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  • A History of the Northern Highlands in the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Rebellions
    David Tallach
    In 1688, King James VII of Scotland and II of England was ousted in the so-called ’Glorious Revolution’. Yet in parts of the Scottish Highlands, there was a lingering loyalty to him and his line. This is a ground-breaking study in the involvement of the northern Highlands of Scotland (here defined as Sutherland, Caithness, Ross-shire and Inverness, though not Inverness-shire) i...
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    12,93 €

  • Love Among the Ruins
    David Tallach
    Love Among the Ruins is a book of haiku celebrating the coming of spring. It does so among the setting of four castles on the Isle of Mull, off the western coast of Scotland. It starts amid the wintry desolate ruins of the thirteenth-century Aros Castle, moving to the empty shell of the unsafe tower-house, Moy Castle, built around 1450. It then focuses on the more modern Glengo...
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    9,91 €

  • The Interpreter’s House
    David Tallach
    This haiku collection was written in 2016, recalling a week’s visit in September 1997 to an aunt and uncle’s house in Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, after meeting with health problems while at Stirling University, and leaving the previous December. The writer regards the restful and stimulating time he had at Wellstood House as part of his ’rest cure’, and went on to study succ...
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    8,46 €

  • The Reid-Airsed Shuttlers
    David Tallach
    This is a collection of haiku in praise of a bumblebee species native to Scotland, bombus lapidaries, so it seemed apt to render it in Scots. The poems alternate between Scots and English, the latter roughly translations of the former, following the four seasons. ...
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    8,73 €

  • Upperkirkgate
    David Tallach
    The author of this novel lived in Aberdeen for 20 years, and it is very much a celebration of the city, especially places in the centre he knew well. Focusing on the lives and loves of four students over one year, it follows the changing seasons (wet to wetter)of the Granite City. The cover shows Marischal College, part of Aberdeen University, adjoining Upperkirkgate. ...
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    16,05 €

  • Homecoming
    David Tallach
    These poems are the result of a protracted bereavement, the more so as the writer’s Aunt Elizabeth developed early-onset Alzheimer’s and gradually lost her faculties in a manner very painful to her and her relatives. Now that she has passed away, these are written to comfort particularly the writer’s mother and Uncle Cameron, her remaining siblings, and to encourage them in the...
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    6,45 €

  • Summoner’s Tales
    David Tallach
    These poems celebrate the lives of bees, which bring joy in many subtle ways into our lives, pollinating flowers and making honey, and bringing variety to our insect world. They have been revered for this since ancient times, and long may they continue to do so. ...
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    8,73 €

  • Maria in the Highlands
    David Tallach
    These haiku commemorate the visit of a long-term dear friend to the author’s part of the world. It was a delight to share his country’s art, culture, heritage and walks with her. The cover shows Rosemarkie Bay in the Black Isle, where they enjoyed a memorable and artistic walk together. ...
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    8,46 €

  • Snow Train Coming
    David Tallach
    These haiku celebrate winter, a time of warm fires on short, bright days, challenged by darkness and the cold, which comes in various stages of cruelty. The day of the steam train in history was similarly short, but warmed the hearts of many while it lasted. ...
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  • A Light for You
    David Tallach
    These poems are for the comfort of a friend, who suffered the loss of her son from cancer. The writer has borrowed themes from CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia to create empathic and uplifting themes reflecting on Jesus’ ultimate victory over all death and sadness. ’The light shines in the darkness... The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.’ (John ...
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    6,95 €

  • Summer Isles
    David Tallach
    These haiku offer an intense Gothic celebration of summer. There are portraits of four separate graveyards in the Highlands; interspersed with evocations of the light and beauty of the Summer Isles; standing stones at the Clava Cairns just outside Inverness, and Callanish in Lewis; the memory of Somerled, a twelfth-century Norse-Gaelic warrior who ruled the Western Isles; and t...
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    9,31 €

  • The Red Line of Descent
    David Tallach
    Autumn is the best of seasons, combining the last colourful flourishes of summer with the chilly onset of winter. These short poems celebrate the fall of the summer and the shortening of the days. The colour red is also at its most vibrant and meaningful in autumn. ...
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    9,78 €

  • East Highland Gothic II
    David Tallach
    These poems build on the first volume of the same name in looking at local history over the centuries. This one evokes the Pictish (Iron Age and Early Medieval) culture, left behind in many richly carved stones up and down the east of Scotland. Some of these still stand in their original locations, some have been taken into the care of museums, such as Groam House in Rosemarkie...
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    10,47 €

  • East Highland Gothic
    David Tallach
    These poems were written between 1997 and 2003. They evoke a strong sense of Scottish history, on the land and at sea, in places ranging from Aberdeen to Cromarty (the main setting, especially for local stories such as Captain Reid’s mermaid and the Sutors) and further north into the Highlands. Although there is a heavy sense of decay, in buildings, machines and people, this is...
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    7,49 €

  • The Sands of Time are Sinking
    David Tallach
    These poems were written in 1998 due to a bereavement. My Uncle Fraser, an unusual, talented and remarkable man by any standards, passed away from cancer. These poems were written in the sure and certain hope of meeting with him again in heaven, and also celebrating the Highlands that we shared and loved. ...
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    5,95 €

  • Last Breath In Sutherland
    David Tallach
    These short stories powerfully evoke Scottish landscape, history and architecture. With a keen sense of the past impacting on the present, they are gripping and often moving. The author was a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers’ competition in 1991, judged by then Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and has wanted to publish a book of his own short stories ever since. Some of these stor...
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    8,23 €