CATEGORY: Biography and Autobiography
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Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus: The Story of the Best-Selling Author and His Complex Detective
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Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes
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Finding Peggy
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Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir
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Soor Plooms and Sair Knees: Growing Up in Scotland After the War
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A Life in Pictures
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My Sporting Heroes: His 50 Greatest from Britain and Ireland
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Seeing Things: A Memoir
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Tales from the Tap End
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The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present
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Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan
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The Tsar’s Doctor
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Around the Peat Fire
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Them That Live the Longest
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Poet McGonagall: The Biogrpahy of William McGonagall
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Tenterfield: My Happy Childhood in Care
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Taxi!: Never a Dull Day – A Cabbie Remembers
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Hide-and-seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie
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Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Life
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The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
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 …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet, playwright and performer. The Drift, her autobiographical spoken word show, was part of the National Theatre of Scotland’s 2019 season and Black History Month 2019. Her play, The Lament for Sheku Bayoh, was commissione …
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Arkbound
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