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I Fell for a Sailor by Fred Urquhart 9781849210775
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Originally 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50The 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: $52.40Booksplease Price: $49.98John 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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31This 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: $41.90Booksplease Price: $39.17The 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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31No 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11It 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: $25.10Booksplease Price: $24.70By 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 Incomer or Clachanpluck by Margaret Elphinstone 9781904999546
RRP: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31Naomi, 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: $35.60Booksplease Price: $34.36Ice 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Apologies 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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31Fred 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Jessie 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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Mary 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: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Alex 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.54'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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Vertigo 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: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73This 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... -
The Hidden Fairing by N. Brysson Morrison
Booksplease Price: $30.77Originally 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: $38.37"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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31Apologies 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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31Ian 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: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.55This 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: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73The 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: $25.10Booksplease Price: $24.70Highly 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: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31"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: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50Dr. 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... -
Tales of My Own Country by Violet Jacob
Booksplease Price: $30.77The stories in this collection lovingly trace the lives of men and women in north-east Scotland that are thrown into relief by moments of change or crisis. Violet Jacob's characters struggle with... -
Ninety-three by Victor Hugo 9781904999935
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $31.92Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many -- including such diverse critics as Robert Louis Stevenson and Andre Maurois -- as his greatest work. 1793, Year Two of the... -
Runaway Dreams: The Story of Mama's Boys and Celtus by Michael J K Walsh 9781849210966
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Runaway Dreams tells the story of brothers Pat, John and Tommy McManus who, as Mama's Boys, wrote their own chapter in the history of rock music. From a farmhouse in Derrylin, Northern Ireland, and a... -
Ayr United F.C. Managers by Duncan Carmichael 9781849211659
RRP: $29.30Booksplease Price: $28.31Did you know that a former Ayr United great was the first Briton to be a football manager in Argentina? Did you know that he wasn't the only Ayr United manager to have been contracted to a South... -
Speak, Adam by Moira Burgess 9781904999638
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $33.73Speak, Adam, formerly published as A Rumour of Strangers in 1987, is the second novel by the literary historian, Moira Burgess. Returning to her former home area of Argyll, Speak, Adam is set in the... -
Forfar Athletic On This Day by David W. Potter 9781849211666
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $39.80Forfar Athletic have had some dreadful times, but they have had their share of success as well. Here the author has found something memorable that has happened on every single day in the year - a... -
Persepolis, from Glasgow in a School Bus: With Stops on the Way by Richard M. Orr 9781849211635
Booksplease Price: $46.77In 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... -
Dear Sibelius: Letter from a Junky by Marshall Walker 9781904999683
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $35.53When a schoolboy in Glasgow, Marshall Walker became addicted to the music of Sibelius. In 1996 he made a pilgrimage to Finland, visiting places of special significance to the composer, his birthplace... -
The Edinburgh Anthology of Scottish Literature: Vol. 1 by Robert Irvine 9781849210034
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $44.56This volume includes a selection of Scottish writing from one of its most innovative periods, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It ranges across literary genres from the... -
Learning to Listen: Life and a Very Nervous Dog by Anne M. Scriven 9781849211390
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the eye of a family looking for a companion for their own dog, life as they had known it was irrevocably... -
Raith Rovers On This Day by David W. Potter 9781849211734
Booksplease Price: $78.73In this illustrated view of the history of Raith Rovers the author builds up the story of the club by recounting events that happened on every day of the year, even during the summer months... -
Provenance: Tales from a Bookshop by Anne M. Scriven 9781849211468
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $30.11Located in an old west of Scotland town, hanging on to its once proud identity with its fingertips, 'Cloisters Bookshop' functions as an oasis of culture and quirky authenticity. The glorious... -
After the Rain: New and selected poems 1991 - 2016 by George Gunn 9781849211710
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $26.50George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection from his previously published poems plus eleven new ones continues to reveal an imagination that, while...