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A Large Czeslaw Milosz With a Dash of Elvis Presley by Tania Skarynkina
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.88Sitting 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... -
10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid Leslie Hills 9781910895979
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54This 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... -
Restricted Movement by Traci O' Dea
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20This 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... -
Seizing Power: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 3 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895818
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The 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... -
Three Plays by Jean Findlay
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.21These 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 9781917881098
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79'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... -
The MacDiarmid Memorandum: Poems by Alan Riach, Paintings by Alexander Moffat and Ruth Nicol by Alan Riach 9781910895795
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Alan 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... -
Square Baw Hamish MacDonald 9781917881012
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Square 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: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89'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,... -
Wilson's Ornithology and Burds in Scots by Hamish MacDonald
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20'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... -
Sea Fret: Short Stories by Dilys Rose
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20"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... -
What's the Difference...: Between Me and You? by Ms Christina Findlay 9781910895771
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.90What'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... -
White Raven Maggie Ritchie 9781917881029
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.10Bored 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... -
Patient Dignity Dr. Bashabi Fraser 9781910895542
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $6.47A 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20'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: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99The 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... -
Declarations on Freedom for Writers and Readers by Sir Tom Devine
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Declaration on Freedom for Writers and Readers is an anthology of poetry and prose exploring freedom of expression. The year 2020 marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath in which... -
The Price of Eyes: The Empress Irini Series, Volume 4 Janet McGiffin 9781910895825
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The 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... -
Aspects of Edinburgh: Poems by Stewart Conn Drawings by John Knight by Stewart Conn 9781910895283
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20'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: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.07Christian 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... -
A Land Girl's Tale: Concentrating on Winning the War by Mona McLeod
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.24"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... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89WINNER 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... -
Fox Anthony Gardner 9781910895290
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.88A 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Firkin 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 -... -
Aboard the Bulger by Ann Scott Moncrieff 9781910895160
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Five 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... -
Ant: Collected Short Stories, War Serials and Selected Poems of C. K. Scott Moncrieff by C. K. Scott Moncrieff 9781910895009
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.56Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is... -
Errant Blood by C. F. Peterson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Errant 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.88The 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... -
The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.73'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... -
Poison is a Woman's Weapon: Empress Irini Series, Volume 2 by Janet McGiffin 9781910895740
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20The 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,... -
The Queen's Lender: If you liked The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell... by Jean Findlay 9781910895672
Booksplease Price: $13.55'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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20SHORTLISTED 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... -
New novel by Women's Prize 2025 Listed Jenni Daiches by Jenni Daiches 9781917881050
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Set 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... -
Marjorie's Journey: On A Mission of Her Own by Ailie Cleghorn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Against 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Hector 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.88'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,... -
Macsonnetries by Petra Reid
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20A 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... -
Somewhere Else: Recommended by Miriam Margolyes by Jenni Daiches 9781910895955
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89'Jenni Daiches has astonishingly re-created a lost world... I wept and laughed and wished I had written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'An urgent exploration of the fragility and beauty of our... -
A Song to Keep: A kinship of poems and drawings by Olivia Findlay
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20These poems reflect a journey from a past delineated by racism, trauma and violence towards a present life of peace and intense natural beauty. Permeated with nostalgia and loss; songs of an... -
From Corsets to Communism: The Life and Times of Zophia Nalkowska by Jenny Robertson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89'I had only one eye, I was hungry and cold, yet I wanted to live... so that I could tell it all just as I've told you.' - From Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions (1947). Witness to two world wars and...