Written a century ago, in the Scottish town once dubbed the 'whisky capital of the world', this report formed the cornerstone of the nascent Japanese whisky industry.
Peter Banyard (1931-2018) was born in Birmingham and educated in London and Oxfordshire. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1961 and spent the greater part of his working life as teacher and chaplain in St Aloysius'' College, Glasgow. The predominant topics of his poetry are the natural world and especially the Hebridean island of Vatersay. His deftly crafted compositions were clearly inspired by his Victorian Jesuit predecessor Gerard Manley Hopkins. And, like Hopkins, he saw God in everything and good in everyone.
Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victories spanning five decades. His outstanding fighting qualities have made him a great favourite with the chess public and even in the latter stages of his career he remained capable of sweeping victories over world-class opposition.While some other Grandmasters have settled for an easy retirement, Larsen still fires on all cylinders!
A fascinating mix of Neil Munro's vivid journalism from World War One, a selection of short stories, and poems.
This is fantasy. More than that, it's a fantasy about a fable, overlaid with humour. Mitchison's 1955 novel creates a journey encompassing intrigue and broken expectations in which the simple plot, of the search for the Holy Grail, is underpinned by the understated, unresolved and ambiguous relationship between the two journalists who tell it.
Forfar, the county town of Angus, Scotland, is small enough for everyone to know almost everyone else in the town. And Forfar people like to know everything that goes on.
New and previously published - some revised - poems grouped as 'Ancient Voices', 'Two Hunterian Poems', 'Amoretti' and 'Dedications'.
A second collection of poems from Mario Relich, following 'Frisky Ducks' in 2014.
A portrait of the man whom Nelson Mandela was to describe as one of the 'bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known'.
An engaging historical record, in drawings, of Arbroath, and ten other Scottish harbours, in the 1990s. The author presents the book for people everywhere who feel the call of the sea.
Forfar, the county town of Angus, Scotland, is small enough for everyone to know almost everyone else in the town. And Forfar people like to know everything that goes on.
Charles Moore Wilson's new tale of a 'crime passionel' is told in English and French, in parallel text.
An autobiographical volume of two books - 'Other People's Worlds. Impressions of Ghana ad Nigeria' (1958) and 'Mucking Around. Five Continents over Fifty Years' (1981).
Two short novels, each first published in 1991, and each prefaced by an introduction to 'the history fiction game' by the author.
Fact and fiction mix in this telling of the history of Orkney and its people from the earliest times to the book's first publication in the late twentieth century.
Stories, poems and songs - including the classic 'Five Men and a Swan' - from Mitchison's Carradale years.
Anyone - beginners of all ages - can learn how to play chess with the help of this clear manual, now in its second edition.
Fifty of Ray Keene's columns written for The Article and The British Chess Magazine, in which his primary aim is to connect chess to wider political, scientific and cultural concerns.
A view of the later life and interests of the English composer, writer and suffragette Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), as revealed through a lively correspondence with Elizabeth Mary Williamson, her great niece, between 1922 and 1944.
David Potter, the sports writer best known for his books on football, takes on a subject close to his heart in this illustrated survey of 250 years of the history of cricket in Scotland.
Like city tour buses, this is a journey through Kirkcaldy to be hopped on and off - or enjoyed slowly from the beginning.
The indomitable chronicler of Ayr United takes a look at football in the context of the global pandemic of 2020. A time when the game's pomposity is at threat of being ridiculed by happenings that bring it crashing right down to earth.
A lifelong campaigner for the first-personal perspective, Alastair Hannay presents a powerful and historically framed case for restoring faith in its status as a provider of important truths about ourselves.
"I think it no exaggeration to say that all my poems came into my head at the mill." Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, 1907.
One man's record, in photographs, of a time of dramatic change in the history of a country.
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