Scotland
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All That’s Dead (Logan McRae 12) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- There s a darkness in the heart of Scotland... The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
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George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
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Pop Goes The Weasel
- £150.00
- The final published work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a scathing condemnation of the Scottish people. One of two publications that launched what would become the Fortune Press.
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Scottish Pageant
- £15.00
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie CBE (1891-1955) was a Scottish historian and writer who wrote a 6-volume history of Scotland. Towards the end of her life she also wrote a 4-volume Scottish Pageant (oif which this was the first) presenting translated excerpts of important documents from Scottish history.
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The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
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The White Hour, and other stories
- £10.00
- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
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All That’s Dead (Logan McRae 12) (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- There s a darkness in the heart of Scotland... The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after…
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Cairn (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer. Cairn: A marker on open land, a…
- Add to basket
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George Mackay Brown: The Life
- £14.00
- George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer…
- Add to basket
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Pop Goes The Weasel
- £150.00
- The final published work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924), this is a scathing condemnation of the Scottish people. One of two publications that launched what would become the Fortune Press.
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Scottish Pageant
- £15.00
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie CBE (1891-1955) was a Scottish historian and writer who wrote a 6-volume history of Scotland. Towards the end of her life she also wrote a 4-volume Scottish Pageant (oif which this was the first) presenting translated excerpts of important documents from Scottish history.
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The Merry Muse
- £20.00
- A hitherto unknown pornographic manuscript of Robert Burns is found in the effects of a dead schoolmaster of impeccable reputation. Max Arbuthnot, an Edinburgh lawyer and a rich man, who at the age of sixty has a rampant appetite for the pleasures of the flesh, takes charge of it. As…
- Add to basket
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The Observations
- £15.00
- Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet.…
- Add to basket
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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
- Add to basket
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The White Hour, and other stories
- £10.00
- Neil Miller Gunn (1891Ð1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the…
- Add to basket
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Whit or Isis amongst the Unsaved
- £30.00
- 1st edition of the novel from Scottish writer, Iain Banks (1954-2013). Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates. The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
- Add to basket