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The MacDiarmid Memorandum: Poems by Alan Riach, Paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol by Alan Riach 9781910895795
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.98Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic, category-defying scope; blending biography and national history, poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor, and a... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.94What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach 9781804251058
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $128.21What do we mean by ‘Scottish literature’? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime’s experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan... -
The International Companion to Edwin Morgan by Alan Riach
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $42.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980144Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach 9781804250631
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $62.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804250631Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint -
What the Sea Gives by Alan Riach 9781804253878
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29Fake news rules the airwaves, AI fills the skies, where's the information you can trust?Alan Riach's new collection of poems provides two answers: only in the work of art, whether poem, painting,... -
The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid: (Scotnotes Study Guides) Alan Riach 9780948877407
RRP: $14.60Booksplease Price: $14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877407Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Hunter's Voices: Poems from The Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow Alan Riach 9781910416372
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910416372Author Alan RiachFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint -
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation by Alan Riach 9781403945914
Booksplease Price: $97.19This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan... -
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of the Modern Nation by Alan Riach 9781349523276
Booksplease Price: $97.19This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan... -
Modern Scottish Painting by J. D. Fergusson 9781910021897
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $43.18In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of... -
Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) by John Manson 9781849210782
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $60.14John Manson's collection of letters to MacDiarmid, or to Christopher Grieve, or to Hugh or Chris or Christie or Hughie, is a major work. It is the fruit of a lifetime of dedicated scholarly research,... -
Modern Scottish Painting by J. D. Fergusson 9781910021880
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.29In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of... -
Archipelago Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $40.01Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the last twenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by scholar-poet Andrew McNeillie, with the assistance... -
Arts of Independence: The cultural argument and why it matters most by Alexander Moffat 9781908373755
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil was discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out... We believe,... -
Transitory by Anne Pia 9781912147373
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Through the poet's 'small and continuing dialogues', Transitory explores the ongoing state of change that we all inhabit. These intimate, elegant poems expose the impact of ourselves on the world,... -
There is No Night: New and Selected Poems by John Purser 9781849211444
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $30.20'Poetry was always a natural thing to me, part of letter-writing and simply another way of responding to the world'. Thus the author prefaces this substantial new collection of poems, in strict form... -
Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotand by Alexander Moffat 9781906817183
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.49Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda... -
Islander by Lynn Davidson 9781848616325
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57"The title poem of Islander is an essential definition: not rooted in landlocked blood and soil but connected by sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland, the archipelagos of New Zealand... -
The Provost by John Galt 9781474443616
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $170.21Just out of earshot, in countless nineteenth-century novels, runs the hum of daily labour by house servants, the upward striving of local worthies. The background of many a Jane Austen novel roils... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 9781786891860
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself... -
Poetry 1900-2000 by Meic Stephens 9781902638881
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63The most legendary names in poetry from Wales - David Jones, Idris Davies, Vernon Watkins, RS Thomas, Dylan Thomas and Alun Lewis - are featured here alongside many living greats such as Dannie ... -
Tam O Shanter: A Tale by Robert Burns Robert Burns 9781780279886
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.66Funny, scurrilous, chilling and gloriously inventive, Tam o' Shanter is widely regarded as Robert Burns' masterpiece. This magnificent edition of the poem features the work of Alexander Goudie, one... -
The Grey Coast Neil Gunn 9781918204001
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.05A compelling, dramatic and deeply psychological story of youthful love and trapped hopes set in the startling landscape of the far North. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1926, this centenary... -
Devolving Black Britain: Race and Nation in Contemporary Scottish Fiction by Joseph H. Jackson
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $188.58A critical approach to blackness in devolutionary Scottish writing Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of... -
Our Fathers Fought Franco by Willy Maley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.28James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men... -
Chuckies fir the Cairn: Poems in Scots and Gaelic by Contemporary Dumfries and Galloway Poets by Rab Wilson 9781906817053
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01Scotland has built great literature out of its richly textured language. Like the stones bound together in a wall, the poets linkied here by location and shared language embody the beauty of their... -
Ragas and Reels: A Visual and Poetic Look at some New Scots by Bashabi Fraser 9781908373342
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.29The intricate stories told in Rodrigues' portraits are matched by the rhythms and imagery in Fraser's poetry. From 'The Bangladeshi Gentleman' to 'Jura Whisky', this book offers an insight into the... -
Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic by Scott Lyall 9780748623341
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $199.52The only book on Hugh MacDiarmid currently in print, this study gives unique focus to the politics of one of modern Scotland's major cultural figures. By examining at length for the first time those... -
Whisky and Scotland Neil M. Gunn 9781805226383
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'One of the most important Scottish writers of the twentieth century' TLS Whisky and Scotland is a witty, erudite and lyrical toast to uisge beatha, the Celt's 'water of life'. Taking readers on a... -
Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry by Bashabi Fraser 9781912147090
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.28Thali Katori brings together two words that celebrate difference, acknowledge the need for the sensitive appreciation of difference, the virtues of complementarity and the nourishment that poetry... -
The The Sweetness of Demons Anne Pia 9781913212322
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $20.41Anne Pia's responses to Baudelaire's poetry is not only emotional and intellectual but also linguistic. It comes from her profound love for France's language and culture, particularly when it looks... -
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry by Patrick Crotty
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.46The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel laureates W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, from Jonathan Swift and... -
The Return of England in English Literature by M. Gardiner 9780230319479
Booksplease Price: $98.15This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day,... -
Tomorrow's Feast by Gerda Stevenson 9781804250884
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01I'm relieved to find such things are there, in spite of hunger and carnageunder the same moon, and my place in their terrible chain; glad that my mother's hands, after long years of sustaining us... -
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape by Fiona Stafford 9781473686328
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.35'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A... -
Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape Fiona Stafford 9781473686342
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'Poetic and profound, Time and Tide is wise, considered and full of surprises' Observer'Poignant and touching' Mail on Sunday'Miraculous' ScotsmanA village waits at the bottom of a reservoir. A...