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  • Crappit Heids for Tea

    Recollections of Highland Childhood

    by Iby Fraser, Ann Gray, Chris Fletcher ...
    In this memoir, the daughter of one of the first keeper's of Scotland's Shinness Estate details life in the early 20th century Scottish Highlands.Sutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated parts of Scotland. In the nineteenth century, the Duke of Sutherland set about improving his landholdings to make them more productive by building lodges for sporting tenants who ... Read more

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  • A History of the Kitchen

    by David Eveleigh ...
    What were early kitchens like? How have they evolved over time? What factors have influenced their design? David Eveleigh takes you into the heart of the home and shows us why modern kitchens are the way they are. Everything you could wish to know about kitchens and their unusual history will be found with these pages. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Outback School Stories

    by Bill Marsh ...
    Series series Great Australian Stories
    Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback.If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school.this collection of more than sixty stories, gathered by Bill 'Swampy' Marsh in his travels across Australia, perfectly captures the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Only Way Was Essex

    Tough Times and simple pleasures: growing up in an Essex village in the 1920s

    by Spike Mays ...
    In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was no electricity, no bathroom, no running water and just a shared privy in the back yard. Beset by poverty, this was an England in the shadow of the Great War.In this bittersweet memoir Mays recreates ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Croft in the Hills

    by Katharine Stewart ...
    A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among Highland books. It captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences ... Read more

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  • On the Crofter's Trail

    by David Craig ...
    Tracing the legacies of the small farmers displaced and scattered in nineteenth-century Scotland, this is "a powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the Clearances of the nineteenth century, crofts—once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland—were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland ... Read more

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  • Rifling Through My Drawers

    by Clarissa Dickson Wright ...
    With her inimitable wit and outspoken views, Clarissa Dickson Wright opens her diary and takes us on a journey around Britain with this unrivalled collection of stories and anecdotes from her ever-eventful life. As celebrated cook and champion of the countryside, Clarissa's year includes being propositioned by a burly greyhound courser, meeting the Chairman of the Sandringham branch of the WI, a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Isolation Shepherd

    by Iain R. Thomson ...
    In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years.Isolation Shepherd is the moving story of those years. Set against the awesome splendour of some of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tattie Howkers and Paddy Lowpers

    by Harold Slight ...
    A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries.It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of England and of the many characters who left theirmark. It is written with the conviction of personal experience, enhanced by memories which go back much further through the generations, giving the readera ... Read more

    $1.62 USD

  • Snow On the Lindis

    My Life At Morven Hills Station

    by Bee Dawson, Madge Snow ...
    A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow’s story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand’s most well-known high-country stations – once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolshed is one of New Zealand’s instantly recognisable farm buildings and is one of the largest ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Secret History of Here

    A Year in the Valley

    by Alistair Moffat ...
    The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat’s farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before.But it is also the story of everywhere. In uncovering the history of one piece of land, Moffat shows how history is all ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • From the Alleghenies to the Hebrides

    An Autobiography

    by Margaret Fay Shaw ...
    Margaret Fay Shaw's life spans a century of change. Orphaned at 11 she left home and school in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia aged 16, crossing to Scotland to spend a year at school near Glasgow. It was there that her love for Scotland was born. After studying music in New York and Paris, she returned to live for six years with two sisters in South Uist. Life on the island had changed little from ... Read more

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