Fiction, Poetry and Drama from Ayrshire

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  Annals Of The Parish John Galt
  The three books in this anthology made John Galt's reputation as a serious writer. These novels reflect the changing industrial and social life of Scotland in the early nineteenth century through sharp observation of Ayrshire village life.
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  A Certain Freedom Evelyn Hood
  After the death of his wife, Hamilton Forsyth scandalises the small Ayrshire town of Saltcoats by departing for pastures unknown. His three adult children are left reeling with shock and with the family ironmongery shop to run.
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  The House With The Green Shutters 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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  Our Fathers Andrew O'Hagan
  Andrew O'Hagan's debut novel addresses the collision of the old Scotland of municipal socialism with the new, as perceived by a grandfather who was an ambitious, but misguided social improver.
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  Personality Andrew O'Hagan
  From the author of 'Our Fathers' comes an astonishing, compelling and heartbreaking story of childhood fame and small town dreams.
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  Wax Fruit Guy McCrone
  The Wax Fruit Trilogy brings together Guy McCrone's three classic novels which chronicle the life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to prosperity in Victorian Glasgow.

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  Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems Matthew Fitt
  Read and recited at Burns Suppers all over the world, Kate o Shanter's Tale is a classic of modern Scots poetry. Complemented by more rants and whigmaleeries by Scots writer Matthew Fitt, this vibrant first collection engages as much as it entertains.
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  King Of The Fields Stuart Paterson
  Matt, barely alive collapses in the yard of his old home, he has returned from his life on the road, haunted by his experience of the trenches, and enters into a remorseless life or death struggle with his brother, Rab.
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  Madame Fifi's Farewell And Other Poems Gerry Cambridge
  This poetry collection features an introduction by Professor Hamish MacAmbrose of the University of Springside, and includes many poems that have won competitions as well as work that has not previously been published.
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  Robert Burns Robert Burns
  Robert Burns (1759-96), was the eldest son of a tenant farmer in Ayrshire. He endured hardship and frustration before emerging as poet and song writer in his native dialect as well as English. This is a collection of the best of Burns's poems.
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  Robert Burns: Poems Robert Burns
  In this series, a contemporary poet selects & introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems & by the personal & critical reactions they express in their prefaces the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible & passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in literature.