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Highways and Byways in Mull and Iona (Guides to Western Scotland)

1 review
P.A. Macnab

Luath Press Ltd, 1988

Mull & iona highways and byways review
If you are the type of traveler who likes to park your car or bike alongside the road and get off the beaten path, this book is for you. Particularly for the Isle of Mull, it is a very detailed source of local monuments, nature trails, hidden sites, small village location and information, and some local history. It also includes information for the main tourist destinations. The book includes ...

The Road Dance

1 review
John Mackay

Luath Press Ltd, 2004

The Road Dance
This is by far the best, emotionally haunting book I have ever read! It's a sad story, and not for the faint-hearted, but it's a well-written, powerful story. For a first novel from a debut author, it's absolutely fantastic. The poetic quality to the prose language John MacKay uses in his strong narrative voice is a joy to read! If you like to read stories that are based on true-life ...

Reportage Scotland: History in the Making

1 review

Luath Press Ltd, 2000

History : my god, it CAN be interesting
This book takes a different approach to others I have read on the same topic : it lets people who were there tell the story - whether it's about Elvis on his one and only stop-over in Scotland, or the testimony of tortured witches telling of their dealings with satan in 16th century courthouses. All of the raw materials come from what must be a frighteningly diverse manuscript collection at ...

Lewis and Harris

2 reviews
Francis Thompson

Luath Press Ltd, 2002

a beautiful book on Lewis and Harris Scotland
Lewis-Harris, two isles in one...lol, one of the most beautiful, breathtaking places on earth. The vivid extremes of colours and landscapes just boggles the mind. Frankly, I did not think a slim book could really portray the soul inspiring beautiful so well, but Francis Thompson's Lewis & Harris does just that. From the white sands, to the turquoise waters, the green rolling lands, to the ...

100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems

Luath Press Ltd, 2008

This work features a vibrant selection of the best Scottish love poems, with each poet limited to one poem with the exception of Burns himself, that spans centuries and feelings of affection and desire. Through these poems many different kinds of love are explored whether it is sexual, passionate, romantic, or parental. In "100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems" traditional Scottish verse mixes with great literature as "Bonny Barbara Allan" and ...

'Nothing But Heather!': Scottish Nature in Poems, Photographs and Prose

1 review
Gerry Cambridge

Luath Press Ltd, 2008

Nothing but Fantastic!
Gerry Cambridge knows Scotland intimately -- every nook and cranny, it would seem. His photographs of flora and fauna are lovingly taken, and reveal an intimacy with the subject. Whether the scales of a moth's wing, the tiny but fierce face of a wolf spider, or the simple beauty of fallen maple leaves, Cambridge's photos capture the coutryside of Scotland. Not to be outdone is his verse, which ...

Eye for an Eye

1 review
Frank Muir

Luath Press Ltd, 2008

Eye for an Eye by Frank Muir
This new author does a great job of capturing the wonderful mix of very real charactors and gritty living in the golf famous town of St Andrews on the bitter cold east of Scotland. Its an exciting story ,as a dispirted but clever police detective trys to make sense out of a serial killer in their midst at the same time dealing with the guilt and remorse of losing his wife to another , then ...

The Fundamentals of New Caledonia

2 reviews
David Nicol

Luath Press Ltd, 2003

Seth Franzmann is a phoney reviewer
Seth Franzmann has written a review of `The Fundamentals of New Caledonia,' where he says my novel is about the Polynesian island of New Caledonia. In fact my novel is about a seventeenth century Scottish colony in Central America. Evidently Seth Franzman has not read this novel. David Nicol - author of `The Fundamentals of New Caledonia.' Here are some real reviews and comments on THE ...

100 Favourite Poems of the Day (100 Favourite)

Luath Press Ltd, 2007

But n Ben a-go-go

2 reviews
Matthew Fitt

Luath Press Ltd, 2000

Excellent Book
Hard edged and great fun! The language may be a little daunting for someone who is completely unfamiliar with Scots, but it's well worth the little extra effort required. Mostly the story will just propel you forward. This should be especially true for sci-fi fans accustomed to fiction that stretches their normal bounds of language. Nevertheless if you're unsure, you can always add a Scots ...

Bard Fae Thi Buildin Site
Mark Thomson

Luath Press Ltd, 2007

This poetry collection introduces a new and powerful voice championing Scotland's most belittled city, suffused with fierce pride in its native Dundee. Written in the Dundonian dialect, Thomson's work displays passion for his town, his country, his mother tongue and, most of all, for his people.

Between Ourselves
Donald Smith

Luath Press Ltd, 2009

The six months that Robert Burns spent in Edinburgh, between the Aryshire years and the short-lived maturity in Dumfries, were an intense time in the life of a poet who became a Scottish hero. Burns is an icon, but he is a flawed one. The great bard was fond of drink, women and over familiar with Edinburgh's underworld. He was often conflicted with crippling self-doubt about his talents and bitter about his place in society. During the short ...

Agenda for a New Scotland: Visions of Scotland 2020

Luath Press Ltd, 2005

Beacon on the Shore
Mary Withall

Luath Press Ltd, 2009

New faces and old friends return to Eisdalsa. Elizabeth Duncan, new assistant teacher at the Eisdalsa school, arrives with a crash on board the Lord of the Lorn. Dr David Beaton returns to face old demons just as newly appointed quarry engineer, William Whylie, and the handsome First Officer Gordon McIntyre start their lives on the island. All three men fall for Elizabeth, but faced with village gossips and a bullying colleague she can only ...

Accent O the Mind
Rab Wilson

Luath Press Ltd, 2007

?His set of 15 interlinked sonnets, Cormilligan, about a late example of the Clearances in the south-west, has rightly been seen as a tour de force, combining, as it does, acute humanity and sense of landscape with technical virtuosity. ?Somewhaur in the Daurk?, his series of sonnets inspired by the Miners? Strike of 1984-1985, gives the participants and their womenfolk a voice and a dignity that demand sympathy, regardless of political ...

100 Favourite Scottish Poems

Luath Press Ltd, 2006

The Berlusconi Bonus
Allan Cameron

Luath Press Ltd, 2005

'The Berlusconi Bonus satirises' almost every aspect of our modern political world, from Blair's 'New Labour' Thatcherism and Berlusconi's strong-arming of his country's constitution to Francis Fukuyama's assertion that perfection has been achieved and history is at an end.

The Blockade Runners
Jules Verne

Luath Press Ltd, 2008

Jules Verne is the author of many classic, world-famous novels such as "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". In this brand-new translation of "The Blockade Runners", Verne moves seamlessly between Scotland and the southern states of the US during the American Civil War. With the southern harbours effectively sealed by the North, Scottish industrialist James Playfair must run a daring Federalist blockade of a ...

Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland
Alexander Moffat, Alan Riach

Luath Press Ltd, 2008

"Arts of Resistance" is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda MacDonald-Lewis, artist Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach, discuss cultural, political and artistic movements, the role of the artist in society and the effect of environment, both physical and cultural, on artists from all disciplines. "Arts of ...

100 Favourite Scottish Poems to Read Out Loud (100 Favourite) (100 Favourite)

Luath Press Ltd, 2007

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