This book is a day and a night in the life of a Scottish city, seen through the imaging eye of a dreaming worker, who conjures to life the novel’s three motor characters — Ray, age nineteen; Helen, twenty-four, and Douglas, twenty-nine. Their connection is brief, yet inevitable in the fact that they are all parts of the single psyche, that of the dreamer/conjuror.  A Day at the Office is the story of Edinburgh in the year of the fall of the Berlin wall. A snapshot of time in its long history, of which the year 1990 is a short footnote. It is story about the effect death has on the living, a love story, a story about the pull of drugs. It is a story about margins, how difficult it is to escape them, and a rare convincing portrait of the Scottish working class. It is about the distance between what’s on the TV and the drudgery of daily existence for ordinary people. Daring, truly experimental, formally inventive, quietly lyrical, it is a book unlike anything else you’ve ever read.

A Day at the Office (Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Jamieson, R. A.

Contemporary

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The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh

Arts & Photography

Miket, Roger

Roberts, David L.

Architecture

Skye: A Postcard Tour

Travel

Charnley, Bob.

Europe

This diary chronicles in detail the experiences of an anonymous traveller to St Kilda in 1913.

A Voyage to St Kilda

Charnley, Bob (Author)

SDEMore than a chronicle of a life spent farming in the Scottish Highlands and a family portrait of the clan Fraser of Lovat, with whom the author enjoys a close connection, this work is also a collection of stories which reflect the changes of both attitude and affluence which have revolutionized Highland life and dramatically affected its natural environment over the centuries. Using the background to the Fraser clan chiefs as a central theme, from the cunning Red Fox, and infamous Fraser chieftain, through to the sudden death of the Master of Lovat which set in train the sale of the Fraser empire around Beaufort Castle, Iain Thomson weaves a narrative that shows how the effects of history have such a profound effect on what happens today.

The Long Horizon

History

Iain R. Thomson

Raasay

Norma MacLeod

Vibrating with endeavours for Britain's effort against the might of Nazi Germany, Clydebank was - in hindsight - an obvious target for the attentions of the Luftwaffe. When, on the evening of 13 March 1941, the authorities first detected that Clydebank was 'on beam' - targeted by the primitive radio-guidance system of the German bombers - no effort was made to raise the alarm or to direct the residents to shelter or flight. Within the hour, a vast timber-yard, three oil-stores, and two distilleries were ablaze, one pouring flaming whisky into a burn that ran blazing into the Clyde itself in vivid ribbons of fire. And still the Germans came; and Clydebank, now an inferno, lay illuminated and defenceless as heavy bombs of high-explosive, as land-mines and parachute blasters began to fall ...With reference to written sources and the memories of those who survived the experience, John MacLeod tells the story of the Clydebank Blitz and the terrible scale of death and devastation, speculating on why its incineration has been so widely forgotten and its ordeal denied any place in national honour.

River of Fire: The Clydebank Blitz

john-macleod

Americas

This dictionary contains every Gaelic word and meaning given in previously published dictionaries and a number never in print before. A concise Gaelic grammar is included along with illustrations and a biographical essay by Peter Berresford Ellis.

Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary

Reference

Edward Dwelly

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary

History of Clan Nicolson

MACLEAN, Alasdair

Sellar, David

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