Essays, Journals, Letters & Other Prose Works
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£9.99Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary Of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945 - - Paperback
Naomi Mitchison kept a record of her wartime experiences in the Kintyre fishing village of Carradale. Her account is crowded with incident, and contains her thoughts on the politics of war and her life as a working farmer's wife. -
£13.95Anarchism, Marxism And The Future Of The Left: Interviews And Essays, 1993-1998 - - Paperback
This volume presents a series of interviews with, and essays from, the founder of social ecology. The collection ranges over, amongst others, Murray Bookchin's account of his teenage years as a young Communist and his experience of the 1960s. -
£12.99Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - - Paperback
These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time. -
£25.00Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - - Hardback
These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time. -
£12.99The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology Of The World's Greatest Diarists - Paperback
This is an anthology of some of the world's greatests diarists, including 170 wide-ranging, international contributions. It pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. -
£40.00The Collected Letters Of James Hogg - - Paperback
James Hogg was a prolific writer of letters, and this compilation features his correspondence with the likes of Scott, Byron and Southey. It also includes some of the tender, if idiosyncratic, love letters he wrote to the Dumfriesshire girl he married at the mature age of 49 years old. -
£12.99Cradle Of The Scots: An Argyll Anthology - Paperback
Celebrating the rich literary tradition of Argyll, this anthology includes Adomnan from the 7th century, Neil Munro, Naomi Mitchison, Robin Jenkins, and excerpts from the Carmina Gadelica. Fiction, prose and poetry are all represented. -
£14.99Cruise Of The Betsey, Or, A Summer Ramble Among The Fossiliferous Deposits Of The Hebrides - - Paperback
Hugh Miller was a Scot who helped to transform geology from an unchristian science into a favourite Victorian pastime. Cruise of the Betsey is a collection of Miller's 1857 notes recording his rambles around Scotland. -
£8.99Doing His Bit: A Shetland Soldier In The Great War - - Paperback
Between January and August 1920, The Shetland Times reporter Robert M. Greig wrote a series of articles on his experiences on the Western Front in the First World War. Gathered together for the first time these notes give a startling insight. -
£30.00Duthchas Nan Gaidheal: Collected Essays Of John MacInnes - - Hardback
Described by the Rev. William Matheson as the 'the last of the native scholars', Dr John MacInnes is the foremost living authority on the oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands.