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...
View full detailsWhile 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.
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...
View full detailsThe 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 ...
View full detailsA wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after ...
View full detailsCalming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmenta...
View full detailsn 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...
View full detailsWhat 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 ...
View full detailsWinner 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...
View full detailsDuring 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...
View full detailsRob 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...
View full detailsThe life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, Bruce became a gifted military leader an...
View full detailsRobert 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...
View full detailsWalk 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...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce: King of Scots By Ronald McNair Scott. Robert the Bruce is one of the great heroic figures of history. When after years of strugg...
View full detailsThe definitive biography of Scotland's legendary leader by British novelist and former Sunday Times literary critic, Ronald McNair Scott
"That good old farming saying 'make hay while the sun shines' is true in so many ways ... " Life on a family farm is always full of its ups and dow...
View full detailsShortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2018. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls...
View full detailsJohn Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in educatio...
View full detailsTelling Tales is a nostalgic and beautifully written account of growing up on a small family farm which vividly evokes a way of life that, although...
View full detailsTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the star of Netflix's The Duchess, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Your Face or Mine and host of All That Glitters 'A fe...
View full detailsJames Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between rac...
View full detailsRobert Crawford is a poet and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.Drawing on a surprising variety of untapped sourc...
View full detailsJohn McPhee wrote this in 1969, during the course of a stay in Colonsay, the home of his forebears. He put his children into the local school and l...
View full detailsThis is the intimate and revealing biography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the neice of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen...
View full details'Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness' - Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and...
View full detailsSaltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year - a ...
View full detailsIn 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it becoming a rich man's playground (like so many other island...
View full detailsTHE OLIVE FARM is the story of the highs and lows of purchasing the farm and life in Provence: the local customs and cuisine; the threats of fire a...
View full detailsPublished to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, an account of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie, of his childhood and u...
View full detailsThis is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travel...
View full detailsPublished to coincide with the opening of the V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, this is the first major survey of Scottish design history from 1500...
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