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<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong><br />
Committed to publishing well written books worth reading<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2024</strong><br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong>
From The Beautiful Game
“<br />
Home Game<br />
MEL YOUNG & PETER BARR<br />
With foreword by VAL McDERMID<br />
9781804250853<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
Paperback<br />
198x129mm<br />
336pp<br />
£9.99<br />
WSJA Football<br />
B/W photographs<br />
An inspirational account of the story behind the Homeless World Cup since its birth in<br />
2003.<br />
Home Game follows the global phenomenon, telling the stories of the players and some<br />
of the tournaments biggest supporters. It provides an invaluable insight into one of the<br />
world’s most urgent problems whilst showing how a non-profit organisation uses the<br />
power of football to tackle it.<br />
3<br />
The true story of the Homeless World Cup –<br />
the inspiration for the Netflix film<br />
The Beautiful Game (<strong>2024</strong>).<br />
The Beautiful Game charted in the Netflix<br />
Top 10 streamed films in 51 countires,<br />
No.3 in the uk and No. 5 on the<br />
Netflix Global Top 10<br />
The Homeless World Cup... puts on the agenda that homelessness is a global issue.<br />
We all love football and we all hate homelessness – it's a no brainer.<br />
IRVINE WELSH, novelist and ambassador for the Homeless World Cup<br />
It’s time to say it loud and clear – it’s not a luxury to have a home, it’s a human right.<br />
It’s time we all found room in our hearts to help end homelessness.<br />
From the foreword by VAL MCDERMID<br />
MEL YOUNG is President and co-founder of the Homeless World Cup and is<br />
recognised as one of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.<br />
PETER BARR is a Trustee of the Homeless World Cup Foundation. He is a<br />
journalist with 40 years’ experience working in Hong Kong, Singapore and<br />
Scotland.<br />
committed to publishing well written books worth reading
“<br />
4<br />
We Are Scottish<br />
Football<br />
JULIE McNEILL<br />
(with photography by CAMPBELL RAMAGE)<br />
9781804251577<br />
May <strong>2024</strong><br />
Paperback<br />
170x120mm<br />
128pp<br />
£7.99<br />
WSJA Football<br />
Colour photographs<br />
In this unique and vivid collection of poems<br />
and photographs Julie McNeill makes sure<br />
we don’t forget the impact our footballing<br />
history has had on the world.<br />
STUART COSGROVE, author & presenter<br />
With a pen dipped in passion, McNeill explores the emotional landscape of football,<br />
bringing to life the highs and lows, triumphs and tribulations that define the beautiful<br />
game in Scotland.<br />
Her verses transport readers to the electric atmosphere of packed stadiums, where<br />
every cheer and roar reverberates through the pages. With eloquence and insight,<br />
We Are Scottish Football stands as a poetic tribute, capturing the soul-stirring drama<br />
and unwavering devotion that make Scottish football an enduring and enchanting<br />
spectacle.<br />
In this wonderful book of poems and photographs Julie McNeill ties<br />
together the past and present of the game and highlights some of its<br />
outstanding moments, personalities and controversies.<br />
ROSE REILLY MBE, World Cup Winning Footballer<br />
A must-read for any fan of football, history, poetry and Scotland.<br />
IAN MAXWELL, CEO SFA<br />
<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> Limited<br />
JULIE McNEILL, poet, author and workshop facilitator, specialises in creative<br />
writing workshops and talks, focusing on mental health and supporting<br />
individuals with additional needs. Author of Mission Dyslexia and two<br />
poetry collections, she’s the Poet in Residence for St Mirren FC Charitable<br />
Foundation and the Makar for The Scottish Women’s National Football Team<br />
Poets Society. Her performances include notable events like Wigtown Book<br />
Festival and StAnza International Poetry Festival.<br />
“
5<br />
The Boy, The Witch &<br />
The Queen of Scots<br />
BARBARA HENDERSON<br />
9781804251317<br />
April <strong>2024</strong><br />
Paperback<br />
198x129mm<br />
192pp<br />
£7.99<br />
YFT Children's/Teenage Fiction:<br />
Historical Fiction<br />
Scottish Book Trust Book<br />
of the Month (May <strong>2024</strong>)<br />
No.<br />
Not the Palace.<br />
Anywhere but the Palace.<br />
12-year-old Alexander Buchan was once content, training as a falconer at Strathbogie<br />
Castle in Huntly. But when his Earl sends him to Edinburgh to the court of the newly<br />
arrived Mary, Queen of Scots, the boy finds himself lured into a world of intrigue,<br />
terror and treachery. Alexander knows right from wrong, but how can he hope to<br />
outwit his master's murderous messenger'? Surely no one can defy an Earl – especially<br />
one whose wife is rumoured to be a witch!<br />
Soon, more than the boy’s own life is at stake: his friend Lizzie is arrested and the<br />
angry clouds of Reformation Scotland gather around the young Queen.<br />
“<br />
A fascinating glimpse into the past – perfect for the primary classroom.<br />
STEVEN KENYON, Teacher Educator for English & History<br />
It seems that Alexander must spy – or die.<br />
BARBARA HENDERSON currently resides in Inverness, dividing her time<br />
between writing, and teaching drama. Primarily a children’s novelist, she<br />
is interested in Scottish history and has several published books with<br />
Cranachan Publishing. Her novels are widely studied in Scottish schools<br />
and she regularly travels around the country for workshops and events.<br />
“<br />
committed to publishing well written books worth reading
6<br />
A Case of Desecration in the West<br />
DOUGLAS WATT<br />
9781804251386<br />
July <strong>2024</strong><br />
234x156mm<br />
248pp<br />
£14.99<br />
Paperback<br />
FFH Historical Crime & Mysteries<br />
Key Titles<br />
Summary:<br />
Scotland, 1691. Unravel the mystery surrounding<br />
the drowning of Bethia Porterfield in the Avon<br />
Water. Was it a tragic accident, suicide or<br />
something more sinister. What secrets lie behind<br />
the desecration of a Quaker burial ground near<br />
Hamilton, and what connection does it have to<br />
the clandestine Cadzow Kiss, a forbidden club<br />
meeting in the ruins of Cadzow Castle?<br />
Watt keeps the action moving along and conjures<br />
up a convincingly dark atmosphere at this cusp of<br />
the age of reason.<br />
The Herald on The Unnatural Death<br />
of a Jacobite<br />
Collier Laddie<br />
RAB WILSON<br />
9781804251348<br />
April <strong>2024</strong><br />
198x129mm<br />
176pp<br />
£9.99<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry / Literature & Literary Studies<br />
Summary:<br />
Timed with the 40th anniversary of the 1984-1985 UK<br />
Miners' Strike, this poetry collection features Rab<br />
Wilson's mining and socially relevant poems.<br />
Having worked in the mining industry from 1977, Rab<br />
joined the Miners' Strike on March 12, 1984, remaining<br />
on strike until March 21, 1985. His collection captures<br />
the strike's impact through a miner's eyes, offering<br />
a firsthand account of Scotland's mining industry<br />
demise—a poignant record by a poet uniquely positioned<br />
to document this working-class struggle.<br />
Anyone who has an inquiring mind and an interest<br />
in all things beyond our world will find this a<br />
fascinating read. SCOTTISH FIELD on Oor Big<br />
Braw Cosmos<br />
Demarco's Scotland<br />
RICHARD DEMARCO<br />
& RODDY MARTINE<br />
9781804251669<br />
August <strong>2024</strong><br />
234x156mm<br />
256pp<br />
£14.99<br />
Paperback<br />
JBC Cultural Studies<br />
Summary:<br />
Discover the essence of Scotland’s cultural<br />
brilliance with Demarco’s Scotland, an immersive<br />
journey into the heart of one of the world’s most<br />
captivating nations. Experience the richness of<br />
Scottish identity, woven with threads of history, art<br />
and tradition. This, the compelling sequel to Demarco’s<br />
Edinburgh, is where the soul of Scotland is laid bare<br />
through the eyes of Richard Demarco and Roddy<br />
Martine. Explore the profound connections between art,<br />
culture and historey as you trace Scotland’s evolution<br />
from ancient pilgrimage routes to modern-day artistic<br />
endeavours.<br />
His challenge was to provoke his audience into actively<br />
promoting the language of the arts through their work<br />
and deeds – not just sitting in the audience nodding along.<br />
CHARLIE ELLIS, Bellacaledonia on Demarco's Edinburgh<br />
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town<br />
DONALD SMITH<br />
Illustrations by CAT OUTRAM<br />
9781804251508<br />
September <strong>2024</strong><br />
Hardback<br />
180x135mm<br />
192pp<br />
£12.99<br />
Hardback<br />
DS Literature: History<br />
B/W Line Illustrations<br />
Summary:<br />
Developed in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling<br />
Centre, Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature and<br />
the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, this<br />
book, by the esteemed Donald Smith, invites you to<br />
discover the captivating tapestry of Edinburgh: Our<br />
Storied Town a spellbinding exploration of Edinburgh’s<br />
history, intricately illustrated by Cath Outram. This<br />
commemorative edition, part of Edinburgh’s 900th<br />
anniversary celebration, unveils the city’s evolution<br />
through the centuries, with each chapter delving into a<br />
different century.<br />
The City’s 900th anniversary deserves to be<br />
celebrated in style.<br />
SUSAN DALGETY, Edinburgh Evening News<br />
<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> Limited
Key Titles<br />
Eighth Moon Bridge<br />
ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL<br />
9781804251379<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
198x129mm<br />
192 Pages<br />
£7.99<br />
Paperback<br />
Ficton & Related Items / Crime & Mystery<br />
Fiction / Gaelic Fiction<br />
7<br />
Summary:<br />
No success in Jack’s life – his football career, his job with<br />
British Rail, his perfume business – satiates the pull he<br />
first felt when crossing the bridge to The Island.<br />
When at last he returns, burdened by loss and separation,<br />
he finds solace in the rhythms of the life he’d left behind.<br />
Over long walks, pondering conversations, and a complex<br />
plan to renovate the bridge, Jack builds relationships and<br />
settles into a lifelong home. This assuredness leads him<br />
to learn Gaelic, to discover links that tied him to this place<br />
long before he ever set foot on The Island, and to embark<br />
on a quest to find out what’s behind stone number 759.<br />
I enjoyed this book immensely. It reads beautifully, a<br />
novel which is as much an act of reverence as a work of<br />
fiction. LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES on Electricity<br />
Far na Slighe<br />
SHELAGH CHAIMBEUL<br />
9781804251294<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
198x129mm<br />
216pp<br />
£9.99<br />
Paperback<br />
Ficton & Related Items / Crime & Mystery<br />
Fiction / Gaelic Fiction<br />
Summary:<br />
Far na Slighe unfolds a haunting tale in St Andrews and<br />
on the Fife Coastal Path. Amy and Ciara's lives take a<br />
chilling turn when Joni Dawson's tragic case resurfaces in<br />
a YouTube true crime series. Recognizing a bracelet from<br />
their past, the couple grapples with its potential link to<br />
Joni's demise. As they navigate whether to reveal it, an<br />
ominous presence shadows them, triggering a dangerous<br />
game. This suspenseful narrative, exploring unexpected<br />
connections, is ideal for Gaelic readers and crime fiction<br />
enthusiasts alike, offering a thrilling revelation.<br />
From the winner of the Gaelic New<br />
Writers Award 2023.<br />
It's a Goal!<br />
a personal selection of significant goals and<br />
what they meant<br />
ARCHIE MACPHERSON<br />
9781804251393<br />
August <strong>2024</strong><br />
234x156mm<br />
224pp<br />
£11.99<br />
Paperback<br />
SFBC Association Football<br />
Summary:<br />
Step into the heart of football’s goals with It’s a goal! by<br />
the legendary commentator Archie Macpherson. Delve<br />
into Archie’s captivating stories about what each goal<br />
means to him. some spectacular, some less-so, some<br />
not-at-all, but all significant – together with a fascinating<br />
backstory to each goal and the match in which it was<br />
scored. With each goal comes a riveting backstory,<br />
revealing the emotions that fuel the beautiful game.<br />
Archie invites you on a journey through the highs and<br />
lows of football, where the simple act of scoring a goal<br />
becomes a profound moment of human connection.<br />
From football to golf, boxing to athletics, Touching<br />
the Heights celebrates the breadth of Scottish<br />
sporting achievement. ANN FOTHERINGHAM,<br />
Glasgow Times on Touching the Heights<br />
Leonard Cohen<br />
The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall<br />
CHRISTOPHE LEBOLD<br />
9781804251560<br />
September <strong>2024</strong><br />
234x156mm<br />
608pp<br />
£30.00<br />
Hardback<br />
DNB Biography<br />
32pp colour section<br />
Summary:<br />
The first English edition of acclaimed French<br />
biography of Leonard Cohen.<br />
Christophe Lebold unveils Leonard Cohen’s enigmatic<br />
journey exploring love, faith and existentialism. Through<br />
meticulous research and personal encounters, Lebold<br />
transcends biography, delving into Cohen’s mission<br />
to illuminate life’s shadows. This book captivates and<br />
inspires, inviting readers into life’s complexities and<br />
darkest corners.<br />
I am deeply respectful of the mind that has<br />
produced this book.<br />
LEONARD COHEN, Email to the author<br />
committed to publishing well written books worth reading
8<br />
Pink Camouflage<br />
One Solider's Story from Trauma and Abuse<br />
to Resilience and Leadership<br />
GEMMA MORGAN<br />
9781804251232<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
£14.99<br />
192pp<br />
Hardback<br />
Biography & True Stories / Biography:<br />
General / Biography: Military<br />
Key Titles<br />
Summary:<br />
Gemma Morgan, 33, a decorated army veteran and<br />
athlete, faced a mental health crisis after enduring<br />
misogyny and abuse in her military career. Fueled by<br />
alcohol and pills, she struggled with PTSD and felt<br />
betrayed by the institution. These challenges led her<br />
to the brink of suicide, despite a seemingly happy and<br />
successful life.<br />
This is her story in her own words. She has told it to<br />
inspire others, especially those who have been affected<br />
by the toxic and coercive leadership culture that<br />
continues to pervade the British Army.<br />
It’s a great read, it’s not an easy read but that’s<br />
okay because sometimes we do need that, but I<br />
do think it will also help so many people.<br />
LORRAINE KELLEY<br />
The Queens Bahookie<br />
and other tales from Scotland's castles<br />
ROBIN LAING<br />
Illustrated by BOB DEWAR<br />
9781804251362<br />
June <strong>2024</strong><br />
198x129mm<br />
160pp<br />
Paperback<br />
£8.99<br />
NH History<br />
Illustrations throughout<br />
Summary:<br />
Who saw the Queen’s bahoukie?<br />
Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose?<br />
Which castle was known as ‘the ship that never sailed’?<br />
The world and history of Scottish castles has been<br />
explored through multiple media forms, but not quite<br />
in this way. The Queen’s bahoukie and other tales from<br />
Scotland’s castles takes us on a poetic and historical<br />
journey through the castles of Scotland. Cling to the<br />
other-worldliness that is hidden within the crumbling<br />
walls of Scotland’s castles.<br />
Scottish Art and Artists<br />
in Historical and<br />
Contemporary Context<br />
BILL HARE<br />
9781804251126<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
£16.99<br />
288pp<br />
Paperback<br />
The Arts / History of Art / Art & Design Styles<br />
Summary:<br />
Bill Hare's latest volume builds upon his prior work,<br />
Scottish Artists in an Age of Radical Change. This<br />
exploration delves into the cultural evolution of modern<br />
and contemporary Scotland.<br />
Hare examines artists like Joan Eardley, Alan Davies, and<br />
others, offering a comprehensive view of their historical<br />
and contemporary significance. From body politics to<br />
Scottish artists in Venice, the book compiles essays<br />
and interviews, showcasing the enduring impact and<br />
intellectual prowess of these Scottish artists.<br />
Whit if?<br />
Scotland's History as it micht hiv bin<br />
(illustratit edition)<br />
HUGH McMILLAN<br />
Illustrated by Bob Dewar<br />
9781804251355<br />
May <strong>2024</strong><br />
£8.99<br />
96pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Literature & Literary Studies / Poetry<br />
As a highly readable, yet scholarly introduction<br />
to contemporary Scottish art, Hare’s new book<br />
will be hard to beat. ALEXANDER MOFFAT on<br />
Scottish Artists in an Age of Radical Change<br />
Summary:<br />
This new illustrated edition of Hugh McMillan's inaugural<br />
Scots collection, Whit if?, imaginatively explores<br />
overlooked aspects of Scottish history. From pondering<br />
Alexander's Twitter to contemplating John Knox's love<br />
for Mary Queen of Scots, McMillan combines humour<br />
with historical insight.<br />
As a seasoned poet and Scottish history enthusiast,<br />
he unearths educational gems in the micht-hiv-bins<br />
of Scotland's past, offering an entertaining and<br />
enlightening journey through the country's rich and often<br />
underrated history.<br />
Worth of your attention and yer bawbees<br />
NORTHWORDS NOW<br />
<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> Limited
Recent arrivals into stock – new titles, new editions & reprints<br />
9<br />
9781910745380<br />
£7.99<br />
120pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Dance<br />
100 Favourite Ceilidh Dances<br />
ANDY GREIG<br />
Summary:<br />
A new book of dances is always a delight, and<br />
this book is set to inspire the dancer, the caller<br />
and the teacher of social dances. There are new<br />
dances, well-known dances, and dances that<br />
Greig does differently in this book and thus it is<br />
an adventure of dance.<br />
9781906307011<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry<br />
100 Favourite Scottish<br />
Poems to Read Out Loud<br />
GORDON JARVIE<br />
Summary:<br />
Encouraged by Burns Nights, ceilidhs and<br />
poetry slams, reading poetry aloud is a valued<br />
Scottish tradition enjoyed by young and old<br />
alike. This anthology includes old favourites like<br />
Burns and Matt McGinn and new classics from<br />
contemporary Scottish poetry.<br />
9781912147298<br />
£8.99<br />
162 Pages<br />
Paperback<br />
Walking, Hiking,<br />
Trekking<br />
50 Classic Routes On<br />
Scottish Mountains<br />
RALPH STORER<br />
Summary:<br />
If you enjoy walks in the countryside, Scotland<br />
should be on your list of places to visit, and you<br />
should bring this book as your guide. Anyone<br />
who has ever visited Scotland will mention the<br />
Highlands with its rolling hills and unspoiled<br />
landscape, and this book will guide you along<br />
some of the best routes in Scotland.<br />
9781906817220<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Scottish History<br />
Aberdeen Beyond<br />
The Granite<br />
IAN R MITCHELL<br />
Summary:<br />
Ian R Mitchell recognises his hometown<br />
is an often underloved place, but in<br />
Aberdeen: Beyond the Granite he sets out an<br />
overwhelming case as to why this sentiment is<br />
thoroughly undeserved. An Aberdonian born<br />
and bred, Mitchell has lived in Glasgow for<br />
almost four decades.<br />
9781910745465<br />
£7.99<br />
224 Pages<br />
Paperback<br />
Modern &<br />
Contemporary<br />
Fiction<br />
An Nighean Air An Aiseag<br />
ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL<br />
Summary:<br />
'S dòcha dìreach gur e ceist ùine, neo tìm, a bha<br />
sin: nam biodh barrachd ùine air a bhith againn,<br />
na bhiodh sinn air a dhèanamh 's a choilionadh<br />
còmhla. An saoghal a bhiodh sinn air a dhealbh.<br />
Nam biodh gràdh da-rìreabh againn air a chèile,<br />
cha bhiodh sinn air dealachadh.<br />
9781910745724<br />
£8.99<br />
224 Pages<br />
Paperback<br />
Football<br />
Another Bloody Saturday<br />
MAT GUY<br />
Summary:<br />
Over the course of a season, Mat Guy set<br />
out to explore the less glamorous side of the<br />
beautiful game, travelling the backwaters of<br />
football across the length and breadth of the<br />
country – and beyond. He watched Bangor as<br />
they were cheerfully thrashed by Reykjavik’s<br />
UMF Stjarnan, was absolutely won over by the<br />
women’s game, and found a new team to love<br />
in Accrington Stanley.<br />
9781912147526<br />
£11.99<br />
360pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Politics & Current<br />
Issues<br />
Blossom<br />
What Scotland Needs to Flourish<br />
LESLEY RIDDOCH<br />
Summary:<br />
Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots<br />
through the stories of people I’ve had the good<br />
fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and<br />
resilient people on the planet. They’ve had to be.<br />
Some have transformed their parts of Scotland.<br />
Some have tried and failed. But all have something<br />
in common – they know what it takes for Scotland<br />
to blossom. We should too… 9781804250099<br />
£8.99<br />
192 Pages<br />
Paperback<br />
History /<br />
Witchcraft<br />
Borders Witch Hunt<br />
MARY W CRAIG<br />
Summary:<br />
The book provides an overview and analysis of<br />
the witch trials in the Scottish Borders in the<br />
17th century. The 17th century was a time of<br />
upheaval in Scottish and British history, with<br />
a civil war, the abolition of the monarchy, the<br />
plague and the reformation all influencing the<br />
social context at the time. This book explores<br />
the social, political, geographical, religious<br />
and legal structures that led to the increased<br />
amount of witch trials and executions in the<br />
Scottish Borders.<br />
committed to publishing well written books worth reading
10<br />
Recent arrivals into stock – new titles, new editions & reprints<br />
9781910022559<br />
£11.99<br />
353pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Slavery / History<br />
Bought & Sold<br />
Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery<br />
KATE PHILLIPS<br />
Summary:<br />
Union with England gave Scotland access to<br />
both trade and settlement in Jamaica, Britain’s<br />
richest colony and its major slave trading hub.<br />
Tens of thousands from Scotland lived and<br />
worked there. The abolition campaign and<br />
slave revolts threatened Scottish plantation<br />
owners, merchants, traders, bankers and<br />
insurance brokers who made their fortunes<br />
from slave-farmed sugar in Jamaica and<br />
fought hard to preserve the system of slavery.<br />
9781912147502<br />
£8.99<br />
206 Pages<br />
Paperback<br />
Science Fiction<br />
But n Ben A Go-Go<br />
MATTHEW FITT<br />
Summary:<br />
Written entirely in Scots, this is a science<br />
fiction novel set in a future where the Scottish<br />
Highlands are the only unsubmerged area of<br />
Britain. With strong characters and a gripping<br />
plot, the well-defined settings create an<br />
atmosphere of paranoia and danger. The<br />
exciting denouement has a surprising twist<br />
and is set on Schiehallion. The introduction<br />
includes a section on how to read the Scots in<br />
this book, Matthew has made the spelling as<br />
straightforward as possible for a population<br />
used to English spelling conventions.<br />
9781912147847<br />
£12.99<br />
200pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Walking, Hiking,<br />
Trekking<br />
Call of the Mountains<br />
MARK LANDSBERG<br />
Summary:<br />
An adventure across a thousand miles of<br />
Scotland’s mountains. In this personal guide to<br />
the triumphs, hardships and perils of scaling the<br />
Munros, Landsberg brings the joys and pitfalls<br />
of hill-climbing to life. Landsberg’s adventures<br />
are presented in vivid detail, with insights<br />
ranging from encompassing the wonder of<br />
unique experiences like seeing the birth of a<br />
deer to the mundane delight of the flavour of<br />
sandwich he had on a given day. 9781906817442<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Cultural Studies<br />
Cattle On A Thousand Hills<br />
KATHERINE STEWART<br />
Summary:<br />
While their role has been all too often<br />
overlooked by historians, cattle played an<br />
integral part in the economy, ecology and<br />
culture of Highland life. Although many of<br />
these animals and their keepers have been<br />
abandoned in favour of sheep walks and deer<br />
forests, their legacy has remained through<br />
stories, paintings and songs.<br />
9781910021866<br />
£5.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Folklore &<br />
Mythology<br />
Celtic Sea Stories<br />
GEORGE W MACPHERSON<br />
Summary:<br />
These are stories of the people of the sea, their<br />
descendants on the land, and the magic of the<br />
waters. They tell of adventures and encounters<br />
with magic: here we find a terrible sea-serpent,<br />
the white cow of the sea, and an array of<br />
heroic fishermen, capricious witches, foundling<br />
mermaids and warrior women. In all these<br />
stories the poetry and music of the sea blends<br />
with history and myth to create a delightful<br />
collection of tales.<br />
9781804251096<br />
£14.99<br />
288pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Humour<br />
/ Travel<br />
Choose Life. Choose Leith.<br />
TIM BELL<br />
Summary:<br />
Choose Life. Choose Leith. by Tim Bell revisits<br />
Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting 30 years<br />
later, exploring its impact on 1980s Leith.<br />
Analyzing the book, play, and film, it critically<br />
examines the Trainspotting phenomenon and<br />
contextualizes Leith's significance. Acting as a<br />
reference and historical record, it appeals to a<br />
broad readership familiar with Trainspotting's<br />
various forms, providing insight into the book's<br />
real-life context and history.<br />
9781912147496<br />
£8.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Crime and<br />
mystery: cosy<br />
mystery<br />
Constabol Murdo<br />
ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL<br />
Summary:<br />
A precious golden souvenir has disappered from<br />
Kisimul Castle, Barra. The historic brooch was given<br />
as a gift by the Chief of Clanranald to MacNeil of<br />
Barra in the 16th century. Or perhaps it was treasure<br />
found from a shipwrecked galleon from the Spanish<br />
Armada... The local constable, PC Murdo, set outs<br />
to find 'who dunnit'. He has seven suspects, but<br />
in his search for the truth of the theft discovers<br />
that suspicion and prejudice make poor detectives.<br />
Help comes from smart officers from the mainland,<br />
whose most difficult challenge is Murdo himself.<br />
9781913025564<br />
£10.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
Corrour Bothy<br />
RALPH STORER<br />
Summary:<br />
In his newest publication, Ralph concentrates<br />
on the history of Corrour Bothy. The book<br />
tells the story of the oldest and most famous<br />
bothy in the world, celebrating a century of<br />
public use in 2020. The book blends visitors’<br />
book entries with historical accounts. Through<br />
visitors’ book entries between the years of 1928<br />
and the present day, Ralph outlines bothy life,<br />
the history of the Highlands, of hillwalking and<br />
of climbing and thereby provides a portrait of<br />
the past 100 years from a unique perspective<br />
centred on the Cairngorms.<br />
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9780946487066<br />
£6.95<br />
141pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Agriculture /<br />
History<br />
Crofting Years<br />
FRANCIS THOMPSON<br />
Summary:<br />
Crofting is much more than a way of life in<br />
the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is a<br />
storehouse of cultural, linguistic and moral<br />
values which holds together a scattered and<br />
struggling rural population. This book fills a<br />
blank in the written history of crofting over<br />
the last two centuries. Bloody conflicts and<br />
gunboat diplomacy, treachery, compassion,<br />
music and story: all figure as Francis Thompson<br />
takes us into the homes and the very minds of<br />
those who fought so desperately for security<br />
on their land.<br />
9781910021828<br />
£7.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Crime & Mystery<br />
Crow Bait<br />
DOUGLAS SKELTON<br />
Summary:<br />
Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down<br />
the line, freedom’s no picnic either. It’s 1990,<br />
there are new kings in the West of Scotland<br />
underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs.<br />
Davie can handle himself. What he can’t handle<br />
is the memory of his mother’s death at the<br />
hand of his sadistic father. Or the darkness his<br />
father implanted deep in his own psyche. Or the<br />
nightmares… Now his father is back in town<br />
and after blood, ready to waste anyone who<br />
stops him hacking out a piece of the action.<br />
There are people in his way.And Davie is one<br />
of them.<br />
9781913025274<br />
£8.99<br />
256pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Historical Fiction<br />
/ Crime<br />
Death of a Chief<br />
DOUGLAS WATT<br />
Summary:<br />
The year is 1686. Sir Lachlan MacLean, chief<br />
of a proud but poverty-striken Highland clan,<br />
has met with a macabre death in his Edinburgh<br />
lodgings. With a history of bad debts, family<br />
quarrels, and some very shady associates, Sir<br />
Lachlan had many enemies. But while motives<br />
are not hard to find, evidence is another thing<br />
entirely. It falls to lawyer John MacKenzie and<br />
his scribe Davie Scougall to investigate the<br />
mystery surrounding the death of the chief.<br />
9781913025670<br />
£4.99<br />
64pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
The Declaration of Arbroath<br />
TOM TURPIE<br />
Summary:<br />
The words of the Declaration of Arbroath echo<br />
down the centuries as a supreme statement of<br />
defiance against tyranny. But should we read<br />
it as a seminal declaration of Scottish national<br />
identity or a practical response to a diplomatic<br />
problem? The model for the United States<br />
Declaration of Independence or as a clever<br />
piece of medieval rhetoric? Indicative of the<br />
strength of support for the ‘hero king’ Robert<br />
the Bruce or evidence of the weakness of his<br />
usurping regime?<br />
9781910021811<br />
£9.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Crime & Mystery<br />
Devil's Knock<br />
DOUGLAS SKELTON<br />
Summary:<br />
Davie McCall has darkness inside him. A<br />
darkness that haunts him, but also helps him<br />
do despicable things to those trying to cause<br />
him and his friends harm. When Dickie Himes<br />
is killed in a club owned by the Jarvis clan, it<br />
sparks a chain of events that Davie knows can<br />
only lead to widespread gang war on the streets<br />
of mid-’90s Glasgow. The police are falling over<br />
themselves to solve the crime, but when justice<br />
is so easily bought or corrupted, Davie needs to<br />
take matters into his own hands.<br />
9781804251157<br />
£5.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Humour<br />
Do not pluck the beard of a stranger<br />
T D MACDONALD<br />
Summary:<br />
Cruinneachadh de ghnàthasan-cainnte Gàidhlig<br />
le eadar-theangachaidhean Beurla nan cois,<br />
a’ dèiligeadh ri cuspairean leithid obair, airgead,<br />
càirdeas, comhairle is mòran eile. Bidh an leabhar<br />
beag seo na chuimhneachan no na thìodhlac air<br />
leth airson Nollaig no co-làithean breith.<br />
A collection of proverbs in the original Gaelic,<br />
and translated into English covering family,<br />
work, money, self-Improvement and food and<br />
drink amongst other topics<br />
East Highland Way<br />
KEVIN LANGAN<br />
Edinburgh Old Town<br />
STUART McHARDY & DONALD SMITH<br />
9781908373403<br />
£9.99<br />
320pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Walking, Hiking,<br />
Trekking<br />
Summary:<br />
The East Highland Way is a detailed and descriptive<br />
guide to the route developed by Kevin Langan in<br />
2007. Beginning in Fort William and culminating in<br />
Aviemore, the trail forms a new link route between<br />
the northern end of the West Highland Way and the<br />
southern end of the Speyside Way. In addition, the<br />
route joins with the Great Glen Way at its southern<br />
point in Fort William, making this a new challenge<br />
for seasoned walkers and amateurs alike.<br />
9781910021569<br />
£7.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Folklore &<br />
Mythology<br />
Summary:<br />
Following on from the acclaimed Arthur’s<br />
Seat and Calton Hill volumes, this third<br />
instalment in the Journeys and Evocations series<br />
focuses on the extensive history and folklore<br />
surrounding Edinburgh’s atmospheric Old<br />
Town. Take a vivid trip with John Fee through<br />
Edinburgh’s Old Town as you’ve never seen<br />
it before, with this wonderful blend of prose,<br />
poetry, photography and incredible stories<br />
from another era of one of Edinburgh’s most<br />
renowned districts.<br />
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Exploring Edinburgh<br />
ROBIN WARD<br />
Gangs of Dundee<br />
GARY ROBERTSON<br />
9781913025571<br />
£10.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Architecture /<br />
Travel Guide<br />
Summary:<br />
Exploring Edinburgh is an expansive and stylishly<br />
formatted guide to the best of Edinburgh’s<br />
architecture. Not only does it give a brief history<br />
of each architectural site but also includes easy<br />
to understand maps and suggested walking<br />
routes. It also explores locations outside the<br />
centre of Edinburgh for those with more time<br />
to explore the rich architectural landscape of<br />
Scotland’s capital.<br />
9781906307028<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
True Crime<br />
Summary:<br />
Dundee has a long, illustrious, and welldocumented<br />
history – the city of ‘jute, jam and<br />
journalism’. There is, however, one aspect of<br />
Scotland’s fourth largest city yet to be told – the<br />
story of Dundee’s gangs. From the Huns to the<br />
Shimmy, the Shams and the Fleet, the stories<br />
of generation after generation of Dundee’s<br />
youths have without doubt been shaped by<br />
gang culture. It is this side of Dundee’s history<br />
that rap poet, and former gang member, Gary<br />
Robertson reveals in this book.<br />
9781910022894<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry<br />
Haphazardly in the<br />
Starless Night<br />
HUGH McMILLAN<br />
Summary:<br />
Taking in the years of the pandemic, McMillan’s<br />
poetry takes us on a trip through his life and<br />
imagination, his hopes, observations and<br />
dreams.<br />
It’s never less than an interesting journey. He is<br />
an accessible, humorous and tender writer. He<br />
is one of Scotland’s best. 9781912147205<br />
£14.99<br />
200pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Football<br />
Hibernian<br />
The Life and Times of a Famous Football Club<br />
TOM WRIGHT<br />
Summary:<br />
Hibernian Football Club, founded by a group<br />
of Edinburgh-based Irishmen and Irish<br />
descendents, was born in the Cowgate area of<br />
the city in 1875. A team of the people, its long<br />
history, heritage and rise to fame has created<br />
a tradition and influence that helped shape the<br />
game as we know it today.<br />
9781910745670<br />
£12.99<br />
248pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Football<br />
Hibs through and through<br />
TOM WRIGHT & ERIC STEVENSON<br />
Summary:<br />
On 21 May this year, Hibs made history by<br />
winning the Scottish Cup for the first time<br />
since 1902. It was a time of celebration when<br />
the supporters revelled in their victory and<br />
remembered the great heroes of the club. Eric<br />
Stevenson is one of those great heroes. When<br />
he was inducted into the Hibs Hall of Fame at<br />
Easter Road in 2012, Stevenson declared, ‘This<br />
means everything to me. My uncle founded the<br />
Bonnyrigg Hibs supporters club in 1949–50 and I<br />
started going to games when I was seven’.<br />
9781912147816<br />
£9.99<br />
200pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Football<br />
The History of The Hibs<br />
Quiz Book<br />
TOM WRIGHT<br />
Summary:<br />
This quiz book covers the fascinating journey of<br />
Hibernian Football Club throughout the past 142<br />
years. The author has used his comprehensive<br />
knowledge of the sport and the team to devise<br />
over 600 questions spanning from the early<br />
days of the club to the present. This is the<br />
perfect book for fans of all ages to learn more<br />
about the history of one of Scotland’s greatest<br />
football teams.<br />
Homage to Caledonia<br />
DANIEL GRAY<br />
Home<br />
JOHN MACKAY<br />
9781913025366<br />
£12.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Historymystery<br />
Summary:<br />
The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300<br />
British volunteers, of which over 500 were from<br />
Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to<br />
Caledonia examines Scotland's role in the conflict,<br />
detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so<br />
profound. The book moves chronologically through<br />
events and places, firstly surveying the landscape<br />
in contemporary Scotland before describing<br />
volunteers' journeys to Spain, and then tracing their<br />
every involvement from arrival to homecoming<br />
(or not).<br />
9781910022405<br />
£9.99<br />
256pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Modern &<br />
Contemporary<br />
Fiction<br />
Summary:<br />
Built for the new age, the house stood boldly<br />
upright on the edge of the ocean withstanding<br />
the harsh blasts of a cruel century, nurturing<br />
and protecting the family within, watchful of<br />
hearts swollen or broken, dreams delivered<br />
and dashed. It had absorbed the tears and<br />
echoed the laughter. The sweeping saga of one<br />
family through a momentous century. Different<br />
people, divergent lives and distinctive stories.<br />
Bound together by the place they called home.<br />
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9781910022757<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Biography<br />
I Ran With the Gang<br />
My Life In and Out of the Bay City Rollers<br />
ALAN LONGMUIR with<br />
MARTIN KNIGHT<br />
Summary:<br />
The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest<br />
things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s,<br />
illuminating a dark decade marred by falling<br />
stock markets, a plummeting economy and<br />
industrial unrest. Alan Longmuir, an apprentice<br />
plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by The<br />
Beatles to form a band. After enlisting his<br />
brother and throwing a dart at a map, they<br />
became the Bay City Rollers.<br />
9781908373502<br />
£5.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Social & Cultural<br />
History<br />
The Islands That Roofed<br />
the World<br />
MARY WITHALL<br />
Summary:<br />
The Slate Islands lie off the west coast of Argyll.<br />
Slate has been taken from these shores from<br />
their earliest recorded history and the richness<br />
and quality of the deposits meant that in the<br />
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries slate<br />
quarrying was one of the most important<br />
industries in Scotland. The geology, the<br />
industry, the people and their way of life: this<br />
is the story of the Slate Islands past, present<br />
and future.<br />
9781906307349<br />
£9.99<br />
272pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Biography<br />
James the Good<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
This book James of Douglas rode into battle<br />
with Robert the Bruce, nearly captured Edward<br />
II after Bannockburn and chased the English out<br />
of the Borders. Known as the Good Sir James by<br />
the Scots, and the Black Douglas by the English,<br />
he was a great warrior in the Scottish Wars<br />
of Independence, yet is barely known in his<br />
own country today. 700 years ago, all Scottish<br />
castles and strongholds were in the hands of<br />
the English. James played an integral role in<br />
reinstating Scotland as an independent nation,<br />
and his is an incredible story by any standards.<br />
9781913025267<br />
£9.99<br />
256pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Biography<br />
Jules Verne's Scotland<br />
IAN THOMPSON<br />
Summary:<br />
Jules Verne's first visit to Scotland lasted a<br />
mere five days, but that was enough to instil<br />
within him a lifelong passion for the small<br />
country; a passion which had a profound impact<br />
on his literary work and fuelled his creative<br />
imagination. Two journeys, 20 years apart, and<br />
five novels set partly or wholly in Scotland,<br />
show how the influence of the country rippled<br />
all the way through his life.<br />
9781804251263<br />
£30.00<br />
240pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Art<br />
Ken Currie<br />
Paintings & Writings<br />
TOM NORMAND (ed)<br />
Summary:<br />
Ken Currie provides a unique insight into the<br />
thought-world of Ken Currie’s challenging and<br />
enigmatic art. For over four decades Currie<br />
has created some of the most confrontational<br />
and intriguing paintings in the contemporary<br />
art world. For the first time, Currie has made<br />
available his studio journals. The result is a<br />
fascinating dialogue that explores the motives<br />
and aspirations of his inscrutable paintings.<br />
9781804250167<br />
£25.00<br />
480pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Architecture<br />
Land of Stone<br />
ROGER EMMERSON<br />
Summary:<br />
What makes Scottish architecture Scottish?<br />
What ideas drive Scottish architecture?<br />
What has modern architecture in Scotland<br />
meant to the Scots?<br />
Ever since the ‘granny-tops’, rattling and<br />
clanking in the wind to draw smoke up the<br />
tenemental flues from open coal fires, caught<br />
his attention as a three-year-old, architecture<br />
and its many parts, purposes, processes and<br />
procedures has fascinated Roger Emmerson.<br />
For him, architecture has always had profound<br />
significance.<br />
9781910021910<br />
£7.99<br />
156pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Modern &<br />
Contemporary<br />
Fiction<br />
Last of the Line<br />
JOHN MACKAY<br />
Summary:<br />
The call came from a place far away where<br />
the dark was deep and the only sound was<br />
the fading breath of a woman on the edge of<br />
eternity.The summons to the bedside of his<br />
dying aunt drags Cal MacCarl away from the<br />
blur of city life to the islands where time turns<br />
slowly and tradition endures. He is striving for<br />
the urban dream of the luxury apartment and<br />
the prestige car and has shed all of his past to<br />
get there.<br />
9781908373045<br />
£7.99<br />
160pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Humour<br />
Last Tram Tae<br />
Auchenshuggle!<br />
ALAN MORRISON<br />
Summary:<br />
It's the end of the line for Glasgow's famous clippie,<br />
Big Aggie MacDonald, as her beloved trams are<br />
destined for the big depot in the sky. Last Tram<br />
tae Auchenshuggle! is a trip down memory lane<br />
to 1962, with the Glasgow tram service about to<br />
come to an end. But Aggie wants to enjoy the last<br />
months on her beloved caurs, dishing out advice and<br />
patter with her razorsharp wit to the unwary: the<br />
outspoken clippie who was never outspoken!<br />
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Recent arrivals into stock – new titles, new editions & reprints<br />
9781908373656<br />
£8.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
Leith<br />
TOM WRIGHT<br />
Summary:<br />
For hundreds of years Leith has been a vibrant<br />
and thriving area with a very distinct social and<br />
cultural identity. Tom Wright opens the door<br />
to Leith’s past by exploring its rich heritage<br />
through a comprehensive collection of black<br />
and white photographs taken over the years.<br />
Tom Wright’s collection of photographs<br />
opens the door to Leith’s rich heritage.Each<br />
photograph is accompanied by a detailed<br />
description which brings Leith’s story to life and<br />
includes many charming anecdotal facts to add<br />
to the overall picture.<br />
9781910022917<br />
£8.99<br />
128pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Short Stories<br />
Letting Go<br />
GERDA STEVENSON<br />
Summary:<br />
The twelve stories in Letting Go take us on<br />
a journey through landscape, language and<br />
turbulent times, from the mid-19th century<br />
to the present day, and into the future.<br />
Stevenson’s array of characters from many<br />
walks of life and nationalities – including a<br />
traveller, a wood carver, chicken farm workers,<br />
a nurse, an architect and a magician – meet and<br />
part, some becoming reacquainted. snatches<br />
of song.<br />
9781906307431<br />
£16.99<br />
358pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Language<br />
<strong>Luath</strong> Scots Language<br />
Learner<br />
L COLIN WILSON<br />
Summary:<br />
This new edition of the <strong>Luath</strong> Scots Language<br />
Learner featuring updated information is<br />
suitable as an introductory course or for those<br />
interested in reacquainting themselves with the<br />
language of childhood and grandparents. There<br />
are dictionaries and grammar books but this is<br />
the first-ever language course. 9781912147007<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Politics<br />
McSmörgåsbord<br />
LESLEY RIDDOCH<br />
Summary:<br />
The Nordic countries have a veritable<br />
smörgåsbord of relationships with the<br />
European Union, from in to out to somewhere<br />
in between. So, what does that mean for<br />
Scotland? Well, somewhere in this incredible<br />
diversity of relationships with Europe is an<br />
arrangement that’s likely to be good for<br />
Scotland too – strangely enough, maybe more<br />
than one. Inside or outside the UK, Scotland<br />
wants to keep trade and cultural links with<br />
Europe – that much is clear...<br />
9781910021880<br />
£10.00<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Art<br />
Modern Scottish Painting<br />
J D FERGUSSON, ALAN RIACH &<br />
ALEXANDER MOFFAT<br />
Summary:<br />
In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D.<br />
Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully<br />
illustrated book on modern Scottish painting.<br />
The Second World War made this difficult and<br />
the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was<br />
published in 1943 without illustrations. This new<br />
edition – edited, introduced and annotated by<br />
Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach – finally brings<br />
Fergusson’s project to fruition, illustrating<br />
the argument with colour reproductions of<br />
Fergusson’s own work.<br />
9781913025175<br />
£6.99<br />
120pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
Mull and Iona<br />
PETER MACNAB<br />
Summary:<br />
The fairest of the inner Hebridean islands and<br />
Scotland’s great centre of celtic Christianity.<br />
Both Mull and Iona are now easily accessible<br />
even for day visitors from the mainland, and<br />
no parts of Scotland will give more joy to the<br />
traveller. Iona, made famous by Columba,<br />
founder of Celtic Christianity, represents a<br />
spiritual experience rare enough in the world<br />
today.<br />
9781906817701<br />
£8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
A New History of the Picts<br />
STUART McHARDY<br />
Summary:<br />
The Picts hold a special place in the Scottish<br />
mindset - a mysterious race of painted warriors,<br />
leaving behind imposing standing stones and<br />
not much more. Stuart McHardy challenges<br />
these long-held historical assumptions. He aims<br />
to get to the truth of who the Picts really were,<br />
and what their influence has been on Scotland's<br />
past and present.<br />
9781908373601<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Golf<br />
Nine Holer Guide<br />
DEREK McADAM<br />
Summary:<br />
What makes nine-hole golf so extraordinary?<br />
What can a shorter course offer an experienced<br />
player? How can these courses compare to the<br />
Scottish championship-level courses?<br />
The beautiful, quiet and often little known<br />
nine-hole golf courses offer even the lowest<br />
handicap golfer a challenge and with a level of<br />
difficulty rarely found on 18 hole courses it's<br />
hardly surprising that there are even nine hole<br />
courses no one has ever played below par.<br />
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Paperback<br />
Polticis & Current<br />
Issues<br />
No Problem Here<br />
NEIL DAVIDSON, MINNA LIINPÄÄ,<br />
MAUREEN MCBRIDE & SATNAM VIRDEE<br />
Summary:<br />
With its 'civic nationalism' and 'welcoming'<br />
attitude towards migrants and refugees,<br />
Scotland is understood to be relatively free<br />
of structural and institutional racism. As<br />
the contributors to this book show, such<br />
generalisations fail to withstand serious<br />
investigation. Their research into the historical<br />
record and contemporary reality tells a very<br />
different story. 9781913025182<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
North West Highlands<br />
TOM ATKINSON<br />
Summary:<br />
This book deals with the vast and lovely area<br />
lying to the north and west of Fort William,<br />
and going up through the Highlands as far as<br />
Ullapool. It is a land of still unspoiled loveliness,<br />
of mountain, loch and silver sand. It is a vast,<br />
quiet land of peace and grandeur. Atkinson will<br />
take you along General Wade’s military roads,<br />
incorporating the splendour of Eilean Donan<br />
Castle, Ardnamurchan Point and the delightful<br />
fishing port of Mallaig.<br />
9781913025199<br />
£7.99<br />
156pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
Northern Highlands<br />
TOM ATKINSON<br />
Summary:<br />
The Empty Lands are that great area of<br />
northern Scotland between Ullapool and Cape<br />
Wrath, and between Bonar Bridge and John<br />
o’ Groats. It is truly the Land of the Mountain<br />
and the Flood, where land and sea mingle<br />
in unsurpassed glory. From the pier-head at<br />
Ullapool to the Smoo Caves at Durness, and<br />
from Dornoch Cathedral to Dounreay Nuclear<br />
Establishment, Tom Atkinson describes it all,<br />
with his usual deep love for the land and its<br />
people.<br />
9781906817909<br />
£8.99<br />
160pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Farm & Working<br />
Animals<br />
Of Dogs and Men<br />
JOHN BARRINGTON<br />
Summary:<br />
Early man would have been alert to wild,<br />
camp-following dogs warning of approaching<br />
danger. Present day people can be thankful<br />
for a much wider range of canine services.<br />
Part autobiography and part history, Of Dogs<br />
and Men is a celebration of our passion for the<br />
trusty sheepdog.Filled with lively anecdotes,<br />
poems and mythological stories, Barrington sets<br />
out to map the evolution and bond between<br />
man and dog; how dogs developed from the<br />
wild into the beloved companions as we know<br />
them today.<br />
9781913025090<br />
£8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Bonnie<br />
Prince Charlie<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
On the Trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie is the story of the<br />
Young Pretender. Born in Italy, grandson of James<br />
vii, at a time when the German house of Hanover<br />
was on the throne, his father was regarded by<br />
many as the rightful king. Bonnie Prince Charlie’s<br />
campaign to retake the throne in his father’s name<br />
changed the fate of Scotland. In this book, follow<br />
the route taken by Charles’ forces on their doomed<br />
march and discover the story behind the places and<br />
landscapes of his life.<br />
9781913025113<br />
£8.99<br />
208pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Mary Queen<br />
of Scots<br />
J KEITH CHEETHAM<br />
Summary:<br />
Life dealt Mary Queen of Scots love, intensity,<br />
betrayal and tragedy in generous measure.<br />
On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots traces<br />
the major events in the turbulent life of the<br />
beautiful, enigmatic queen whose romantic<br />
reign and tragic destiny exerts an undimmed<br />
fascination. This book is for everyone interested<br />
in the life of perhaps the most romantic figure<br />
in Scotland’s history.<br />
9781913025120<br />
£8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Robert Burns<br />
JOHN CAIRNEY<br />
Summary:<br />
Is there anything new to say about Robert<br />
Burns? John Cairney says it’s time to trash<br />
Burns the Brand and come on the trail of the<br />
real Robert Burns. He is the best of travelling<br />
companions on the convivial, entertaining<br />
journey to the heart of the Burns story. 9781913025137<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Robert<br />
the Bruce<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
This book charts the story of Scotland’s<br />
hero-king from his boyhood, through his days<br />
of indecision as Scotland suffered under the<br />
English yoke, to his assumption of the crown<br />
exactly six months after the death of William<br />
Wallace. Here is the astonishing blow by blow<br />
account of how, against fearful odds, Bruce<br />
led the Scots to win their greatest ever victory.<br />
Bannockburn was not the end of the story. The<br />
war against English oppression lasted another<br />
14 years.<br />
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Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Scotland's<br />
History<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
In this book David R. Ross tracks Scotland<br />
through the ages, detailing incidents, places<br />
and people that are key to Scotland’s history,<br />
from the Dark Ages to Devolution. Leading his<br />
readers to ancient monuments and the stories<br />
surrounding them, to modern cities and the<br />
burial sites of kings, Ross guides us on a quest<br />
to discover the essentials of Scottish history –<br />
and to find things we never knew existed.<br />
9781913025151<br />
£8.99<br />
180pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of Scotland's<br />
Myths and LEgends<br />
STUART McHARDY<br />
Summary:<br />
As the art of storytelling bursts into new flower,<br />
many tales are being told again as they once<br />
were. As On the Trail of Scotland’s Myths and<br />
Legends unfolds, mythical animals, supernatural<br />
beings, heroes, giants and goddesses come<br />
alive and walk Scotland’s rich landscape as they<br />
did in the time of the Scots, Gaelic and Norse<br />
speakers of the past.<br />
9781913025168<br />
8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Biography<br />
On the Trail of William<br />
Wallce<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
On the Trail of William Wallace offers a<br />
refreshing insight into the life and heritage of<br />
the great Scots hero whose proud story is at<br />
the very heart of what it means to be Scottish,<br />
and whose effect on the ordinary Scot through<br />
the ages is manifest in the many sites where his<br />
memory is marked.<br />
9781910021750<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
Pagan Symbols of the Picts<br />
STUART McHARDY<br />
Summary:<br />
Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols<br />
which have been discovered on various items<br />
across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive<br />
interpretation of the Pictish past, using a variety<br />
of both temporal and geographical sources.<br />
This interpretation serves as a backdrop for his<br />
analysis of the symbols themselves, providing<br />
a context for his suggestion that there was an<br />
underlying series of ideas and beliefs behind the<br />
creation of the symbols.<br />
9781910021514<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry<br />
Poems, Chiefly in the<br />
Scottish Dialect<br />
ROBERT BURNS<br />
Summary:<br />
Stuart McHardy examines the Pictish symbols<br />
which have been discovered on various items<br />
across Scotland. The book sets out a cohesive<br />
interpretation of the Pictish past, using a variety<br />
of both temporal and geographical sources.<br />
This interpretation serves as a backdrop for his<br />
analysis of the symbols themselves, providing<br />
a context for his suggestion that there was an<br />
underlying series of ideas and beliefs behind the<br />
creation of the symbols.<br />
9781913025595<br />
£11.99<br />
320pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
The Price of Scotland<br />
DOUGLAS WATT<br />
Summary:<br />
The catastrophic failure of the Company of Scotland<br />
to establish a colony at Darien in Central America is<br />
one of the best known episodes in late 17th century<br />
Scottish history. The effort resulted in significant<br />
loss of life and money, and was a key issue in the<br />
negotiations that led to the Union of 1707.<br />
What led so many Scots to invest such a vast part<br />
of the nation’s wealth in one company in 1696? Why<br />
did a relatively poor nation think it could take on the<br />
powers of the day in world trade?<br />
9781906817657<br />
£8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Humour<br />
/ Poetry<br />
The Prisoner of St Kilda<br />
MARGARET MACAULAY<br />
Summary:<br />
In the 18th century shotgun weddings were not<br />
unusual, but in most cases it wasn't the bride<br />
that was holding the gun. So began the stormy<br />
marriage between Lord and Lady Grange, a<br />
marriage which was to end with Lady Grange's<br />
death on the Isle of Skye after 13 years in exile.<br />
The daughter of a convicted murderer, Lady<br />
Grange's behaviour, such as her fondness for<br />
drink, was so outrageous that her sudden<br />
disappearance from public life was not<br />
considered surprising. But few knew the true<br />
story of her disappearance.<br />
9781913025502<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry<br />
Quines<br />
Poems in tribute to Women of Scotland<br />
GERDA STEVENSON<br />
Summary:<br />
This book gives voice to 57 women from BC<br />
to the 21st century. The ‘voices’ of the poems<br />
range from those of the women featured, to<br />
inanimate objects – queens, politicians, a ship, a<br />
fish gutter, scientists, a mountain, sportswomen<br />
(including a whole football team) and many<br />
more. QUINES celebrates the richly diverse<br />
contribution women have made to Scottish<br />
history and society.<br />
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9781804250112<br />
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192pp<br />
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Travel Writing<br />
Riddoch on the Outer<br />
Hebrides<br />
LESLEY RIDDOCH<br />
Summary:<br />
Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thoughtprovoking<br />
commentary based on broadcaster<br />
Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a<br />
beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and<br />
economic change. Her experience is described<br />
in a typically affectionate but hard-hitting<br />
style; with humour, anecdote and a growing<br />
sympathy for islanders tired of living at the<br />
margins but fearful of closer contact with<br />
mainland Scotland.<br />
9781910021071<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
Scotland's Islands<br />
RICHARD CLUBLEY<br />
Summary:<br />
Richard Clubley shares the sense of freedom he<br />
finds in the Scottish islands as he discovers their<br />
individual character, beauty and diversity. He<br />
meets locals and learns a few realities of island<br />
life. He almost perished on Ailsa Craig, before<br />
finding fresh water dripping from the roof of<br />
a cave, but spends two idyllic nights alone on<br />
Mingulay, with a fabulous coal fire in a bothy.<br />
His passion for Scottish islands shines through<br />
every chapter.<br />
Scotland's Mountain's<br />
before the Mountaineers<br />
IAN R MITCHELL<br />
Scottish Artists in an Age of<br />
Radical Cahnge<br />
BILL HARE<br />
9781908373298<br />
April 2013<br />
£9.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Mountaineering<br />
& Climbing<br />
Summary:<br />
This work tells the story of explorations and<br />
ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days<br />
before mountaineering became a popular<br />
sport - when Jacobites, bandits, poachers and<br />
illicit distillers traditionally used the mountains<br />
as sanctuary.<br />
9781804250174<br />
£18.99<br />
288pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Art History<br />
Summary:<br />
The visual arts throughout the post-war era<br />
have made an invaluable contribution to<br />
the cultural development of modern and<br />
contemporary Scotland. Through a compilation<br />
of in-depth interviews with the artists<br />
themselves and accompanying critical essays,<br />
Bill Hare here examines the richly diverse work<br />
of these important figures in modern and<br />
contemporary visual culture.<br />
9781842820902<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Humour / Slang &<br />
Dialect Humour<br />
Scottish Roots<br />
ALWYN JAMES<br />
Summary:<br />
For anyone interested in researching family<br />
history, Scottish Roots is a fundamental tool in<br />
tracing your Scottish ancestry. In this excellent<br />
step-by-step guide, Alwyn James illustrates<br />
just how easy it is to commence the research<br />
process and gradually compile a meaningful<br />
family tree. James navigates the reader through<br />
the first steps of sourcing family details, making<br />
contact with distant relatives and collating new<br />
information.<br />
9781908373052<br />
£7.99<br />
160pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Drama / Play<br />
Singin I'm No A Billy He's<br />
A Tim<br />
DES DILLON<br />
Summary:<br />
What happens when a Rangers fan and Celtic fan<br />
are locked in a prison cell together on the day of<br />
an Old Firm Match? It is through Billy and Tim that<br />
Des Dillon explores sectarianism, bigotry, how it<br />
becomes part of one's identity and is inculcated by<br />
family and society. However, the book is not limited<br />
to Scotland but refers to every peace process in<br />
the world, where common ground and a shared<br />
humanity is found through responding to the needs<br />
of others.<br />
9781910021255<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Fiction<br />
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley<br />
JENNI CALDER<br />
Summary:<br />
1745. The year of the final Jacobite uprising.<br />
Edward Waverley, a naïve, aristocratic English<br />
soldier is posted to Dundee as part of the<br />
Hanoverian army. He takes leave to visit the<br />
castle of his uncle’s Jacobite friend, Baron<br />
Bradwardine, in the lowlands of Scotland. Wild<br />
Highlanders visit the castle, and curiosity gets<br />
the better of Waverley.<br />
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£8.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History / Travel /<br />
Walking<br />
Skye 360 Walking the<br />
Coastline<br />
ANDREW DEMPSTER<br />
Summary:<br />
One long walk divided into lots of short walks<br />
taking you all the way round Skye's rugged<br />
coastline. Skye's plethora of peninsulas and sealochs<br />
contain awesome cliffs, remote beaches,<br />
storm tossed sea-stacks, natural arches, ancient<br />
duns, romantic castles, poignant Clearance<br />
settlements, tidal islands and idyllic secluded<br />
corners.<br />
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9781906817596<br />
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444pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Art<br />
Social Sculpture<br />
SARAH LOWNDES<br />
Summary:<br />
Sarah Lowndes looks back at the rise of the<br />
Glasgow art scene through the decades, from<br />
community art to Thatcher, New Wave to<br />
Teenage Fanclub. Charting the emergence<br />
of performance and conceptual-related art,<br />
she looks at the background from which the<br />
art of the last 40 years emerged, the social<br />
atmosphere which was able to influence artists,<br />
musicians and writers who would go on to be<br />
known worldwide.<br />
9781913025205<br />
£7.99<br />
180pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
South West Scotland<br />
TOM ATKINSON<br />
Summary:<br />
The lovely land of hills, moors and beaches<br />
is bounded by the Atlantic and the Solway.<br />
Steeped in history and legend, still unspoiled, it<br />
is a land whose peace and grandeur are at least<br />
comparable to the Highlands, and yet it is hardly<br />
known. No area of Scotland better repays<br />
exploration than this.<br />
9781913025465<br />
February 2021<br />
228pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Writing<br />
The Spirit of Malwai<br />
SUSAN DALGETY<br />
Summary:<br />
Living your life against the odds. Through the<br />
voices of Malawians The Spirit of Malawi is a<br />
first-hand account of daily life in Malawi. It also<br />
examines the big issues that affect us all, but<br />
Malawians more than most: climate change,<br />
the global economic divide and digitalisation.<br />
It looks beyond the cliches to consider what<br />
life is really like for 18 million people born into a<br />
national economy less than a quarter of the size<br />
of Edinburgh's.<br />
9781906817664<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Football<br />
Stramash<br />
DANIEL GRAY<br />
Summary:<br />
Fatigued by bloated big-game football and<br />
bored of samey big cities, Daniel Gray went in<br />
search of small town Scotland and its teams. At<br />
the time when the Scottish club game is drifting<br />
towards its lowest ebb once more, Stramash<br />
singularly fails to wring its hands and address<br />
the state of the game, preferring instead<br />
to focus on Bobby Mann's waistline. Part<br />
travelogue, part history and part mistakenly<br />
spilling ketchup on the face of a small child,<br />
Stramash takes an uplifting look at the<br />
country's nether regions<br />
9781908373236<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
Tales of Bonnie Prince<br />
Charlie and the Jacobites<br />
STUART McHARDY<br />
Summary:<br />
Jacobite influences are often found in Scottish<br />
culture. Indeed, many of their stories and<br />
legends are still told today in some form or<br />
another. Tales of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the<br />
Jacobites is an imaginative look into the story<br />
of the Jacobites who fought to bring the Stuart<br />
kings back to Scotland. McHardy examines the<br />
Jacobite tales to create a vivid historical picture<br />
of Scotland's Stuart past.<br />
9781910021538<br />
£8.99<br />
320pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Modern &<br />
Contemporary<br />
Fiction<br />
This Road is Red<br />
ALISON IRVINE<br />
Summary:<br />
It is 1964. Red Road is rising out of the fields. To the<br />
families who move in, it is a dream and a shining<br />
future. It is 2010. The Red Road Flats are scheduled<br />
for demolition. Inhabited only by intrepid asylum<br />
seekers and a few stubborn locals, the once vibrant<br />
scheme is tired and out of time. Between these<br />
dates are the people who filled the flats with<br />
laughter, life and drama. Their stories are linked<br />
by the buildings; the sway and buffet of the tower<br />
blocks in the wind, the creaky lifts, the views and the<br />
vertigo. This Road is Red is a compelling and subtle<br />
novel of Glasgow.<br />
9781910022627<br />
£8.99<br />
224pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Young Adult<br />
Fiction<br />
The Time They Saved<br />
Tomorrow<br />
STEVE NALLON<br />
Summary:<br />
The second book in The Swidgers series.<br />
William Arthur is no ordinary teenager. He is<br />
a SWIDGER, a person who can sense future<br />
catastrophes and change your Timepath from<br />
certain peril. And he’s discovered that his timebending<br />
powers go far beyond mere accident<br />
prevention. William never thought he would<br />
escape the devastating fire at the Old Coach<br />
Inn. Now finding himself in London with Granny,<br />
a whole new adventure awaits them.<br />
9781913025663<br />
£7.99<br />
120pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Fiction<br />
Tuathanas Nam Creutairean<br />
GEORGE ORWELL, translated by<br />
ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL<br />
Summary:<br />
’S e an nobhail mhairsinneach aig Seòras<br />
Orwell, Animal Farm, aon de na 100 nobhailean<br />
Beurla as fheàrr a rèir na h-iris Time. A-nise tha<br />
tionndadh eireachdail againn bho Aonghas<br />
Pàdraig Caimbeul: a’ chiad leabhar le Orwell a<br />
chaidh eadar-theangachadh dhan Ghàidhlig.<br />
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Folklore &<br />
Mythology<br />
The Tweed Dales<br />
DONALD SMITH & ELSPETH TURNER<br />
Summary:<br />
The popular Journeys and Evocations series<br />
continues with the fourth instalment Travelling<br />
the Tweed Dales, an exploration of the Scottish<br />
Borders. Six journeys take the reader from<br />
Eildon Hills to Tweeddale, from Kelso to Gala<br />
Water, Ettrick and Teviotdale. The long history<br />
of the Borders and their unique culture is<br />
evoked through key personalities, events,<br />
stories and folklore.<br />
9781842820803<br />
£7.99<br />
214pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Science Fiction<br />
19<br />
The Underground City<br />
JULES VERNE<br />
Summary:<br />
The fourth most translated author in the world,<br />
Jules Verne is best known for his adventure<br />
novels Around the World in 80 Days and<br />
Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Verne also<br />
set stories in Scotland, however, including The<br />
Underground City. In this all-new translation,<br />
Verne uses the mist-shrouded shores of Loch<br />
Katrine and the Trossachs as sinister scenery<br />
against which an enthralling tale of adventure,<br />
love and the supernatural unfolds.<br />
9781913025212<br />
£7.99<br />
180pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Travel Guide<br />
West Highlands<br />
TOM ATKINSON<br />
Summary:<br />
Inveraray, Oban, Kintyre, Glencoe, Loch Awe,<br />
Loch Lomond, Appin, Islay – all the glories<br />
of Argyll are described in this book. From<br />
Dumbarton to Campbeltown and north to<br />
Loch Etive there is a great wealth of beauty<br />
unmatched in Scotland. It is a quiet and lonely<br />
land, a land still unspoiled, a land of history<br />
and legend, a land of unsurpassed glory. Tom<br />
Atkinson describes it all, writing with deep<br />
insight into the land he loves. ere could be no<br />
better guide to its beauties and history.<br />
9781906817954<br />
£12.99<br />
208pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
The Whisky River<br />
ROBIN LAING<br />
Summary:<br />
Which river has half the distilleries in Scotland<br />
found along its length and in its surrounding<br />
glens? Why were monks at the forefront of<br />
developing whisky? Which Speyside distillery<br />
has an annual migration of toads? How did<br />
Glenrothes distillery expel its ghost? Robin<br />
Laing set out to visit every distillery in the<br />
Speyside area, from Benromach to Tomintoul,<br />
and presents a guide to each of them here.<br />
There are descriptions of over 50 distilleries in<br />
Speyside, including The Macallan, The Glenlivet,<br />
Cardhu, Aberlour, Glenfiddich and Glengrant.<br />
9781910022641<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
Paperback<br />
Poetry<br />
Wild Women of a<br />
Certain Age<br />
MAGI GIBSON<br />
Summary:<br />
From exuberant poems celebrating<br />
womanhood, to poems smouldering like small<br />
angry flames for women and girls who’ve<br />
been silenced, to poems of love and intimacy,<br />
Gibson’s writing is at once modern and timeless.<br />
So much so that Wild Women has achieved<br />
a Certain Age of its own, celebrating its 21st<br />
anniversary in 2021.<br />
9781908373168<br />
£16.99<br />
264pp<br />
Paperback<br />
History<br />
Women of Morray<br />
SUSAN BENNETT, MARY BYATT, JENNY<br />
MAIN, ANNE OLIVER & JANET TRYTHALL<br />
Summary:<br />
Discover Flaming Janet, James IV's mistress; Elsie<br />
Watson who rode solo across South Africa on a<br />
motorcycle in 1912; the Queen's nurse in Foula dn<br />
Fair Isle in the 1920s; the spymaster of Albanian<br />
agents during the Second World War; the Traveller<br />
born in the bow-tent and more. This book captures<br />
the tales of over 70 women whose lives have made<br />
an impact on history both in Scotland and abroad.<br />
It sheds light on their misfortunes, prjudice and<br />
abuse, and shows how these challenges have been<br />
overcome.<br />
9781906817572<br />
November 2010<br />
£9.99<br />
224pp<br />
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History<br />
Women of Scotland<br />
DAVID R ROSS<br />
Summary:<br />
In a mix of historical fact and folklore,<br />
'biker-historian' David R. Ross journeys<br />
across Scotland to tell the stories of some of<br />
Scotland's finest women. From the legend<br />
of Scota over 3,000 years ago to the Bruce<br />
women, Black Agnes and the real Lady<br />
Macbeth, through Kay Matheson - who helped<br />
liberate the Stone of Destiny from Westminster<br />
Abbey - and Wendy Wood in the 20th century,<br />
these proud and passionate women shaped the<br />
Scotland of today.<br />
9781906817923<br />
£7.99 GBP<br />
168pp<br />
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Gender Studies:<br />
Women<br />
Women of the Highlands<br />
KATHARINE STEWART<br />
Summary:<br />
Katharine Stewart takes us to the heart of<br />
the Highlands in her history of the women<br />
who shaped this land and handed down the<br />
legends which have provided a rich vein of<br />
material for generations. From the women<br />
of the shielings to ladies at court, from bards<br />
to conservationists, authors to folk-singers,<br />
Women of the Highlands examines how the<br />
culture of the Highlands was created and<br />
passed down through the centuries, and how<br />
the tradition is continuing today.<br />
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100 Dàn As Fhèarr<br />
Leinn / 100 Favourite<br />
Gaelic Poems<br />
PETER MACKAY &<br />
JO MACDONALD<br />
9781913025656<br />
£12.99<br />
408pp<br />
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Poetry<br />
Animal Fairm<br />
GEORGE ORWELL,<br />
translated by THOMAS CLARK<br />
9781804250396<br />
£7.99<br />
192pp<br />
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Fiction in translation<br />
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Firefighters of<br />
Belfast<br />
BRIAN ALLAWAY<br />
9781912147458<br />
£12.99<br />
245pp<br />
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Biography<br />
Isle of Rust<br />
A Portrait of Lewis and Harris<br />
ALEX BOYD<br />
9781804250822<br />
£14.99<br />
192pp<br />
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Photography<br />
Merdeka<br />
CHRIS MOOREHOUSE<br />
9781910745885<br />
£16.99<br />
360pp<br />
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Biography / History<br />
Minnows United<br />
Adventures at the fringes of the<br />
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MAT GUY<br />
9781912147069<br />
£12.99<br />
240pp<br />
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Football<br />
Minstrel Heart<br />
A Life in Story<br />
DAVID CAMPBELL<br />
9781910022252<br />
£14.99<br />
280pp<br />
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Orkney<br />
A Special Way of Life<br />
RICHARD CLUBLEY<br />
9781913025441<br />
£9.99<br />
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Travel Writing<br />
The Quest for the<br />
Wicker Man<br />
BENJAMIN FRANKS, STEPHEN<br />
HARPER & JONATHAN MURRAY<br />
9781905222711<br />
£9.99<br />
224pp<br />
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WILLY MALEY<br />
9781910745366<br />
£12.99<br />
240pp<br />
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History<br />
Scotspeak<br />
A Guide to the Pronunciation of<br />
Modern Urban Scots<br />
CHRISTINE ROBINSON &<br />
CAROL ANN CRAWFORD<br />
9781906307301<br />
£12.99<br />
96pp<br />
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Sgiath<br />
Amazon Queen of Skye<br />
GEORGE MACPHERSON<br />
9781912147939<br />
£7.99<br />
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DES DILLON<br />
9781906307493<br />
£8.99<br />
208pp<br />
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Fiction<br />
Stand by your Reds<br />
An uncompromising history of<br />
the Dandy Dons<br />
BRYAN COONEY<br />
9781912147137<br />
£14.99<br />
256pp<br />
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STUART McHARDY<br />
9781910021941<br />
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Testament of a<br />
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DOUGLAS WATT<br />
9781913025281<br />
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Historical Crime Fiction<br />
This is Our Story<br />
How the Fans Kept their Hearts<br />
Beating<br />
IAN MURRAY<br />
9781912147953<br />
£14.99<br />
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Johnsdaughter<br />
CHRISTINE DE LUCA<br />
9781910022566<br />
£14.99<br />
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Tunnel Tigers<br />
A First-hand Account of a Hydro<br />
Boy in the Highlands<br />
PATRICK CAMPBELL<br />
9781842820728<br />
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The Ultimate Mountain<br />
Trivia Quiz Challenge<br />
RALPH STORER<br />
9781908373823<br />
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DOUGLAS WATT<br />
9781912147618<br />
£8.99<br />
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A Walk in the Park<br />
Exploring the Treasures of<br />
Glasgow's Dear Green Places<br />
JOHN CAIRNEY<br />
9781910745359<br />
£9.99<br />
192pp<br />
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SERAFINA CROLLA<br />
9781910022467<br />
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A Life Amongst Mountains<br />
PHIL GRIBBON<br />
9781910745946<br />
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ABOUT US<br />
<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> Limited<br />
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<strong>Luath</strong> <strong>Press</strong> was established by Tom<br />
and Rene Atkinson in Barr (near Girvan<br />
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returned to Scotland and, finding there<br />
were no good descriptive guides to the<br />
popular parts of Scotland, set about<br />
writing and publishing the <strong>Luath</strong> Guides<br />
series. Other books by other writers<br />
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