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The Killer Angels    The Killer Angels
ISBN:9781846970863
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Michael Shaara
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel set in the third summer of the war. Robert Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North.


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The Unbearable Lightness of Scones    The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
ISBN:9781846970573
Category: Fiction, Literature
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth instalment of 44 Scotland Street alongside the familiar cast of favourites – Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others.

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Theoderic    Theoderic
ISBN:9781846970825
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Ross Laidlaw
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:

This is the extraordinary story of Theoderic the Goth, a man who rose to the equal of Emperors, who raised his people to a pinnacle of power and wealth. It is a story that spans Europe, from the intrigues and wiles of Constantinople to the battlefields of the future France, from North Africa to the Balkans.

            
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Thistle and the Grail, The    Thistle and the Grail, The
ISBN:9781904598763
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. When the team’s luck begins to change, the whole town unites to support them.

        

        
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Three Go Back    Three Go Back
ISBN:9780748662036
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic adventure story offers a dreamlike vision of prehistoric life and opens up new vistas to the imagination. This is a classic science-fiction tale from the 1930s, with an introduction by Ian Campbell.

    
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Time in Carnbeg    Time in Carnbeg
ISBN:9780954407551
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Ronald Frame
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Ronald Frame’s deceptively gentle writing spins a taut web of desire, betrayal and loss as his characters play out their roles in the intimate and claustrophobic amphitheatre of Carnbeg.


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Time to Keep, A    Time to Keep, A
ISBN:9781904598657
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

A Time to Keep is George Mackay Brown’s second volume of short stories inspired by both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.

            
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Today Tomorrow    Today Tomorrow
ISBN:9780748662999
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: George Bruce
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Today Tomorrow is a celebration of the life and work of poet George Bruce, bringing together all the poems from previous collections, uncollected poems previous to Sea Talk (1944) and uncollected poems after the publication of Pursuit:

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Translator, The    Translator, The
ISBN:9781846970801
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Leila Aboulela
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
This is a touching story about love, both human and divine. Leila Aboulela’s debut Polygon novel is a captivating read. 

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Treading Water    Treading Water
ISBN:9781904598411
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Claire Collison
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
This novel is about what happens before and after the events that shape, scar and make us who we are.

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Triple Point of Water, The    Triple Point of Water, The
ISBN:9781846970009
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Fiona Dunscombe
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

Winner of 2007 Dundee International Book Prize

As a child Arabella Cordon idolises her Father, but his enthusiasm is reserved for steam engines, motorcycles and Margaret Thatcher.

On the day Thatcher comes to power, Arabella’s life changes irrevocably. Alone and adrift in London, she takes a job as a striptease artist in Soho. She is determined to leave the past behind but her identity and survival seem inextricably linked to her childhood and the question of what a father is.


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True Confessions    True Confessions
ISBN:9780954407537
Category: Poetry, Fiction
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publication Date: January 2003
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 5 times and sold more than 10,000 copies.

    
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True North    True North
ISBN:9781846970788
Category: Travel Writing, Travel
Author: Gavin Francis
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

An inspiring narrative of one man’s exploration within the fringes of the arctic circle. A truly unique perspective.


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Tuil, An    Tuil, An
ISBN:9780748662197
Category: Gaelic
Author: (Editor) Ronald Black
Publication Date: July 1999
Format: PB
Price: £19.99
Stock Status: not in stock

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Synopsis:

For the first time, a full canon of twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic verse is available in one handsome volume.


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Two-way Split    Two-way Split
ISBN:9781904598572
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: April 2005
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the first edition of Allan Guthrie's debut novel which won The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007.


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Two-way Split    Two-way Split
ISBN:9781846970429
Category: Crime, Fiction
Author: Allan Guthrie
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A-format edition of the first novel from Allan Guthrie, one of crime fiction’s toughest new writers.    

        
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