Presents the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes the author has both witnessed and been a party to. This title includes accounts of real-life rescues, discussions of mountain rescue topics such as hypothermia, first aid, and the use of helicopters and search and rescue dogs.

An account of hill-walking in various weathers and up and down every possible terrain, braving Welsh farmers, Knoydart rain, the terrors of the Cuillin, and the real ales of Yorkshire.

Offers an argument for recognising Robert Louis Stevenson as a love poet, a restless man constantly struggling with love and lust, invariably attracted to unobtainable or unsuitable partners, including distant relatives, older married women, servants, and prostitutes.

In Scotland, printing began in 1508. This account of the next 500 years introduces notable books and other printed literature, the people who wrote, printed, published, and sold them, and their methods.

The weather has gone crazy and the war has spread to China. Jase, Euan and Murdo are laggers: forced workers in a future Scotland. The laggers are helping to lay a new power line in the Highlands. Ailiss, a young woman from a secret settlement in the frozen hills, is going to strain their loyalties to breaking point - and beyond.

Places the events of the 1990s in the context of the author's family's experience through a period of over 100 years, culminating in her own flight from Serbian forces in 1999. This work presents a story of endurance, love and hope.

Tells the story of a 1500 kilometre walk from the southwest corner of Ireland to the northwest corner of Scotland. By following the Atlantic coast all the way, the author links the most vibrant Gaelic communities. It is suitable for those with Irish or Scottish heritage.

Greenend was rough - the roughest scheme in Coatbridge.

Eric Macleod looks across the loch at the forlorn wreck of his family's croft. 'How would you like to live there?' he asks his wife Ruth, half joking. After all, they have to think of something to do with the place. But he doesn't expect her instant reply - 'I would love to'.

A hen night in Glasgow leaves the bride-to-be dead on a toilet floor. Her body is twisted, her face a mask of terror. Dr Rhona MacLeod and her team are called in to find out. As they go through the evidence, they find themselves in a world where sex is bought and sold, and more violent death is lying in wait.

The quiet hardworking lives of the people at the mill are disturbed by the arrival of a wandering Spanish Friar. What is going on between the miller and his wife, and the Friar?

Presents essays by international writers and scholars to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet Robert Burns' birth. This book provides fresh insights into the significance of Burns - peasant, poet, Enlightenment genius, revolutionary and lover. It contains 16 pages of full colour plates, and line drawings, and features an image of the bard.

After being cast out from his home village, Sevim wanders through the marshes, fatally wounded and waiting for death from hunger or cold. His dying mind plays tricks on him and he imagines shapes in the mist - fantastic creatures, monsters and spirits.

'You'll never come to any good', the author is told by his headmaster as he is expelled yet again. Some years later he takes a teaching job in Sudan. Unfamiliar with their language and customs he struggles to control his first class of 55 bright girls. He discovers Africa, travels through the desert, and visits the war-locked region of Chad.

Jas overhears his wife in bed with an Italian. His plan to retire early and spend their winters in Italy is out the window. He tries to confront Linda but it all goes wrong. Is she toying with him? She's toying with lots of other things - Italians, sexy underwear, massage oil. Jas tries to end it all but that goes wrong too. Is his life over?

We need good writers to tackle hard topics. Maternity pay, public transport, gap year students, and poor housing are the things that matter to us all. This title tells us why they do, and what needs to be done.

Private Eye Daniel Hegarty has to find a priceless jade Buddha which has gone missing from the collection of a local gangster. If he can't find it in time, his new client, the pole dancer Lindi Lomax, is in great danger.

Adam and Lily meet in a little seaside cafe in winter. It's bleak and lonely, and they're both looking for love. Far out at sea, they can see a dark shape that moves and shifts. It looks like an island - but no one else seems to know what it is. In fact, no one else admits to seeing it. When they reach the island it's not black but white.

Describes the author's foot journey to the source of the Findhorn, one of the world's great salmon rivers, and his canoe journey back down. His observations and thoughts along the way are nourished by his many previous journeys around the world, to Alaska, Ladakh, Central Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands.

Talks about the author's life as a footballer. From family life in Airdrie we follow him as he realises his boyhood dreams. He becomes an international player with Aberdeen and Scotland. But he has to cope with bad times, and worse - being told he has a fatal illness. Finally he has to come to terms with the end of a long playing career.