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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780276663 | ISBN 10: 1780276664
'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines. A farmer’s daughter from Galloway i ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529106862 | ISBN 10: 1529106869
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785303081 | ISBN 10: 1785303082
Celtic women, both 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' have often been overlooked in recorded history, while their male counterparts hogged the limelight. Too often written by the victors, and written by men, for men, the incredible stories of Scottish, I ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952
Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019 ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780275987 | ISBN 10: 1780275986
Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912916108 | ISBN 10: 191291610x
Nan Shepherd (1893 - 1981) published three novels between 1928 and 1933: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians – as well as a collection of poems: In the Cairngorms. Her reputation grew exponentially with the 1977 publi ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786894229 | ISBN 10: 178689422x
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Â SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2016 Â When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393
'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'Â From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780760414 | ISBN 10: 1780760418
During the first half of the twentieth century Glasgow was witness to an unparalleled wave of working class protest and political agitation. The protestors challenged the capitalist social order and also, on occasion, the state itself. What was the l ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755363254 | ISBN 10: 0755363256
A gritty and nostalgic memoir from a Scottish miner's wife. Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotlan ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241957929 | ISBN 10: 0241957923
'Poverty is a very exacting teacher and I had been taught well' The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir's childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother's tiny kitchen to running in t ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857861832 | ISBN 10: 0857861832
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poe ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539537 | ISBN 10: 0099539535
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading a ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080998 | ISBN 10: 1847080995
From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother Janice Galloway's grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780755317851 | ISBN 10: 0755317858
National treasure Lorraine Kelly has been great company for years: a sunny, vivacious and loveable presence in your home. Now you can get to know her even better as, for the first time, she opens up about her life and tells her story in her own words ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841581354 | ISBN 10: 1841581356
The Yellow on the Broom is the first part of Betsy Whyte’s autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life and customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, it is also a thought-provoking account of human strength and weakness ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781841580708 | ISBN 10: 1841580708
This is a sequel to the popular Yellow on the Broom. It takes Betsy Whyte's (1919-1988) story to the end of World War II, and includes additional material not previously published. It recounts, in vivid detail, the heady years of adolescence, h ... more
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