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Magnus Merriman by Eric Linklater
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.53This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman-would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter-moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for... -
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'I have often wondered what I would be when I grow up, but never, never, never did I expect to be a Kangaroo!'When the wind on the moon blew straight into Dinah and Dorinda's hearts it meant that... -
Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater
Booksplease Price: £9.99Poet's Pub is the classic comic novel by Eric Linklater, set in an English pub. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the peace and... -
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea by Eric Linklater 9781448205820
Booksplease Price: £16.21The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and... -
Eric Linklater's Private Angelo and the Dark of Summer by Christopher Nicol
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841119Author Christopher NicolFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint < -
The Lion and the Unicorn: What England Has Meant to Scotland by Eric Linklater
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism, this book ascribes many of Scotland's misfortunes in history to the sectarian wars and those of Edward I, as well as... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: What England Has Meant to Scotland by Eric Linklater 9781032079448
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism, this book ascribes many of Scotland’s misfortunes in history to the sectarian wars and those of Edward I, as well as... -
The Fairies Return: Or, New Tales for Old by Maria Tatar 9780691152301
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.95Originally issued in 1934, The Fairies Return was the first collection of modernist fairy tales ever published in England, and it marked the arrival of a satirical classic that has never been... -
The History of Orkney Literature Simon Hall 9781910900512
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists,... -
Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated... -
Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome 9780099589389
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in the British Isles. Captain Flint and his crew decide to consult an... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas... -
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love and War in the Apennines'. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry... -
The Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison 9780862411923
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Introduced 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... -
That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz Malachy Tallack 9781838855017
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.311957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It's a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland... -
The Complete McAuslan by George MacDonald Fraser 9780006513711
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest... -
Scottish Stories by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis...