CATEGORY: Biography and Autobiography
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Morecambe & Wise: 50 Years of Sunshine
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Robert the Bruce: King of Scots
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God, Country, Golf: Reflections of an Army Widow
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter
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Promise at Dawn
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You are Always With Me: Letters to Mama
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Beyond that Last Blue Mountain
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Crossings
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The Fringes of History [WT]
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Colin Hunter of the Holland Park Circle: His Life and His Melbury Road Home
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Writers: Their Lives and Works
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I Love This Game: The Autobiography
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First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong
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The Man in the Arena: The Life and Times of U.S. Senator Gale Mcgee
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The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Volume 1, 1906-1919
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Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
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The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture
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Papers of John Adams, Volume 19: February 1787 – May 1789
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Between the Stops: Autobiography of Sandi Toksvig
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Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens
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David Robinson Reviews: Solitary Agents by David Goodman
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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:
James McGonigal
James McGonigal is a poet was a lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow. He was, for many years, a close friend and confidant of the poet, Edwin Morgan and wrote an acclaimed biography of the poet, Beyond the Last Dragon, in 2010. McGonigal al …
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The Islands Book Trust
Since 2003, IBT has published over 100 books or booklets on the history and culture (in English and Gaelic) of Scottish islands. In an earlier period we were publishing over 10 books pa. Our website shows the publications currently in print. Our most r …