Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king.

    Now his faith and honor are about to be put to the test.After escaping a violent marriage, Killian Campbell swears no man will hurt or control her again. As she fights for her own life and her sons, Killian is forced to seek safety in the arms of the one man who could destroy her future.Only as Ruarc and Killian join together can they each make peace with the past . . . and with the feuding clansman who threaten to divide them forever.

    They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. Jessie's Journey describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. It is not an idyllic tale, but despite the threat of bigoted abuse and scattered schooling, humour and laughter run throughout a childhood teeming with unforgettable characters and incidents.

    For Kirsty MacLeod, the love of Murdo promises a new life away from the scrape of the land and the repression of the church. But the Great War looms.

    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    New poetry and visual artwork has been commissioned to form the 'Great Book' - a single bound volume, which will be a major contemporary artwork in the form of visual anthology. Canongate is publishing a beautiful accompanying catalogue to commemorate this immense celebration of contemporary Celtic culture. It will feature full-page, full-colour plates of all the artwork, the Gaelic poems with selected lines presented as calligraphy, full English translations and information on all the contributors.

    Two young men from a remote Scottish village decide to make their fortunes in London, but can't escape their close ties to home or the girl they leave behind...

    When Ross disappears Rachel is dismayed to find herself destitute and expecting his child.How will past secrets revealed help the two find each other again?Can they face the challenges of life at the Glens of Lochandee where they must strive to build up the farm, raise a family, and rear their animals despite the heartbreak of diphtheria and foot-and-mouth disease.Is their love of the land and each other enough to give them the strength and determination to face these hurdles, and more, as the shadow of a second World War looms?

    His prints encourage the eye to take an apparently endless journey. --"The Times Literary Supplement"In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. "Tir a'Mhurain" reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay. Juxtaposing people and landscape, Strand's photographs depict the perfect complicity he saw between nature and habitation in this wild terrain. Whether they are of rocks and sea or a grinning shepherd boy, scudding clouds hanging over seaside houses or the wrinkled face of an old lady, Strand's images capture the essence and complexity of a singular place.This new edition of "Tir a'Mhurain," which includes rare images never before published, is a true masterpiece of photography. In the spirit of the Aperture editions of Strand's classic works "La France de Profil" (2001) and "Un Paese" (1997), this volume celebrates the beauty of everyday life.

    St. Aidan and St. Cuthbert, two popular Celtic saints, are buried there. For more than 1,300 years pilgrims have made their way to this island, which now hosts half a million visitors a year. A Holy Island Prayer Book, with prayers for morning, midday, and night, follows the rhythms and seasons of the natural and Christian year as observed on Holy Island.More contemplative than the earthy spirituality of communities such as Iona, each day of the week has a special theme:Sunday: Resurrection and renewalMonday: CreationTuesday: incarnation and peaceWednesday: The Holy Spirit in mission and healingThursday: Community and unityFriday: With broken people at the CrossSaturday: Leisure (morning) and the Saints (night)A Holy Island Prayer Book includes prayers by popular author David Adam, and is the perfect companion for anyone who has visited Holy Island, or those who are there in spirit.

    and 3,000 ft.) and many other popular lower hills. Other hills include popular classics such as Criffel, Tinto, The Pentlands, The Eildons, The Ochils, Ben Venue, Mount Blair, Bennachie, Stac Pollaidh, Suilven and a wide range of hills throughout the islands, from Lewis to Arran.

    The semi-independent prince of the Hebrides and much of the West Highland mainland, he was a worthy representative of a notable line, living in dramatic and exciting times for Scotland, England, and Ireland. He took his part in it all, an active supporter of Robert the Bruce, encouraging trade, seeking to heal the feuding propensities of his people, allying the Isles with Orkney and Shetland and Norway, and travelling as far as the Baltic.

    This guidebook describes 87 walks and scrambles on the Isle of Skye, visiting the island's most a....

    Aiming not only to teach the reader to comprehend Scots as it is spoken, but also to speak Scots for practical purposes, this book includes a history of the development of the Scots language and a discussion on its modern day usage and status.

    Her writing, in equally dramatic fashion, takes the conventional subject of Scottish small-town life, and reshapes it through a combination of satirical analysis and melodramatic romance that no other writer from the north-east has achieved. The Collected Works of Lorna Moon is an enchanting collection, edited and introduced by Glenda Norquay, scholar of Scottish fiction and featuring a foreword by Richard de Mille, the illegitimate son of Lorna Moon and Hollywood director Cecil B. de Mille's brother William, in order to provide insight into the life of an extraordinary woman.

    It is an indepth study of Robert Kirk's 'The Secret Commonwealth', using this manuscript as starting point for examining other contemporary works conserning fairies and second sight. The Secret Commonwealth, written near the end of the seventeenth century by Robert Kirk, a Highland Presbyterian minister, is an account of Scottish beliefs concerning fairies and second sight. The abundance of Celtic fairy material in The Secret Commonwealth enables us to assess the extent to which non-Christian magico-religious folk beliefs were able to exist in the Highlands. One can also see where Kirk's text reflects or conflicts with orthodox belief systems regarding the supernatural world. These matters are discussed, as the contents of the text are systematically examined against the background of Celtic folklore and other seventeenth-century works that concerned themselves with fairies and the supernatural. This body of magico-religious beliefs, thus contextualized, is then interpreted to determine its importance and meaning in Early Modern Highland culture.The introduction consists of a description of the seventeenth century intellectual climate; the author; and the text's form, content, and publishing history. This is followed by a copy of the manuscript. The body of the thesis contextualizes the information in the manuscript typologically to derive an implicit context amid similar cultural expressions. The conclusion will re-examine some historical concerns before demonstrating that these fairy beliefs constituted a coherent, if amorphous, belief complex concerned with the nature of the spiritual, social, and physical world. This idea will be explored phenomenologically, to define the belief complex itself from the information gathered thus far, and then examined in the light of current academic views regarding `survivals' and `syncretism'. This is intended to draw the reader toward an understanding of this fairy belief complex and the position it holds in the Early Modern Highland culture.

    In the essay “And the Judges Said...” Kelman outlines some of the influences that led him to create literary art; from the music he heard as a teenager to American and Russian writers, to the lives of the Impressionists. Elsewhere he looks at the role of elitism in literature, the central importance of Chomsky’s work in 20th century thought, and the work of the Caribbean Artists Movement. At the core of the collection is an extended essay on Franz Kafka.

    He isolates the various factors that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time.

    Now her attempt at living a lie is thwarted by her growing love for Ian.

    In Scotland, the revolution assumed proportions unequalled by any other national Calvinist Reformation, with Christmas and Easter formally abolished, Sabbaths turned to fasting days, and mandatory attendance of weekday as well as Sunday sermons strictly enforced as part of an invasive disciplinary regimen.

    In this cultural, political and social history of British national identity - from the finest hour in the dark days of 1940 to the millennium celebrations of Blair's Britain - Richard Weight examines how the country's elite forged a popular modern Britishness in order to maintain morale during World War II and looks at what has happened to this curious construct in the years that followed.

    Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides real-world, historical grounding for the flights of visionary Temple building described in the rituals and symbolism of "high-degree" Masonry. The roots of mystical male bonding, accomplished through progressive initiation, are found in Stuart notions of intellectual and spiritual amicitia. Despite the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty in 1688 and the establishment of a rival "modern" system of Hanoverian-Whig Masonry in 1717, the influence of "ancient" Scottish-Stuart Masonry on Solomonic architecture, Hermetic masques, and Rosicrucian science was preserved in lodges maintained by Jacobite partisans and exiles in Britain, Europe, and the New World."

    The anthology has a running commentary -peering into the strata of four decades, picking through the archaeological remains, accompanied by newly commissioned letters from Edwin Morgan, Helen Douglas, Stephen Willats, Malcolm Dickinson and Craig Richardson. It surveys the literary avant-garde of the 1960s, via Ian Hamilton Findlay, Edwin Morgan, Alexander Trocchi, and Tom McGrath; the adventurous art scene that gravitated to the Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh the 1970s; the wilderness of Thatcherism and the post-Referendum dark age; and up to the present, through Beltane, post-punk and dance nation, the voice of young Scotland.

    It provides a fascinating glimpse of a lost way of life, when Gaelic language and traditions once had stronghold and when crofting held a much more dominant position. Raasay is one of the least known jewels of the Hebrides. Sheltered by Skye to the west, this side of the island contrasts with the stark grandeur of the eastern cliffs and valleys which lie under the spectacular mountain Dun Caan. It is here that the cleared townships of Hallaig, Suishnish and Screapadal, made famous by the poet Sorley Maclean who is perhaps Raasay's most famous son, are to be found.

    But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects, social, psychological, philosophical. Some of the poems have been set to music, both jazz and classical. In many ways it is a book of voices and observation, a book of accessible storytelling.

    But his ability to chat to women and draw out their deepest confidences raises suspicion in Gemma Sinclair, companion to the Lady of the Shetland Isles. Even as she falls under his seductive spell, she wonders if the green-eyed stranger is masking a darker purpose.THE FAIR ISLAND LASSWhen Gemma offers to be Drummond's guide around the island, he questions her motives. Her beauty touches his senses and her innocent courage, his soul. But surely her loyalty lies with the tyrannical laird who holds her uncle prisoner and thwarts Drummond's secret quest. Despite his doubts, Drummond handfasts with Gemma when her life is threatened, throwing them into a tantalizing intimacy Dare Drummond trust Gemma and make her his bride in truth?

    Insisting that images of the scandalous court had serious political importance, the book retells the tale of Overbury's rise to power, his fall and murder in 1613, and the public revelation of the murder two years later. The book examines the production and circulation of news about the scandal and assesses the political significance of contemporary depictions of the affair.