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This book draws together an authoritative selection of all the writings needed to begin discovering the full story of Hamilton Finlay’s early work, his themes, preoccupations and vision of the philosophical transformed by the everyday.

        
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For the first time, the best writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, including the entire text of Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, extracts from his letters, and previously unpublished items, are collected in one entertaining and evocative anthology.
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The Book of St Andrews juxtaposes poems, stories and memoirs with scant regard to chronological order, but in the confidence that each contribution, lively in its own right, may also enhance the others. Here are specially written stories by Meaghan Delahunt, A. L. Kennedy, and Sarah Hall; new poems by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Don Paterson; memoirs by Kay Redfield Jamison and Ian Rankin.

            
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This collection of stories and memories spans a century of life on farms and around the enchanting villages of Chapeltown and Scalan.

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This book is a celebration of the rich literary tradition of Argyll - a land which has produced many of Scotland's finest writers.

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An anthology of early Scottish literature. It is suitable as a teaching text for school and university students.

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Stuart Kelly provides a wry and erudite account of books destroyed, misplaced, never finished, or never even begun – from ancient Greek and Arabic masters through Shakespeare, Dante and Hemingway right up to the present day.

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