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Ella is locked in a battle for creative survival with her domineering father, and apartheid South Africa, the troubled country in which he passionately believes.

Ursule in 1864 lives the life of a kitchen skivvy in Paris. Dexter in 1965 is an American GI in Vietnam. Dante in 2015 is a Catholic priest in Palermo, Sicily. For Ursule the Prussians are closing in. For Dexter it's the Vietcong. For Dante it is the mafia. How can they escape, how can misery be turned into rapture?

One of the most easily recognised figures on the Scottish scene, Ronnie Browne was one half of The Corries until the untimely death of his musical partner, Roy Williamson, in 1990. He is also a gifted artist, a portraitist of distinction, who has received both critical and commercial success from childhood to the present day.

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Mickey Bell has HIV, is on the dole, and survives in the high flats in Drumkirk. Mickey once took the Journey of the Pipes from the leaky kitchen tap - out of Glasgow, to the edge of the Highlands, the reverse of the city's water supply - and now he's got a secret, he's been climbing Scotland's highest mountains, the Munros.

Charts the history and importance of personal names, including given names, surnames, name titles, and professional names. Uses examples from Anglo-Saxon kings to today's celebrities to show how our attitude to naming has changed.

After her mother's death, Maggie Wadey went to Ireland to discover what had made her mother so different.

Dalton grew weary of country life, and instead threw herself into running a deep sea trawler among the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the 90s.

A new thriller from the author of "The Stillman", this sees a stand-off between a Norwegian squatter and an ex-Marine, in an English village. Then a local teenage girl goes missing.

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In the second volume of his African memoirs Chris McIvor recalls his first stint in Zimbabwe, the many great characters he met, the poverty, the enormous job of repair required to European - African relations and, through it all, the hope.

A new title from Hamish Brown - the first person to complete an uninterrupted round of Scotland's Munros - this is a personal record of his many journeys through the years.

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Tells of the life of Donald John who, in the years after the Great War, leaves Uist to work as a policeman, initially in Glasgow and later in New York.

Why keep your doctor happy? Well, he’s the one you tell all your secrets to, who diagnoses you, who decides what potentially lethal drugs you’re going to get. Now, hospital consultant and award-winning medical text-book writer John Larkin tells you what’s going through a doctor’s brain, and how to use that to your mutual advantage - and he doesn’t pull many punches. Learn the things that annoy doctors most and how (usually) to avoid them. Lear...