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Jack Webster's Aberdeen    Jack Webster's Aberdeen
ISBN:9781841584782
Category: History, Local History
Author: Jack Webster
Publication Date: October 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:
This thoroughly readable book highlights the people who have left their mark on Aberdeen, from Robert the Bruce to Willie Miller, from Isaac Benzie and Raggie Morrison to Cocky Hunter and Ma Cameron. It brings fascinating tales of war and peace and covers everything from school and university to the history of sport, cinema and theatre, stretching from Lille Langtry to Harry Gordon and Scotland the What?

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Jacobite Estates of the '45    Jacobite Estates of the '45
ISBN:9781904607076
Category: Politics And Economics, Scottish History, History
Author: Annette M. Smith
Publication Date: November 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

A detailed study of the estates before, during and after the annexations following the defeat of the Jacobites in 1746, providing a wealth of material on the effects of government policy and actions during this period.


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Jacobitism and Tory Politics 1710-14    Jacobitism and Tory Politics 1710-14
ISBN:9781904607298
Category: Politics And Economics, Scottish History, History
Author: Daniel Szechi
Publication Date: December 2003
Format: PB
Price: £25.00
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Synopsis:

This book provides an insight into the nature of Jacobitism and of the Tory party, and furthers our understanding of the confused politics of these momentous years.


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Jam and Jeopardy    Jam and Jeopardy
ISBN:9781841584652
Category: Literature
Author: Doris Davidson
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:

This is a 'whodunnit' in the classic style of Agatha Chrisite.


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Jam with Lamb    Jam with Lamb
ISBN:9781841585604
Category: Food And Drink, West Country
Author: Richard Guest
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:

In Jam with Lamb, Richard Guest, of the Castle Hotel, Somerset, offers a huge range of mouth-watering recipes based on the very best of locally farmed produce and products, as well as ingredients which can be found in the wild throughout Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

    
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James Cumming    James Cumming
ISBN:9781873644362
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jack Firth
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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James III    James III
ISBN:9781904607878
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: Norman MacDougall
Publication Date: May 2009
Format: HB
Price: £30.00
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Synopsis: In this new study, the author explores the most enigmatic of the Stewart kings of Scotland.
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James IV    James IV
ISBN:9780859766630
Category: Kings and Queens, History, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Norman MacDougall
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis: An intriguing biography of one of Scotland’s most famous and greatest kings.
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James IV    James IV
ISBN:9780862416553
Category: Kings and Queens, Autobiography/Biography
Author: Douglas MacKenzie
Publication Date: March 2006
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis:

Fully illustrated throughout, the Merlin series is designed to provide introductions to key periods of Scottish history.


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James V    James V
ISBN:9781862320154
Category: Kings and Queens, History
Author: Jamie Cameron
Publication Date: March 1998
Format: HB
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis:

The first scholarly biography of the adult James V. This study concentrates on his style of governement and relations with his nobility, and challenging the widely-held view of a vindictive and irrational king motivated largely by greed, who antagonised most of his leading magnates and ultimately met his just deserts when they refused to support him in 1542.


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Janet Kennedy, Royal Mistress    Janet Kennedy, Royal Mistress
ISBN:9780859766784
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Ishbel Barnes
Publication Date: September 2007
Format: HB
Price: £14.99
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Synopsis:

Janet Kennedy is the biography of a Scottish woman at court in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.     

        
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Janet Reachfar and Chickabird    Janet Reachfar and Chickabird
ISBN:9781841582085
Category: Children's Fiction, Children's
Author: Jane Duncan
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis:

The third of Jane Duncan’s stories about a little girl growing up on a remote Highland farm with her dog, Fly, her sometimes fierce grandmother, Herself, and her special friends, the farmhands, George and Tom.

    
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Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie    Janet Reachfar and the Kelpie
ISBN:9781841582108
Category: Children's Fiction, Children's
Author: Jane Duncan
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £4.99
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Synopsis:

A haunting story from Jane Duncan’s series about a little girl called Janet, illustrated by Mairi Hedderwick.

    
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Jaunty Jock    Jaunty Jock
ISBN:9781899863150
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 1999
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Synopsis:
A collection of short stories in which Munro extends his geographical and cultural scope outside his native Argyll. He continues to depict the life of the Highlander, and uses Gaelic words and phrases.

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Jessie's Journey    Jessie's Journey
ISBN:9781841587028
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Jess Smith
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
A Scottish bestseller since its first publication, this humorous and poignant biography has a wide and modern appeal bringing to us the forgotten and naive ways of the travelling family.

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Jimmy Swan    Jimmy Swan
ISBN:9781841582030
Category: Short Stories, Fiction
Author: Neil Munro
Publication Date: January 2002
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Jimmy Swan, the enigmatic commercial traveller, is another classic comic character from the pen of Neil Munro, the master Scottish humorist.


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Jo Grimond    Jo Grimond
ISBN:9781843410065
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Michael McManus
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: HB
Price: £20.00 £10.00
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Synopsis:

This is the first biography to be written of a man who can truly be said to have changed the face of British political life.


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John Burnet of Barns    John Burnet of Barns
ISBN:9781846970733
Category: Classics, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: August 2008
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

The rivalry of two cousins results in treachery, betrayal and a desperate struggle for survival. With an introduction by Tam Dalyell.


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John Kay's Original Portraits    John Kay's Original Portraits
ISBN:9781841586571
Category: Limited Editions
Author: John Kay
Publication Date: January 2008
Format: HB
Price: £200.00
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Synopsis:

Limited Edition reproduction of John Kay’s unforgettable images of Edinburgh characters.

        
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John Knox    John Knox
ISBN:9781841587219
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Rosalind K. Marshall
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This compelling biography untangles the truth from the mythology surrounding this determined and extraordinary man.


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John Macnab    John Macnab
ISBN:9781846970283
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: John Buchan
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

This novel is a light interlude within the Leithen Stories series – an evocative look at the hunting, shooting and fishing lifestyle in Highland Scotland.


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John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832    John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland, 1832
ISBN:9781841586878
Category: Limited Editions
Author: John Thomson
Publication Date: December 2008
Format: HB
Price: £150.00
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Synopsis:
This high-quality limited edition is a reproduction of the first large-scale atlas of Scotland organised by county. It provides an invaluable and accurate picture of Scotland prior to the Clearances and is also a highly significant milestone in the history of mapping.

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Judge's Diary    Judge's Diary
ISBN:9781873644430
Category: Scottish History
Author: Gordon Stott
Publication Date: August 2007
Format: PB
Price: £15.99
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Julia De Roubigne    Julia De Roubigne
ISBN:9781862320475
Category: Literature, Fiction
Author: Henry Mackenzie
Publication Date: March 1999
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:

This edition aims to draw new readers to Mackenzie’s compelling final experiment in the novel of sentiment. Edited an with an introduction by Susan Manning.


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Jungle is Neutral, The    Jungle is Neutral, The
ISBN:9781843410294
Category: Military History
Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman
Publication Date: May 2006
Format: PB
Price: £8.99
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Synopsis:

A world famous story of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in Malaya.



    
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Jura    Jura
ISBN:9781841582269
Category: Local History, History
Author: Peter Youngson
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
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Synopsis:

This is the first major book to be written about one of the largest of the Inner Hebridean islands.


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Jura    Jura
ISBN:9781899863396
Category: Art, Photography
Author: Gary McKay
Publication Date: January 2005
Format: PB
Price: £15.00
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Synopsis:
Featuring landscape photographs of the Isle of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, this title also accompanies traditional stories translated from the original Gaelic.

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Just Daft    Just Daft
ISBN:9781841587554
Category: Autobiography/Biography
Author: Robbie Grigor
Publication Date: September 2008
Format: HB
Price: £20.00
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Synopsis:
Just Daft is the story of one of Scotland’s greatest comedians, Chic Murray, from his birth in Greenock in 1919, charting his rise through his amateur beginnings in the 1930s, all the way to his 1956 performance in the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium and his appearances on the big screen.

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Just Duffy    Just Duffy
ISBN:9780862415518
Category:
Author: Robin Jenkins
Publication Date: September 2002
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
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Justified Sinners    Justified Sinners
ISBN:9780748663088
Category: Literature, Essays, Poetry, Fiction
Author: (Editors) Ross Birrell, Alec Finlay
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis:

Justified Sinners is an archaeology of counter-culture in Scotland 1960-2000, featuring poetry, prose, polemic, letters, documents and fragments, from the Holy Loch and Project Sigma to the Demarco Gallery, Beltane and K Foundation.


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Jutland to Junkyard    Jutland to Junkyard
ISBN:9781841580012
Category: Military History, Maritime
Author: S. C. George
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
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Synopsis: In 1919 the German High Seas Fleet began in unison to sink in Scapa Flow. Shortly after the Admiralty stated that salving the ships was an impossibility. From 1924, using techniques at the frontiers of science, the battlefleet was raised and scrapped. This is the story of the salvage operation.
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