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  • The Drowned Glen

    Series Book 2 - Iris Calder
    They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied.Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick — carrying a death toll no official record will admit — Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in ... Read more

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  • The Cleared Island

    Series Book 3 - Iris Calder
    Some places aren't empty. They were emptied.Kirsty is the one they come to now. Two years a solicitor and the youngest keeper of a count that began before she was born, she takes her first case alone: Eilean Fàire, a Hebridean island famously and 'voluntarily' abandoned by its last families in 1953 — a poignant end-of-an-era story retold on every heritage board since.But an old woman born on that ... Read more

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    Series Book 2 - The Unmapped
    They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied.Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick — carrying a death toll no official record will admit — Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in ... Read more

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  • A New Start for the Wrens

    A compelling and heartwarming WW2 saga

    by Vicki Beeby ...
    Series series The Wrens
    **Winner of the RNA Saga Award 2023**Are these newly trained Wrens ready to protect Britain's coastline?Following a humiliating experience involving the man she thought she'd marry, Iris Tredwick signs up to the Wrens in order to escape and find 'the right sort' of man to please her mother. After a bumpy start, Iris manages to befriend outspoken Mary and dreamer Sally as they are sent to their ... Read more

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  • Shroud of Darkness

    One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became bona fide manslaughter, and examination of the intimate lives of the passengers involved Chief Inspector MacDonald in a macabre game of hide-and-seek in which one man tried to find his identity and another was ready to kill to preserve the shroud of darkness that obscured his. ... Read more

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  • At Her Majesty's Pleasure

    In the final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences, with anecdotes about many of the most famous criminals in British history -- the Krays, the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Hear No Evil

    Shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger 2023

    by Sarah Smith ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 2022Glasgow, 1817: Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witnessed throwing a child into the River Clyde from the Old Bridge.If found guilty she faces one of two fates; death by hanging or incarceration in an asylum. But Jean's dea... ... Read more

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  • The Unlucky Australians

    by Frank Hardy ...
    Series Book 17 - Untapped
    In 1966, the Gurindji people working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory did something radical: they went on strike. They wanted equal wages—and land rights. Author Frank Hardy happened to be there. In The Unlucky Australians he tells the story of this walk-off, one that resulted in a successful land rights claim—a term Hardy has been credited for inventing in this important novel, ... Read more

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  • Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
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    From beyond the black stump to the Australian Alps; in schools on stations, missions, mines and over the air, it takes a special kind of person to be an outback teacher.Back then, not only did we have to teach the three Rs but also sewing, arts and craft, music, physical education - you name it. Plus there were the duties of gardener, cleaner, nurse, registrar, office administrator, free milk ... Read more

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  • A Genealogist's Guide to Gaelic Names

    A Reference for First Names from Scotland

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  • Thistle Versus Rose

    700 Years of Winding Up the English

    'Ask a Scotsman for directions and he'll tell you which way to go. Ask an Englishman and he'll try to sell you a map.' Anon*It's 700 years since the Scots thrashed the English at Bannockburn. Has there ever been a better opportunity to celebrate seven centuries of winding up the English?Exploring everything from money, diet, war and weather to language, love and landscape, Thistle vs Rose is a ... Read more

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  • Taken for Dead

    a darkly gripping must-read thriller, part of the unmissable Katie Maguire series

    Series Book 4 - Katie Maguire
    YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWNNot even one of Ireland's best detectives can catch these killers.In a secluded cove just outside the reaches of the city of Cork, a woman wakes up buried in the sand, unable to pull herself free. The gulls wheel silently overhead, oblivious to her nightmare…DS Katie Maguire of the Cork Garda is soon tracking the terrifying gang of torturers who call themselves the ... Read more

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