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The Poetry of Paul Muldoon

by Jefferson Holdridge

The Poetry of Paul Muldoon introduces the student and general reader to the critical discussion surrounding Muldoon’s oeuvre, as well as to his major themes. It examines the poet’s meditations on culture...

The Koran

by John Medows Rodwell

An immensely important work for Muslims and anyone interested in studying world religions, THE KORAN, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's teaching. Like the Bible, the influence of the Koran...

We Lost Our Baby: One Couple's Story of Miscarriage and Its Aftermath

by Siobhan O'Nill-White & David White

We Lost Our Baby is the true story of a young couple who, after the initial excitement of discovering a new pregnancy, faced the heartache of losing their baby. On top of the trauma of a miscarriage, they also...

Happiness is Possible

by Oleg Zaionchkovsky

Happiness is Possible tells the story of a writer late delivering his novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife walked out. All he can produce is notes about the happiness of others. But something...

Open Door

by Iosi Havilio, Beth Fowler & Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand, although...

Stillness of the Sea

by Nicol Ljubic & Anna Patterson

A young historian follows the trial of his girlfriend's father at the International Court. The prosecution argues that he played a part in the death of a Muslim family during the Balkan civil war. As the trial...

The Islands

by Carlos Gamerro

Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an...

Basket Case

by Carl Hiaasen

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the...

Rory's Boys

by Alan Clark

Inheriting his grandmother's crumbling mansion, Rory Blaine creates Britain's first retirement home for gay men. Perceptive and moving, Rory's Boys is about one man's struggle to accept who he is and about the...

Robert Burns: The Lassies

by George Scott Scott Wilkie

During his short life Burns wrote a great deal of poetry to or about women. Some were written as love poems or songs, intended to sway the heart of whoever had caught his eye, others in honour of a more casual...

Laugh Scotland!

by Allan Morrison

Jokes classic, jokes new, jokes modern, old and blue...they're all here in Allan Morrison's book. From one-liners to shaggy dog stories, from Q&As to riddles, this book has the lot. Hot topics include: Glasgow...

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

by Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica...

Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan

by Dervla Murphy

In Where the Indus is Young , Dervla Murphy's indomitable will is matched by that of four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel. Together they make a mockery of fear, trekking through the awe-inspiring...

The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal

by Dervla Murphy

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain...

Union of Crowns: The Forging of Europe's Most Independent State

by Crawford Little

Did the Scots really cower in the shadow of their powerful, aggressive English neighbour? This book reveals a very different picture. Scottish armies repeatedly invaded English-held territory, defying generations...

Guinness World Records Wacky Sporting Champions

by Guinness World Records

In celebration of this year's sporting summer Guinness World Records presents Wacky Sporting Champions and eBook exclusive honoring those unique sporting stars who have taken record-breaking to new and outrageous...

The Tyrant

by Jacques Chessex & Martin Sokolinsky

Semi-autobiographical, and Chessex’s bestselling novel to date, The Tyrant describes a tyrannical father’s destruction of a young teacher’s life.

Munro Almanac

by Cameron McNeish

This guide to all of Scotland's Munros details the new list of 285 peaks and their localities, Gaelic pronunciation, height, and climbing routes with times for both ascent and descent. Maps and photographs illustrate...

The Original Beauty Bible: Skin Care Facts for Ageless Beauty

by Paula Begoun

The all-new third edition of The Original Beauty Bible is Paula Begoun’s most comprehensive book yet. Exhaustively researched, this refreshingly honest guide cuts through marketing hype to educate consumers...

Inside the Danger Zones: Travels to Arresting Places

by Paul Moorcraft

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, Inside the Danger Zones is the story of Paul Moorcraft's work during the major wars of the last three decades. As a freelance war correspondent and military analyst for...