These are the memoirs of a teacher from England who became headmaster of Garrynemonie School in South Uist in the 1890s. At that time, the Hebrides we...
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This wee guide covers the life and times of Scotland's 14th-century warrior king, describing the dramatic events of the War of Independence and Bannoc...
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William Wallace is Scotland's greatest hero. This book covers Wallace's life and times in the turbulent age of the War of Independence, and provides i...
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The year was 1912; the date the twenty-ninth of May. In a little geo at the village of Shawbost on the Atlantic coast of Lewis in the Western Isles, a...
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Beatrix Potter in Scotland gives insight to the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain. The author Lynne McGeachie goes into detail about Po...
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Calum MacLeod lived at the northern tip of the remote Scottish island of Raasay, miles from the nearest road. Over the course of fifty years he watche...
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Laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. Roderick Grant's b...
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CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are the storie...
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Driftwood and Tangle is a moving and poignant memoir of life in the north-west of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Margaret ...
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When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh’s distinguished school of medicine in 1890, a high-profile career as a surgeon lay ahe...
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A delightful collection of humourous and through-provoking true stories by ordinary people about the colourful family member whose experiences have ma...
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The true story of the remarkable John Rae - Arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor - a tale of imperial ambition and high adventure. In 1854...
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Early on a Sunday morning in October 1905, in Eriskay, one of the smallest and most isolated of Hebridean islands, a forty-five year old Catholic pari...
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Following the success of his island hopping tales, Stuart Craig is back amongst the islands of the Clyde, Hebrides and Western Isles, this time with h...
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Ian Campbell Thomson relives his time as a young farmworker on a Stirlingshire farm after the Second World War. It is a touching coming of age tale a...
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Disillusioned with the way of life in the south of England in the early 1970s, Nurse
Cameron moves to a small, remote and beautiful island in the Heb...
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In August 1956, a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a sto...
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The first book in the Jessie's Journey Trilogy. Is an unforgettable account of the way of life that has all but vanished. It is the story of Jessie, h...
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Untangling truth from mythology, Rosalind K. Marshall follows John Knox's international career, explaining the issues and beliefs which concerned him ...
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In Just Daft, written with the full co-operation of Chic's family, Robbie Grigor follows Chic's career from his amateur beginnings in the 1930s and su...
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If you keep your eyes and ears open in the Scottish countryside, even today, you can catch a glimpse of an ancient, aboriginal people, known in the 18...
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A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly's, Norman MacLean is a living legen...
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Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps the most romantic and tragic figure in British history. She was destined to marry the Dauphin of France and reign as hi...
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Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most inriguing historical characters, and the details of her tragic life and brutal death are widely known. What i...
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Memoirs of a Highland Lady is one of the most famous memoirs ever written. Since its first bowdlerised edition in 1898, it has been consistently in pr...
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In 1844 Sir James Matheson bought the Isle of Lewis, awash with hope and good intentions, only, in 1853, to put a rat-faced factor from Tain in sole c...
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This book looks at the life and work of John Muir, who made the US go green, was a trailblazer of world conservation, and was voted Man of the Millenn...
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Life dealt Mary Queen of Scots love, intensity, betrayal and tragedy in generous measure. On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots traces the major events ...
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As this fascinating new book reveals, contrary to Shakespeare's evil, murderous usurper, the real Macbeth was actually Macbethad mac Findlaech, king o...
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In "A Strange and Wild Place", Sandra MacPherson recorded her extraordinary life as a Highland chieftain's wife on Glentruim estate, weaving her own s...
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Belle Stewart was born in 1906 in a bow tent on the banks of the river Tay, into a travelling family of tinkers and pearlfishers. When she was seven m...
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This sequel to Yellow on the Broom takes Betsy's story to the end of World War II. She was born in 1919 into a travelling family, and tells her own st...
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This work looks at the everyday life of John Barrington, a shepherd to over 750 Blackface ewes who graze near some of Britain's most beautiful hills o...
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From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott’s finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characte...
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Robert the Bruce is one of the great heroic figures of history. When, after years of struggle, Scotland was reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of E...
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