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The MacDiarmid Memorandum: Poems by Alan Riach, Paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol by Alan Riach 9781910895795
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Alan 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... -
Seizing Power: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 3 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895818
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The third book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. Constantine’s father dies unexpectedly, making Constantine emperor at age nine with Irini... -
10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid Leslie Hills 9781910895979
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. – Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the... -
Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War Julian Evans 9781910895986
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.68'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country's game. 'Odesa is my discovered heart,' confesses Julian Evans,... -
Restricted Movement by Traci O' Dea
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82This explosive collection of poems documents life as a daughter as she supports her artist father who is struggling with dementia and drug addiction while overseas during a pandemic. Interspersed... -
A Large Czeslaw Milosz With a Dash of Elvis Presley by Tania Skarynkina
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.47Sitting by her window with a glass of cranberries in sugar syrup bought from a woman in the market who assured her they came from Karelia, she muses "Perhaps they have some other kind of effect when... -
Three Plays by Jean Findlay
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.83These three plays, composed between 1994 and 2004 are linked by the theme of war: actual, remembered or threatened. They are all tragicomic and each written for a strong female lead.About the... -
Don Roberto: The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham by James Jauncey 9781910895764
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.07'A combination of all that is best in memoir, biography and history.' - Caroline Moorehead 'In this remarkable book... Jauncey has performed the great service of reminding us of a wonderful figure... -
Square Baw Hamish MacDonald 9781917881012
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Square Baw is a collection of football poems that not only covers personal experience, but takes a deep dive into the history of the Scottish game itself, and thereby goes to the heart of Scottish... -
Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War Julian Evans 9781917881043
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country's game. 'Odesa is my discovered heart,' confesses Julian Evans,... -
Sea Fret: Short Stories by Dilys Rose
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82"The stories have a steely rectitude and an uncompromising determination to face down humiliation and inequality...economical, moral and compassionate."-The Guardian Dilys Rose has been compared... -
Wilson's Ornithology and Burds in Scots by Hamish MacDonald
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82'The crossbill is a bonny bird An she sings wi a guid Scots tongue Jip-jip-jip A'll gie ye gip Gin ye meddle wi me nor ma young' As a result of his travels across the North American... -
Shadows and Light: The Life of James McBey by Alasdair Soussi
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $29.15Creative genius, war artist, adventurer, lover. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883-1959). McBey was a... -
White Raven Maggie Ritchie 9781917881029
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.43Bored with life as a teacher in an Edinburgh girls' school, artist Rosie recognises Alex Kuznetsov from her previous life as a decoder at Bletchley Park. Alex, a war hero and anti-Soviet... -
What's the Difference...: Between Me and You? by Ms Christina Findlay 9781910895771
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.12What's the Difference... Between Me and You? is a highly original picture book filled with delicate, characterful drawings and an important central message: everyone is different, and difference is... -
Patient Dignity Dr. Bashabi Fraser 9781910895542
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $6.23A transnational collection of 'Pandemic Poetry' and paintings which, among other themes, compares India with Scotland. Vibha's oil paintings complement Bashabi's evocative poetry.About the AuthorDr... -
Porcelain Soul by Andreea Lichi
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82'As uplifting as it is sad. A beautiful book which teaches us to live every minute and appreciate what we have.' - The Times Andreea is thirteen and looking forward to taking part in a... -
Alindarka's Children: Things Will Be Bad by Alhierd Bacharevič
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55The masterful English debut of Alhierd Bacharevic, a new voice from Belarus Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest where children are trained to forget their... -
Aspects of Edinburgh: Poems by Stewart Conn Drawings by John Knight by Stewart Conn 9781910895283
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82'North-east the Firth, a bracelet merging with mist; south-west the Pentlands, sharply defined. Directly opposite, the Castle. A sudden gust makes me lose my footing. Gulls slip past, eyeing us... -
Inside & Out: The Art of Christian Small by Gerda Stevenson
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.32Christian Small lived and painted in West Linton for over 60 years. Her work was of remarkable quality and range in many different media. Her choice of subjects was wonderfully imaginative: pears on... -
The Price of Eyes: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 4 Janet McGiffin 9781910895825
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The fourth book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. In the final book, Irini returns to the throne. She tricks Constantine into divorcing... -
Fox Anthony Gardner 9781910895290
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.47A virulent disease carried by foxes is spreading across Europe. In London an urgent cull is underway, spearheaded by Frank Smith, the young master of the Hyde Park Hunt. But for Britain's paranoid... -
Firkin & The Grey Gangsters Ann Scott Moncrieff 9781910895153
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Firkin and the Grey Gangsters is a collection of four tales in which animals are the heroes. Firkin and the Grey Gangsters was in 1936 a metaphor for the fear of takeover by corporate America -... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 'How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through... -
A Land Girl's Tale: Concentrating on Winning the War by Mona McLeod
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.82"I can see the disgust on the face of one neighbor when Jack, the farmer, asked to lend a man, produced a land girl." Mona Macleod worked in Kirkubrightshire during the second World War, providing... -
Aboard the Bulger by Ann Scott Moncrieff 9781910895160
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Five children escape from a Children's Home, run away and steal a boat, which they sail around the Outer Hebrides. The book had a huge print run from London Methuen, but their warehouses were bombed... -
Errant Blood by C. F. Peterson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Errant Blood is a literary crime thriller by a startling new Scottish writer. The story follows Eamon Ansgar, war veteran and reluctant young laird of Duncul Castle, as he uncovers a plot involving... -
The Purified by C. F. Peterson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.47The long-awaited sequel to 'Errant Blood' , a second crime thriller set in the Scottish Highland village of Duncul. Eamon's new found happiness is shattered by the type of murder that the government... -
Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593): The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) by Dr. Timothy Ashby
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.07Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the... -
The Queen's Lender: If you liked The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell... by Jean Findlay 9781910895672
Booksplease Price: $13.04'Royal court intrigue at its finest.' - Historical Writers Association 'A stunning novel about the birth of the United Kingdom that demonstrates the scholarship of the author, as well as her... -
Betrothal and Betrayal: Empress Irini Series Volume 1 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895788
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS PRIZE 2024 The first book in a brand new series charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens, Empress of the Byzantine... -
The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.26'Royal court intrigue at its finest.' - Historical Writers Association 'A stunning novel about the birth of the United Kingdom that demonstrates the scholarship of the author, as well as her... -
New novel by Women's Prize 2025 Listed Jenni Daiches by Jenni Daiches 9781917881050
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Set in 2041 when England is dried up by climate change, this novel is seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Ishbel Saddler. Her Scottish mother has died, and drought and crop failure force her family... -
Poison is a Woman's Weapon: Empress Irini Series, Volume 2 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895740
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The second book in The Empress Irini Series, charting the extraordinary rise to power of Irini of Athens. Irini's conniving mother-in-law, her five jealous step-brothers, and her own husband,... -
66 The House that Viewed the World by John D. O. Fulton
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.24"[The book explores] how lives interconnect, how we are all creatures of our time, how rich and complex life is in this sometimes shy and reticent city. Not for a moment does our interest flag... -
Marjorie's Journey: On A Mission of Her Own by Ailie Cleghorn
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Against the frightening backdrop of World War II, a young Scottish woman took ten children by ship through the waters of the Atlantic from Scotland to South Africa, where she set up a home for them... -
Auntie Robbo by Ann Scott Moncrieff
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Hector is an 11-year-old boy living near Edinburgh with his great auntie Robbo who is in her eighties. A woman calling herself his step-mother arrives from England and Hector and Auntie Robbo realise... -
The Whistlers in the Dark by Victoria Williamson 9781910895801
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.47'An exciting new background read on an aspect of Romans in Britain that I have not seen covered in children's literature before.' - Veronica Price, chartered librarian and blogger Scotland, 158 AD,... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.68This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from... -
Macsonnetries by Petra Reid
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82A collection of 154 sonnets reflecting on love, death, marriage and economic theory, each taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's 154. These poems have wit and a kick coming from a middle-aged...