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Imagined Corners

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Journey to the Hebrides

Samuel Johnson

Journey to the Hebrides

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Samuel Johnson

Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway...

Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus

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Tunes of Glory Household Ghosts Silence This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty. Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and conflicts in the officers' mess of a Highland regiment lead to shame and tragedy. ...

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Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

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Introduced by Allan Massie. Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier’s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable...

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Flemington And Tales From Angus

Violet Jacob

Flemington And Tales From Angus

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Violet Jacob

Growing Up In The West

John Muir

Growing Up In The West

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John Muir

Grey Granite

Grey Granite

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The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books

Elspeth Davie

The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books

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Introduced by Giles Gordon. Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition. This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer. ‘Exceptionally...

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The Member And The Radical

John Galt

The Member And The Radical

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Edited and introduced by P.H. Scott & Ian Gordon. Galt’s two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique of political self-seekings. Its hero is a Scot, newly returned from India, who purchases a seat in a rotten borough. As a study of the corruption of the pre-reform parliament it is unsurpassed. The...

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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

Cloud Howe

Cloud Howe

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The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stori...

The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories

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The Blood Of The Martyrs

The Blood Of The Martyrs

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Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the...

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Imagined Selves

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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The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

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Tales Of Adventure

Роберт Стивенсон

Tales Of Adventure

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Роберт Стивенсон

The Corn King and the Spring Queen

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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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 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 Scottish Enlightenment

Alexander Broadie

The Scottish Enlightenment

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Alexander Broadie

Smeddum

Smeddum

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