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Add to BasketCrappit Heids For Tea: Recollections Of A Highland Keeper's Daughter
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
A charming and rare memoir of estate life in Sutherland during the early part of the 20th century. One of the first keepers at Shinness Esate was John Fraser. In the 1970s, his daughter Iby wrote down some of her recollections for the interest of the Fletcher family, who acquired the estate in 1941. -
The Christian Watt Papers
£7.64
- Paperback - Birlinn
At the age of 47, Christian Watt began to write down her recollections of her life. She continued until her death at the age of 90 in 1923. Her writing is fuelled by her sense of family pride, her anger at social injustice, her hatred of war and her profound religious faith. Her courage and compassion are everywhere evident. -
Add to BasketThe Caithness Influence: Diverse Lives Of Distinction
£16.99
- Paperback - Whittles
This is a celebration of the outstanding achievements made by people from Caithness. It reveals a treasure-trove of biographical accounts. -
Add to BasketChristie Of Zanzibar: Medical Pathfinder
£12.74
- Paperback - Argyll
Edna Robertson has written a powerful biography of a 19th century medical pioneer. Using family papers including James Christie's letters to his brother Andrew in Kilmarnock and other sources, she does not shirk from the realities of Zanzibar before public sanitation nor from the horrors of the slave trade. -
Add to BasketCocoa And Crabs / Còco is Crùbagan: A Hebridean Childhood
£15.00
- Pbk. + CD - Islands Book Trust
An evocative account in Gaelic and English of Flora MacDonald;s idyllic childhood memories of growing up in a remote and long-deserted part of eastern Benbecula in the 1940s and 50s. -
Add to BasketCourage: Eight Portraits
£7.64
- Paperback - Bloomsbury
Examining the lives of people who have shown great physical and moral courage, including Nelson Mandela, Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Edith Cavell, this book reveals the common threads that emerge amongst those who show the greatest courage, but also some surprising differences. -
Add to BasketChristy Brown: The Life That Inspired My Left Foot
£15.99
- Hardback - Mainstream
Christy Brown was severely disabled by cerebral palsy from birth and unable to use any part of his body apart from his left foot. Doctors said he was a mental defective and that he would never be able to lead any kind of normal life; Christy proved them wrong. This is the first authorised biography of Christy Brown. -
Add to BasketCrime, Cash, Credit And Chaos: A Brief History Of The Life And Work Of John Law (1671-1729), The Father Of Credit Systems
£6.79
- Paperback - SOLCOL
Earnest, mathematically gifted, diligent and with noticeable appearance, John Law continues to hold fascination for biographers, economists and historians. Colin McCall examines the events and circumstances that became his dramatic and tragic life and provides insights into his pioneering role in the development of credit systems. -
Add to BasketClap Hands For The Singing Molecatcher: Scenes From A Scottish Childhood
£6.79
- Paperback - Birlinn
'Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher' presents an account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place where isolated hill farms, limitless moorland and the rock-strewn banks of wild, tumbling rivers became the backdrop for a variety of adventures and experiences. -
Add to BasketCrimelord: The Licensee
£6.79
- Paperback - Mainstream
Caught up in Glasgow's notorious 'ice cream wars' of the early 1980s, Tam McGraw was the leader of the Barlanark Team, a gang of robbers who caused havoc in central Scotland over a period of some 15 years. Told through friends, fellow crooks and occasional rivals, this is a true gangster story.
