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The Incomer or Clachanpluck by Margaret Elphinstone 9781904999546
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Naomi, the enigmatic fiddler, arrives in Clachanpluck, bringing her music and the ominous potential of an incomer. Her unexpected arrival enriches this remote forest village even as she disrupts it... -
Ice House of the Mind: Collected Stories and Sketches by R. B. Cunninghame Graham 9781849211024
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.36Ice House of the Mind is the third of this series of Stories and Sketches. It contains the collections, His People, Faith and Hope, published between 1906 and 1910, which present a typical mix of... -
Rory Aforesaid and Other One Act Plays by John Brandane 9781849211550
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849211550Author John BrandaneFormat PaperbackImprint Kennedy And BoydPublisher Zeticula Ltd -
The Last G.I. Bride Wore Tartan by Fred Urquhart 9781849211062
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Fred Urquhart's lively collection of stories deals with life in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and demonstrates his fascination with American culture and its effect on Britain. The... -
Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Life by Isobel Murray 9781849210805
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the fictionalised autobiography of her early years, The White Bird Passes. Born illegitimate in a Workhouse and raised in an Elgin slum, she... -
Mary Elizabeth Haldane: A Record of a Hundred Years (1825-1925) by Mary Elizabeth Haldane 9781849210300
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her granddaughter, she lived to be a centenarian, raised a large family, exhibited varied talents and died... -
Kit and Caboodle: The Story of Football in Campbeltown by Alex McKinven 9781849211963
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Alex McKinven's passion for football has been life-long - first as a player and then as a manager - and that passion shines through in this book, the first comprehensive history of the game in... -
Owl at Twilight by Mario Relich 9781849212243
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64'For decades Mario Relich has been a benign, intelligent presence on the Scottish literary scene. Now we welcome Owl at Twilight, a substantial collection of his own poems, clear-eyed observations of... -
Vertigo and the Vagus Nerve - A Medical Mystery Solved? by Merryn Fergusson 9781849211604
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Vertigo or Labyrinthitis is a very distressing condition. Why does someone who has suffered from labyrinthitis and vertigo for six months recover after one session of physiotherapy? When another... -
A Ring Upon the Sand: Collected Stories and Sketches by R. B. Cunninghame Graham 9781849211048
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06This fifth and final volume of Cunninghame Graham stories and sketches brings together the three collections he published in the last decade of his life. Redeemed, and Other Sketches appeared in... -
I Fell for a Sailor by Fred Urquhart 9781849210775
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart's first collection of short stories brings to life the modern Scotland of the 1930s, using his inimitably vivid dialogue. He shows the struggles of... -
The Ferret Was Abraham's Daughter by Fred Urquhart 9781849210935
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance halls, all call out to the girls and young women that life need not be dull. This book, set in one of... -
Four Galt Novels: Annals of the Parish, the Ayrshire Legatees, the Provost, the Entail by John Galt 9781849211475
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - published in 2001 by the Saltire Society in... -
A Goal for Miss Valentino by Fred Urquhart 9781849211116
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart planned. It displays the full range of his work: unsparing stories, tragic and comic, about ordinary... -
Not all at sea by Alastair Hannay 9781849212083
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.65The lives of philosophers would be dull reading if they were as tidy as their thoughts often tend to be. Alastair Hannay describes how he ‘slid’ into philosophy but found it a useful means of... -
Whistle the Wind: A Mevagissey Venture by Ken A Shearwood 9781904999171
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48No one would think from his friendly and informal style that Ken Shearwood was a housemaster at a public school. Nor would most people ima gine that the familiar but little under stood craft which... -
General Belinda by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth 9781849211369
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34It is not for nothing that Belinda's father called her "The General". Belinda could marshal and control more than armies-she could control the people about her. Belinda's father dies and she is left... -
The Clouds Are Big with Mercy by Fred Urquhart 9781849211079
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men... -
The Hidden Fairing by N. Brysson Morrison
Booksplease Price: £14.65Originally published in 1951, The Hidden Fairing presents one man's moral choices, and their consequences, against the background of a society impressed by material success and divided by class and... -
The Laughing Man by Victor Hugo 9781904999843
Booksplease Price: £18.27"Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf": the former a travelling mountebank, the latter his faithful companion. Gwynplaine was abducted as an infant, and cruelly mutilated so that his face shows the permanent... -
Fifty Tales for a Wet Weekend in Tighnabruaich by Thomas F Carbery 9781849210089
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews'.. a stellar collection of short stories, character sketches, anecdotes and shrewd observations of Scottish life... -
Thomas Carlyle by Ian Campbell 9781849210898
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48Ian Campbell, who has had access to a very large number of the relevant papers, has divided Carlyle's life into two definite parts-the Scottish years and the Chelsea years-and by mixing biography and... -
Forfar On This Day by David W. Potter 9781849212199
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45This isn't a history of Forfar. Instead it gives readers an excerpt, a sample, of what life was like on any given day of the year in a community that has been both a traditional market town and a... -
Photographed on the Brain: Collected Stories and Sketches by R. B. Cunninghame Graham 9781849211000
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The first volume in this series of Stories and Sketches contains three works first published by Cunninghame Graham between 1895 and 1899. Notes on the District of Menteith (1895), while not a... -
A Diver in China Seas by Fred Urquhart 9781849211086
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Highly praised by leading critics on its first publication this collection of some of Fred Urquhart's most subtle and skilful stories depicts the lives of a variety of Scottish characters, at home... -
The Last Resort Library by Irving Finkel 9781904999416
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48"The library is situated," said the short entry in the Guide to British Libraries A-L, "in pleasant rolling countryside not too far from Hereford, and is perhaps most readily accessible by private... -
Idolatry of the Translated Forms by Fait Muedini 9781849212090
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Dr. Fait Muedini is the Frances Shera Fessler Professor, and Director of International Studies at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. His poetry has been published in Anchor Magazine, Allegro... -
Living with Ghosts: Collected Stories and Sketches by R. B. Cunninghame Graham 9781849211017
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.36"Living with Ghosts", the second volume of this series, contains the collections of stories that Cunningham Graham published between 1900 and 1905, in the period immediately after he was forced to... -
The Year of the Short Corn, and Other Stories by Fred Urquhart 9781849211253
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62"The Year of the Short Corn" was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be a civilian family gathered together... -
Fire from a Black Opal: Collected Stories and Sketches by R. B. Cunninghame Graham 9781849211031
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.36Fire from a Black Opal is the fourth of this series of Stories and Sketches. It contains the collections, Charity, A Hatchment and Brought Forward, published between 1912 and 1916, immediately prior... -
Pegasus: The Famous Oxford and Cambridge Soccer Side of the Nineteen Fifties by Ken Shearwood 9781849210478
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The combined soccer side of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Pegasus gained a tremendous following in its brief life. The team won the F.A. Amateur Cup in 1951 and 1953 before capacity crowds of... -
Cadences: Notes from an Ordinary Life by Anne M. Scriven 9781849211680
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48A writer's job is to notice the world. To catch in words the qualities, textures, patterns, people, events and emotions at play every day. Cadences - a memoir of personal noticings illustrated with... -
The South Side: Three Glasgow Novellas by Moira Burgess 9781849210843
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The south side isn't just a location, a neighbourhood, an area on a city map. In these brilliantly perceptive novellas, all set in Glasgow, it stands for the flip-side of the psyche, the darkness... -
Scottish Writers Talking 1: George Mackay Brown, Jessie Kesson, Norman McCaig, William McIlvanney, David Toulmin by Isobel Murray 9781904999898
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48This is the first volume in a series begun by Isobel Murray and Bob Tait in 1984, and finished in 2008 Authors covered in other volumes include: 2. Iain Banks, Bernard MacLaverty, Naomi Mitchison,... -
Persepolis, from Glasgow in a School Bus: With Stops on the Way by Richard M. Orr 9781849211628
Booksplease Price: £14.65In June, 1973, a group of eleven teachers, students and pupils from Glasgow boarded a new school minibus and began a trip - across Europe, Turkey, Syria and Iraq - to Persepolis, in Iran, the... -
Selected Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott 9781904999959
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £13.48His Waverley novels brought Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) great international fame in his own day. Many modern readers, however, find them too daunting, perhaps because of their considerable length... -
Islanders by Margaret Elphinstone 9781904999539
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.36Islanders is Margaret Elphinstone's first novel, written when she lived at Northbanks, Papa Stour in 1979. It is the author's expression of the seven years she lived in Shetland, during which she... -
The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature: Volume 2 by Robert Irvine 9781849210799
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06This volume includes a selection of Scottish writing from the 'renaissance' of Scottish writing at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. From the Highland and Lowland... -
Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie 9781849211277
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first published novel written by a working-class woman in Britain. Miss... -
Jezebel's Dust by Fred Urquhart 9781849210942
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Jezebel's Dust is the story of two young teenage girls infected by the love of uniforms in Edinburgh and London early in the war. They come from the slums and have no very high education or...