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Jewel in the Glen: Gleneagles, Golf and the Ryder Cup

Ed Hodge

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'I have always thought Gleneagles is one of the greatest places in the world to play golf' - Jack...

With Thy Towers High: Stirling Castle: The Archaeology of a Castle and a Palace

Gordon Ewart and Dennis Gallagher

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Dominating the surrounding landscape from its volcanic outcrop, Stirling Castle is an enduring...

Castles Map of Scotland

Collins Maps

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Explore Scotland's ancient monuments with this pictorial map featuring over 700 castles and...

Ghosts & Gallows: True Stories of Crime and the Paranormal

Paul Adams

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Murder and ghosts go hand-in-hand and vengeful spectres seeking justice or haunting the scene of the...

Malcolm -soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India: The Life of Sir John Malcolm (1769 - 1833)

Malcolm John

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Highly regarded in India and Persia to this day, Sir John Malcolm is remarkably little known in his...

Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland

Anne-Marie Kilday

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This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland...

James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Where the World Ends in Books

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Where the World Ends

Geraldine McCaughrean | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics, Thriller

5.7

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McCaughrean does an incredible job here. She heard a true story of a group of boys and men in the 1800s who go to a 'stack' to farm birds. The stack is a juttering jagged rock rising from the cold Scottish seas, a nasty place to be, so they plan to stay for a few days and then they hope to be collected. Although they weren't. McCaughrean then tried to imagine what happened to them next and what we get is an incredible well imagined narrative of hardship and survival filled with hope and love and triumph and turmoil. One of those novels which gives you a piece of history which was unknown and hard to imagine and at the same time makes you ask yourself what you would do in the same situation.