Essays & Journals
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£9.99Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary Of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945 - - Paperback
Naomi Mitchison kept a record of her wartime experiences in the Kintyre fishing village of Carradale. Her account is crowded with incident, and contains her thoughts on the politics of war and her life as a working farmer's wife. -
£13.95Anarchism, Marxism And The Future Of The Left: Interviews And Essays, 1993-1998 - - Paperback
This volume presents a series of interviews with, and essays from, the founder of social ecology. The collection ranges over, amongst others, Murray Bookchin's account of his teenage years as a young Communist and his experience of the 1960s. -
£30.00Annals Of The Five Senses And Other Stories, Sketches And Plays - - Hardback
This is a collection of psychological studies. Some of the studies in this book are based upon the author's own life, and others explore both male and female viewpoints. The text also includes short stories, short plays, and a ballet scenario. -
£12.99Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - - Paperback
These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time. -
£25.00Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters - - Hardback
These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time. -
£12.99The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology Of The World's Greatest Diarists - Paperback
This is an anthology of some of the world's greatests diarists, including 170 wide-ranging, international contributions. It pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. -
£20.00Bamboo: Non-Fiction, 1978-2004 - - Hardback
This collection of non-fiction gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at boarding school and the profession of novelist. -
£9.99Bamboo: Non-Fiction, 1978-2004 - - Paperback
This collection of non-fiction gathers together Boyd's writing on literature, art, the movie business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at boarding school and the profession of novelist. -
£9.99The Black Halo: The Complete English Short Stories, 1977-98 - - Paperback
Although best known as one of Scotland's greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also a prolific writer of short stories. These pieces form a central part of his oeuvre, demonstrating the range and versatility of his literary talent. -
£14.99Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786 - - Paperback
James Boswell's Edinburgh diaries provide a vivid picture of the high and low life of the Scottish capital. Although Boswell was a friend of the philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith, he also mixed with the criminal classes, was a prodigious drinker and frequented the city's brothels.
