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  • Summit Fever

    by Andrew Greig ...
    A "wonderful" memoir about mountain climbing—and the risk, joy, and adventure of being alive (Chris Bonington).Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureWhen poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights and no climbing experience whatsoever. The result is this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kingdoms of Experience

    Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge

    by Andrew Greig ...
    A novice's tale of scaling Everest: "Recommended for all armchair adventurers who have ever wondered what it would be like to climb in the Himalayas."— Geographical MagazineThe last attempt to conquer Everest by the unclimbed northeast ridge had ended in failure and tragedy, with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. Now, in March 1985, Mal Duff would lead a new ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Found at Sea

    by Andrew Greig ...
    The acclaimed Scottish writer reflects on a small boat excursion through the Orkney Islands in this poetry collection of "touching lyrical sensitivity" ( The Times Literary Supplement, UK).Andrew Greig has won much acclaim and numerous awards for his novels, poetry, and nonfiction evoking the natural beauty of rural Scotland or chronicling his far-flung adventures. In this volume, his love for his ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When They Lay Bare

    by Andrew Greig ...
    This novel of obsession, passion and death occupies the borderlands between the supernatural novels of Scott, Hogg and Stevenson, and the psychological novels of Rendall and Highsmith.An unknown woman walks out of a border mist with an old satchel over her shoulder. Spied on by the factor of the estate, she enters a cottage that has been locked and empty for more than twenty years since the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • John Macnab

    by John Buchan ...
    From the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, three bored, middle-aged men plot a challenging adventure in the Scottish Highlands in this classic novel.In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John MacNab: three high-flying, middle-aged men—a barrister, a cabinet minister, and a banker—are suffering from boredom. They concoct a risky plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rose Nicolson

    a vivid and passionate tale of 16th Century Scotland

    by Andrew Greig ...
    'A remarkable novel' Allan Massie, The Scotsman'A rich, lyrical, rackety, colourful read' Daily MailEmbra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • In Another Light

    by Andrew Greig ...
    'Two small, confined communities in which established connections are cut across by shifting allegiances as people come and go: in cold climate as in hot, now as then, love is a complicated, compromising business' Times Literary SupplementA young man leans over the railings of the ocean liner bound for the exotic shores of Penang. It is early in the 1930s and Dr Alexander Mackay is on his way to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Return of John Macnab

    by Andrew Greig ...
    'Highly Engaging' - Sunday Herald'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - ScotsmanThe wagerTo poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.The challengersThree men in a mid-life crisis who should know better.The wild cardA flirtatious female journalist who won't... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Getting Higher

    the Complete Mountain Poems

    Alongside the mountain poems from Men on Ice, Order of the Day and Western Swing will be brand new material, facsimiles of previously unpublished material - including his first poem, written in 1972 - and illustrations and material from the National Library of Scotland archive. A beautiful collector's item full of illustrations, marginalia and notes. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romanno Bridge

    by Andrew Greig ...
    The hunt for the crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, the Stone of Scone, has begun.'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - ScotsmanA motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into Rothiemurchus Forest and finds a quiet place to die.A woman with an eventful past has signed the Official Secrets Act and gone to Dumfries to forget a... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Preferred Lies

    A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf

    by Andrew Greig ...
    A book about golf that will appeal to both players and non players, by Scottish poet and novelist.Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sweaters, politics and trousers? Andrew Greig grew up on the East coast of Scotland, where playing golf is as natural as breathing. He sees the game as the great leveller, and has played on the Old course ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • At the Loch of the Green Corrie

    by Andrew Greig ...
    A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition' - Sunday Herald'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - ScotsmanFor many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD