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ROBERT THE BRUCE, KING OF SCOTS

RONALD MCNAIR SCOTT

" A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times" ( Kirkus). Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced to a vassal state by Edward I of England. Its people lived in abject poverty. But ...

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THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF AN IDIOT ABROAD

KARL PILKINGTON

A new book on the travails of travel by "the funniest man on the planet" ( Spectator). Why on earth would anybody want to run with the bulls in Pamplona? Go "storm chasing" through Tornado Alley? Jump out of a plane? Have lunch with the queen or touch hands with the pope? The Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad is a fresh take on the bucket-list mentality from television star...

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DEATH AND THE DOLCE VITA

STEPHEN GUNDLE

"A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s" ( Financial Times). On April 9 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected public beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic acciden...

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SUMMIT FEVER

ANDREW GREIG

A "wonderful" memoir about mountain climbing—and the risk, joy, and adventure of being alive (Chris Bonington). Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature When poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights and no climbing experience whatso...

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THE STORY OF LOOKING

MARK COUSINS

The acclaimed author and filmmaker's investigation into the human gaze through history, art and science, paints an illuminating portrait of our culture. Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us. In The Story of Lo...

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THAT WAS A SHIVER

JAMES KELMAN

"Thought-provoking" short stories from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late and Kieron Smith, Boy ( Scotsman). A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man loo...

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THE FORTUNATE BROTHER

DONNA MORRISSEY

The acclaimed author of Sylvanus Now continues her rural Newfoundland family saga with this award-winning, international bestselling novel. Life for Kyle Now and his siblings was never easy in the Canadian fishery village where they grew up. But with adulthood come both freedom and regret. Kyle certainly regrets urging his brother Chris to go west—only for him to find work, a...

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DARKE

RICK GEKOSKI

This critically acclaimed debut novel offers "an original and bleakly funny portrait of grief" in the singular mind and solitary life of its protagonist ( The Economist). Shortlisted for The McKitterick Prize and The Author's Club Best First Novel Award Cranky and reclusive, ageing and widowed, Dr. James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his...

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TIMEKEEPERS

SIMON GARFIELD

By the bestselling author of Just My Type: a "thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating" journey into the concept of time "stuffed with fascinating material" ( Observer, UK). Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. In this fascinating, anecdotal exploration, a...

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A NOTABLE WOMAN

JEAN LUCEY PRATT

A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean's diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess" ( The Pool ). In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait...

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THE HONOURS

TIM CLARE

The award-winning poet and author of The Ice House offers "a gorgeously entertaining fantasy novel set in Norfolk between the wars" ( The Guardian). Norfolk, 1935. World War II is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner, is determined to ...

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YOUNG WINSTONE

RAY WINSTONE

From the boxing clubs of 1970s East London to the celebrity haunts of Hollywood the acclaimed actor offers a memoir with "gripping insight into his youth" ( Telegraph, UK). Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity of his tough-guy screen characters—a violent offender in Scum, a wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, and a retired robber in Sexy Beast to name just a ...

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HIEROGLYPHICS AND OTHER STORIES

ANNE DONOVAN

"Spellbinding stories of childhood and change in voices so vibrant they leave you speechless." — Sunday Herald From a little girl who wants to look "subtle" for her father's funeral, to a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter, to an old lady who becomes a star through "zimmerobics," these witty, tender short stories introduce us to a unique cast of characters in a collect...

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BANNOCKBURN

PETER REESE

"An admirably vivid account of the Scots' greatest victory over the English": the 14th century Battle of Bannockburn ( The Scotsman, UK). Scotland, 1314. On a marsh-fringed plain south of Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led the Scottish army in a singularly devastating victory over the English. Bannockburn was Scotland's greatest battlefield triumph in the First War of S...

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THE NO. 2 GLOBAL DETECTIVE

TOBY CLEMENTS

The bestselling author of The Asti Spumanti Code offers a globe-hopping spoof of contemporary fiction's most famous detectives. Cuff College of Transgression and Pathology, Oxford, is the Alma Mater of the world's most famous fictional detectives. But when a body is discovered in the Cuff College library, the police are baffled. The only clues to the crime are the enormous sp...

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A GIFT FROM NESSUS

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

A dark, psychologically compelling story of grift, greed, and a salesman in trouble, from "the finest Scottish novelist of our time" ( Telegraph). Winner of a Scottish Arts Council Book Award Eddie Cameron is a thirty-five-year-old salesman for Rocklight Ltd., an electrical equipment firm in Glasgow, who feels like he's lived thirty-five years with little to show for it: a job ...

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THE KILN

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

A novel of dreams, disappointments, and detours: "Pitch-perfect . . . excruciatingly funny . . . a beguilingly brilliant portrait of the artist as an adolescent." — The Sunday Times Named Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society Tam Docherty was seventeen in the summer of 1955. With school behind him and a summer job at a brick works, Tom had his whole life before h...

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REMEDY IS NONE

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Winner: After his father's death, a young man struggles with darkness in this novel by "one of Scotland's finest writers" ( The Independent, UK). Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University, sits in the lecture hall worrying about the looming possibility that his girlfriend may be pregnant, waiting for her to send word. But when...

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WALKING WOUNDED

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

These poignant short stories about the quiet yearnings of ordinary lives form "a sad, brilliant, joyful tribute to the dreams that never make it" ( Sunday Express). From a recipient of a Whitbread Award, a Faber Memorial Prize, and other literary honors—who has been called "one of Scotland's finest writers" ( Independent)—this is a collection of stories about the casualties of ...

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WEEKEND

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

An "illuminating and thought-provoking" novel revolving around an academic gathering at a hotel on a Scottish island (Irvine Welsh, The Guardian). At Willowdale, a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students have arrived from Glasgow. They are preparing for a weekend of lectures and intellectual discussions, though some ...

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THE SONG OF KING GESAR

ALAI

The first English translation of Tibet's founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China's Mao Dun Prize. The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set pa...

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NIGHT BOAT

ALAN SPENCE

"One of the best Scottish writers of our time" offers "a fictional re-creation of the life and teachings of the 18th century Zen master Ekaku Hakuin" ( Scotsman). On the side of a mountain in eighteenth-century Japan sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most fa...

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SAFE AS HOUSES

SIMONE VAN DER VLUGT

"Two women experience near-death waking nightmares in this lean, edgy crime novel . . . a thriller that should not be read alone at night" ( Publishers Weekly). Home should be the safest place to be. But when a man forces his way into Lisa's house, taking her and her young daughter hostage, there is nowhere to hide. Who is this brutal man? And what does he want from an innoce...

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THOMAS QUICK

HANNES RÅSTAM

This journalist's revealing investigation into the notorious case of Sweden's most prolific serial killer reads like "a real-life Scandinavian crime novel" ( The Observer, UK). In 1992, Thomas Quick confessed to the murder of an eleven-year-old boy who had been missing for twelve years. Over the next decade, Quick confessed to more than thirty unsolved murders, revealing that h...

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FEAR OF DE SADE

BERNARDO CARVALHO

From the award-winning Brazilian author of Nine Nights comes a twisting psychological novel of literary intrigue, sexual desire, and murder. In the pitch-black cell of an asylum—possibly in nineteenth-century France—a "baron" carries on an extended dialogue with a disembodied "voice." Arrested for a crime that he has no memory of, the baron swears to his innocence throughout. I...

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LILY VANILLI'S SWEET TOOTH

LILY JONES

From the British baking sensation, stylish dessert recipes that are "fashionable and fun without being forbidding" ( Mail on Sunday). Since she started out selling her cakes at a market in East London, Lily Jones (aka Vanilli) has gone on to become one of Britain's best-loved artisan bakers. With a star-studded client list and a thriving bakery, she's famous for her unique flav...

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SEPARATE TRACKS

JANE ROGERS

The first novel from the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home. Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when she comes to work at the children's home where he lives. She offers him a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and politics of university life, Orph's alienation only grows deeper, and his lonely course...

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THE ICE IS SINGING

JANE ROGERS

The author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins "writes about a woman writing about writing and gets triumphantly away with it . . . a novel of tremendous readability" ( Independent). Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous hotels, Marion is prepared to do anything to escape her memories. She begins to write stories, stories that take her into other people...

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HER LIVING IMAGE

JANE ROGERS

A novel that delves into "the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended" ( Library Journal). What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become? Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning t...

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GIANT STEPS

KENNY MATHIESON

A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane. In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Da...

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