A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together - for the first time - the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland.

A voyage around the beautiful coasts and islands of Scotland

Fergusson, Joan Eardley and John Bellany are considered with American Alice Neel and the art of the ancient Celts.Composers like John Blackwood McEwen, Cecil Coles and Helen Hopekirk are introduced, amongst discussions of education, politics, social priorities, the mass media and different genres of writing.

This book explains common mistakes in English and how to correct your use of the language. Useful to both students of Standard English in schools and colleges as well as learners of English as a foreign language. This book explains English in contemporary use.

Today we need to communicate well in writing, whether it's an email, a text, a CV, letter, presentation, short speech, report or if you are trying your hand at creative writing. This book is an affordable, quality book from Geddes & Grosset who have 26 years of experience in producing reference books.

James Macpherson's translations of the poetry of Ossian, a third-century Highland Bard, were an instant success. But were the poems part of a great Gaelic oral tradition, or the work of Macpherson's imagination?

An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I Am.