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Luath Press takes its name from Robert Burns, whose little collie Luath (Gael., swift or nimble) tripped up Jean Armour at a wedding and gave him the chance to speak to the woman who was to be his wife and the abiding love of his life. Burns called one of ‘The Twa Dogs’ Luath after Cuchullin’s hunting dog in Ossian’s Fingal. Luath Press was established in 1981 in the heart of Burns country, and is now based a few steps up the road from Burns’ first lodgings on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Luath Press is an independent publishing house which offers distinctive writing with a hint of unexpected pleasures. Prizewinning and shortlisted books include Bad Catholics (Specsavers Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger – shortlisted) and The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley (Costa Children’s Book Award – winner; UK Literacy Association Book Award – winner).
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BOOKS FROM Luath Press
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Cashmere: A Guide to Scottish Luxury
Lynne McCrossan
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Richard Demarco & Joseph Beuys: A Unique Partnership
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Richard Demarco & Joseph Beuys: A Unique Partnership
Richard Demarco, Keith Hartley, Douglas Hall
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Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland
Cailean Gallagher, Amy Westwell, Rory Scothorne, Scott Hames
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Body Snatchers to Life Savers: Three Centuries of Medicine in Edinburgh
Dorothy Crawford, Tara Womersley
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Thring’s Practical Legislation: The Composition and Language of Acts of Parliament and Business Documents
Henry Thring, Madeline MacKenzie, David Purdie
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On the Trail of the Real Macbeth: King of Alba
Cameron Taylor, Alastair Murray
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Five Million Conversations: Lessons for Labour
Iain Watson
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Design
Rab Wilson
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Scots in New Zealand
Marjorie Harper
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A Dirty Swindle: True Stories of Scots in the Great War
Walter Stephen
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Dundee: A Comprehensive Guide for Locals and Visitors
Norman Watson
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Naw First Minister
Allan Morrison, Bob Dewar
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The Dean’s Diary
David Purdie
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Mcmillan’s Galloway: A Creative Guide by an Unreliable Local
Hugh McMillan
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Think Global, Act Local: Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes
Walter Stephen, Sofia Leonard, Murdo Macdonald, Kenneth Maclean, Narayana Gupta
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Pilgrims in the Rough: An Unreliable History of St Andrews
Michael Tobert
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Scotland’s Waterloo
Owen Dudley Edwards
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What Would a Different Economy and Work Look Like?
Stephen Boyd, Paul Thomson
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Power Failure: Exploring How Scotland is Run and What it Means for Our Democracy
Robin McAlpine, Will Dinan
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Lament for a Lost Scottish Culture
Eileen Reid
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Sir Walter Scott’s the Heart of Midlothian: Newly Adapted for the Modern Reader
Sir Walter Scott, David Purdie
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Forgive
Jenni Daiches
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Trackman
Catriona Child
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Scotland in 100 Buildings
Roger Emmerson
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Brave New Music: The Martyn Bennett Story
Gary West
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Scotland: Today and Yesterday
John MacKay
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Poisoning Pigeons in the Park: The Songs of Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer, Bob Dewar
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Doric Sayings
Douglas Kynoch
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Edinburgh: Our Storied Town
Donald Smith, Cat Outram
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
Christophe Lebold
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Merdeka
Chris Moorhouse
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Far Na Slighe
Shelagh Chaimbeul
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Pink Camouflage
Gemma Morgan
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Magnaccioni
Anne Pia
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Already, Too Late
Carl MacDougall
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Demarco’s Edinburgh
Richard Demarco, Roddy Martine
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The Tongue She Speaks
Emma Grae
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Letting Go: A timeline of tales
Gerda Stevenson
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Orkney: A Special Way of Life
Richard Clubley
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Linne Dhomhain (Dark Pool)
Alistair Paul
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100 Favourite Gaelic Poems
Peter MacKay, Jo MacDonald
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Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power – And Where is Goes From Here
Todd Westbrook
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Why Gardens Matter
Joanna Geyer-Kordesch
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The Case of the Catalans: Why So Many Catalans No Longer Want to be Part of Spain
Clara Ponsatí
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Essentials of Basic Income
Annie Miller
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A Basic Income Pocketbook
Annie Miller
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More Than A Game
Archie MacPherson
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The Declaration of Arbroath
Tom Turpie
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The Glasgow Effect
Ellie Harrison
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Scottish Artists in an Age of Radical Change: 1945 to the 21st Century
Bill Hare
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macCloud Falls
Robert Alan Jamieson
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Scottish Parliament in its Own Words: An Oral History
Thomas A.W. Stewart
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Barnhill
Norman Bissell
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The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite
Douglas Watt
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Scotland, the UK and Brexit
Gerry Hassan, Russell Gunson
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McSmorgasbord: What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics
Lesley Riddoch, Eberhard Bort
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The Old Grey Magician: A Scottish Fionn Cycle
Macpherson, George
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Poems, Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect
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This Is Scotland
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The Ultimate Guide To The Munros
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Trackman
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A Good Cause
Tessa Ransford
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Women Saying No
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EU Referendum 2016: A Guide for Voters
David Torrance
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