Neil Wilson Publishing: 117 books
by Neil Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
The Hebridean island distilleries and those along the glorious sailing grounds of the West Coast are amongst the most scenic and historically fascinating in the industry. In 1984 Neil Wilson first visited the island distilleries on board the ketch Alystra and the book resulting from this wonderful...
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 2) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the Lothians, Borders & Ayrshire
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
In the second of a three-volume set of The Scots Fiddle, J. Murray Neil has compiled a collection of the fiddle music of Scotland relating to Edinburgh and the Lothians, Borders and Ayrshire. It includes a selection of traditional fiddle tunes and song airs that are played and sung wherever Scots...
by Keith McGinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
For any fan of the exploits of Para Handy and the motley crew of the Vital Spark, this memoir is not to be missed. Keith McGinn's capers on the puffers off Scotland's West Coast are funnier than Neil Munro's tales at times, but they are also sadder too. The thing is, all of these stories are true....
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 3) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the Western Highlands, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
In the third of a three-volume set of The Scots Fiddle, J. Murray Neil has compiled a collection of the fiddle music of Scotland from the West Highlands, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland. It includes a wonderful selection of traditional fiddle tunes and song airs that are played and sung wherever Scots...
by Stuart Donald
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book is a compilation of the new tales of the motley crew of the Vital Spark which were first published in Para Handy Sails Again and Para Handy All At Sea and in which Donald convinced Neil Munro's many fans of his ability to create entirely new scenarios around the original cast of characters....
by Rick Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
2009 marked the 300th anniversary of the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife mariner who became the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The story is told not only by the author but also through the words of those who knew Selkirk with three colourful contemporary accounts...
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 1) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the North-East & Central Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The first of a three-volume series, The Scots Fiddle --Tunes, Tales &; Traditions. This work combines an extensive and fascinating collection of traditional fiddle music (over 160 tunes) relating to the North-East and Central Highlands together with extensive background narratives and anecdotes...
In The Wake of the Vital Spark
Para Handy's Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
For generations, Neil Munro's comic creation - the motley crew of the Vital Spark under the command of Para Handy - has enthralled readers as they sailed through the coastal and island waters of the West Coast of Scotland. This book is a nostalgic trip down those same waters at the turn of the century....
Scottish Storytrails
A Literary Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Scotland’s landscape was, and is, unquestionably distinct, as are the renowned writers it has produced. Tobias Smollett was the first Scottish writer to rhapsodise about the beauties of his native land in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, when his native country was increasingly referred to as...
The Distilleries of Campbeltown
The Rise and Fall of the Whisky Capital of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Starting with the early origins of Campbeltown, David Stirk relates in The Distilleries of Campbeltown how the town grew from a small settlement into a Royal Burgh that depended on the herring fishery before whisky became the main trade in the town and its associated villages of Dalaruan and Dalintober....
Beer Hunter, Whisky Chaser
New writing on beer and whisky in honour of Michael Jackson.
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2009
A unique testament to Michael Jackson from the world's leading food and drinks writers. They are: Stephen Beaumont, Dave Broom, Ian Buxton, John Hansell, Julie Johnson, Charles MacLean, Hans Offringa, F Paul Pacult, Roger Protz, Lucy Saunders, Conrad Seidl, Carolyn Smagalski and Gavin D Smith. The...
Scotch
The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
A classic work on Scotch and its origins, Lockhart's book has long been regarded as a whisky classic. Including the foreword written by his late son in 1995, fully updated and revised, this book covers some of the lesser known episodes in the industry's history. In particular the author's family's...
by Allen Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The success of today's whisky industry was based largely on the commercial drive and foresight of a select group of whisky merchants who took the business world by storm in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. As the manufacture of blended whisky took off, the likes of Tommy Dewar, Thomas Buchanan,...
by Ian Hamilton, QC
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
This is the swashbuckling life story of one of Scotland's greatest sons. Ian Hamilton, born the son of a Paisley tailor in 1925, who made himself world-famous on Xmas Eve, 1950, when he helped to remove the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey and return it to its spiritual home of Scotland.This...