Classic Fiction

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  Whisky Galore - Sir Compton Mackenzie - Book with sound disc
  It is 1943, and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean Islands. It looks like the end of the world when the whisky is about to run out, and the locals are about to despair when a ship with a cargo of whisky is wrecked.
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  Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardback
  Originally designed as a story for boys, but with great appeal for adult readers, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by Long John Silver.
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  The House With The Green Shutters - George Douglas Brown - Paperback
  This novel lays bare the seductive and crippling presence of patriarchal authority in Scottish culture at large, symbolised by the terrible struggle between old John Gourlay and his weak but imaginative son.
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  The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner - James Hogg - Paperback
  Set in early 18th century Scotland, this novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. Could this stranger be a figment of the imagination, or the devil himself?
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  The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - Book with sound disc
  This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
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  Sick Heart River - John Buchan - Paperback
  Given a year to live, lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen fears he will die unfulfilled and disillusioned. He resolves to devote his last energies to finding and restoring to health a young Canadian banker. This is John Buchan's last novel.
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  The Mystery Of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback
  When John Hunter West falls on hard times a relation offers him and his children a home on the western coast of Scotland. The family's new life is disturbed by the arrival of Major-General Heatherstone, leading to unexplained tragedy on the bleak moors.
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  Greenmantle - John Buchan - Paperback
  This classic adventure is set in war-torn Europe, and is the sequel to 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'. It shows John Buchan's mastery of the thriller and also his immense knowledge of world politics.
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  The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback
  Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister smiling countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and nine other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end.
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  The Misadventures Of John Nicholson - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paperback
  A semi-autobiographical work of prosperity and loss, 'The Misadventures of John Nicholson' moves between Edinburgh's darkest drinking establishments and the beguiling Californian sunshine.