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Runaway Dreams tells the story of brothers Pat, John and Tommy McManus who, as Mama's Boys, wrote...

First published in this format in 1884, this early chronological account forms a complete overvie...

John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language....

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charmi...

When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the ey...

Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her grandda...

A writer's job is to notice the world. To catch in words the qualities, textures, patterns, peopl...

George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection fr...

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In the fast disappearing slums of the Claggans district of a big Scottish city, only a few teneme...

When speaking of idols, the author is not referring merely to the 'traditional' interpretation of...