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Raasay |
ISBN:9781841582351 Category: Scotland Author: Norma Macleod
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Format: HB
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Price: £12.99
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| Synopsis: Raasay forms part of the parish of Portree, Skye. This book is the only history of Raasay currently available, and traces the island’s story from the medieval period into the twentieth century.
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Raising the Dead |
ISBN:9781841586700 Category: History of Science, History Author: Andy Dougan
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: Raising the Dead looks at the sensational and compelling period of scientific research which may appear to us now to be a scientific curiosity like that of the fictional event of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein but actually made a significant difference to the lives we live today.
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Rat-Pit, The |
ISBN:9781841580043 Category: Autobiography/Biography Author: Patrick MacGill
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: Both a sequel and a parallel to Children of the Dead End, The Rat Pit tells the tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl Norah Ryan against poverty at the turn of the century.
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Recollections of East Fife Fisher Folk |
ISBN:9781841582818 Category: Scotland Author: Belle Patrick
Publication Date: Jan 2003
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: This book is a charming yet insightful memoir of a bygone way of life. From it emerges a detailed picture of fisherfolk and fishing: their boats, methods of fishing, life and customs. The result is a valuable and vivid record of what was a central part of Scotland’s fishing industry.
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Red Door, The |
ISBN:9781841581606 Category: Short Stories Author: Iain Crichton Smith
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: Although best known as one of Scotland’s greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. Here in one volume is a comprehensive collection demonstrating the versatility of Crichton Smith’s range.
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Red Rowans and Wild Honey |
ISBN:9781841580708 Category: Autobiography/Biography Author: Betsy Whyte
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £6.99
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| Synopsis: Betsy Whyte was a gifted, natural storyteller and this remarkable memoir brings to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet ’red rowans’ and ’wild honey’ - in a way that no work of the imagination can.
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Reivers, The |
ISBN:9781841585499 Category: British History, History Author: Alistair Moffat
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Format: HB
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Price: £16.99
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| Synopsis: Alistair Moffat presents to us the definitive book regarding a land and its people which once witnessed continuous and fierce sparring from both side of the Scottish-English divide.
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland |
ISBN:9780859765800 Category: History of Religion, Scottish History Author: David Stevenson
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: PB
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Price: £14.99
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| Synopsis: This volume continues the story begun in The Scottish Revolution of the Covenanters' sudden rise to power, but how their soaring ambitions and religious zeal in the end led Scotland to an unparalleled disaster.
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Road to Drumnafunner, The |
ISBN:9781841585062 Category: Local History Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The Road to Drumnafunner is a journey through the secret history and legends of North-east Scotland. Beginning at Drumnafunner Farm, where the Donald family lived and where the poet Charles Murray – ’Hamewith’ – walked over the moors to school, the road winds its way through many intriguing places, uncovering the stories and characters associated with them.
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Road to Glen Spean, The |
ISBN:9781841584348 Category: Autobiography/Biography Author: Christina Hall
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Format: PB
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Synopsis: This is the sequel to Christina Hall’s charming autobiographies about her youth, To the Edge of the Sea andTwice Around the Bay.
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Road to Maggieknockater, The |
ISBN:9781841583211 Category: Reference Author: Robert Smith
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: In this informative and fully illustrated book, well-known Aberdeen writer Bob Smith lets us see the North-east corner in a new and fascinating light.
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Rob Roy And All That |
ISBN:9781841585727 Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: PB
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Price: £2.99
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| Synopsis: Follow Rob’s quest through glens, dungeons and river rapids as his enemies close in for the kill . . . Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Robbie Shepherd’s Doric Columns |
ISBN:9781841585246 Category: Humour Author: Robbie Shepherd
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Format: PB
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Price: £6.99
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| Synopsis: For the first time, over fifty of Robbie Shepherd’s Press and Journal Doric columns have been brought together in one collection, with superb illustrations by Graham MacLennan.
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Robert Bruce |
ISBN:9781841584751 Category: Scottish History Author: Colm McNamee
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: The first popular biography for 40 years and an enthralling read. Colm McNamee is an expert on the Irish dimensions of the Wars of the Bruces.
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Robert Burns And All That |
ISBN:9781841585734 Category: Children's Non-Fiction, Children's Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Format: PB
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Price: £2.99
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| Synopsis: Join Burns’s quest to rescue a lost musical treasure - and get chased by ghouls as he explores the dark side of life. Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Robert the Bruce And All That |
ISBN:9781841584973 Category: Humour, Children's Non-Fiction, Scottish History Author: Allan Burnett
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Format: PB
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| Synopsis: A real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland’s warrior king. Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.
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Ross and Cromarty |
ISBN:9781874744481 Category: Local History Author: David Alston
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Format: PB
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Price: £7.99
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| Synopsis: The latest in a series of guides to historic sites and monuments in Scotland, providing comprehensive narrative, gazateers and maps.
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Rosslyn |
ISBN:9781841584706 Category: Scottish History Author: Andrew Sinclair
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Format: PB
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Price: £6.99
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| Synopsis: This book offers an enthralling trail through the rich tapestry of events witnessed by Rosslyn over the centuries. Andrew Sinclair, himself descended from Prince Henry St Clair.
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Rosslyn Chapel |
ISBN:9781841587240 Category: History of Religion, History Author: Angelo Maggi
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Format: HB
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Price: £25.00
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| Synopsis: A complete and comprehensive history of the ever mysterious yet famous Rosslyn Chapel.
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Rum |
ISBN:9781841581309 Category: Local History Author: John A Love
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Format: HB
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Price: £25.00
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| Synopsis: An extensive historical guide to Rum - one of Scotland's most well-known of the Hebridean Islands.
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Russian Civil War, The |
ISBN:9781843410416 Category: Military History, Military and Adventure Author: Evan Mawdsley
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Format: PB
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Price: £9.99
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| Synopsis: Evan Mawdsley's lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.
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