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Open The Door!

Catherine Carswell

Open The Door!

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Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and ‘loveliness’. Certainly the bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promise much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known hitherto. Her studies in the School of Art open up new horizons – of independence and love – and Joanna reaches for them all. First published in 1920, this novel powerfully evokes the image of a young woman ensnared yet ultimately released by her...

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Catherine Carswell

Smeddum

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Smeddum

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A Childhood In Scotland

Christian Miller

A Childhood In Scotland

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'When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people.' In this perceptive and unpretentious autobiography Christian Miller recalls her privileged but at the same time deprived upper-class childhood in a castle in Scotland. Through the eye and ears of a 1920s child who seems to have seen and heard everything within the massive granite walls of her home, she gives us a unique insight into what must surely have been one of the last relics of feudal life.

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Christian Miller

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

Cairns Craig

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

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Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at every turn for the vigour of its language...

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Cairns Craig

Farewell Miss Julie Logan

J.M. Barrie

Farewell Miss Julie Logan

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This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which...

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J.M. Barrie

Just Duffy

Robin Jenkins

Just Duffy

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Introduced by Margery Palmer McCulloch. In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the moral squalor around him, Duffy declares war on society. Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to a terrifying conclusion. Beset with ambiguity, Duffy is a ferocious indictment of Calvinistic moral certainty, of a struggle for good...

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Robin Jenkins

The Scottish Enlightenment

Alexander Broadie

The Scottish Enlightenment

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Alexander Broadie

A Beleaguered City And Other Tales...

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A Beleaguered City And Other Tales Of The Seen And The Unseen

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Haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are separated by no more than a narrow and disputed borderland, the tales that Margaret Oliphant liked to call her 'stories of the seen and the unseen' are now recognised as among the most remarkable explorations of the supernatural to appear in Victorian times. A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales 'only when they came to me'. And they came with the...

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Маргарет Олифант

The End of an Old Song: A Romance

J.D. Scott

The End of an Old Song: A Romance

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J.D. Scott

The Raiders: Being Some Passages In...

Samuel R. Crockett

The Raiders: Being Some Passages In The Life Of John Faa, Lord And Earl Of Little Egypt

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Introduced by John Burns. Caught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downright murderers. But this world of moonlit confusion and bloody horror offers a kind of freedom, too, as Patrick travels far beyond the conventions of his day to enter a world made anew by fear and desolation and courage and energy. Crockett’s raciest narrative is full of the wild Galloway...

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Samuel R. Crockett

Tales Of Adventure

Роберт Стивенсон

Tales Of Adventure

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Роберт Стивенсон

The Leithen Stories

Buchan John

The Leithen Stories

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Introduced by Christopher Harvie. Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, politician, sportsman and occasional philosopher, was probably the most autobiographical of John Buchan’s heroes. This collection of four novels, written over a span of thirty years, shows Leithen/Buchan in all his moods – from the urban menace of The Power House in which ‘the thin line between civilisation and barbarism’ runs through London’s West End; to the Highland exhilaration of John Macnab; the twists and turns of The...

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Buchan John

Land Of The Leal

James Barke

Land Of The Leal

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This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agricultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland. With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted...

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James Barke

Linmill Stories

Robert McLellan

Linmill Stories

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Introduced by J.K. Annand. Best known as the playwright of Jamie the Saxt and Jeddart Justice, Robert McLellan has been called the finest writer of Scots prose in our time. His ‘Linmill’ stories were broadcast by the BBC, one of which, ‘The Donegals’ was made into a film. But for the most part McLellan’s prose work has appeared in magazines or anthologies without being fully collected in book form. Their popularity has endured and now all twenty-four of his tales are available in one volume. ...

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Robert McLellan

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Артур Конан Дойл

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

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Артур Конан Дойл

The Three Perils Of Man

James Hogg

The Three Perils Of Man

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Edited and introduced by Douglas Gifford. The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg’s most ambitious work of fiction. The book’s extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic must be unique in literature. The adventures of its characters, told with the author’s characteristically bold simplicity, are many, mad, and breathtakingly fast. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, the main focus of the book is to be found in the Scottish...

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James Hogg

The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stori...

Артур Конан Дойл

The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories

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Артур Конан Дойл

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

Naomi Mitchison

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

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Introduced by Naomi Mitchison. Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, Naomi Mitchison’s The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic. Erif Der, a young witch, is compelled by her father to marry his powerful rival, Tarrik the Corn King, so becoming the Spring Queen. Forced by her father, she uses her magic spells to try and break Tarrik’s power. But one...

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Naomi Mitchison

Cloud Howe

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Cloud Howe

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

The Canongate Burns

Robert Burns

The Canongate Burns

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A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts.

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Robert Burns

Imagined Selves

Willa Muir

Imagined Selves

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This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation. Her writing is rich with paradox – although obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented Scotland; although a trenchant champion of feminism, she voluntarily sacrificed her identity to that of the 'poet's wife'; and although she was a committed reformer, she never aligned herself with any political or ideological...

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Willa Muir