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Seems Macdonald is an outsider, not only because he lives on an isolated primitive croft, but also because, being the only child in the school to speak Gaelic.

Autobiography: A idealist 17 year old sets off from a council estate near Glasgow to become a farm secretary on the large farms and estates of the East of Scotland. She encounters a clash of culture, prejudice and unexpected kindness along the haphazard and emotionally fraught journey. A social memoir spanning the late 70s to the early 90s.

Arthur Nevay has collected over 120 compositions by former Cowdenbeath miner, Robert MacLeod (1876-1958), who became an entertainer after a mining accident ended his career.

Pindar - The Complete Works of Peter Leslie is organised in three sections: Autobiography of a Private Soldier, 1877; Random Rhymes; and, lastly, a collection of Pindar's poems and songs gathered from The Cowdenbeath & Lochgelly Times & Advertiser (1895 to 1897) by James Campbell.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare,translated into Scots by William Hershaw. Prize-winning poet William Hershaw has written a compelling Scots language version of William Shakespeare's last play The Tempest. It is set in Scotland during a regency period where powerful nobles form alliances to win power.

This book has grown out of an oral history project, 'The End of the Shift', which aims to record the working practices and conditions of skilled workers in Scotland's past industries

In his first novel, Owen Dudley Edwards views the story of the pilgrimage and passion of Jesus Christ through the eyes of Johnny, his youngest disciple."Johnny loved Jesus. Read this breathtaking novel, and you can imagine how he came to write the wonderful Fourth Gospel." Richard Holloway "It is not only a marvellous synthesis of the historical and literary imagination, but also a deeply moving meditation on childhood and its centrality to our culture." Declan Kiberd"Big, bold experiment, and a timely reminder that the greatest stories ever told are always open to fresh retellings." James Robertson

In Eavesdropping on Myself Norman chronicles his boyhood in Glasgow and explores the push-pull of two cultures: working-class Glaswegian and first-generation Hebridean.

Postcairds Fae Woodwick Mill: Orkney Poems in Scots - William Hershaw is one of Scotland's most impressive contemporary poets. The English teacher from Lochgelly, Fife, will enhance his reputation with this collection, set in Orkney, home to the late George Mackay Brown.

View from Zollernblick is the second collection of essays based on the European Regionalism symposia at Freudenstadt in Baden-Wurtt temberg, organised since 1991 by Christopher Harvie and Eberhard Bort. Networking Europe: Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy was published by Liverpool University Press in 2000.

Annals of the Holyrood Parish chronicles a Decade of Devolution in Scotland, from the 2003 'rainbow parliament' to the eve of the independence referendum. 'An account that captures the pre-referendum mood, enlightening the distortion that hindsight will cause many of us to have, and thus is a mostvaluable addition to the debate.' Lindsay Paterson

This selection in Scottish Gaelic from Ian Rankin's crime stories is taken from the collections A GOOD HANGING (1992) and BEGGARS BANQUET (2002). Playback, The Dean Curse, Seeing Things, Auld Lang Syne and The Gentlemen's Club - and Trip Trap, Facing the Music, Window of Opportunity, No Sanity Clause and Someone Got to Eddie.

This publication commemorates the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on the way the Folk Revival has evolved over the past sixty years. Sixty years ago, the first Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh at Oddfellows' Hall kick-started the modern Scottish Folk Revival.

Nell Hannah, in conversation with folklorist Margaret Bennett and long-time friend and fellow-singer, Doris Rougvie, Nell shares a life-time of reminiscences and songs. In recalling the hey-day of an industry that shut down in the 1980s, she constructs an oral history of life in war-time Perthshire. Then, following life's paths with its twists.

About Mario Relich poetry: 'There is nothing provincial about the poems in Mario Relich collection. Local at times, yes, with evocations of the poet's various home bases, but as the likes of William Carlos Williams and Patrick Kavanagh would remind us, the local is the universal. ( - ) This poet is of both the Old World and the New...

My name is Tammy Norrie - I am a hoose daemon, spirit, invisible ghost - eel, animus - whatever you choose to call me. I bide in and haunt an old fisherman's cottage called Jonah's Neuk at Seahouses on the cold windy coast of Northumberland.

BORNE ON THE CARRYING STREAM -THE LEGACY OF HAMISH HENDERSON Eighteen essays engaging with aspects of Hamish Henderson's remarkable contribution to contemporary Scott ish culture-- from song-writing and song-collecting to poetry and politics.