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Sardana Dancers, The    Sardana Dancers, The
ISBN:9781904598886
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

The Sardana Dancers is an intriguing and compassionate novel about the interweaving lives of a variety of characters who are caught up in a sort of sardana – a Catalan dance performed for pleasure and as a symbol of unity.


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Saturday's Child    Saturday's Child
ISBN:9781904598787
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

It’s criminal up north ... Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer ...


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Saturday's Child    Saturday's Child
ISBN:9781846970115
Category: Crime
Author: Ray Banks
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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It’s criminal up north . . .  Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local gang lord ‘Uncle’ Morris Tiernan . . .

                
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Savage Night    Savage Night
ISBN:9781846970191
Category: Crime
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Format: PB
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Synopsis:
Kidnapping and corpse mutilation are just a taste of what’s in store for Andy Park in Allan Guthrie’s violent fourth novel. Meanwhile Tommy Savage may not survive the night when he finds himself heading to a graveyard armed with a sword and a bag of cash to meet his masked blackmailer.     

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Scheme of Things, The    Scheme of Things, The
ISBN:9781904598312
Category: Literature
Author: Brian Hennigan
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis: Brian Hennigan, has followed up his brilliant debut Patrick Robertson with a wickedly humorous satire on the world of business and Public Relations.   
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Scots Quair, A    Scots Quair, A
ISBN:9781904598824
Category: Classics
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

A Scots Quair, is Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.

    
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Scottish War Stories    Scottish War Stories
ISBN:9780748662364
Category: Anthologies
Author: (Editor) Trevor Royle
Publication Date: May 1999
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Some of the greatest writers in Scotland’s literary history recount twenty-four intensively evocative tales of war.

    


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Secrets    Secrets
ISBN:9781904598435
Category: Anthologies
Author: (Editor) Janice Galloway
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:
Well-known names of leading Scottish authors and totally unknown, talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competition – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story
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Shadow of the Serpent    Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN:9781904598701
Category: Crime
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.



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Shadow of the Serpent    Shadow of the Serpent
ISBN:9781846970085
Category: Crime
Author: David Ashton
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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The first in the McLevy series, this is wonderfully evocative detective fiction, based in dark, violent, Victorian Edinburgh.

                
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Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, The    Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, The
ISBN:9781846970238
Category: Literature
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis:
All hell’s breaking loose in Shanghai. A group of hyper-vegan terrorists are threatening to blow up the city. There’s a potentially explosive white elephant on the loose and the world’s two most important presidents are due to visit.
            
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Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, The    Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, The
ISBN:9781846970498
Category: Literature
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Nury Vittachi’s debut Polygon novel. Primarily set in Hong Kong, this highly enjoyable read delves into the mysterious underworld of vegan terrorism that only a Feng Shui master can resolve.

THIS EDITION AVAILABLE MAY 2008

    
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Sick Heart River    Sick Heart River
ISBN:9781846970306
Category: Literature
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis:

Sick Heart River is both John Buchan’s most powerful novel and his last, with perhaps the most autobiographical of his characters.    

    
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Singin Lass, The    Singin Lass, The
ISBN:9781904598640
Category: Poetry
Author: (Editor) Aimee Chalmers
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

Selected Work of Marion Angus celebrates the legacy of Marion Angus, (1865-1946) one of Scotland’s finest lyric poets.

    
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Soirbheas / Fair Wind    Soirbheas / Fair Wind
ISBN:9781904598923
Category: Poetry
Author: Meg Bateman
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis: Soirbheas/Fair Wind is Meg Bateman’s most personal and distinctive work.

Books From Scotland Gaelic Book of the Year 2007                            
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Some Kind of Grace    Some Kind of Grace
ISBN:9781904598190
Category: Classics
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This gripping novel, first published in 1960, helped confirm Robin Jenkins as one of the most outstanding novelists of his generation. Set in Afghanistan, it was written shortly after his return from his two-year period in Kabul, and his experiences there add an unmistakeable ring of authenticity to his descriptions of this mysterious and remote country. Some Kind of Grace is a terrible warning of what outside interference can do to a country. Throughout the book Jenkins’ sympathy is with a people sacrificed on the altar of dogma and convenience by the great powers of East and West.


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Some People Are Crazy    Some People Are Crazy
ISBN:9781846970368
Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Neil Munro
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

A biography of one of rock music’s last real mavericks, John Martyn. The book documents his many highs and lows, and his friendships with the great lost souls of British rock music – Nick Drake and Paul Koshoff.

        
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Some People are Crazy    Some People are Crazy
ISBN:9781846970580
Category: Music, Autobiography/Biography
Author: John Neil Munro
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A well-researched biography of one of Britain’s best musicians reknowned for his rock antics.

        
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Spartacus    Spartacus
ISBN:9781904598565
Category: Literature
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This marvellous historical novel, based on an intimate knowledge of the historical background and a perceptive understanding of human nature, is wonderful to read as fiction, as adventure, and as a history of people in the grip of exploitation and oppression. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece from one of Scotland’s greatest writers.


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Speak of the Mearns, The    Speak of the Mearns, The
ISBN:9780748661671
Category: Short Stories
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
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Synopsis: This novella is a sharply observed portrait of a rural community on the coast seen through the eyes of a young boy growing up there.    
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Speak of the Mearns, The    Speak of the Mearns, The
ISBN:9781846970207
Category: Short Stories
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: PB
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Synopsis:
This essential collection from Lewis Grassic Gibbon comprises short stories, essays and a novel, The Speak of the Mearns, which was unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1935.
        
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Stained Radiance    Stained Radiance
ISBN:9780748661411
Category: Classics
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Format: PB
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In this remarkable first novel, Lewis Grassic Gibbon sketched the lives of ordinary people living through the Jazz Age and the troubled sexuality of the times.

    
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Sunset Song    Sunset Song
ISBN:9781904598664
Category: Classics
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Format: PB
Price: £5.99
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Synopsis:

Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’ in 2005.

        
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