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Richard D. Oram
Where Wind and Water Cleave

Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland's fearsome environmental history.When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its…

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Agnes Owens
A Working Mother

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

A Working Mother is a wildly entertaining cautionary tale: while Betty's husband, Adam, broods and drinks (to be matched at times by Betty, just to be sociable) she flirts with their best friend Brendan a…

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Agnes Owens
Bad Attitudes

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Bad Attitudes is a wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. This novella boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra-marital affair, a lusty councillor and a new housing…

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Agnes Owens
For the Love of Willie

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Peggy's wartime romance unfolds through a hopeful, compassionate lens confronting teenage dilemmas.Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the menta…

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Agnes Owens
Gentlemen of the West

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

A vivid portrait of a 22-year-old bricklayer's life reveals stark, enduring realities.Gentlemen of the West is Agnes Owens' first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the na…

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Agnes Owens
Jen's Party

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

In Jen's Party, soon-to-be fifteen-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her crazy Aunt Belle's plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town's entire male p…

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Agnes Owens
Like Birds in the Wilderness

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

In the north, a man pursues fortune while wrestling addiction and precarious work.The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed and Mac leaves for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he so…

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Agnes Owens
People Like That

Agnes Owens Centenary Editions

Lean Tales comprises Agnes Owens' complete life's work in short stories. Witty and dark, Owens' spare prose shocks and delights. Her talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her …

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Marian Pallister
Argyll Curiosities

Argyll unfolds as a layered tapestry of archaeology, geography, geology, and genealogy revealing irresistible curiosities.The great travellers of the 17th century - Martin, Penant, Johnson et al - used th…

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Bill Paterson
Tales from the Back Green

Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir.It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set ag…

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Ray Perman
James Hutton

Hutton emerges as a multifaceted founder of modern geology, revealing how his Theory of the Earth reframed planetary formation and how a curious, candid polymath shaped Enlightenment science.Discover one …

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Polly Pullar
In the Company of Sheep

A masterclass in why sheep count' - Mark Stephen, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's Out of DoorsAcclaimed nature writer Polly Pullar has been fascinated by sheep since childhood, when she formed an insepa…

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Susan Rennie,
The 12 Days o Yule

This Scots rendition guides readers through twelve festive days with vivid, animals-rich imagery.Take a deep breath and prepare for a journey through all twelve days of Yuletide with a cast of skaters sko…

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Jo Sharp, Val McDermid
This Door of the Seas

Darkland Tales

The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland's future. 'A powerfully clear account . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in …

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Douglas Skelton
A Rattle of Bones

The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers

Longlisted for McIlvanney Scottish Crime Book of the YearIn 1752, Seamus a'Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent.When b…

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Douglas Skelton
The Other Side of Fear

The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers

Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want. Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals, plu…

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Martin Stewart
Loose Threads

Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase.When Dr David Cairney, a politics lecturer, goes missing on the way home from his retirement party, his wife asks ex-boxer and journa…

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Lucy Stewart
The Japanese Garden

Ella Christie defied conventions by creating Scotland's first large Japanese garden, a trailblazing cultural bridge.At the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventurer Ella Christie returned home fr…

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Dougie Strang
The Bone Cave

"Much more than a travelogue... it's the author's exploration of the connections between the places he visits and elements of Scottish folklore that make this such a special book." -- Undiscover…

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Alessandra Thom
Summer Hours

Everything about this book is alive' - Maria SledmereIt's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bat…

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