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Hand, Heart and Soul    Hand, Heart and Soul
ISBN:9781841586106
Category: Art
Author: Elizabeth Cumming
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Hand, Heart and Soul is the first book to provide a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and many new names that emerge from the shadows.


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Harris    Harris
ISBN:9781841585239
Category: Local History, History
Author: Bill Lawson
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: reprinting

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Synopsis:

A unique insight into Harris life, industry and its people through the ages.


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Healing Threads    Healing Threads
ISBN:9781841582771
Category: Botany, Medicine
Author: Mary Beith
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Healing Threads is a unique introduction to the healing properties of nature that has fascinated generation after generation.


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Heartfelt    Heartfelt
ISBN:9781841584225
Category: Sport
Author: Aidan Smith
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A lifelong Hibs fan takes on the challenge that TV’s Faking It and Wifeswap were too scared to even contemplate as he tries to follow his team’s hated rivals Hearts for an entire season.

    
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Heartfelt    Heartfelt
ISBN:9781841585109
Category: Sport
Author: Aidan Smith
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A lifelong Hibs fan takes on the challenge that TV’s Faking It and Wifeswap were too scared to even contemplate as he tries to follow his team’s hated rivals Hearts for an entire season.


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Hebridean Birthday Book, The    Hebridean Birthday Book, The
ISBN:9781841584607
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: HB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides, this large-format, hardback book is the perfect way to remember birthdays of friends and family.    


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Hebridean Desk Address Book, The    Hebridean Desk Address Book, The
ISBN:9781841583433
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2005
Format: HB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
This is an address book which is attractively illustrated with acclaimed illustrator Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of seasonal Western Island scenes.

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Hebridean Desk Diary 2008, The    Hebridean Desk Diary 2008, The
ISBN:9781841585468
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: HB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is a hardback desk diary, illustrated throughout with Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides throughout the seasons. The paintings have been collected over the past forty years and show the changing faces of the landscapes. Mairi’s sketches range across many of the isles from Arran to Tiree, expertly capturing the essence of these beautiful and diverse islands. The 2008 diary contains a large number of new illustrations.


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Hebridean Desk Diary 2009, The    Hebridean Desk Diary 2009, The
ISBN:9781841586625
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Even more popular than the Hebridean Pocket Diary, the Desk Diary will surely continue being our best selling stationery item. With new illustrations by Mairi Hedderwick.


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Hebridean Island    Hebridean Island
ISBN:9781841583945
Category: Local History
Author: Angus Duncan
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis: Hebridean Island reintroduces a way of life now lost to the land of Scarp.
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Hebridean Island Hopping    Hebridean Island Hopping
ISBN:9781841584409
Category: Guides
Author: Martin Coventry
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The only guide to island hopping in Scotland – brilliantly informative and up to date.


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Hebridean Light    Hebridean Light
ISBN:9781841582719
Category: Photography
Author: Gus Wylie
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A magical collection of images that captures the essence of the beautiful and timeless world of the Hebrides.

    
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Hebridean Pocket Address Book, The    Hebridean Pocket Address Book, The
ISBN:9781841586595
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: HB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the pocket-sized address book which includes Mairi Hedderwick’s beautiful sketches of the Hebrides over the four seasons. A Birlinn bestseller.         


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Hebridean Pocket Diary 2009, The    Hebridean Pocket Diary 2009, The
ISBN:9781841586632
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: HB
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
With beautiful, full-colour artwork throughout, it is no wonder this little diary is a popular best-selling favourite time and time again.
            
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Hebridean Traveller, The    Hebridean Traveller, The
ISBN:9781841582948
Category: Travel, Social History, Scotland, History, Literature
Author: Denis Rixson
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

For centuries the Highlands and Islands of Scotland have cast their spell over visitors.


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Hebridean Visitors' Book, The    Hebridean Visitors' Book, The
ISBN:9781841584614
Category: Stationery
Author: Mairi Hedderwick
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: HB
Price: £11.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Features beautiful, full-colour paintings by Mairi Hedderwick. New addition to the successful range of Hebridean diaries and address books.

    
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Hebrideans, The    Hebrideans, The
ISBN:9781841583648
Category: Photography
Author: Gus Wylie
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Format: HB
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Gus Wylie’s association with the Hebrides as photographer goes back thirty years and has been a significant force in the shaping and development of his creative output.

        
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Hell and High Water    Hell and High Water
ISBN:9781841586229
Category: Conservation, Politics And Economics
Author: Alastair McIntosh
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:
After Alastair McIntosh’s success with Soil and Soul which sold more than 10,000 copies, Birlinn Limited is pleased to introduce a major new work which critically examines climate change citing Scotland’s ecosystem as a microcosm for wider global effects.

                


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Herself and Janet Reachfar    Herself and Janet Reachfar
ISBN:9781841582092
Category: Children's Fiction, Children's
Author: Jane Duncan
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Jane Duncan’s stories of a little girl called Janet and her life on ’Reachfar’ farm are evocatively illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick and have become children’s classics.

    
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Hidden Glasgow    Hidden Glasgow
ISBN:9781841587202
Category: Local History, History
Author: Carol Foreman
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:
From the golden merchant ship on top of the Merchant’s House, through the abandoned Britannia Panopticon Music Hall on Argyle Street, from the schoolroom in the attic of Trades House to the Lock Hospital for ’dangerous women’, this book takes us through the city of Glasgow.

 

 

        


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Hidden Scotland    Hidden Scotland
ISBN:9781841583488
Category: Scotland
Author: Ann Lindsay
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Hidden Scotland is an indispensable guide to those keen to explore the more alternative histories and destinations on Scotland’s tourist trail.


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Highland Bagpipe and its Music, The    Highland Bagpipe and its Music, The
ISBN:9781841586663
Category: Scottish Culture, Music
Author: Roderick Cannon
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The only comprehensive book of piping in print, Roderick Cannon provides a great wealth of information for those lovers of the pipes.


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Highland Clan MacNeacail (MacNicol), The    Highland Clan MacNeacail (MacNicol), The
ISBN:9781899272020
Category: Scottish History
Author: W. David H. Sellar and Alasdair Maclean
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £12.95
Stock Status: not in stock

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Synopsis:

An entirely new account of the history of one of the oldest Hebridean clans from its origins in a remote Scandinavian past until its dispersal around the globe in modern times.


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Highland Clearances, The    Highland Clearances, The
ISBN:9781841585420
Category: Scottish History, History
Author: Eric Richards
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the first fully documented study for many years of one of Scotland’s most emotive subjects.

                            
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Highland Folk Ways    Highland Folk Ways
ISBN:9781874744429
Category: Scottish Culture, Folklore
Author: Isabel F. Grant
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Format: PB
Price: £12.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Highland Folk Ways vividly describes the many aspects and artefacts of our ancestors’ lives - the clothes, cooking utensils, weapons, food and the implements for fishing, farming and building are all meticulously depicted and placed in historical context.


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Highland Lady in Dublin 1851-1856, The    Highland Lady in Dublin 1851-1856, The
ISBN:9781841584089
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: (Editors) Patricia Pelly and Andrew Tod
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the penultimate volume of Elizabeth Grant's vivid memoirs and diaries.


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Historic South Edinburgh    Historic South Edinburgh
ISBN:9780859765404
Category: Scotland
Author: Charles J Smith
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Format: HB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the story – spanning eight centuries – of the growth of the South Side of Edinburgh, from the Grange to Craiglockhart, from Bruntsfield to Swanston, with a special emphasis on Morningside.

    
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Holyrood and Canongate    Holyrood and Canongate
ISBN:9781841584041
Category: Scotland, Local History
Author: Patricia Dennison
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the first book to trace the complete history of the Abbey of Holyrood and its burgh of Canongate from prehistoric times to the present day.


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Horseman's Word, The    Horseman's Word, The
ISBN:9781841580944
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Timothy Neat
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £14.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The Horseman’s Word presents a fascinating group of twelve Scottish horsemen, blacksmiths and rural workers from Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Argyll, Perthshire, Fife and the Scottish Borders. They are the stories of men whose lives have helped shape a nation.


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Horsieman, The    Horsieman, The
ISBN:9781841586922
Category: Folklore, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Duncan Williamson
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.


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House of Elrig, The    House of Elrig, The
ISBN:9781841582580
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Gavin Maxwell
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the personal story of Gavin Maxwell's boyhood, most of which he spent, in fact or in fancy, at the House of Elrig, a lonely, windswept house on the moorlands of Galloway.


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House of Lyall, The    House of Lyall, The
ISBN:9781841584720
Category: Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Doris Davidson is one of Scotland’s best-loved romantic novelists.

    
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Hunt for Rob Roy, The    Hunt for Rob Roy, The
ISBN:9781841584836
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: David Stevenson
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The Hunt for Rob Roy investigates new and controversial sources that shake modern conceptions of a well-marked man.

    
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Hunting Grounds    Hunting Grounds
ISBN:9781841587356
Category: Sport
Author: Gary Sutherland
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:

Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, Gary Sutherland visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing and the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon.


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Hunting Grounds    Hunting Grounds
ISBN:9781841585864
Category: Sport
Author: Gary Sutherland
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, Gary Sutherland visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing and the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon. 


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Alistair Moffat
DIARY EVENTS
02/06/08 13:00
Alistair Moffat talks about recent books
Alistair Moffat talks about recent books
 

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