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Dain do Eimhir    Dain do Eimhir
ISBN:9781846970252
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Sorley MacLean
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Written mostly during the 1930s, the sequence consists of forty-eight love poems addressing a universal ‘eimhir’, or woman.


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Damage Land    Damage Land
ISBN:9780748662845
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Alan Bissett
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The newest and most talented of Scottish writers have plumbed their depths, creating a set of demons for a modern age. The range of visions and voices collected in this book – all investigating the heart of darkness, all written with a chilling skill – are enough to confirm Scotland as one of the most imaginative homes of world Gothic.

    
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Dancers Inherit the Party, The    Dancers Inherit the Party, The
ISBN:9781904598138
Category: Anthologies, Fiction
Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This book draws together an authoritative selection of all the writings needed to begin discovering the full story of Hamilton Finlay’s early work, his themes, preoccupations and vision of the philosophical transformed by the everyday.

        
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Dancing Floor, The    Dancing Floor, The
ISBN:9781846970313
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

The Dancing Floor is one of Buchan’s most unusual and surprising tales. His characters, including the familiar Leithen who features in all four novels of the series, find themselves in a religious war of sorts in Greece. His descriptions of the island setting, the flora and fauna are magical, but terrible things are about to happen . . .    

    
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Dear Green Place and Fur Sadie, The    Dear Green Place and Fur Sadie, The
ISBN:9781846970795
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Archie Hind
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
This regular-looking book manages to weave a powerful yet modest narrative in 1960s Glasgow, the city of malaise.  

Introduction by Alasdair Gray.

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Donkey Punch    Donkey Punch
ISBN:9781904598855
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

With the barbed-wire leash of parole freshly clipped from his throat and his Private Investigation business an unpleasant memory, Cal Innes is looking forward to continuing his job as caretaker at Paulo’s Lads’ Club. But a prodigal boxer, Liam, needs someone to go with him to his first major amateur tournament in Los Angeles. That someone is Cal . . .

        
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Donkey Punch    Donkey Punch
ISBN:9781846970214
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: February 2008
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Failed PI businessman, Cal Innes, babysits prodigal amateur boxer, Liam, on his first major tournament in Los Angeles. It soon turns into something more sinister, as rumours of a rigged competition fly around. As Cal’s codeine habit and Liam’s temper grow out of control, the City of Angels doesn’t seem quite so heavenly.


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Dream State    Dream State
ISBN:9780748662609
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editor) Donny O'Rourke
Publication Date: January 1994
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This new edition of Dream State has been completely revised, updated and expanded to take account of new work by the existing contributors and to usher in thrilling new talents.


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Dreaming Frankenstein    Dreaming Frankenstein
ISBN:9780954407513
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 8 times and sold more than 20,000 copies.

    
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Drinking Well, The    Drinking Well, The
ISBN:9781904598893
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Neil M. Gunn
Publication Date: October 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

First published in 1946, The Drinking Well is part of a Polygon series of Neil M. Gunn republications. Iain Cattanach lives happily in a small tight-knit Highland village, but his self-sacrificing mother has other plans for him.

        
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Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A    Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A
ISBN:9781846970269
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Hugh MacDiarmid
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Kenneth Buthlay’s edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid’s complex and often opaque use of language.


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Dust on the Paw    Dust on the Paw
ISBN:9781904598848
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiance, Laura Johnstone, in the capital of his home country. Having met while Abdul was a student at Manchester University, the couple are eager to settle down in Isban. However, Abdul is not the only one interested in Miss Johnstone’s arrival.

    
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