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Hebridean Waves: Kayaking Scotland's West Coast
Here we read of the challenges and excitement of sea kayaking, a sport which is rapidly increasing in popularity, while entering a world of hidden coves, cliffs and coastal life. This is not just for the adventurous; it is for all those who love Scotland’s stunning western isles and coast.
ISBN 978-0-9554273-2-9 pbk£12.99 £10.00
It can be far from easy fulfilling the role of a boy who has to live out a childhood and adolescence and with the censorious words, ‘Remember Who You Are!’ ringing in his ears. The privileges and benefits of a Manse upbringing may be well enough recognised, but the constraints and hardships are largely unknown to those who have escaped such an upbringing. The struggle for an independent identity can have much to do with how any son of the Manse turns out.
ISBN 978-0-9554273-1-2 pbk £12.99 £9.00
Often overlooked are the nurses of the Great War. Poignant testimonies of the nurses themselves bear witness to their extraordinary courage, sacrifice and hardship in this new appraisal of their work. Mass mobilisation of nurses by professional and voluntary nursing services led to considerable rivalry between different groups and working environments were very varied. Nurses were involved in the day-to-day harrowing duties of Casualty Clearing Stations, Stationary Hospitals, Hospital Barges and Trains. Many lost their lives or severely damaged their health. Some suffered war trauma or shell-shock, hitherto considered a combatants’ disease. The exigencies of war led to nurses pioneering new care practices and inventing a variety of adjuncts that helped with diagnosis and treatment.
ISBN 0954441656 pbk £12.99 £9.00
Stand By Your Beds! (New Edition, Sept 06)
A Wry Look at National Service by
Dr David Findlay Clark
O.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., C.Psychol., F.B.P.s.S.
Foreword by Trevor Royle, Historian and Author
ISBN 0954441699 pbk £12.99 £9.00
Walking on Wheels: 50 Wheel-friendly Trails in Scotland
Walking on Wheels is a map book with a difference. It is the first book of its kind - a guide for wheelchair and electric scooter users who wish to enjoy the Scottish countryside. The need for information on trails that can be accessed by the less able-bodied in wheelchairs or electric scooters has not been addressed here before and this book attempts to give the reader accurate and relevant information. The author has drawn on her own personal knowledge of the paths and trails to provide the reader with a practical guide to the degree of difficulty and the sights and attractions which the wheelchair or electric scooter user might encounter on each route
ISBN 0-9544416-8-0 spiral bound £10.99 £7.00
Thomas Carruthers 1840-1924
Thomas Carruthers, famous throughout the golfing world in his day and whose
clubs regularly appear in auction catalogues, lived for sixty years next to
Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh. His invention of the through-bore short socket
for metal clubs, patented in 1890, is regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as
one of the most important golf patents of the nineteenth century. This is a book
for golf collectors, keen golfers and for those interested in old Edinburgh.
by Tom Carruthers
ISBN 0954441648 pbk £15.99 £7.00
Gurkhas are not often seen in the Western Isles; perhaps these were the first. Hebridean Gurkha tells the tale of what was to be much more than a walking holiday for Neil and five Gurkhas. As the boys set off in heavy rain across the low peat bogs of Lewis, they were to encounter the rocky hills of Harris before striding along the sweeping white beaches of the Uists under blue skies. Then on to the sand-ringed Isle of Barra where a boatman took them to their journey’s end, Barra Head, in the far south. The wee men from Nepal called it ‘Barra Heaven’.
by Neil Griffiths
ISBN 0954441664 pbk £10.99 £5.00
Neil’s second cross country-walk with a team of Gurkhas - this colourful, and at time hilarious, account of one of the country’s great walks is interspersed with little known but curious facts of Scottish and Gurkha history.
by Neil Griffiths
ISBN 095444163X pbk £10.99
Walking the Southern Upland Way
Scottish Outdoors, long distance walking, and Gurkhas
by Neil Griffiths
Commended by Joanna Lumley
ISBN 0954441605 pbk £10.99 £5.00
Of Fish and Men: Tales of a Scottish Fisher
This new, revised and expanded edition of Of Fish and Men is a heart warming and often amusing collection of anecdotes and personal observations from over forty years of fishing, linked by a commentary on the author’s life and times. The book is about much more than fishing; it is about characters and countryside, and about fitting a cherished pastime around the demands of career and family. The reader is taken into the author’s middle years and a perceptive commentary on the stresses and strains of midlife.
by David C. Watson
ISBN 0954441672 pbk £12.99 £5.00
by Nicholas Fairweather
Foreword by Robin Harper,
Member of the Scottish Parliament
ISBN 0953503682 pbk £12.99
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Polish Second World War Veterans in Scotland
Edited by Dr Diana M Henderson
Foreword by Dr Stanislaw Komorowski
Former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland
Part of the Voices of War series
ISBN 095350364X pbk £9.99 £5.00
Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese by
Tom McGowran O.B.E.
Foreword and Illustrations by G S Gimson Q.C.
Chairman of the Scottish Far East Prisoner of War Association
Part of the Voices of War series
ISBN 0953503615 pbk £9.99 £5.00
Escapes from Nazi Prisoner of War Camps 1941-1945
by Andrew S Winton DA (Edin)
Foreword by Allan Carswell
Curator of the National War Museum of Scotland.
Part of the Voices of War series.
ISBN 0953503658 pbk £9.99 £5.00
by John Gritten
Foreword by Dr Peter Liddle
Director of The Second World War Experience Centre, Leeds
ISBN 0953503690. Hardback £19.99 £7.00
An introduction to Scotland’s Cold War experience. an interesting sample of the numerous issues faced by communities north of the Border from the close of the Second World War until the late 1990s. Edited by Brian P. Jamison
ISBN 0954441613 pbk £12.99 £5.00
Recounts the tale of Robert Burns, a grandson of the Bard, who
sailed to Singapore in 1846 and worked as a trader in Singapore,
Labuan and along the North-West coast of Borneo.
by Alistair Renwick
ISBN 0954441621 pbk £12.99 £5.00
A Scottish Soldier in the Age of Imperialism
by Dr Fred Reid
Foreword by Professor Hamish Fraser,
Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde
ISBN 0953503674 pbk £10.99 £5.00
Perth and the First World War by
Dr Bill Harding Ph.D., F.E.I.S.
Foreword by Alan Hamilton,
The Times Staff Correspondent and Author
Part of the Voices of War series
ISBN 0953503623 pbk £12.99 £5.00
Letters of Love and War 1911-1917
The Poignant Testimony and Story of
Captain Hugh Wallace Mann and Jessie Reid.
Compiled and Introduced by Bríd Hetherington.
Foreword by Dr Diana M Henderson,
Research Director of The Scots at War Trust.
Part of the Voices of War series
ISBN 0953503607 pbk £12.99 £5.00
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Dunfermline Abbey Diary: 1969-1990
Stewart M. Macpherson
ISBN 0-9554273-0-4 £6.99 £3.00