Poetry, Drama, Criticism

New for March

  • The Blue Hen: A Play

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    Des Dillon
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    The closing down of the steelworks meant the end of being in work - but John and his pal don't intend it to be the end. 'Keep hens! That's the answer'. Originally published as a novella, this has now been scripted as a play.

  • The Book That Changed My Life

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    'The Book That Changed My Life' is a collection of the best of the stories submitted by people from all over Scotland as part of a project run by Scottish Book Trust. These stories are of the impact and influence that certain books have had on people's lives.

  • A Companion To Medieval Scottish Poetry

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    A survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages, this work includes introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and its historical context and separate studies of the writings of James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and others.

  • Dancing With Big Eunice: Missives From The Front Line Of A Fractured Society

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    Alistair Findlay
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    Alistair Findlay's lateset compilation of poems about social work and social workers shows the reader the world they are living in, a world often shaped by poverty. Not much has been written about the stories that fill the lives of social workers and Findlay offers sad, sometimes absurd, insights.

  • Fleeto

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    Paddy Cunneen
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    'Fleeto' is the story of a modern day Glasgow street stabbing, in which a white student is killed by a rampaging white gang while trying to defend an Asian friend from their indiscriminate, vengeful rage.

  • London Journal 1762-1763

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    James Boswell
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    Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at 22, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank & artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actress to his first meeting with Samuel Johnson.