Item category 1: Read Past/Discover Future

This is the guide to everything strange, mysterious and uncanny that has occurred in Aberdeenshire. Every historic site and ancient monument is explored as well as the many hidden treasures to be found in the area. Full access and site details are given, along with the strange and mysterious hist...

Liz Lochhead's play about Mary Queen of Scots, revised and with a new introduction, is an iconoclastic take on a famous historical subject, which is much used by schools and drama groups.

Sue Lawrence has interviewed 70 prominent Scots and unlocked their memories of food and what it was like for them growing up. She talks to diverse public figures such as Ewan McGregor, Gordon Brown and Andy Murray about their families, their home and their relationship with food.

Introduces some of the wealth of the spoken and written word in Scotland to those who may not be familiar with them. This title includes 600 selected Doric words, as well as a simple meaning, the context and background to the word. Ever been lost for words or just completely mystified by what you...

A collection of poems that explores the life and culture of the Granite City as seen by poets through the centuries, including Lord Byron, Edwin Morgan, Stuart Conn, and Iain Cricton Smith. This book of poems about Aberdeen includes work by Edwin Morgan, Iain Crichton Smith, Thomas Hardy, Lord By...

This treasury gathers together excerpts from diaries across the generations to paint a rich and surprising picture of a landscape and a way of life we think we know so well.

Local rather than international, the dramas & privations described in this memoir are not the stuff of headlines. This is the story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast after the war; an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut & author of 'An Evil Cradling'.

Jim Crumley explores the place of the wolf in Scotland and challenges many of the myths that have been regarded for centuries as biological fact. Crumley questions much of the written evidence on the plight of the wolf in light of contemporary knowledge and considers the wolf in today's world.