First published in this format in 1884, this early chronological account forms a complete overvie...

John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language....

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charmi...

When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the ey...

Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her grandda...

A writer's job is to notice the world. To catch in words the qualities, textures, patterns, peopl...

George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection fr...

Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugös novels, is regarded by many ¿ including such diverse criti...

In the fast disappearing slums of the Claggans district of a big Scottish city, only a few teneme...

When speaking of idols, the author is not referring merely to the 'traditional' interpretation of...

Now widely recognized as a novelist and essayist, working-class writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth fi...

he works by R.B. Cunninghame Graham in this volume were published between 1895 and 1899. Notes on...

This is an adventurous new collection of poems in which past companions are recalled, and the liv...

The scene is Edinburgh, 1939. Lives are about to change. Blackout, bomb shelters, cinemas, dance ...

Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the fictionalised autobiography of her ...

Cricket is a very old game in Scotland - far older than football, a sport which sometimes exercis...

Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was a...

Originally published in 1940, Fred Urquhart's first collection of short stories brings to life th...

Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succe...

Highly praised by leading critics on its first publication, this collection of some of Fred Urquh...

This is the first publication of the last collection of his short stories that Fred Urquhart plan...

'The Bull Calves' was researched and written during the Second World War. This is very surprising...

'The library is situated,'said the short entry in the Guide to British LibrariesA-L,'in pleasan...

No one would think from his friendly and informal style that Ken Shearwood was a housemaster at a...

Runaway Dreams tells the story of brothers Pat, John and Tommy McManus who, as Mama's Boys, wrote...

Forfar Athletic have had some dreadful times, but they have had their share of success as well. H...

When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already...

'We are the land. The elements that created the land live in our bodies. We are born, we bring to...

'But any story about human beings is bound to have an end, like this story about us, a pair of in...

Peter Banyard (1931-2018) was born in Birmingham and educated in London and Oxfordshire. He was o...

Fire from a Black Opal is the fourth of this series of Stories and Sketches.It contains the colle...

Some of the best of Fred Urquhart's ghost stories are gathered in this volume. They include humor...

Although the bad days are incredibly hard to take at the time, the pain of them dies through time...

Small Talk... avoids the temptation of a full-blown 'My Life and Times' type of autobiography and...

'There are lies, damned lies and statistics.' In the world of football the concept of argument is...

Jessie Kesson is best known for her loosely autobiographical novel The White Bird Passes, first p...

Second Division Champions, 1911 12; Second Division Champions, 1912 13; Second Division Champions...

In this view of the history of Raith Rovers the author builds up the story of the club by recount...

John Manson's collection of letters to MacDiarmid, or to Christopher Grieve, or to Hugh or Chris ...

Jezebel's Dust is the story of two young teenage girls infected by the love of uniforms in Edinbu...

In A Sparrow's Flight, her second novel, first published in 1989, Margaret Elphinstone is already...

A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdswort...

'Living with Ghosts', the second volume of this series, contains the collections of stories that ...

In this unusual and accomplished novel Naomi Mitchison retells in realistic terms and colloquial ...

Football has evolved on a massive scale. Transfer fees have reached the hundreds of millions and ...

Louisa 'Maya' Haldane (1863-1961) was the widow of physiologist John Scott Haldane, and the mothe...

Naomi Mitchison began her novel-writing career in the 1920s, with historical fictions set in the ...

This is Naomi Mitchison's least successful novel, and new readers should not start here! It is sh...