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Beautiful Just
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The island of Bruach provides the setting for more stories of life among the crofters. Packed with hilarious incident and evocative descriptions of glorious landscape and wildlife, Beautiful Just! is an enchanting evocation of crofting life in the Hebrides.
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Hills Is Lonely
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Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1959
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Sea for Breakfast
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The Sea for Breakfast finds "Miss Peckwitt" (as the islanders endearingly pronounce her name) settling into a home of her own on Bruach, and mastering -- with the help, and frequently the hindrance, of her fellow islanders -- such varied arts as peat-cutting, winkle-picking, and beachcombing. Originally published in 1961.
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Rope in Case
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The loud halo
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Lillian Beckwith
Filled with the same sort of happy spirits, eccentric characters, and amusing anecdotes which distinguished its predecessors, The Loud Halo brings to a humorous and spirited conclusion a wonderful trio of narratives. Originally published in 1964.
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Bruach blend
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Lillian Beckwith
What can take the fire out of a fever and the ache out of loneliness? The answer according to Tearlaich is whiskey! And when he suggests to Lillian that the Islanders should have their own blend, Lillian can see his logic. Here is a pleasurable glimpse of the way the Islanders, with irreverent practicality, manage on the island of Bruach.
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Lightly poached
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Proper Woman
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For Anna, a carefree and gentle child living in a remote community in the Hebrides, a chance meeting with the mysterious and romantic "Jimmy Pearl" is to take on a dream-like quality as she grows to womanhood and encounters a hard and often cruel adult world. When Anna's parents die and her brother, with his new wife, sells the family croft, Anna ...
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Shine of Rainbows
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The story of Thomas, a shy, frail orphan boy who goes to live with foster parents on an isolated croft on an island in the Hebrides.
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Small Party
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Set on the Isle of Man, this is the dramatic story of an island under siege, as seen through the eyes of one islander determined to save her two children. Jeannie and her family manage to survive despite the destruction of their craft, personal hardships and the desecration of their island. Lillian Beckwith has written numerous novels including ...
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Bay of Strangers
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Green hand
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Island Apart
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Island-born Kirsty MacLennan marries Ruari MacDonald in order to escape city life and a menial job in a guesthouse to return to her beloved homeland. As she rediscovers her roots and adapts to married life on the idyllic Westisle, there is only one thing standing in the way of her future happiness - the brooding presence of her brother-in-law who ...
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A Breath of Autumn
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Lillian Beckwith
Kirsty MacDonald is a crofter on the idyllic Westisle in the Hebrides, an island she now owns. Her son, 'the Wee Ruari', has started school on the mainland, travelling by boat across the Sound to Clachan. Being separated from her son during the week is a wrench for Kirsty. Twice widowed, she misses the boy's father, who was tragically drowned, and ...
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Spuddy
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He is an abandoned grey-black mongrel. The fishermen call him The Spuddy. The only person to care for him is Andy, a young dumb boy. For both of them their meeting brings friendship after loneliness. But when they become friends with Jake, skipper of the Silver Crest, events take an unexpected turn...
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Lillian Beckwith's Hebridean cookbook
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The Lillian Beckwith omnibus
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Lillian Beckwith, Douglas Hall
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Green hand: a novel
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Tara Kane, Elephant Bill, the Brendan Voyage, a Stranger is Watching, the Spuddy (Reader's Digest Condensed Books)
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Tim Severin J. H. Williams, Mary Higgins Clark, Lillian Beckwith George Markstein
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Auf Den Inseln Auch Anders. GroßDruck
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Isabella; Beckwith Nadolny, Lillian
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Island aaart
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The Hebridean Quartet
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Unser Herkules. Geschichte Und Geschichten Rund Um Das Kasseler Wahrzeichen
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