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‘It felt like I was suddenly free to be someone without her, I remember.’
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If You Forget Everything Else,...
‘It’s easy to express our love in the same way we want it to be shown to us, but when we do that we risk our partner not feeling loved. Take …
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‘If a man is the collection of his memories, I had been erased.’
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David Robinson Reviews: Thread...
‘One of the most potent forms of Renaissance communication, when it was valued as a transmitter of intellect and emotion, when it was a conv …
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Painted Ladies: Bonnard and hi...
‘He’s watching from the pavement opposite as if all this is a performance that I’m putting on to liven up the morning.’
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‘I want you to know that I still see you. This life, this world, it’s amazing, but only because I’m living it with you.’
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When I Had a Little Sister: Th...
‘We have been living on a knife-edge for so long I know this is something big.’
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I Could Feel Vulnerable in Lov...
‘You both share as one corded together through the pain of experience.’
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Salt on Your Tongue: Women and...
‘My lungs love the sensation of Edinburgh’s atmosphere, the biting freshness of it, never still but always thrilled with a shock of salted a …
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‘The sight of a Spitfire flying low through Glencoe at the time of the Battle of Britain captured my imagination and fired an unlikely ambit …
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‘All ten of the men and boys who’d gone to sea that day were dead, drowned. The fishwives said it was all the girl’s fault. That she was cur …
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‘She said the longer she thought about it the more she realised she knew some kind, decent people, and she should be grateful for that.’
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Shadowscent: The Darkest Bloom
‘Home has always smelled of cooking fires and desert roses that only release their perfume after sunset.’
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The Accidental Novelist: The B...
‘Eleanor stood at the cash desk and looked around her empire. The bookshop was empty apart from a Belgian couple in matching beige anoraks e …
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‘People think this is weird, if I still love my husband, why did we get divorced? Because survival is insufficient. Even during the apocalyp …
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Alistair Braidwood Reviews: For the Good Times by David Keenan
‘I mean, we all went to see Bill Haley when he played Belfast. That was just an excuse to rip out th …
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A Perfect Stocking Filler: How to Get Into Fashion by Eunice Olumide
‘I feel that this will help people and that’s the only purpose.’
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Scots Whay Hae! It’s The Best Of Books 2018 Podcast
‘There’s a lot of love for writers and publishers alike, and although we didn’t manage to cover it a …
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Rebel Yell! Scotland’s Herstory
‘I soon realised that I was becoming a ‘marked’ woman.’
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‘We surge forward, and hear someone sing,’
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Happy Birthday RLS! The Story Behind Kidnapped
‘The first book I remember owning and cherishing: there it was on the table one Christmas morning, R …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Juliet Conlin
Juliet Conlin was born in London and grew up in England and Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Durham. She works as a writer and translator and lives with her husband an …
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Kessock Books
Kessock Books, based in Inverness, publish an entertaining, informative and eclectic range of books on and about the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Our titles celebrate the astonishing and diverse landscapes, the mixture of cultures, and the comple …