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

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of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.

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A short story collection, capturing the lives of council estate dopeheads, single parents, awkward young men and lonely old women.

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

        
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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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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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In his first collection of powerful and imaginative short stories, Suhayl Saadi experiments with form as well as content. The result is a mixture of the seamy and the spiritual, the subtle, the baroque and the brutal.
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Three internationally bestselling authors write three interlinking stories focused on Edinburgh.

        
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Escalator is Michael Gardiner’s stunning fiction debut. Sparsely written and beautifully observed, these stories resist cliché and overstatement, and refuse to judge their subjects, presenting a compelling glimpse under the skin of an enigmatic country.

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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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Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to one of Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competitions – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award 2006.

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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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A collection of Ian Stephen's short stories with recipe-poems and children's drawings, Mackerel & Creamola is a rich portrayal of contemporary life in the Hebrides, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of sea lore.

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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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The Light Fantastic, Rhona Rauszer’s third collection of short stories, is permeated with a love and deep compassion for the people of Skye.
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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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Rhona Rauszer has had a long and varied life, but she has always been drawn back to her ancestral homeland, Skye, the setting of these stories.

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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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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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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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This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form.
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A collection of short stories celebrating life and love.
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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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