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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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Connecting Scotland’s History: A Scottish History Timeline Linked into 2,000 Years of World History
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It Started in a Cupboard: Adventures in Life, Learning and Happiness
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Ayes & Ears: Opening Up the World of Westminster
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Life in the Raws: Memories of a Shale Oil Village
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The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie
Charlie Mackesy, Matthew Fitt
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An Gille, am Famh, an Sionnach ‘s an T-each
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The Real Stanley Baxter
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How to Buy and Run a Football Club: The Fans’ Guide to Community Ownership
Paul Goodwin
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Frank Get The Door!: ma feet are KILLIN me
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Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power – And Where it Goes From Here
Todd Westbrook
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Why Men Win at Work: …and How We Can Make Inequality History
Gill Whitty-Collins
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Testament of a Witch
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McMillan’s Galloway: A Creative Guide by an Unreliable Local
Hugh McMillan
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The Highland Clearances Trail
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Death of a Chief
Douglas Watt
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A Killing in Van Diemen’s Land
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Corrour Bothy
Ralph Storer
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Borders Witch Hunt: The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders
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Pilgrim of Slaughter
Douglas Watt
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The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
Douglas Watt
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On the Trail of Patrick Geddes
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Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland
Gerda Stevenson
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Doors Tae Naewye
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Barnhill: A Novel
Norman Bissell
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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
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Doric Sayings
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Edinburgh: Our Storied Town
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
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Merdeka
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Far Na Slighe
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Pink Camouflage
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Magnaccioni
Anne Pia
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Already, Too Late
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Demarco’s Edinburgh
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The Tongue She Speaks
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Letting Go: A timeline of tales
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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
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Revolution: A Short Sharp History of Scottish Wind Power – And Where is Goes From Here
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Why Gardens Matter
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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
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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
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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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