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Jack Webster's Aberdeen    Jack Webster's Aberdeen
ISBN:9781841584782
Category: Local History
Author: Jack Webster
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
This thoroughly readable book highlights the people who have left their mark on Aberdeen, from Robert the Bruce to Willie Miller, from Isaac Benzie and Raggie Morrison to Cocky Hunter and Ma Cameron. It brings fascinating tales of war and peace and covers everything from school and university to the history of sport, cinema and theatre, stretching from Lille Langtry to Harry Gordon and Scotland the What?

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Jam and Jeopardy    Jam and Jeopardy
ISBN:9781841584652
Category: Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is a 'whodunnit' in the classic style of Agatha Chrisite.


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Jam with Lamb    Jam with Lamb
ISBN:9781841585604
Category: Food And Drink, West Country
Author: Richard Guest
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

In Jam with Lamb, Richard Guest, of the Castle Hotel, Somerset, offers a huge range of mouth-watering recipes based on the very best of locally farmed produce and products, as well as ingredients which can be found in the wild throughout Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

    
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James IV    James IV
ISBN:9780862416553
Category: Kings and Queens, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Douglas MacKenzie
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Fully illustrated throughout, the Merlin series is designed to provide introductions to key periods of Scottish history.


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Janet Reachfar and Chickabird    Janet Reachfar and Chickabird
ISBN:9781841582085
Category: Children's Fiction, Children's
Author: Jane Duncan
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

The third of Jane Duncan’s stories about a little girl growing up on a remote Highland farm with her dog, Fly, her sometimes fierce grandmother, Herself, and her special friends, the farmhands, George and Tom.

    
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Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie    Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie
ISBN:9781841582108
Category: Children's Fiction, Children's
Author: Jane Duncan
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A haunting story from Jane Duncan’s series about a little girl called Janet, illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick.

    
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Jessie's Journey    Jessie's Journey
ISBN:9781841587028
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jess Smith
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:
A Scottish bestseller since its first publication, this humorous and poignant biography has a wide and modern appeal bringing to us the forgotten and naive ways of the travelling family.

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Jimmy Swan    Jimmy Swan
ISBN:9781841582030
Category: Short Stories
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveller, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist.


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John Kay's Original Portraits    John Kay's Original Portraits
ISBN:9781841586571
Category: Limited Editions
Author: John Kay
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Format: HB
Price: £200.00
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Limited Edition reproduction of John Kay’s unforgettable images of Edinburgh characters.

        
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John Knox    John Knox
ISBN:9781841587219
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rosalind K. Marshall
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

Another compelling autobiography by Dr Marshall. John Knox is stripped bare in this revealing book, removing all myth surrounding a determined and peculiar man.


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John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832    John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832
ISBN:9781841586878
Category: Limited Editions
Author: John Thomson
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Format: HB
Price: £150.00
Stock Status: not yet published

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Synopsis:
This high-quality limited edition is a reproduction of the first large-scale atlas of Scotland organised by county. It provides an invaluable and accurate picture of Scotland prior to the Clearances and is also a highly significant milestone in the history of mapping.

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Jungle is Neutral, The    Jungle is Neutral, The
ISBN:9781843410294
Category: Military History
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

A world famous story of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in Malaya.



    
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Jura    Jura
ISBN:9781841582269
Category: Scotland
Author: Peter Youngson
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

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Synopsis:

This is the first major book to be written about one of the largest of the Inner Hebridean islands.


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