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Naomi Mitchison's 1947 novel about events two hundred years earlier - in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 - as a family, based on her own ancestors, gathers at Gleneagles.
A new edition of Isobel Murray's acclaimed biography of the inspirational Scottish novelist, playwright and radio producer, Jessie Kesson.
The Second World War diary and poems of Jack Rillie, edited by his grandson Alasdair Soussi. A real insight into the early life of the inspirational university lecturer described by Alexander Maitland as 'an unsung hero of Scotland's post-war literary scene'.
The tragedy of Douglas was first performed in 1756, at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment, and created a scandal. The controversy was literary, religious and political. This title reprints the text of the play, and illustrates its popular reception - mainly as expressed in contemporary pamphlets.
Eschewing Plutarch and Shakespeare's tale of Mark Antony's fatal romance, Naomi Mitchison's 'Cleopatra's People' starts with the next generation, with the children of the Queen and of Charmian, one of her 'mates'. The impact of Cleopatra's life and personality is reflected through them, and their efforts to follow in her wake.
Anna Comnena is described as the first female historian, the author of her father's celebratory biography. She was an educated princess in eleventh-century Constantinople, the daughter of the Emperor Alexius. She was expected to succeed him, and raised as heir, but her hopes were dashed by the birth of a younger brother.
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