CATEGORY: Biography and Autobiography
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Mary Queen of Scots: Born to Rule
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Gaelic Guerrilla: John Angus Mackay – How He Won the Gaelic Television and Much Much More
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Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue
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Constitution Street
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Surfacing
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AEthelflaed: Lady of the Mercians
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Gallacher: The Biography of a Troubled Genius
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King George’s Hangman: Henry Hawley and the Battle of Falkirk, 1746
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Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher: Scenes from a Scottish Childhood
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Lord Clyde: The Orkney Judge
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Just Another Mountain
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The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison
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Barnhill
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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
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Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
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Lowborn
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From Corsets to Communism: The Life and Times of Zophia Nalkowska
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Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story
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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Happy Halloween! Things We Say in the Dark
‘She needed to be able to touch the sides of her world. Everything was so vast and she felt that her …
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‘It is a day to think twice about the colour of your footwear, nail varnish, contact lens.’
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Translation as Conversation: Turning Together
‘As a translator, you are constantly practising this art of conversation by not imposing your own th …
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‘To my mind, whisky is a drink of dreams and it makes me smile from my heart.’
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Time for the Dead by Lin Anderson
‘I specialize in hidden and buried bodies, remember?’
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Translation as Conversation: Alastair Reid
‘When I look back on the whole business of translating, now that I have left it behind…I realise t …
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Doug Johnstone
Douglas Johnstone is a writer and freelance journalist, based in Edinburgh. Originally from Arbroath, he studied physics at University, and has a PhD in experimental nuclear physics. Johnstone spent four years designing radar and missile guidance syste …
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Cranachan Publishing
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