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  • Who Killed Cock Robin?

    British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment

    Folk throughout the centuries have found themselves entangled with the law: abiding it, breaking it and being punished by it. Who Killed Cock Robin? is an anthology of folk songs of crime and punishment, with songs drawn from manuscripts, broadsides, old songbooks and oral tradition. Each section contains a historical introduction, and every song is presented with a melody, its lyrics and an ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Lions under the Throne

    Essays on the History of English Public Law

    Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origins and development of the great body of public law by which the state, both institutionally and in relation to the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Law and the Whirligig of Time

    For over 30 years, first as a QC, then as a judge, and latterly as a visiting professor of law at Oxford, Stephen Sedley has written and lectured about aspects of the law that do not always get the attention they deserve.His first anthology of essays, Ashes and Sparks, was praised in the New York Times by Ian McEwan for its 'exquisite, finely balanced prose, the prickly humour, the knack of artful ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ashes and Sparks

    Essays On Law and Justice

    As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what has transpired since or an explanation of the British legal and political context that originally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

    by Gordon Jarvie ...
    Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Classic Poetry for Children

    Introduce children to the joys of poetry with this intricately illustrated collection of classics a book that will delight both young and old. The carefully selected poems in this anthology open up an enchanting world of rhythm and language, feeling and fantasy. The book features a wide range of well-known writers, including Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, William Blake and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Candlemass Road

    George MacDonald Fraser wrote The Candlemass Road after completing his research and writing The Steel Bonnets, his nonfiction account of the Anglo-Scottish border Reivers. Young Lady Margaret Dacre was brought up in the genteel fashion at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. When her father is murdered, she inherits his lands in the English West March and is plunged into a world where violence and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Scottish Traditional Tales

    All over the world traditional tales used to be told at the fireseide until their place came to be taken by books, newspapers, radio and television. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Silver Bough Volume 3

    A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Hallowe'en to Yule

    Series Book 3 - Silver Bough
    The Silver Bough is an indispensable treasury of Scottish culture, universally acknowledged as a classic of literature. The author, F Marian McNeill, succeeded in capturing and bringing to life many traditions and customs of old before they died out or were influenced by the modern era.The Silver Branch of the sacred apple tree, laden with crystal blossoms of golden fruit, is in Celtic mythology ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert Burns, A Very Peculiar History

    Series Book 11 - A Very Peculiar History
    Taking a unique look at one of the world's most acclaimed and best-loved poets, 'Robert Burns, A Very Peculiar History' provides a fascinating insight into the life and times of Scotland's bard. Take a wee stroll through his romantic yet tragic life, and join him on his journey from underdog to celebrity. With much reference to his most famous works, Fiona Macdonald explores his profound, ... Read more

    $7.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Canongate Burns

    by Robert Burns ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    This "magnificent and authoritative work" presents the complete verse of Scotland's National Bard with extensive textual and historical notes (Colm Toibin, The Independent, UK).Best known for poems such as "A Red, Red Rose" and "Ae Fond Kiss," and for the song "Auld Lang Synge," which is sung around the world every New Years' Eve, Robert Burns was one of the most important poets of the 18th ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus