Luath Press imprint: 144 books

by Cairney, John
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

This is not another complete works collection but a personal selection of sixty favourite poems, songs and other works, chosen by the Man Who Played Burns , as well as an introduction that explores Burns' life and influences, his triumphs and tragedies. The Luath Burns Companion is a unique introduction...
by Robert Burns, James Barke, Sydney Goodsir Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

The Merry Muses of Caledonia is among Burns' best known, but least read, work. This collection of bawdy poems, some written by and some collected by Burns, ranges from celebrations of spirited women in Ellibanks, to misogyny in There was twa wives and male fantasy in Nine Inch will please a lady....

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

The Luath Kilmarnock Edition

by McGinn, Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was the first collection of poetry produced by Robert Burns. Published in Kilmarnock in July 1786 it has become known as The Kilmarnock Edition. The contents include 44 of Burns' best known poems including To a Louse, The Cotter's Saturday Night, To a Mouse, The...

The Dean's Diaries

Being a True & Factual Account of the Doings & Dealings of the Dean & Dons of St Andrew's College

by David Purdie
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

The Dean of St Andrew's College oversees an ancient institution (Est. 1561) renowned for its academic oddity, inter-departmental warfare and explosive disasters.The Dean s observations and anecdotes provide an exceptionally witty account of academia in Edinburgh, seamlessly combining the douce realities...

Mollycoddling the Feckless

A Social Work Memoir

by Alistair Findlay
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019

Alistair Findlay has written the first ever memoir of a career in Scottish social work. He reflects on the changing landscape of the profession since he entered it in 1970 in a memoir that is thoughtful, progressive, humane – and funny. He conveys how he and his fellow workers shared friendship and banter in work that can be hard and thankless but also hugely rewarding and worthwhile.

Jules Verne's Scotland

In Fact and Fiction

by Ian Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

This book weaves in all the reasons why the residents of Scotland love to live here; landscape, beautiful scenery, an air of mystery and the great history of the land. Thompson conveys Verne's deep fascination with Scotland and takes the reader on a journey with Verne from his beloved Heart of Midlothian'...
by John MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

Notes of a Newsman is the story of a changing Scotland as it was heard and seen by the people of Scotland. We all may have our ideas about where we are headed as nation and a society, but none of us knows. That makes what lies ahead so fascinating. Just like what’s gone before. JOHN MacKAY John...
by Iain Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

We have had five million conversations. This will go to the wire. ED MILIBAND  Iain Watson was the BBC Political Correspondent assigned to follow the Labour campaign. He shares the gaffes and glories of the 2015 general election culminating in the notorious ‘Edstone’ and humiliating defeat....

Oil Strike North Sea

A first-hand history of North Sea oil

by Mike Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015

When the oil companies arrived in Scotland in the 1970s, they had never before dared to bring oil up from beneath such deep and stormy waters as the North Sea. It would take colossal engineering, new technology and huge egos to step up to the challenge. Forty years later, the fascinating story...

A Glasgow Mosaic

Cultural Icons of the City

by Ian R. Mitchell, Ian R Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

This new edition of The Green Ray brings the rarely available title by the famous French author Jules Verne to a new generation. The mysterious scientific phenomenon of the green ray is unpredictable and elusive. When Helena hears of its apparent mystical effects on the mind and soul she enlists her...
by David Torrance, Jamie Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

On 18 September 2014, everyone in Scotland aged 16 or over will be asked the question: ‘Should Scotland Be An Independent Country?’ As the referendum approaches, the debates over whether or not Scotland should be an independent country are becoming more heated. This guide, produced by respected...
by Ian R. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014

Winner of the Outdoor Writers GUld Award for ExcellenceIn this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents in the Highlands, we have at last a work which does justice to those who lived and worked, travelled and fought in the Highlands before Walter Scott. PROF. BRUCE LENMAN**Marvelous account of mountaineering's prehistory... as coulourful as it is thought provoking

World in Chains

Nuclear Weapons, Militarisation and their Impact on Society

by
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Questions the integrity of a society that accepts nuclear deterrents as valid forms of defence. Focuses on a lack of respect for international humanitarian law and the integrity of a society able to act compassionately in the wider public interest. Awakens UK to a need for a government that will work on a global ban for nuclear weapons.
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