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Introduced by Tom Crawford

Presents four different accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. This title tells a story of how its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl.

Charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman - would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter-moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat.

This indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland's most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets: Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Iain Crichton Smith, Derick Thomson and Donald MacAulay. Designed as much for English readers throughout the world as for readers of Gaelic, the poems are presented with line-for-line translations.

The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, so memorably recorded in her Memoirs of a Highland Lady has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. This volume takes up the story after she arrives in Ireland, following her marriage to Colonel Smith of Baltiboys.

An anthology of writings from the time of the Scottish Enlightenment

Presents an extraordinary combination of the fantastic, the funny, the serious and the historically realistic. Ranging from Galloway to Northumberland, this title focuses on the Scottish Borders.

Edited and introductions by Roderick Watson

Introduced by Patricia J. Wilson

The complete works of Robert Burns

Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures.

Three novels by George Friel

An autobiographical account of the early years of James McBey, the self-taught boy from a humble north-east village who became one of Scotland's most successful and celebrated artists.

Edward Leithen is the closest of Buchan's protagonists to theauthor's own experience and imagination. A prosperous Scots lawyer andMP in London, Leithen seeks adventure to relieve the tedium ofrespectability. In The Power House he is forced by event and accident to see civilisation as a thin veneer over the human jungle;

Set against the religious struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland, with Montrose for the king against a convenanted kirk, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro. As a moderate Presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith.

A special UNESCO City of Literature edition with full annotation.

John Muir lived, as he put it, 'in an infinite storm of beauty.' 'No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by the natural world, or communicates that astonishment more urgently., (Robert Macfarlane)