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Living With The Laird: A Love Affair With A Man And His Mansion
Belinda Rathbone - Paperback - Harper Perennial
'Living With The Laird' is the story of Belinda Rathbone, an austere 39-year-old New York art historian who meets John Ouchterlony, an eccentric 53-year-old Anglo-Scot bachelor who just happens to have recently inherited the family seat (The Guynd) near Arbroath, Angus.
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A Lie About My Father
John Burnside - Paperback - Vintage
This book presents a story about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made & how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. The author's honesty, thinking & images of beauty & fracture combine to create a moving memoir of two lost men: a father & his child.
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The Last Of The Tinsmiths: The Life Of Willie MacPhee
Sheila Douglas - Paperback - Birlinn
If you keep your eyes and ears open in the Scottish countryside, you can catch a glimpse of an aboriginal people, known as the luchd siubhail, literally, the travelling people. Willie MacPhee owned very little and never lived in a house, but he was rich in traditional music, song and piping. This title collects his songs and stories.
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Listen To The Trees
Don MacCaskill - Hardback - Whittles
This is a new, enhanced hardback edition of the evocative story of Don MacCaskill's life, complemented by 60 additional photographs and specially commissioned drawings.
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A Life At The Centre
Roy Jenkins - Paperback - Politico's
Roy Jenkins led a life of variety and drama, from enigma ciphers in the war, to the chancellorship of Oxford and the exchequer, as well as putting a liberalising stamp on the 1960s as a reforming home secretary. This work offers the story of a man who combined a social and literary milieu with a political panache.
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Let Sleeping Vets Lie
James Herriot - Paperback - Pan
Full of hilarious tales of his unpredictable boss Siegfried Farnon, his charming student brother Tristan, the joys of spring lambing, a vicious cat called Boris and James' jinxed courtship of the lovely Helen, this third volume of memoirs is sure to delight old and new James Herriot fans.
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A Lie About My Father
John Burnside - Hardback - Jonathan Cape
This book presents a story about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made & how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father. The author's honesty, thinking & images of beauty & fracture combine to create a moving memoir of two lost men: a father & his child.
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The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million-Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall
Richard DiLello - Paperback - Canongate
This volume is not only fast-paced and funny but also manages to be immensely poignant about the demise of the Fab Four and the death of the sixties' dream.
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The Lone Brit On 13: A Prisoner's Hell In Spain's Toughest Jail
Christopher Chance - Paperback - Mainstream
'The Lone Brit on 13' is the account of an adrenalin-addicted Englishman single-handedly defeating intimidation, racism and potential drug addiction in the bleak surroundings of a Spanish jail.
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Lovers And Other Strangers: Paintings By Jack Vettriano
- Paperback - Pavilion
Published to coincide with a new exhibition in September 2000, this book showcases over 100 paintings from renowned Scottish artist Jack Vettriano. The paintings are accompanied by a biographical review of the artist's life and achievements.