When Margaret Aitken was a child, more than seventy years ago, her 'small corner' was Orkney - 'that little archipelago usually shown in a box in the north-east corner on maps of Great Britain'.In this book she remembers island life - idyllic memories of growing up in a close-knit community, of walking with the poet and naturalist Robert Rendall, of the pervasive doctrine of the Brethren, of holidays to the neighbouring islands of Eday, Rousay and Westray - and vividly recalls the landscape, wildlife and people of a time long past.

In My Small Corner: Memoirs of an Orkney Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Aitken, Margaret

Arts & Literature

Scottish Cultural Pr

In 1918, Masataka Taketsuru came to Scotland from Japan to learn how to distil whisky. He fell in love and married Rita Cowan, of Kirkintilloch, who left Scotland with him to live in Japan for forty years. She died there in 1961. 
Japanese Whisky, Scotch Blend is the story of one man's determination to succeed, both in business and love, despite criticism and cultural barriers. It is also the story of a young girl's move to Japan, a land of unfamiliar customs and even stranger language, her joys and heartaches, the struggle of life during the second World War, and her determination to build a family home. 
It is also the incredible story of how whisky is made to perfection thousands of miles away from its cultural 'home': at Yoichi, Hokkaido. Taketsuru's whisky business eventually prospered, and Japanese Whisky, Scotch Blend traces the history of its development within Japan up to the present day.

Japanese Whisky, Scotch Blend

Checkland, Olive

Community & Culture

Clan Fraser: A History Celebrating over 800 Years of the Family in Scotland

A history celebrating over 800 years of the Family in Scotland. Includes origins of the name Fraser and the Frasers of Philorth, Lovat and Muchalls. Histories of Cairnbulg Castle and Fraserburgh Castle.

History

Fraser, Flora Marjory

Europe

In 1935, aged only fourteen, Robert Dick enlisted as a boy soldier. Within 3 months he had been posted abroad to serve with the Cameron Highlanders. This is the harrowing tale of his life as a front-line stretcher bearer and a German prisoner of war.

I Was Not Alone

Dick, Robert

Leaders & Notable People

Doric Proverbs and Sayings

Politics & Social Sciences

Kynoch, Douglas

Social Sciences

Nature of Fife

Science & Math

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Earth Sciences

800 years of Fraser family history as researched by the present head of the clan. Very readable, fully illustrated. Ancestry, family trees, legends, mottoes and dress.

Environmental historians, archaeologists, ecologists, biologists and nature conservationists offer an interdisciplinary approach to species history in Scotland.

Species History in Scotland

Biological Sciences

The Jimmy Shand Story

Arts & Photography

Cameron, Ian

Music

Published to celebrate George Bruce's 90th birthday, Pursuit is a collection of poems that span the last 10 years.

Pursuit: Poems 1986-1998 (Scottish Contemporary Poets Series)

Literature & Fiction

Bruce, George

Poetry

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