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A Time to Keep

A Time to Keep


ISBN: 9781904598657
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: Paperback
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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Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights

Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights


ISBN: 9780748662319
Category: Short Stories, Literature
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: January 1998
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not in stock  

Synopsis:

Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights is a complete set of stories first published in the early thirties, revealing an author whose interests lie far beyond the Scottish and rural.

    
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The Island of the Women

The Island of the Women


ISBN: 9781904598909
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: June 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99 £4.89
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Synopsis:

The Island of the Women is George Mackay Brown’s posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author’s death.

    
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A Calendar of Love

A Calendar of Love


ISBN: 9781904598732
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

A Calendar of Love is George Mackay Brown’s first collection of short stories set in Orkney.

        


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Agnes Owens <br />The Complete Short Stories

Agnes Owens
The Complete Short Stories


ISBN: 9781846970597
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Agnes Owens
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: Paperback (eBook also available)
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:

The complete life work of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.


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Hawkfall

Hawkfall


ISBN: 9781904598183
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: January 2004
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99 £4.89
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Synopsis:

This collection of eleven stories demonstrates the full range of George MacKay Brown’s literary talent.

        
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One City

One City


ISBN: 9781904598749
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, (Introduction by) J.K. Rowling
Publication Date: April 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
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Synopsis:

Three internationally bestselling authors write three interlinking stories focused on Edinburgh.

        
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Greyhound for Breakfast

Greyhound for Breakfast


ISBN: 9781846970542
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: James Kelman
Publication Date: July 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.49
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Synopsis:
A brilliant collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.

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Furthermore

Furthermore


ISBN: 9781904598343
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Susie Maguire
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
Former comedy actor and TV presenter Susie Maguire’s second story collection is instantly engaging, with its seductive, dark and witty explorations of the human condition.
        
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Little Black Dress

Little Black Dress


ISBN: 9781846970030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Susie Maguire, Editor(s)
Publication Date: March 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:

Classic style never goes out of fashion. Since Coco Chanel invented it in 1926, the little black dress has become every woman’s wardrobe staple. Fifteen women of varied backgrounds offer a colourful range of views on the little black dress, all tailored by Susie Maguire into a simply stunning and elegant collection.

 

            


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The Speak of the Mearns

The Speak of the Mearns


ISBN: 9781846970207
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
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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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Winter Tales

Winter Tales


ISBN: 9781904598879
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99 £4.89
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Synopsis:

Winter Tales is a superb collection of tender and compassionate tales, focussing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the 20th century.


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Little Black Dress

Little Black Dress


ISBN: 9781904598602
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Susie Maguire, Editor(s)
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: Hardback
Price: £12.00
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:
Classic style never goes out of fashion. Since Coco Chanel invented it in 1926, the little black dress has become every woman’s wardrobe staple. Fifteen women of varied backgrounds offer a colourful range of views on the little black dress, all tailored by Susie Maguire into a simply stunning and elegant collection. 



         
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The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories

The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories


ISBN: 9781846970849
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock  

Synopsis:
An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the title story of this remarkable collection of short stories.
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The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird


ISBN: 9781846970856
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:
These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown’s work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened.

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Shattered

Shattered


ISBN: 9781846971273
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Various
Publication Date: October 2009
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
A collection of stories based from some of Scotland’s leading fiction authors on the impact of crime on the lives of ordinary people.
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Andrina

Andrina


ISBN: 9781846971501
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:
This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form.
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The Sun's Net

The Sun's Net


ISBN: 9781846971518
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: George Mackay Brown
Publication Date: March 2010
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

"The pages are strewn with the kind of imagery only a poet's eye would pick up" - Scots Magazine

A collection of short stories celebrating life and love.


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Crimespotting

Crimespotting


ISBN: 9781846971662
Category: Short Stories
Author: Various
Publication Date: May 2010
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: reprinting  

Synopsis:

Presents a story which features crime and is set in Edinburgh. This title ranges from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural.


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