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While the world teems with the champions of fiction titles, there are those who find that the twists and turns of real life are more than enough to keep them hooked on a good book. They find the joys and nuances of nonfiction of great value, especially when it comes to the art of biography.

 This is a genre that never gets old – from the heights of the royals to the kitchen sinks of your next door neighbour, a biography is a gateway to understanding a life and lifestyle that’s not your own. And by spending time with another person this closely, maybe you’ll find out something important about your own life.

 There’s nothing like biography, actually, when it comes to showing that people are people and we all have something in common. No matter if you’re reading notes scribbled years ago by the movers and shakers of Scottish history, modern approaches to important figures or the tell-alls of popular celebrities, there’s always something to learn when you read biographies or memoirs.

 And East Neuk Books is the best place to find the latest and greatest Scottish biographies. Flip through our pages to see our current stock of hundreds of books that are sure to interest and surprise you! Or peruse through our collection below and buy biography books online. No matter your taste, historical interests or approach to the art, you’re sure to find something that will captivate you and make it hard to put the book down!

 

If you’re not sure yet exactly what you’re looking for, feel free to take a glance through some of our more popular titles. From memoirs of Scottish childhoods to explorations of the highlands to to the reminiscence of school-days long past to ambitious studies of great lives like that of Mary, Queen of Scots, our collection is bound to educate and delight.

A Childhood in Scotland
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A Childhood in Scotland

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A Childhood in Scotland , is a memoir by Christian Miller originally published in 1981, and an autobiographical account of Christian Miller's depri...

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A Childhood in Scotland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Childhood in Scotland

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A Childhood in Scotland by Christian Miller Originally published in 1981, an autobiographical account of Miller's deprived yet upper-class childhoo...

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A Lie About My Father - East  Neuk Books Ltd
A Lie About My Father - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Lie About My Father

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A Lie About My Father by John Burnside John Burnside has published seven works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry, including his Selected ...

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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess

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Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers ...

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Alec Douglas-Home - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Alec Douglas-Home

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Alec Douglas-Home by D.R. Thorne Alec Douglas-Home, who died in October 1995, was a member of every Conservative administration from 1935 to 1974. ...

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Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe

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This is the story of Alexander Selkirk, Scottish mariner and adventurer, who was delighted to be rescued by passing sailors after four years alone ...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Bonnie Prince Charlie

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Bonnie Prince Charlie by Sir Fitzroy Maclean Published to mark the 250th anniversary of the '45, a study of Bonnie Prince Charlie which tells of h...

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Born Yesterday - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Born Yesterday

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Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood by Douglas Sutherland. This autobiography is a memoir of a childhood spent in Scotland almost 70 y...

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Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly

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"Billy", the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the personal and p...

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Diddly Squat - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Diddly Squat

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Welcome to Clarkson's farm.An idyllic spot offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows and natural springs, it's the perfec...

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Eastern Approaches - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Eastern Approaches

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Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean Sir Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Sovi...

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English Pastoral : An Inheritance - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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English Pastoral : An Inheritance

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As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient ...

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F.C.B. Cadell: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937 - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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F.C.B. Cadell: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937

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Originally published in 1988, F.C.B. Cadell: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937 was the first book devoted entirely to the life o...

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Farewell Mr Puffin: A small boat voyage to Iceland - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Farewell Mr Puffin: A small boat voyage to Iceland

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The writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to breathe the cool, cl...

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Farm Business Management : The Decisive Farmer - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Farm Business Management : The Decisive Farmer

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Management research has shown successful farmers have quite distinct personal characteristics which most farmers have seldom thought about. Farmers...

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Glasgow's Godfather - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Glasgow's Godfather

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Glasgow's Godfather by Robert Jeffrey Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a bo...

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Graveyards and Cemeteries of Fife
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Graveyards and Cemeteries of Fife

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The burial grounds, graveyards and cemeteries of Fife contain many fascinating historical tales, often with interesting superstitions attached. All...

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Growing Goats and Girls : Living the Good Life on a Cornish Farm - ESCAPISM AT ITS LOVELIEST - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Growing Goats and Girls : Living the Good Life on a Cornish Farm - ESCAPISM AT ITS LOVELIEST

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Ever dream of packing up and escaping to a simpler life on the land, just the Cornish landscape and a few cows and goats rising up to greet you ea...

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Guvnor Autobiography of Lenny Mclean
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Guvnor Autobiography of Lenny Mclean

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A victim of violent abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Lenny spent much of his teenage life in borstal as he began to follow a life of crime. Ho...

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Hills of Home by Amy Stewart Fraser - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Hills of Home by Amy Stewart Fraser

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Memoir of her childhood days as the daughter of a parish minister in Glen Gairn, near Balmoral, Scotland at the turn of the century.

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I Am An Island by Tamsin Calidas
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I Am An Island by Tamsin Calidas

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clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times'A fascinating memoir' - Daily MailWhen Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish He...

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I'll Try Anything Once by Prue Leith
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I'll Try Anything Once by Prue Leith

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Originally published as Relish, a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue...

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In Memory Long by by Amy Stewart Fraser - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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In Memory Long by by Amy Stewart Fraser

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Fraser writes about this beautiful area of Scotland with a style that will delight any historian or follower of social history; observing the detai...

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Into The Valley by Richard Jobson
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Into The Valley by Richard Jobson

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From school punk to modern day film producer, Richard Jobson has lived a full and colourful life. A harrowing incident as a child left him sufferin...

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Island on the Edge by Anne Cholawo
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Island on the Edge by Anne Cholawo

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Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for...

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Island Years, Island Farm - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Island Years, Island Farm

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Island Years, Island Farm By Frank Fraser Darling Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, the authors' fortunes changed when he began visiti...

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Island Years, Island Farm

Little Toller Books

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, Frank Fraser Darling's fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. S...

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John Gorrie - A Maiden of Mauritius - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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John Gorrie - A Maiden of Mauritius

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John Gorrie was a respected colonial judge, albeit defiantly and decidedly not on the side of the ruling classes in the territories where he was po...

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Joseph Knight by James Robertson - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Joseph Knight by James Robertson

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‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’Daily Telegraph A gripping, shocking story...

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Kika & Me: How One Extraordinary Guide Dog Changed My World - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Kika & Me: How One Extraordinary Guide Dog Changed My World

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Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. Totally dependent on others an...

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King and Outlaw by Chris Brown - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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King and Outlaw by Chris Brown

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King and Outlaw: The Real Robert the Bruce by Chris Brown The real historical personality behind the new Netflix blockbuster movie Outlaw King is r...

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Last of the Chiefs - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Last of the Chiefs

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Last of the Chiefs: Alasdair Ronaldson Macdonnell of Glengarry 1773-1823 By Brian D Osborne. This book examines the life and chacter of this Highla...

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Living Our Best Lives : Cannon Hall Farm - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Living Our Best Lives : Cannon Hall Farm

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n the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley, he has turned what was once a humble small family...

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Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt

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Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt by Katherine Frank The mysterious cities of the dead, Egypt's desert Necropoli, set the scene for this book. ...

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March Past by Lord Lovat - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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March Past by Lord Lovat

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March Past by Lord Lovat Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and 4th Baron Lovat, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL (9 July 1911 in Beaufo...

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Mary Queen Of Scots - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Mary Queen Of Scots

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Mary Queen Of Scots By Antonia Fraser is the bestselling biography of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history.

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My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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My Darling Buffy: Early Life of the Queen Mother

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This biography provides a portrait of the Queen Mother from her earliest years until her marriage at the age of 22 to the Duke of York. It describe...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and ...

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Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Memoir by Robert Douglas - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Memoir by Robert Douglas

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A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after ...

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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

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Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmenta...

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Off in a Boat: Hebridean Voyage by - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Off in a Boat: Hebridean Voyage by

House of Lochar

n 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his...

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One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere

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What happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new? When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to tend ...

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Patrick Sellar and the Highland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Patrick Sellar and the Highland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Patrick Sellar and the Highland

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Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable h...

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Recollections of East Fife Fisher-folk - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Recollections of East Fife Fisher-folk

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During the early part of the 20th century, fishing still formed one of the main industries in the famous corner of Fife. Belle Patrick spent her fi...

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Rob Roy MacGregor by Nigel Tranter - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Rob Roy MacGregor by Nigel Tranter

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Rob Roy MacGregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centur...

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Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince,

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The life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, Bruce became a gifted military leader an...

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Robert the Bruce King of Scots - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Robert the Bruce King of Scots - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Robert the Bruce King of Scots

Birlinn General

Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced t...

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Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled

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Walk in the footsteps of a Scottish King and discover what happened when he ventured to Ireland in Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled. This explo...

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