shows that there is much yet to be understood about Scotland’s history, even of the last few hundred years.
Flora Celtica William Milliken and Sam Bridgewater ISBN: 9781841583037 Category: Gardening, Natural History Price: £30.00 hbk, 250x246mm, 328pp, colour illustrations throughout This volume 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.
The Great Wood Jim Crumley ISBN: 9781841589732 Category: Scottish, Natural History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp In this passionate and poetic appreciation of the Great Wood of Caledon, Jim Crumley thoughtfully explores the past myths, present remnants and future prospects of the historic native forest of Highland Scotland.
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Land of Mountain and Flood Alan McKirdy, John Gordon, Roger Crofts ISBN: 9781841586267 Category: Geology, History Price: £20.00 pbk, 230x228mm, 336pp, colour illsutrated throughout This book is for those who are interested in the natural world and who wish to develop a good knowledge about the original formation of the formidable Scottish terrain. It is accessible and beautifully presented, contains a vast amount of detailed information told in clear, comprehensible language and is enhanced throughout with specially commissioned illustrations, diagrams and photographs.
The Last Wolf Jim Crumley ISBN: 9781841588476 Category: PB Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp
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In The Last Wolf, Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland - past, present and future - and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact.
Remembered Remedies Ann Barker ISBN: 9781780270043 Category: Natural Histroy Price: £9.99 pbk, 190x105mm, 144pp Remembered Remedies is a fascinating insight into the way plants have featured in Scottish life for generations.
Healing Threads Mary Beith ISBN: 9781841582771 Category: Botany, Natural History, Medicine Price: £9.99 pbk, 216x138mm, 320pp Healing Threads is a unique introduction to the healing properties of nature that has fascinated generation after generation.
The Scots Herbal Tess Darwin
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ISBN: 9781841587110 Category: Food And Drink, Medicine Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x288mm, 224pp This is the new edition of the first ever comprehensive guide to the many ways in which wild plants have been used in Scotland from prehistoric times to the present day.
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Ticks: Your Pets, Your Family and You Alison Blackwell, George Hendry, Darrel O. Ho-Yen ISBN: 9781841830841 Category: Natural History Price: £8.99 pbk, 178x118mm, 128pp This new edition of this handy pocket guide has been expanded to cover the whole range of tick victims, including dogs, cats, horses and livestock. Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, it contains all the practical information you need to keep your family, and the animals you care about, safe.
Scotland for Gardeners Kenneth Cox ISBN: 9781841585765 Category: Gardening, Natural History Price: £20.00 pbk, 230x148mm, 504pp, colour photography throughou Suitable for the Scot or the tourist who wish to explore the world of gardens and plants in Scotland, this book presents an essential compendium of Scotland’s plants and gardens. It covers specialist nurseries, garden centers, wildflower walks, shows, and public parks.
Scottish Gardener Suki Urquhart ISBN: 9781841589527 Category: Gardening Price: £16.99 pbk, 230x228mm, 288pp, illustrated in full colour throughout A book for garden lovers everywhere. This lavishly illustrated exploration of Scotland’s most interesting private gardens and their creators. This book analyses the way in which gardeners plan their gardens and how trends have been shaped by climate, conflicts and changing fashions.
Scottish Wild Flowers Michael Scott ISBN: 9781841589534 Category: Gardening Price: £9.99 pbk, 109x105mm, 256pp, illustrated in colour throughout Packed full of information, Scottish Wild Flowers is an ideal guide for both visitors and residents of Scotland who wish to learn about the fascinating wealth of wild flowers that can be found there. Each species is illustrated in full colour with a comprehensive description, plus the plant’s English, Latin and Gaelic names.
SCOTTISH WILD FLOWERS MINI GUIDE Michael Scott
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ISBN: 9781841589541 Category: Natural History Price: £5.99 pbk, 130x90mm, 208pp Colour photos & illustrations throughout Ideal to carry in your pocket, this is a perfect guide to the wild flowers of Scotland with a brief description of each species.
Seeds of Blood and Beauty Ann Lindsay ISBN: 9781841585796 Category: Botany, Natural History Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 8pp colour plates, 12pp b/w plates Seeds of Blood and Beauty sketches the lives and pratices of eighteenth and nineteenth century botanic explorers. In a time when the world was expanding through discovery, these men risked everything in search of the exotic and new.
Scottish Mammals Robin Hull ISBN: 9781841585369 Category: Zoology, Natural History Price: £14.99 pbk, 235x189mm, 368pp Insightful and meticulously researched, Scottish Mammals is an analysis of the impact of humans on the planet, as well as a riveting study of the facts and fictions associated with mammals in Scotland.
The Basking Shark in Scotland Denis Fairfax ISBN: 9781862320949 Category: Aquaculture Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 256pp Here the history of the fishery for the basking shark, with its varied guns and harpoons and small oilprocessing factories, is fully treated. Also covered is the anatomy of the basking shark and its biology. Its scientific history is also discussed.
STATIONERY The Hebridean Desk Address Book Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841589879 Category: Stationery Price: £12.99 hbk, 230x170mm, 96pp This is an address book which is attractively illustrated with acclaimed illustrator Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of seasonal Western Island scenes.
The Hebridean Pocket Address Book Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841589886 Category: Stationery Price: £7.99 hbk, 136x110, 96pp
The Hebridean Birthday Book Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841584607 Category: Stationery Price: £5.99 hbk, 156x110, 96pp Illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides, this large-format, hardback book is the perfect way to remember birthdays of friends and family.
Hebridean Notebook Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841588773 Category: Art, Stationery Price: £6.99 hbk, 230x170mm, 120pp Following the immense success of the Hebridean diaries, birthday books, and address books, Birlinn have added a notebook to its attractive range of Hebridean stationery.
The Hebridean Visitors’ Book Mairi Hedderwick ISBN: 9781841584614 Category: Stationery Price: £11.99 hbk, 170x230mm, 96pp Features beautiful, full-colour paintings by Mairi Hedderwick. New addition to the successful range of Hebridean diaries and address books.
HEBRIDEAN DIARIES 2013 Mairi Hedderwick
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ISBN: 9781780270395 Desk £12.99 (inc VAT) ISBN: 9781780270401Pocket £7.99 (inc VAT) Category: Stationery 230x170mm Desk, 156x110mm, Pocket 128pp, colour illustrations throughout This hardback desk diary is illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides through the seasons. Featuring distinctive full-colour
paintings by one of Scotland’s best-loved authors and artists, this exquisite diary is a wonderful celebration of the extraordinary natural beauty of the Hebrides.
HEBRIDEAN CALENDAR 2013 Mairi Hedderwick
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ISBN: 9781780270388 Category: Stationery £9.99, 300x300mm, 24pp, colour illustrations throughout This beautiful calendar features distinctive full-colour paintings by one of Scotland’s best-loved authors and artists, it is a wonderful celebration of the extraordinary natural beauty of the Hebrides throughout the seasons. Mairi Hedderwick’s drawings, produced over a period of forty years, expertly capture the unique character of each island and the diversity of land and seascapes, from wind-swept machair and dramatic cliffs to rolling hills and secluded woods.
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MILITARY AND ADVENTURE
Emipire of Sand Walter Reid ISBN: 9781843410539 Category: History Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 416pp, 16pp b/w plates
With reference to a huge amount of primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism, from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to UN control a process from which has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the world-wide tensions that threaten the 21st century.
The Seawolves Eric Graham
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ISBN: 9781841585802 Category: Maritime, Military and Adventure Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 16pp colour plates
Sea Dog Bamse Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr
Seawolves is an exciting and thorough examination of Scots connected to piracy, whether they are victims or villains, real or literary.
ISBN: 9781841588490 Category: Military History, History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 12pp b/w plates
The Sea King Gary McKay
This is the remarkable – and bestselling – story of one of the Second World War? most unusual animal heroes a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe.
ISBN: 9781843410461 Category: Biography/ Historical/ Political/ Military Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w plates As the rogue captain of the last Confederate commerce raider, the Shenandoah, James Waddell was a huge thorn in the side of the post-Civil war administration who singlehandedly destroyed the US whaling fleet and finally surrendered after a 22,000-mile journey at Liverpool. This title presents the story of the Shenandoah.
Arras, 1917 Walter Reid ISBN: 9781843410546 Category: Military Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp, 16pp b/w plates A biography of the author’s uncles, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, from wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. This book serves partly as a very moving biography but also as a way of getting closer to the mindset of the period and the things that influenced people.
The Russian Civil War Evan Mawdsley ISBN: 9781843410416 Category: History Price: £9.99 pk, 496pp, 16pp b/w/plates
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WOJTEK THE BEAR: POLISH WAR HERO Aileen Orr Epilogue by Neal Ascherson
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ISBN: 9781843410577 Category: History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm 224pp, 16pp b/w plates
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This is the inspiring true story of one of the Second World War’s most unusual combatants – a 500-pound cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more practical role, carrying heavy mortar rounds for the troops and going on to play his part as a fully enlisted ‘soldier’ with his own rank and number during the Italian campaign.
The Sledge Patrol David Howarth ISBN: 9781843410096 Category: History Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 256pp, 8pp b/w plates
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The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920, out of which the Soviet Union was born, was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. This book presents an account of this vast and complex subject, explaining the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.
n 1943, using dogsleds to patrol a 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, the wartime mission of Danish and Norwegian hunters was to guard against Nazi interlopers. However, when spotting the enemy, they were forced to escape, walking 56 miles to get back to base. This is their story.
Shallow Graves in Siberia Michael Krupa ISBN: 9781843410126 Category: Military and Adventure Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 208pp
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Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in southwest Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Krupa survived Hitler’s invasion but served ten years in a labour camp before escaping to Afghanistan after an epic journey. Here he tells his remarkable story.
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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Callum Macdonald
SIX MONTHS WITHOUT SUNDAYS: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan Max Benitz
ISBN: 9781843410362 Category: European Histrory Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 16pp b/w plates
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ISBN: 9781843410447 Category: Military History, Military and Adventure Price: £25.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 416pp, 16pp b/w p;lates Walter Reid brings together the result of recent research to create a powerful narrative that reveals how much time and energy Churchill devoted to fighting the war that was excluded from the official accounts: the war with the allies.
Home of the Blizzard Sir Douglas Mawson ISBN: 9781841580777 Category: Travel Price: £14.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 480pp, 4x16pp plates A tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. It presents the author’s own account of his years spent in sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds.
the Shackleton Boat Journey Frank Arthur Worsley ISBN: 9781841580630 Category: Military and Adventure Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 168pp, 3x16pp b/w plates This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia.
Aviator, war hero, explorer, reporter, prolific writer, spy, scientist and naturalist, Hubert Wilkins (18881958) was one of the most remarkable explorer of the twentieth century. This book reveals the life of this extraordinary individual.
Polar Crusader Michael Smith ISBN: 9781841585437 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 400pp, 24pp b/w plates In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith? book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.
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Max Benitz spent months living and training with the soldiers in this world-renowned battalion and was allowed a unique look into their lives.
Churchill 1940-1945 Walter Reid
ISBN: 9781841585550 Category: Biography Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 368pp, 24pp b/w plates
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ISBN: 9781843410560 Category: Military Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp, 16pp colour plates
On 27 May 1942 a Czech agent threw a bomb at a passing Mercedes Reinhard Heydrich was travelling in. The assassination sent a shock wave through the Nazi leadership and provoked ferocious reprisals against Czechs and Jews. This book is based on archive material and interviews
No More Beyond Simon Nasht
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SIX MONTHS WITHOUT SUNDAYS: The Scots Guards in Afghanistan Max Benitz ISBN: 9781843410522 Category: Military Price: £17.99 hbk, 198x129mm, 288pp, 16pp colour plates
THE LONG WAY HOME Reprint John McCallum Introduction by Trevor Royle Foreword by George Robertson ISBN: 9781843410607 Category: Military Price: £6.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 160pp
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Ingenious and resourceful, the three men set about planning their escape. With the help of Traudl, a local girl whom John had met while working in nearby Bad Karlsbrunn, they put their plan into action. In an astonishing coincidence, they passed through the town of Sagan, around which the seventy-six airmen of the Great Escape were being pursued and caught. However, unlike most of these other escapees, John, Jimmy and Joe eventually made it to freedom.
Journeys in the Wilderness John Muir ISBN: 9781841586977 Category: Travel, Travel Writing Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 576pp This collection presents the finest of Muir’s writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.
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Hell of a journey On Foot Through the Scottish Highlands in Winter Mike Cawthorne
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ISBN: 9781780270357 Category: Travel Writing Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 16pp colour plates Hell of a Journey describes what is arguably the last great journey to be undertaken in Britain: the entire Scottish Highlands on foot in one winter. On one level it is a vivid and evocative account of a remarkable trek – never attempted before – on another it celebrates the uniqueness of the Highlands, the scenery and ecology of ‘the last wilderness in Europe’.
CRIME caught in the New crossfire: the incredible true story of scotland’s deadliest drug war Russell Findlay ISBN: 9781841589916 Category: True Crime Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 304pp, 8pp b/w plates The deadliest Glasgow gang war of a generation – the Daniel family versus the Lyons – was sparked by an opportunistic cocaine theft from a house party which unleashed a decade of murderous violence. This is the explosive story of what happened as the Daniel–Lyons feud spiralled out of control and engulfed a whole community.
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The Pinkerton Casebook Allen Pinkerton and Bruce Durie ISBN: 9781841831169 Category: Crime Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 192pp Allan Pinkerton is famous as the founder of the detective agency that bears his name. This work gathers together some of the best of Pinkerton’s writings, including accounts of how he foiled an attempt on the life of President Abraham Lincoln, his infiltration of the notorious Molly Maguires gang, and his dogged pursuit of Frank and Jesse James.
The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith Douglas MacGowan ISBN: 9781841831138 Category: Crime, Scottish History Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 192pp Douglas MacGowan vivid account of the celebrated murder case reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensiblities. Ultimately he leaves it to the reader to judge Madeleine guilt or innocence.
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Dictionary of Scottish Painters Julian Halsby and Paul Harris
Place-names of Scotland Iain Taylor
ISBN: 9781841588827 Category: History of Art Price: £25.00 pbk, 290x230mm, 256pp, colour illustrations throughout A fantastic reference for any one with a passion for art history. This is a comprehensive guide to some 2000 painters, both major and minor figures, who have worked in Scotland since 1600.
Up River Art Darren Woodhead ISBN: 9781841588346 Category: Art Price: £30.00 hbk, 305x270mm, 160pp, illustrated in colour throughout Nature artist Darren Woodhead captures in painting and words the natural beauty of countryside around Carlops and valley of the North Esk river. This book comprises of him creating a record of the area - the hills, the flora and fauna - the contrasting barrenness and bleakness of winter with the explosive colours of spring and summer.
Tam o’ SHANTER Robert Burns
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ISBN: 978 1 78027 036 4 Category: Art, poetry Price: £25.00 hbk, 210x280mm, 176pp, illustrated in colour throughout Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o’ Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns’ masterpiece. This magnificent edition of the poem features the work of Alexander Goudie, one of Scotland’s greatest twentieth-century artists who, over a period of many years, was inspired by the poem to produce some of his most powerful and imaginative paintings, which capture all the menace and comedy of Burns’ poem. Together with introductory essays by historian Edward Cowan, literary critic Alan Riach (both of Glasgow University) and the artist’s son, Lachlan Goudie, this is the definitive edition of one of the greatest works of Scottish literature.
ISBN: 9781780270050 Category: Reference, History, Scottish Price: £7.99 pbk, 176x112mm, 252pp Here at last is a simple pocket guide to Scotland’s rich tapestry of names.
Scottish Place-names W. F. H. Nicolaisen ISBN: 9781906566364 Category: Folklore Studies, Scottish History, Scottish Studies Price: £20.00 pbk, 216x138mm, 320pp This book, the result of twenty years’ meticulous research, remains the only comprehensive and systematic study of Scottish place-names. This methodological guide provides an extensive overview of the history of ancient and modern place names in Scotland.
The Celtic Place-names of Scotland W. J. Watson ISBN: 9781906566357 Category: Scottish History Format: Paperback Price: £20.00 pbk, 216x138mm, 600pp First published in 1926, this remains the best and most comprehensive reference guide to the Celtic placenames of Scotland.
Scottish Place-names David Dorward ISBN: 9781841588230 Category: Placenames Price: £7.99 pbk, 112x156mm, 336pp Offers insights into the myriad of place-names that are found across Scotland. This book presents correct pronunciation of Scottish names with explanations of hundreds of names. It is suitable for an inquiring schoolchild, the hill-walker or mountaineer, the local historian and for those who wondered about the origins of place-names in Scotland.
Scottish Forenames Donald Whyte ISBN: 9781841583983 Category: Genealogy Price: £6.99 pbk, 156x112mm, 224pp This fun little book details the famous men and women who by their reputation gave their names popular notoriety in Scotland throughout the centuries.
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Tracing your Scottish Ancestors Scottish National Archives ISBN: 9781780270227 Category: Genealogy Price: £12.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 272pp Scotland has one of the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research. This book details internet developments, including a chapter on family history on the web. It also points to traditional resources, explaining step by step how to research records of births, marriages and wills.
Swinging Sporran Andrew Campbell, Roddy Martine ISBN: 9781841584898 Category: Dance, Cultural Studies Price: £5.99 The definitive, entertaining guide to Scottish country dancing.
THE POCKET BOOK OF New SCOTTISH QUOTATIONS Compiled and edited by David Ross ISBN: 9781780270876 Category: Reference Price: £7.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 272pp The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This new edition of David Ross’s acclaimed collection spans the entire gamut of a nation’s recorded thought and experience from Calgacus in AD 84 toAnnabel Goldie in 2011.
FOOD AND DRINK The Scots Kitchen Marian McNeil and Catherine Brown ISBN: 9781841589008 Category: Cookery Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x190mm, 368pp In this new edition we revisit the joys of McNeill's recipes whilst also catching a glimpse of the social and historical importance of the book when it was first publised.
The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible Seamus MacInnes
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ISBN: 9781841589084 Category: Cooking Price: £4.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 96pp A tasty treat for Seumas MacInnes' fans and for anyone who has tasted the culinary delights of Glasgow's Cafe Gandolfi. You can now create these masterpieces in the comfort of your own home.
Traditional Scottish Cookery Theodora Fitzgibbon ISBN: 9781841830803 Category: Cooking Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 288pp Traditional Scottish Cookery brings together mouthwatering recipes from the whole range of Scottish cuisine – from the simple scones, broths and bannocks of the Highland Gaels, to the sophisticated meat and game dishes that are a legacy of the Auld Alliance with France.
MacLean's Whiskypedia Charles MacLean ISBN: 9781841585567 Category: Reference, Food And Drink Price: £16.99 hbk, 210x135mm, 352pp, colour illustrations throughout A comprehensive guide to Scotland? malt whisky distilleries by the world-renowned authority on whisky, Charles MacLean. With photographs by John MacPherson.
Whisky Dream Stuart Rivans ISBN: 9781841586816 Category: Food And Drink, Autobiography/Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 224pp, 16pp colour plates An extraordinary tale of surprising endeavours involving one man struggle to resuscitate two whisky distilleries from the brink of no return – Bruichladdich and Port Charlotte distilleries – on the small Hebridean island of Islay.
THE WHISKY DISTILLERIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Alfred Barnard
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ISBN: 9781841586526 Category: Food And Drink Price: £30.00 hbk, 246x189mm, 792pp Here is the first complete edition of Alfred Barnard’s writing, which incorporates How to Blend Scotch Whisky and two other books by this author. The whisky ‘bible’ for the connoisseur.
CLAIRE MACDONALD’S FISH: Inspiring Fish recipes for Creative Cooks
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ISBN: 9781780270807 Category: Food And Drink Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x190mm, 288pp, 12pp colour plates Claire Macdonald turns her attention to fish in this practical, inspired and creative collection of recipes. Featuring appetizing soups and tasty dishes that can be served as both starters and main courses, she shows how fish is ideal fare for informal occasions with family and friends as well as more formal dinner parties.
CLAIRE macdonald’s New ENTERTAINING SOLO: Delicious Recipes for Single Cooks Who Like to Entertain ISBN: 9781780270487 Category: Food And Drink Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x190mm, 288pp, 12pp colour plates Featuring a huge number of recipes arranged by topic (first and light courses; fish and seafood; meat and game; vegetables and salads; and puddings) this is the essential cookbook for those who cook and entertain single-handed.
Claire Macdonald’s Simply Seasonal
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ISBN: 9781780270838 Category: Food And Drink Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x190mm, 288pp, 12pp colour plates Arranged in an easy-to-use format, with recipes arranged by season, Claire Macdonald offers a whole range of recipes for informal entertaining for all seasons.
THE cLaiRE MACDONALD Re-issue COOKBOOK ISBN: 9781780270814 Category: Food And Drink Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x190mm, 288pp, 12pp colour plates Distilled from years of experience of cooking at the world-famous Kinloch Lodge on the Isle of Skye, this is a celebratory collection of the very best of Claire Macdonald’s recipes.
Cutty Sark The Making of a Whisky Brand Edited by Ian Buxton ISBN: 9781780270265 Category: Food and Drink Price: £25.00 hbk, 228x220mm, 192pp. illustrated in color throughout In this unique, full colour volume, editor Ian Buxton has assembled a top team of whisky experts to tell the colourful story behind ‘the real McCoy’.
Scottish Seafood Catherine Brown ISBN: 9781841589756 Category: Food And Drink Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x190mm, 256pp Shortlisted for the Guild Of Food Writers 2012 Food Book of the Year In this major new cookery book, Catherine Brown draws on a treasury of traditional Scottish seafood recipes, from cullen skink to partan bree, Solway scallops and bacon to Musselburgh steak and oyster pie to create a long overdue overview of Scottish cuisine in this sphere.
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POLITICS The Importance of Being Awkward Tam Dalyell
The Greatest Game David Purdie and Hugh Dodd
ISBN: 9781841589930 Category: Biography Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 320pp, 16pp b/w plates
ISBN: 9780951447079 Category: Sport/ Humour Price: £25.00 hbk, 270x210mm, 160pp, illustrated in colour throughout
Much-anticipated memoir from one of politics most controversial and colourful figures. A fascinating book which offers a unique perspective on many of the key moments in Britain's political life over the last fifty years.
Did you know that Shakespeare was a golfer? And that Rembrandt was no stranger to the fairway? Professor David Purdie takes a seriously humorous swipe at our collected knowledge of the game in this enlightening and entertaining compendium. Based on firm facts where available and on firm invention when not, the book examines the curious roles of the Golf Club, the golf ball and the golf player, explores the culture of the game across the world, including the USA, China and India - and sweeps aside all claims for the game’s origin outside of Scotland.
The GuIdman's Daughter Henry Marsh ISBN: 9780951447062 Category: Poetry Price: £10.00 hbk, 210x135, 104pp A wonderfully fresh new collection of poems from one of Scotland's leading poets. Alongside his familiar theme of the changing elements of the Scottish landscape, the poet leads us quietly and courteously into a personal territory of friendship, love, reflection.
The Hammer and the Fire Henry Marsh ISBN: 9780956527820 Category: Poetry Price: £10.00 hbk, 210x135mm, 96pp In this collection Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to ‘find a language’ to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face.
Salmond: Against the Odds David Torrance ISBN: 9781841589145 Category: Biography Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 352pp, 16pp b/w plates
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ISBN: 9781780270661 Category: Biography Price: £12.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 496pp, 16pp b/w plates This is the definitive guide to the man behind the office of First Minister. A book that will inform, entertain and surprise in equal measure this is a must for all political junkies and indeed anyone interested in the future of Scotland.
Downfall Alan McCombes
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ISBN: 9781841587592 Category: Biography Price: £9.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 336pp, 16pp b/w plates In the drab and dusty world of party politics, Tommy Sheridan always stood out like an aurora borealis – tanned, handsome and armed with colourful soundbites for every occasion. This title reveals the stark, ugly truth behind Tommy Sheridan's victorious 2006 deformation action against the "News of the World".
Dear Mr Harper Robin Harper and Fred Brogland ISBN: 9781841589343 Category: Biography Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 240pp, 8pp colour plates Robin Harper is a pioneer of the Green movement in the UK. He has lived all over the world and travelled under various guises, including that of teacher, actor, parliamentarian, protestor, and folkie. Robin draws on his wealth of experience to both enlighten and entertain.
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Tales from the Tap End Judy Steel ISBN: 9781841588735 Category: Biography and Memoir Price: £16.99 hbk, 234x156mm, 416pp, 16pp b/w plates A story of a life lived to the full, this engaging biography from Judy Steel provides us with a rare insight into the world of her late husband David Steel whilst also shedding light on their own personal relationship as they deal with the joys and hardships of the political sphere.
We in Scotland David Torrance ISBN: 9781841588162 Category: Politics And Economics Price: £20.00 hbk, 352pp, 16pp b/w plates Fascinating reassessment of Scotland’s relationship with the Iron Lady, confronting the many myths, most notably Ravenscraig and the Poll Tax.
Grimond: The Sound of Gunfire Michael McManus ISBN: 9781843410065 Category: Autobiography/Biography Price: £20.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 480pp, 24pp b/w plates This is the first biography to be written of a man who can truly be said to have changed the face of British political life.
Hell and High Water Alastair McIntosh ISBN: 9781841586229 Category: Conservation, Politics And Economics Price: £8.99 pbk, 198x129mm, 304pp After Alastair McIntosh’s success with Soil and Soul which sold more than 10,000 copies, Birlinn Limited is pleased to introduce a major new work which critically examines climate change citing Scotland’s ecosystem as a microcosm for wider global effects.
The Scottish Secretaries David Torrance ISBN: 9781841584768 Category: Politics And Economics Price: £30.00 hbk, 234x156mm, 448pp, 16pp b/w plates Drawing on first-hand accounts and contemporary correspondence, David Torrance paints vivid biographical portraits of the 39 men and one woman who have held the post of Scottish Secretary since the position was resurrected by Salisbury in 1885.
MEGRAHI: YOU ARE MY JURY The Lockerbie Evidence John Ashton
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ISBN: 9781780270159 Category: Current affairs Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 512pp, 12pp b/w plates You know me as the Lockerbie bomber. I know that I’m innocent. Here, for the first time, is my true story: how I came to be blamed for Britain’s worst mass murder, my nightmare decade in prison and the truth about my controversial release.
Please read it and decide for yourself. You are now my jury. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi For the first time the man known as ‘the Lockerbie bomber’ tells his story. This long-awaited book argues that, far from being an unrepentant terrorist, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the innocent victim of dirty politics, a flawed investigation and judicial folly. Based on exclusive interviews with Megrahi himself, and conclusive new evidence, it destroys the prosecution case and puts the Scottish criminal justice system in the dock. Megrahi: You Are My Jury makes a compelling argument that the murderers of the 270 Lockerbie victims were acting on behalf of an entirely different government, rather than Libya, and that the Libyan people were wrongfully accused and punished.
Uncharted Waters Malcolm Chalmers and William Walker ISBN: 9781862322455 Category: Politics And Economics Price: £14.99 pbk, 234x156mm, 140pp This book considers the complex issues which arise from operating the nuclear deterrent out of a devolved Scotland that has attained a very limited autonomy and has no rights to determine defence and foreign policy.
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LIMITED EDITIONS In December 2006 Birlinn launched a Limited Editions imprint with a 21st century edition of the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, arguably the first full atlas of Scotland, (originally published in msterdam in 1654) and Daniell’s Scotland, being the Scottish sections of A Voyage Around Great Britain (first published between 1815 and 1822). Birlinn now publishes several titles – all numbered limited editions, lavishly illustrated and clothbound in individual slipcases on fine quality paper.
Alexander Goudie’s Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns Alexander Goudie (1933–2004) described Tam o’ Shanter as ‘a gothic tale, strewn with vivid and awesome images’. Over several years he transcribed his imaginings onto canvas, creating a series of narrative paintings which ‘deserves to be ranked among the best illustrative cycles in Scottish Art’ (Sir Timothy Clifford). This book brings together his definitive vision of Burns’ great poem. Two specially commissioned essays by Professor Edward J. Cowan and Professor Alan Riach of Glasgow University provide the literary, historical and folklore background to the work and its relations to Alexander Goudie’s paintings, and the author’s son, Lachlan Goudie, provides a biographical essay which sets the Tam o’ Shanter paintings within the context of his father’s career. format: 1 volume casebound in real cloth with protective slipcase size: 297 x 450mm extent: 144pp price: £100 isbn: 978 1 84158 671 7
John Thomson’s Atlas of Scotland, 1832 Birlinn’s Limited Editions imprint celebrates the extraordinary work of John Thomson with a beautifully-bound, magnificent edition of Thomson’s work, originally published in Edinburgh in 1832. The first atlas of Scotland to be published by county, with an invaluable and accurate picture of Scotland prior to the Clearances, the Thomson Atlas of Scotland was a highly significant milestone in the history of mapping. This facsimile edition has two new essays by Professor Charles W.J. Withers of the University of Edinburgh and by Chris Fleet and Paula Williams of the National Library of Scotland. format: 1 volume casebound in real cloth within a protective case size: 490mm x 355mm extent: 176 pp, with 58 large format double-page maps price: £150 isbn: 978 1 84158 687 8
R. W. Billings The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland Compiled between 1845 and 1852 this magnificent collection of engravings, with accompanying commentaries, records the most significant medieval buildings in Scotland format: 2 volumes casebound in real cloth with a protective slipcase size: 292mm x 225mm extent: vol 1: 440 pp / vol 2: 392 pp, both with illustrated plates price: £125 isbn: 978 1 84158 672 4
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Joan Blaeu The Blaeu Atlas of Scotland Joan Blaeu’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus, Volume V, published in 1654, was the first atlas of Scotland and provides an unrivalled view and record of Scotland 350 years ago. A 21st-century edition is being published with reproductions of all 49 hand-coloured maps of Scotland and featuring the complete texts translated into English, alongside new translations of letters from the Blaeu publishing house. format: casebound in real cloth with slipcase size: 450 x 290mm extent: 240 pp colour throughout price: £100 isbn: 978 1 84158 585 7
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Daniell’ s Scotland A Voyage Round the Coast of Scotland and the Adjacent Isles, 1815–1822
The Great Map William Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland 1747–55
This is the first modern edition of Daniell’s famous Voyage to feature facsimile colour reproductions – 157 in total – of the places he visited in Scotland.
William Roy surveyed the whole of Scotland, producing an immensely detailed and ground-breaking map of the country after the Jacobite rising of 1745. For the first time the complete map, of 346 pages, will be reproduced.
Daniell’s Voyage is one of the finest of the illustrated topographical and travel books so popular in early 19th-century Britain.
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format: Two-volume set casebound in real cloth with slipcase size: 355 x 260mm extent: vol: 352pp / vol 2: 320pp colour throughout price: £100 isbn: 978 1 84158 319 8
format: casebound in real cloth within slip case size: 450 x 290mm extent: 400pp colour mapping throughout price: £200 isbn: 978 1 84158 667 0
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John Kay Kay’s Portraits: Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings John Kay created unforgettable images of Edinburgh characters, both high and low, during the Age of the Enlightenment. His 356 etchings with spirited commentaries were originally published in two volumes, now especially reproduced. format: 2 volumes casebound in real cloth each with slipcase size: 264 x 204 mm extent: Vol 1: 824 pp, with 168 plates, Vol 2: 872 pp, with 188 plates price: £200 Special limited numbered edition isbn: 978 1 84158 657 1