BooksfromScotland.com Online Price
-
Death Of A Sweep
£6.79
- Paperback - C & R Crime
Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish Highlands, until one day when Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace, and a body stuffed inside the chimney. The town of Lochdubh is sure Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that he is capable of committing murder. -
Death Of A Witch
£6.79
- Paperback - C & R Crime
Returning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the villagers have decided she is a witch. -
Denis Law: King And Country
£15.29
- Hardback - Arena Sport
Denis Law is undoubtedly Scottish football's favourite son. He is joint top record scorer for his country with an impressive strike rate of 30 goals in 52 games and scored in the famous 3-2 win over world champions England at Wembley in 1967. As well as his prolific strike rate, he was also part of the Scotland team that won their way through to the 1974 World Cup Finals in West Germany - the first time the Scots had reached the finals in 16 years. In this portrait of Denis Law, Alex Gordon interviews a vast array of former teammates, including Willie Henderson and Davie Hay, and opponents such as George Best and Bobby Charlton. - The Devil Of Clan Sinclair
£5.94
- Paperback - Avon
Virginia Traylor, Countess of Barrett, is in dire straights. Lawrence Traylor's death left his family in a desperate situation. He'd spent his wife's fortune on property that became entailed, passing to his cousin. If Virginia could have an heir before the allotted time was up, the title would remain in the family, but more important they'd have the income from the farms belonging to the estate. Only one problem: Lawrence had never wanted to bed his wife. Who would play surrogate husband? -
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
£6.79
- Paperback - Sphere
Sophie Chesterton has been living the high life of glamorous parties, men and new clothes, never thinking about tomorrow. But after one shocking evening, she comes back down to Earth with the cruellest of bumps. Facing up to life in the real world for the first time, Sophie must now work her way back up. -
Disassembly Required: A Field Guide To Actually Existing Capitalism
£8.46
- Paperback - AK Press
To imagine how we might change capitalism, we first need to understand it. To succeed in actually changing it, we need to be able to explain how it works and convince others that change is both possible and necessary. 'Disassembly Required' is an attemp to meet those challenges, and to offer clear, accessible alternatives to the status quo of everyday capitalism. -
Engine Of Destruction: The 51st (Highland) Division In The Great War
£21.25
- Hardback - Argyll
So great was the reputation of Scottish combat troops in the trench warfare of World War I that an unnamed commentator told Haldane that 'the two most terrible engines of destruction ever made by man with the 51st and 15th Divisions, both Scottish'. Here, Colin Campbell assesses the reputation of the elite 51st Division, which alleged that German soldiers feared it more than any other British or Empire division. -
Flesh Wounds
£11.89
- Paperback - Little, Brown and Company
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him. -
Flesh Wounds
£15.29
- Hardback - Little, Brown and Company
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him. - Frissure: Prose Poems And Artworks
£12.75
- Hardback - Polygon
'Frissure' is an exquisite collection of prose-poems and illustrative work exploring healing, mortality, intimacy, memory and the natural world. It is about the intimate process of looking and seeing as it passes from one person - a cancer patient - looking at herself, from being 'examined' by a surgeon, to being looked at by an artist. In each situation a transformation occurs. The gaze of the patient on her on body and its post-operative scarring is objectified by that of the surgeon assessing the success of his work.
Ordering and View
Last modified Friday 13 May 2011
