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Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin ... More

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The classic bestselling book--the subject of a play, movie, and a song--that tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and ... More

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A teacher at a private girls' school, Miss Jean Brodie commands total devotion from her six charges--but one of the girls betrays her. A classic work ... More

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The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year.

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Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to ... More

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A powerful testament to the rich variety of the Scottish experience of childhood over the past few centuries.

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Scotland has a complex relationship with the sea. In this comprehensive anthology -- which includes writing from Buchan, Scott, Stevenson, Kipling -- ... More

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"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog's ... More

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It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her ... More

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Elizabeth Bowen's most famous novel, THE DEATH OF THE HEART is a piercing story of innocence betrayed. The heroine is Portia, the product of a blithe ... More

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In THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, Muriel Spark's 1961 novel, Miss Brodie, an eccentric teacher at a private girls' school, teaches her impressionable ... More

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A land of legend and wild beauty--of clans, lairds, honor, and passion--Scotland forever stirs the soul to romance. Now, in one incomparable volume, ... More

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Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people ... More

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In the art of the short story, Scotland's writers have led the way. The earliest in this anthology, those of Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg, are ... More

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Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people ... More

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Encompassing magical fairy tales and modern innovative works, The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories surveys the rich literary heritage of ... More

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In this volume, Polygon, The Macallan, and "Scotland on Sunday" are pleased to offer the very best of contemporary Scottish story writing selected ... More

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Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War ... More

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"The year was 1937 and Hitler had just walked into Austria. It was also a marvellous year for Clouded Yellow butterflies." Wilfred and Duncan live in ... More

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At the threshold of World War II, Wayne Luthie leads the Wonders, an inexperienced British flight squadron playing at war form a safe distance. But ... More

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In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as 'The Rat Pit'. Here the vagrant can get a nightly bunk for a few pence...'The Rat ... More

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Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to ... More

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The plane was black, but it was not from that it got its name. The old slavers were known as blackbirders - the men and the ships that dealt in human ... More

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