True Stories

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  Days Like This: A Portrait Of Scotland Through The Stories Of Its People - Paperback
  'Days Like This' is an anthology of selected true stories showcasing the ordinary genius of Scotland's people.
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  Isolation Shepherd - Iain R. Thomson - Paperback
  Iain Thomson has written a heartfelt testament to life as a shepherd in Strathmore in the Great Glen, before the flooding of the valley for a hydro-electric scheme forced him to abandon both the land and his way of life.
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  The White Cockade - Stuart McHardy - Paperback
  All across Scotland stories survive from the period when the Jacobites threatened to overturn the British Government and re-install the Stuart dynasty. Stuart McHardy has gathered the most famous and interesting of these tales together, creating a fascinating and varied picture of Jacobean life at the time.
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  Relative Stranger: A Life After Death - Mary Loudon - Hardback
  This is the story of Mary Loudon's search for her dead sister, whom she had not seen for the last 12 years of her life. It provides an explicit account of the devastation that schizophrenia can visit upon a person and their family.
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  Chasing The Sixpence: The Lives Of Bradford Mill Folk - Rachel Bellerby - Paperback
  Covering the period from 1920 to the 1970s, this work includes true-life stories of men and women who made their living in the Bradford mills.
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  From Dogfight To Diplomacy: A Spitfire Pilot's Log, 1932-1958 - A. R. D. MacDonell - Hardback
  This is a tale of human fortitude in a life shaped by a love of flying, military service, war, imprisonment, and diplomatic service.
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  Sea Like A Mirror: Reflections Of A Merchantman - Alan Jones - Paperback
  Encompassing the exotic and the mundane, this book records a life spent at sea, from junior cadet to captain, and some of the reflections which at lonely times in the ocean's vastness seem to have sprung from its depths.
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  Ferny Wood: The Story Of A Fallow Deer - Patricia Sibley - Paperback
  Every November Sibley went to the New Forest to observe the rut, an exciting time in the deer world, when the great roars echoed out over twilight. 'Ferny Wood' is a closely observed, detailed account of a deer's first three years of life and also a portrait of a forest in all its moods.
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  Pacific Senator: A Train Driver's Life - Marcel Péroche - Paperback
  Marcel Péroche writes a memoir of how he rose through the ranks of the French railway system to drive the majestic Pacific Class locomotives. These drivers were known in France as 'Les senateurs'.
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  Some Strange Scent Of Death - Angela J. Elliott - Paperback
  Set in the Outer Hebrides in the year 1900, this novel is based on a true story - that of the mysterious disappearance of the keepers of the Flannan Isles lighthouse.