Luath Press imprint: 144 books
by Cameron Taylor, Alistair Murray
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The iconic character, Shakespeare's Macbeth, is one of the best known in the English language, but few know that he was a real person with his own story off stage. Macbeth was not the monstrous caricature created by Shakespeare; he was a real man who was born in Moray, part of the Kingdom of Alba,...
A Nation Changed
The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
A Nation Changed? Provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office. It looks at how Scotland has changed and not changed during that time, and the challenges that lie ahead. The book examines the SNP's record, its role as a government and as a party, detailed policy issues...
The Price of Scotland
Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial...
Scotland, the UK and Brexit
A Guide to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The unexpected outcome of the 2017 UK general election means that the UK Government lacks a clear mandate on Brexit and also that the Scottish Government lacks a clear mandate on holding a second Independence Referendum consequent to the material change in circumstance which will be brought about...
A Nation Again
Why Independence will be Good for Scotland (and England too)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
As the Scottish people prepare for their biggest ever collective decision with a proposed referendum near at hand, The Independence Book forcefully sets out the Case for Independence. The Imperative of Independence is demonstrated by varied distinguished authors, including contributions from Neil...
Women Saying No
Making a Positive Case Against Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
If a majority of us decide to vote YES on 18 September 2014, then that divorce from the rest of the UK is easy to do. No expensive lawyers. No cost except the travel to the polling station… No need to lift a finger. Just a cross on a ballot paper. But before you say, that’s great, think on…...
The people we could be
or how to be £500 better off, build a fairer society and a safer world
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
We live in a time of crises in a state with no moral purpose. This generation could become great by tackling Scotland’s domestic problems, and the wider issues facing the world. That is only possible if we take charge, set the goal of equality and give ourselves twenty years to transform our society....
Why Not?
Scotland, Labour and Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Why Not? Scotland, Labour and Independence looks at the relationship of Scotland's two dominant parties, Labour and the SNP. Why, with the referendum looming, are the two sides not more united? A passionate look at the differences and many similarities between the two parties, Why Not? is an argument...
The Call of the Mountains
Sights and Inspirations from a journey of a thousad miles across Scotland's Munro ranges
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
An adventure across a thousand miles of Scotland's mountains. In this personal guide to the triumphs, hardships and perils of scaling the Munros, Landsberg brings the joys and pitfalls of hill-climbing to life. Landsberg's adventures are presented in vivid detail, with insights ranging from encompassing...
by Gregor Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Bruce: Robert the Bruce, mediaeval Scottish nobleman who revolted against English rule, King of Scots who claimed the crown in 1306 by stabbing his main rival, fugitive from Edward I’s armies in the Hebrides and Ireland before returning to wage a successful guerrilla war against the English oppressors.
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Roch Winds
A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Did Scotland’s rough wind become something more after the referendum, as so many hoped it would, or did it blow itself out? What power can pessimism have in a nation of newfound self-confidence? A generation ago, the socialist poet Hamish Henderson forecast that ‘mair nor a roch wind’ - more...
by Angus Peter Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Sebastian and Emma live in Manhattan. She’s a musician and he works in Artificial Intelligence, researching human features to make his company’s mask-bots more realistic. But his enquiry turns personal, and he is forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask. Delving into family stories...
Burnsiana
Poems and Artworks Inspired by the Life and Legacy of Robert Burns
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This unique reflection on the world of Robert Burns places a range of photographic artworks by celebrated Scottish artist Calum Colvin alongside poems written in response to each work by 'weel-kent' Scots poet Rab Wilson. Colvin's multi-referential artworks are concerned with the very process of...
Calton Hill
Journeys and Evocations
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Lord Cockburn, Victorian defender of Edinburgh's beauties, describes Calton Hill as 'the Glory of Edinburgh'. 'It presents us,' enthused Cockburn,'with the finest prospects both of its vicinity and the city-- it is adorned by beautiful buildings dedicated to science and to the memory of distinguished...