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Since lockdown began, people have woken up to Janey Godley's comedy by the hundreds of thousands... [She] has provided much-needed relief throughout the coronavirus pandemic with her gallus Glesga interpretations which have been shared around the country with much glee. - Daily Record'Ye've been TELT. Everybuddy's gonnae die if yeez aw keep gaun aboot an meetin each other an gaun hame wi a virus oan ye. So Ah've telt ye wance an Ah'm no gonnae tell ye again. This is the official line. If Ah see any o you oot there, Ah'm gonnae take a run an pit ma toe up the crack o yer arse. SO QUIT IT! Stey in the hoose, wash yer hands an keep yer family safe.'

From social and political issues, Amazon reviews and reflections on life's everyday moments, I Like Your Hat is Magi Gibson's latest poetry collection. Gibson's fresh, evocative (and sometimes provocative) writing is both modern and timeless. She draw inferences with keen insight from the little things in life (from buying stationery, graffiti to hats) that affect the big issues in all our lives - growing older, poverty and loss. Sometimes the smallest detail tells the most important story.

The issue of ownership within Scottish football isa rapdily changing landscape. Through a series ofadventures, Paul Goodwin has found himself to beScotland¿s expert in buying and running football clubs.Filled with interesting stories, knowledge and insightthis book is easily accesible to football fans and, indeed,future club owners.From exploring the history of club ownership, tothe worldwide examples with examples from SouthAmerica, Sweden and more, and an insight into thefuture of the Scottish football landscape this is a mustread for not only Scottish fans but of fans of the gameworldwide.

Guide to author's favourite hills under 2,000 feet, on the Scottish islands, including some that are rarely climbed, some that are well-known and iconic, and all of which offer a distinctive hillwalking experience. These are all hills with great character, they have attitude rather than altitude.

"The Highland Clearances Trail" answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, "The Highland Clearances Trail" provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.

Stephen Millar returns to explore Edinburgh, its neighbouring Leith and the 'tribes' that reside there. In the book, he discusses how the groups came to be and where they are going. From the Morningside Ladies to the Speculative Society, from the Leith Dockers to the Knights Templar, accompanying photos by Alan McCredie bring these tribes to life.

This innovative book provides a new, concise perspective on Basic Income - a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen resident in the country. This book has been rigoursly researched and thus will appeal to academics and policy-makers, as well, as to the general reader who is concerned about the current state of social security in the UK.

Living your life against the odds. Through the voices of Malawians The Spirit of Malawi is a first-hand account of daily life in Malawi. It also examines the big issues that affect us all, but Malawians more than most: climate change, the global economic divide and digitalisation. It looks beyond the clichés to consider what life is really like for 18 million people born into a national economy less than a quarter of the size of Edinburgh's.

A pocketbook reproduction of the Declaration of Arbroath with historical analysis by Tom Turpie to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. The document is a declaration of Scottish independence as a sovereign state in 1320, rather than a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, and to lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce.

Set in Edinburgh in 1690. The body of a wealthy merchant is discovered in his home in the city centre. Was his killing the result of a robbery gone wrong? The vicious mode of his death seems to suggest otherwise. Scotland is in upheaval as political and religious tensions boil, and there is mystery concealed behind the walls of Van Diemen's Land. MacKenzie and Scougall investigate.

Witty, light-hearted tour around Dumfries and Galloway.

The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial records. Douglas Watt offers the reader a new way of looking at this key moment in history, from the attempt to raise capital in London in 1695 through to the shareholder bail-out as part of the Treaty of Union in 1707. With the tercentenary of the Union in May 2007, The Price of Scotland provides a timely reassessment of this national disaster. REVIEWS Douglas Watt has brought an economist's eye and poet's sensibility in the Price of Scotland... to show definitively... that over-ambition and mismanagement, rather than English mendacity, doomed Scotland's imperial ambitions. - THE OBSERVER The Price of Scotland treats Darien as a financial mania. - THE FINANCIAL TIMES Exceptionally well written, it reads like a novel. As I say - if you're not Scottish and live here - read it. If you're Scottish read it anyway. It's a very, very good book. - i-on magazine The must-have book on the events in advance of the Act of Union that brought Scotland and England together in 1707 is Douglas Watt's The Price of Scotland. It's a fantastic run-through of the "e;catastrophic failure"e; of the Darien Scheme - the creation of the Company of Scotland to establish a Central American colony. THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Part of a series of guides on key figures and themes, this book follows the life of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender. The author sets out on his motorbike on the trail of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Selected for the Scottish Book Trust's Scots Language Grant introduced to mark the UN's International Year of Indigenous Language, Doors Tae Naewye is a new poetry collection by one of Shetland's finest poets written mostly in Shetlandic Scots.

This is a book that makes sense of the complexities of Scottish history in an insightful way, at a glance. Anna Groundwater has long experience of dealing with British, foreign and Scottish students, of all ages, who are bewildered by the huge task of trying to reconcile the development of Scotland as a nation with what they know of global history. Over time she has developed a way of presenting Scottish history, within a simple framework of dates, which students find helpful.

Spending seven months in Orkney during 2015 and 2016 in order to delve into the secrets of the islands, Richard Clubley was keen to get as many local views as possible. In this book, he portrays the northern Scottish islands fairly and honestly, with stories that even Orkney locals may not have heard before.

Poems giving voices to 67 remarkable women of Scotland from thousands of years BC to 21st century women. A diverse range of women are represented through poetic monologues in Scots and English. This powerful, unique, well-researched collection is a new landmark in the fine tradition of Scottish women's writing from a renowned poet and performer.

braw, adj. fine or fine-looking, excellent. This is a celebration of all that is braw, from the warmth of a Scottish pub to the beauty of the Highland hills, from sunbathing on a dual carriageway to weathering the Beast from the East. Dive into braw Scotland.