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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Louis Stevenson, including the entire text of Edinburgh Picturesque Notes, extracts from his letters, and previously unpublished items, are collected in one entertaining and evocative anthology.
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Specially commissioned stories from some of our country’s best contemporary writers and startling new voices.

    
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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 selection of stories, poems and memoirs is a wonderful literary celebration of St Andrews, exploring the multiple facets of its life and history.

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Well-known names of leading Scottish authors and totally unknown, talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to Britain’s biggest and most prestigious short story competition – The Scotsman and Orange Short Story
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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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A collection of work that juxtaposes the diverse range of Gibbon's literary personae and presents the author's multiple perspectives - of local, national and international significance. Bringing together old favourites and new material for the first time, this collection includes short stories, the full text of his last novel, poems, articles, book reviews, essays, and selected studies.
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