CATEGORY: Biography and Autobiography
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Mary Lily Walker 1853-1913: Forgotten Visionary of Dundee
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The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna
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Mary Shelley
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Blink: A Journey Through Gangland Mayhem
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Wingfield at War
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim: Robert Beck’s Real Story
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Looking for Mrs. Livingstone
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Stalin’s Legacy: The Soviet War on Nature
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Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
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George Mackay Brown: The Wound & the Gift
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The Grand Designer: Third Marquess of Bute
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High Hopes: My Autobiography
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Hebridean Sharker
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A Garden in the Hills
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The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen’s Cousin
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My Son, My Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next
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Once Upon a Crime
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Megrahi: You are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence
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“SAHB” Story: The Tale of the “Sensational Alex Harvey Band”
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Benny: The Life and Times of a Fighting Legend
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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David Robinson Reviews: Solitary Agents by David Goodman
‘This is very much an up-to-the-minute story of spycraft, positively revelling in all the things tha …
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The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
‘It is their resistance to the intrusions of the outside world − culturally, economically, environme …
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The Shortest History of Scotland: A Q & A with Murray Pittock
‘We need to be better aware of that to understand the challenges and achievements of the past, and t …
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David Robinson Interviews: John Lister-Kaye
‘I enjoy stillness. It creeps up on you and becomes almost a force. I’ve had squirrels run over my f …
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Spring 2026 Round Up of Scots & Gaelic Releases
‘Discover Jansson’s uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure.’
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Walking Edinburgh’s Lost Railways By Robin Howie and John McGregor
‘In earlier times it was a site where lovers came to relax and dream, hence the beautiful traditiona …
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