Winning Scottish Bookshelf
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1982, Janine - Paperback - Alasdair Gray
A book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries and an exploration of the politics of pornography. A portrait of male need and inadequacy as explored via the lonely sexual fantasies of Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman.
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Black & Blue - Paperback - Ian Rankin
Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big.
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£6.99
Blood - Paperback - Janice Galloway
The Trick is to Keep Breathing, the first novel from Ayrshire-born Janice Galloway, won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel prize.
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Buddha Da - Paperback - Anne Donovan
Anne Marie's Da has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Centre, no one takes him seriously. As he becomes more involved his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife.
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Electric Brae: A Modern Romance - Paperback - Andrew Greig
Electric Brae deals with passionate love, obsession, loyalty and betrayal. It is about Scotland now and then, whisky and cocaine, rhythm and blues, friends and lovers. Like the Electric Brae itself, it quietly subverts our assumptions.
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The Gowk Storm - Paperback - N. Brysson Morrison
A gowk storm is an untimely fall of snow in early spring - a fitting symbol for the anguished story that unfolds. Three young women are brought up in the the rigid and patriarchal setting of a remote Highland manse.
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The House With The Green Shutters - Paperback - George Douglas Brown
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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How Late It Was, How Late - Paperback - James Kelman
Award-winning author Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late has been reissued. He renders the hidden depths of ordinary lives in sardonic, abrasive prose which, although gritty and realistic, is uplifting and positive.
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Kidnapped - Paperback - Robert Louis Stevenson
'Kidnapped' is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. David Balfour sets off to find his last remaining relatives, but is tricked into boarding a ship, and finds himself bound for slavery in Carolina.
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King O The Midden: Manky Mingin Rhymes In Scots - Paperback
If you don't like to read about things that are rude, scunnersome, surreal, bizarre or just plain daft then this collection of Scots poetry is not for you. On the other hand this collection cannot be bettered if you love the versatility and wonderful humour of the Scots language.
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The Master Of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale - Paperback - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae opens in the old Scottish house of Durisdeer. Its adventure draws in sea voyages, piracy, buried treasure and centres on the fatal rivalry between two brothers and the kinswoman who loves one brother but marries the other.
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Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains - Paperback - A. L. Kennedy
The heroes and heroines of this, A.L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder the mysteries of sex and death - and the ability of public transport to affect our lives.
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Not Not While The Giro - Paperback - James Kelman
'Not Not While the Giro' is James Kelman's first major collection of short stories - originally published in 1983. It follows the lives of young men, social misfits, whose lives are spent waiting - waiting for their next giro or menial job - in the pub, the dole office, the snooker hall and the greyhound track.
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£9.99
Scotlands Of The Mind - Paperback - Angus Calder
This is a collection of essays exploring the Scottish psyche through a range of historical, literary and cultural interests that have shaped the Scotland of today. The text concludes with an evaluation of Scots language and literature.
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Scottish Journey - Paperback - Edwin Muir
This is a perceptive and beautifully written account of one of Scotland's greatest modern writers of prose and poetry. Muir's journey took him from Edinburgh to the Lowlands, Glasgow and the Highlands.
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Trainspotting - Paperback - Irvine Welsh
The story of Edinburgh heroin addicts which changed the face of British fiction.
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