The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
By: T.M. Devine
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Tim…
Want to Read"It was noted of Smailholm in Roxburghshire, for instance, that many young men from the parish had joined the army and navy during the American War of Independence and never came back home."-T.M. Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
"It was noted of Smailholm in Roxburghshire, for instance, that many young men from the parish had joined the army and navy during the American War of Independence and never came back home."-T.M. Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
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1. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
2. The Highland Clans
By: Alistair Moffat
3.88
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The Highland clans of Scotland are famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung… read more
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3. A Croft in the Hills
By: Katharine Stewart
4.12
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
A Croft in the Hills captures life on a hill croft 50 years ago. A couple and their young daughter… read more
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"We filled our lungs with the cold, still air and forgot our small needs and worries. We had a sound roof to shelter us, peat and wood for warmth, milk, eggs and potatoes in plenty to keep us fed. Hea…"-Katharine Stewart, A Croft in the Hills
"In a flash it came to me - might not people who were forced to spend their working hours between walls like to hear about what went on in a hill-top croft, of how it was possible to get an immense am…"-Katharine Stewart, A Croft in the Hills
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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5. The Scots: A Genetic Journey
By: Alistair Moffat , James F. Wilson
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Here, guided by Jim Wilson's researches into Scottish genetic history, he (Alistair Moffat) tackles… read more
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6. Ten Days that Shook the World
By: John Reed
4.20
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more
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7. Waverley
By: Walter Scott
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Waverleyis set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in… read more
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8. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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9. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more
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10. When I Lived in Modern Times
By: Linda Grant
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a s… read more
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11. The Sportswriter
By: Richard Ford
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more
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12. Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more
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13. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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14. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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15. Diplomacy
By: Henry Kissinger
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Sec… read more
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16. Sunset Song (A Scots Quair, #1)
By: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally… read more
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17. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
By: Arthur Herman , None
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market c… read more
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18. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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19. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
By: Christopher Clark
3.35
Format: None pages,
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20. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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21. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
22. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
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4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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23. May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5)
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4.36
Format: 372 pages, ebook
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24. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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25. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
26. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)
By: Alan Parks
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more
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27. The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
By: T.M. Devine
4.07
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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"It was noted of Smailholm in Roxburghshire, for instance, that many young men from the parish had joined the army and navy during the American War of Independence and never came back home."-T.M. Devine, The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600 - 1900
28. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back
By: Torsten Bell
4.37
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more
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29. The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
By: Michelle Wilde Anderson
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in fo… read more
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30. Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45
By: Maggie Craig
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots Magazine Too many historians… read more
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31. Culloden
By: Trevor Royle
3.32
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British … read more
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