Gato (Sandstone Vista Series)

Margaret Elphinstone

Sandstone Press Ltd

In "Winning Through", Brian Irvine tells the truth about his life as a footballer. From family life in Airdrie we follow him as he realises his boyhood dreams. He becomes an international player with Aberdeen and Scotland. But he has to cope with bad times, and worse - being told he has a serious and possibly fatal illness. Finally he has to come to terms with the end of a long playing career. Brian's Christian faith and strong family ties help him to cope, help him to 'win through'.

Winning Through (Sandstone Vista Series)

brian-irvine

Literature & Fiction

Edwin Morgan's restless imagination moved easily between multiple worlds, voices and identities. His own life story, told here for the first time, also reveals a range of identities - as academic, cultural activist, radical writer, international traveller, gay man and national poet. These identities were sometimes in conflict, or kept hidden and apart. Beyond the Last Dragon, written with his full support, explores hitherto unknown archive resources and creative work. It recounts an amazing and sometimes troubled career, using the poet's own letters, poems and plays from the 1930s to the present day to uncover the origins of his remarkable - and life-long - inventiveness and flair. All this is set against Edwin Morgan's moving struggle against `the last dragon' of cancer, and to remain creatively alive in the face of suffering in the final years of his life. This prize-winning biography was published just days after the poet's death. James McGonigal now adds a new chapter to describe subsequent events.

Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan (Non-fiction)

Biographies & Memoirs

McGonigal, James

Arts & Literature

In this absorbing account Chris McIvor discovers Africa, finds love - and loses it - travels through the desert, along the Nile, and finally visits the war-locked region of Chad. Often in danger, and reliant on the kindness of strangers, he comes to love the wide territory known as Nubia and takes the first steps of his life's work in overseas aid.

A Bend in the Nile: My Life in Nubia and Other Places (Sandstone Press Non-Fiction)

Travel

McIvor, Chris

Africa

'R.L.S. in Love' makes a powerful argument for recognising Stevenson as a love poet, a restless man constantly struggling with love and lust, invariably attracted to unobtainable or unsuitable partners, including distant relatives, older married women, servants, and prostitutes. The poems reflect the three main stages in Stevenson's emotional life: his late adolescence and early manhood characterized by a succession of trysts in the woods and dells of the Pentland hills, and encounters with working women in the Old Town brothels; his passionate but doomed relationship with Fanny Sitwell; and finally the troubled, infuriating but often ecstatic emotional journey with his wife.

Rls in Love: The Love Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. [Text By] Stuart Campbell (Non-fiction)

Campbell, Stuart

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Poetry

This unique publication conceived by Liz Ashworth combines the startlingly beautiful art of Selena Kuzman with Liz's stories of Orkney people and food, with descriptions to give you a taste of the islands, in every sense, which will make you want to visit and keep on returning. You have never seen a book quite like this. Liz Ashworth is one of Scotland's leading food writers. She has developed new products for various Scottish companies, a number of which have won awards, and is active in promoting Scotland's food heritage. Selena Kuzman left the forests and mountains of her native Slovenia to come to Scotland to take an honors degree at Moray School of Art.

Orkney Spirit (Non-Fiction)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Ashworth, Liz

Regional & International

We've all done it-gone haring off after one thing and found entirely another-but surely not as disastrously as Henry. Antagonistic London brothers, Henry and Peter, each rush to Inverness after receiving mysterious letters. Henry hopes for love. Peter is on the trail of genius Gaelic bard Calum Calum, believed by the world to be dead. Troubled Elena is also drawn to the Highlands, seeking revenge on el malo, the evil one, the Scottish gunrunner who betrayed her family during the Spanish Civil War. Their three destinies are entwined, and each has a difficult truth to face in this hilarious comedy of errors.

Love, Revenge & Buttered Scones (Fiction)

Darbyshire, Bobbie

Humor & Satire

Armed with a bus pass and supported by a relay team of equally eccentric and badly behaved companions Stuart Campbell follows the bus routes that Dr Johnson and Boswell would have used had they delayed their journey to the Western isles of Scotland by 238 years. The narrative, strikingly illustrated by Colin Milne, includes an astonishing set of previously unpublished love letters from Boswell's servant, Joseph Ritter, to his master's long suffering wife, Margaret. Stuart Milne's many humorous drawings are a delightful and attractive feature of this book.

Boswell's Bus Pass

Middle East

I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over is Wencke Muhleisen's account of her mother's death, and about the distance and intimacy between two women who have come to very different terms with life.

I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over

Parenting & Relationships

Muhleisen, Wencke

Family Relationships

The Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author's political commitments and activism throughout his career. This book is published in partnership with The Drouth Magazine and traces the history and details of Kelman's political writing and activism. Besides numerous novels Kelman has published two volumes of literary, social, historical and political criticism. He has also been unceasingly involved in political and human rights campaigns, manifestoes and demonstrations throughout his life. What exactly are Kelman's politics: why are some readers still baffled and shocked by his standpoint? His stance on social and political issues has been widely criticised not only by ordinary readers, but by the Establishment in the form of Booker Prize judges, and others.

The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the Art of Commitment

Rodger, John

Miller, Mitch

Rodger, Johnny

British & Irish

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