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Scottish Women -

Related category: Feminism & Women
Related booklists: Women's Biography and Autobiography, Scottish Lives, Carol Ann Duffy,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage by Mary Miller
    Jane Haining: A Life of Love and Courage - by Mary Miller

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780276663 | ISBN 10: 1780276664

    'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal  Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines.  A farmer’s daughter from Galloway i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival by Janey Godley
    Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival - by Janey Godley

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529106862 | ISBN 10: 1529106869

    Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary.  From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Celtic Women to Live Your Life by from Scotland, Ireland & Wales by Mairi Kidd
    Feisty and Fiery and Fierce: Badass Celtic Women to Live Your Life by from Scotland, Ireland & Wales - by Mairi Kidd

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781785303081 | ISBN 10: 1785303082

    Celtic women, both 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' have often been overlooked in recorded history, while their male counterparts hogged the limelight. Too often written by the victors, and written by men, for men, the incredible stories of Scottish, I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope by Sarah Jane Douglas
    Just Another Mountain: A Memoir of Hope - by Sarah Jane Douglas

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952

    Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scotland: Her Story: The Nation
    Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It - by Rosemary Goring (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781780275987 | ISBN 10: 1780275986

    Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd
    Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writing - by Nan Shepherd

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912916108 | ISBN 10: 191291610x

    Nan Shepherd (1893 - 1981) published three novels between 1928 and 1933: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians – as well as a collection of poems: In the Cairngorms.  Her reputation grew exponentially with the 1977 publi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Communist Women in Scotland by Neil Rafeek
    Communist Women in Scotland - by Neil Rafeek

    £31.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780760414 | ISBN 10: 1780760418

    During the first half of the twentieth century Glasgow was witness to an unparalleled wave of working class protest and political agitation. The protestors challenged the capitalist social order and also, on occasion, the state itself. What was the l ... more

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  • Cover image of book At the Coalface: My Life as a Miner
    At the Coalface: My Life as a Miner's Wife - by Catherine Paton Black

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780755363254 | ISBN 10: 0755363256

    A gritty and nostalgic memoir from a Scottish miner's wife.   Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with terrible poverty in 1970s Scotlan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shoes Were for Sunday by Molly Weir
    Shoes Were for Sunday - by Molly Weir

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241957929 | ISBN 10: 0241957923

    'Poverty is a very exacting teacher and I had been taught well'   The post-war urban jungle of the Glasgow tenements was the setting for Molly Weir's childhood. From sharing a pull-out bed in her mother's tiny kitchen to running in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
    The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland - by Nan Shepherd, with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857861832 | ISBN 10: 0857861832

    In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.   There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poe ... more

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  • Cover image of book What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam
    What to Look for in Winter - by Candia McWilliam

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539537 | ISBN 10: 0099539535

    Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading a ... more

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  • Cover image of book This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
    This is Not About Me - by Janice Galloway

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080998 | ISBN 10: 1847080995

    From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother Janice Galloway's grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lorraine: Between You and Me by Lorraine Kelly
    Lorraine: Between You and Me - by Lorraine Kelly

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780755317851 | ISBN 10: 0755317858

    National treasure Lorraine Kelly has been great company for years: a sunny, vivacious and loveable presence in your home. Now you can get to know her even better as, for the first time, she opens up about her life and tells her story in her own words ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman by Betsy Whyte
    The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman - by Betsy Whyte

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781841581354 | ISBN 10: 1841581356

    The Yellow on the Broom is the first part of Betsy Whyte’s autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life and customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, it is also a thought-provoking account of human strength and weakness ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte
    Red Rowans and Wild Honey - by Betsy Whyte

    £7.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781841580708 | ISBN 10: 1841580708

    This is a sequel to the popular Yellow on the Broom. It takes Betsy Whyte's (1919-1988) story to the end of World War II, and includes additional material not previously published.  It recounts, in vivid detail, the heady years of adolescence, h ... more

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