The Highland Clearances is one of the most emotive episodes in Scottish history. In this book, David Craig and photographer David Paterson provide a written and visual record of around 25 of the communities throughout the Highlands and Islands that were abandoned.

In one of the great defining moments in human history, more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and the effects of this depopulation and the plummeting birthrate are being felt keenly throughout Europe, which has the fastest-declining population in the world. Tom Pow sets out to explore what this means in some of the most rapidly vanishing areas of Europe. From Spain to Russia, he uses the tools of his trade - travelogue, essay, story and poem - to make connections, not only with what he encounters in numerous dying villages, but to reflect on his own experiences of memory, identity and loss. In Another World is an open book: not an argument, but an invitation to remember, to reflect and to engage with one of the most significant social issues affecting Europe today.

Hymns to the Silence is a thoroughly informed and enlightened study of the art of a pop music maverick that will delight fans the world over. In 1991, Van Morrison said, Music is spiritual, the music business isn't. Peter Mills' groundbreaking book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. Hymns to the Silence is a detailed investigative study of Morrison as singer, performer, lyricist, musician and writer with particular attention paid throughout to the contradictions and tensions that are central to any understanding of his work as a whole. The book takes several intriguing angles. It looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe, and who regularly drops quotes from James Joyce and Samuel Beckett into his live performances. It looks at him as a singer, at how he uses his voice as an interpretive instrument. And there are chapters on his use of mythology, on his stage performances, and on his continuing fascination with America and its musical forms.

An alternative, North of Ireland touring template, that incorporates a soulful gaze on what might have shaped the ancient Irish to a present day mindset.A journey that includes the blissful, mystical and silent Irish other worlds filled with awe inspiring sights, landscapes and deserted homesteads.A journey filled with pondering on Irish history, living memory and future aspiration.A tour experience, where ancient Irish standing stones, Emigrating family parting places, old graveyards are all combined, with the present day community dividing walls, to reveal, a silent narrative and to provide, a more authentic essence of Ireland and its people.

This unique and meticulously edited collection of Max Pemberton's complete works includes: Novels:_x000D_ The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea_x000D_ Captain Black: A Romance of the Nameless Ship_x000D_ The Sea Wolves_x000D_ The Little Huguenot: A Romance of Fountainebleau_x000D_ A Gentleman's Gentleman_x000D_ The Garden of Swords_x000D_ The House Under the Sea: A Romance_x000D_ The Lady Evelyn: A Story of Today_x000D_ Aladdin of London or, Lodestar_x000D_ The Diamond Ship_x000D_ White Motley_x000D_ Swords Reluctant: War and The Woman_x000D_ The Great White Army_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Jewel Mysteries I Have Known; From a Dealer's Note Book:_x000D_ The Opal of Carmalovitch_x000D_ The Necklace of Green Diamonds_x000D_ The Comedy of the Jewelled Links_x000D_ Treasure of White Creek_x000D_ The Accursed Gems_x000D_ The Watch and the Scimitar_x000D_ The Seven Emeralds_x000D_ The Pursuit of the Topaz_x000D_ The Ripening Rubies_x000D_ My Lady of the Sapphires_x000D_ The Signors of the Night; The Story of Fra Giovanni:_x000D_ The Risen Dead_x000D_ A Sermon for Clowns_x000D_ A Miracle of Bells_x000D_ The Wolf of Cismon_x000D_ The Daughter of Venice_x000D_ Golden Ashes_x000D_ White Wings to the Raven_x000D_ The Haunted Gondola_x000D_ The Man Who Drove the Car:_x000D_ The Room in Black_x000D_ The Silver Wedding_x000D_ In Account with Dolly St. John_x000D_ The Lady Who Looked On_x000D_ The Basket in the Boundary Road_x000D_ The Countess_x000D_ Tales of the Thames:_x000D_ Marygold_x000D_ A Ragged Intruder_x000D_ Barbara of the Bell House _x000D_ The Carousal: A Story of Thanet_x000D_ Jack Smith—Boy_x000D_ The Donnington Affair_x000D_ The Devil To Pay_x000D_ Other Works:_x000D_ Varsity Tales: Undergraduates I have known (Memoirs)_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying. When the American public eventually learned of the lawyers’ actions, they were horrified, outraged, and vengeful. People could not fathom how two attorneys—fathers of teenage girls themselves—and supposed officers of the law, could conduct themselves in a manner seemingly beyond any concept of humanity. Today, this landmark legal case is studied and analyzed in law schools worldwide. These events have been indelibly marked in Tracy’s mind since he was eight years old; in fact, he was present at the scene of New York state’s largest manhunt after the killer broke into Tracy’s father’s hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. In Sworn to Silence, Tracy weaves together a true crime narrative that should rank with some of the most compelling American crime stories of modern times. He does so while taking you—the reader—on a page-turning journey back to the early 1970s, unveiling an American serial killer most people have never heard of.