Full of fun, seriously dramatic too, this collection of monologues takes you on a wondrous journey through the lives of six Scots who lose their partners but come out the other end still fighting. These are their strange, marvellous stories of sex, drugs, crown green bowls, heartbreak and a Turkish adventure!Grae Cleugh’s first play F ing Games was produced at the Royal Court Theatre and was directed by Dominic Cooke. It won him the Laurence Olivier Award for the U...

Don't Miss The Third Installment in Morna's Legacy Series of Scottish Time Travel Romances by USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Bethany ClaireLove is the most powerful kind of magic.Baodan McMillan values many things in life: friendship, loyalty, kindness, but certainly not love. After the tragic death of his wife many years ago, he hardened himself to the idea of giving his heart to another. There is but one lass who can thaw his chilly heart, a lass ...

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.

The best surprises are the ones you never see coming.All Sydney Pearce needs is a change—something to end the stress and chaos of running her grandmother’s old restaurant. Maybe then her life will finally start. When she receives a job offer to serve as chef at a castle resort in Scotland, she gets her wish and happily leaves the restaurant to begin a new chapter in her life. However, she quickly discovers that living at Cagair Castle comes with its compli...

After traveling to Scotland on business, the bed of a highland laird is the last place Ali Graham expected to wake up. But there's no mistaking the irresistibly masculine Scottish Highlander whose chamber she's accidentally infiltrated--or the severe wound he's suffered in battle. As a doctor, Ali knows how to heal his injury, how to nurse his body back to health. What she doesn't know is how to heal his heart. . .A proud warrior and the leader of a powerful clan, Rory MacLeod is r...

Existential fiction for fans of everything from It's a Wonderful Life to Haruki Murakami.Troubled businessman Harrie has had a bad day at the office; stranded at the airport on Christmas eve, he strikes up conversation with Bluey, bartender at the departure lounge bar. A disabled soldier punches Harrie in a seemingly unprovoked attack.Of course, Bluey (and The Silent Old Man) have seen it all before....But why would the soldier, a buttoned up banker, a fading popstar, an ex...

More "heartwarming reminiscences" of Scottish Traveller life from the author of Jessie's Journey and Tales from the Tent ( Sunday Post).In this book, Jess Smith concludes her riveting autobiographical trilogy, tracing her eventful life with Dave and their three children from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhoods, her father's "tall tales," and the eerie ec...

Eadan MacMurough can see the future—the one where he is alone and the one where he finally meets the woman who will be his wife. It has been long ten years. On the carriage ride home from the meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Science, Eadan is plagued by the beginnings of a crippling vision.At last he is to meet her.She is a laughing beauty with auburn hair. Gelasia Cabot is the woman of his visions, only she is traveling with her fiancé. What is a harmless kidn...

From the author of Jessie's Journey, a memoir of finding her own way in the world after growing up in a family of Scottish travellers.As Tales from the Tent begins, Jess Smith has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus she lived in as a child has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. Times are changing, and it is becoming harder and har...

The Scottish language is rich in proverbs, sayings, maxims and wise aphorisms. Sadly, in the transition from the abacus to the computer, most of these have become outdated. This great little gift book thrusts these expressions into the 21st century providing millennia of wisdom in a practical modern format. It covers everything from bagpipes to whisky with a few mentions of our dear neighbours, the Sassenachs, thrown in. So whether you are Scottish, a tourist visiting Scotland, an illegal ...

A concise but comprehensive collection of Scottish words and phrases.

With delightful wit, tongue-in-cheek humor, a good-natured sense of fun, and truths based on living, author, speaker, and humorist Karen O’Connor provides 365 great reasons that life gets even better when the senior years hit. One-line entries celebrate that “getting old ain’t so bad because…”you can take naps whenever you feel like ityou have time to visit places you’ve always wanted to seeyou’re free to try different hobbies or activitiesyou do...