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A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics)
1.  A Scots Quair: "Sunset Song", "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" (Canongate Classics) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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  "Moving, beautiful trilogy of the Scots Renaissance"
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Land Of The Leal (Canongate Classics)
2.  Land Of The Leal (Canongate Classics) by James Barke
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  "Under-rated and little known but easily the peer of 'A Scots Quair'"
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Swing Hammer Swing
3.  Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington
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  "Surreally humourous narrative set in the dying Gorbals of the mid 1960s"
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The Sopranos
4.  The Sopranos by Alan Warner
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  "Beautiful prose describing scabrous drunken-ness"
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Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan
5.  Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan by Jay Allan
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  "The only 'hoolie' memoir worth reading: the genuine article in a genre crowded with Bimson-esque fantasists"
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The White Guard
6.  The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Brilliant novel from the Russian civil war"
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The Last King of Scotland
7.  The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
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  "Ficitonal but true-to-events recapturing of the megalomania of Idi Amin of Uganda"
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The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "The best of the 'Roads to Freedom' trilogy set during the Munich Crisis"
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Dr Zhivago
9.  Dr Zhivago by Pasternak Boris Leonidovich
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The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
10.  The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Dr Piers Brendon
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  "Accessible and compelling narrative of the 1930s"
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And Quiet Flows the Don (Vintage International)
11.  And Quiet Flows the Don (Vintage International) by Mikhail Aleksan Sholokhov
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  "First in a series of novels about the Cossacks during the revolutionary period"
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Grits
12.  Grits by Niall Griffiths
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  "More ambitious than 'Trainspotting', richer in dialect and character formatioin"
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
13.  The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
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  "Orwell's unique political ideas written down during the Battle of Britain: compelling"
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Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil
14.  Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil by Ron Ferguson
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  "A personal history of Cowdenbeath FC which fans of small clubs the world over will identify with"
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The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present
15.  The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present by Paul Harris
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  "Dicitionary for scholars and the casually interested alike"
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C.R.W.Nevinson: The Twentieth Century
16.  C.R.W.Nevinson: The Twentieth Century by Richard Ingleby
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  "Comprehensive look at highly individualistic modernist painter"
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In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
17.  In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country by Boards Of Canada
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  "Beautiful ambient EP: 23 minutes of introspection"
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Selected Ambient Works Volume II
18.  Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin
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  "All time classic ambient"
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Pärt: Fratres/Festina lente
19.  Pärt: Fratres/Festina lente by Arvo Pärt
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  "One of the best introductions to the Estonian composer's best known pieces"
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Preisner's Music [European Import]
20.  Preisner's Music [European Import] by Zbigniew Preisner
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  "Beautiful range of orchestral/choral music"
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Rautavaara: Cantus Atcticus, Angel of Dusk, String Quartet 2, Hommages etc
21.  Rautavaara: Cantus Atcticus, Angel of Dusk, String Quartet 2, Hommages etc by Einojuhani Rautavaara
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  "Contemporary Finnish composer: lush harmonies and birdsong evoking the Arctic north of his country"
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Double Figure
22.  Double Figure by Plaid
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  "Innovative and unusual ambient/electronica"
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Blue White & Red Gift Set [DVD] [1993] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
23.  Blue White & Red Gift Set [DVD] [1993] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] DVD ~ Irène Jacob
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  "Kieslowski's studiedly aesthetic trilogy, of which 'Red'- the last one- is the best"
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Sweet Sixteen [DVD] [2002]
24.  Sweet Sixteen [DVD] [2002] DVD ~ Martin Compston
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  "Loach's best film since 'Kes'"
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Donnie Brasco (1997) [DVD]
25.  Donnie Brasco (1997) [DVD] DVD ~ Al Pacino
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