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Product Description: Peter Kerr, who has a nose for both the absurd and the shocking, develops his concerning arguments about the gradual erosion of our human rights, particularly in Great Britain and the United States. He backs up his arguments with plenty of examples, including legislation introduced under the American presidents since Reagan, including Barack Obama...read more

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9781908251176 | Dufour Editions, December 15, 2013, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Peter Kerr, who has a nose for both the absurd and the shocking, develops his concerning arguments about the gradual erosion of our human rights, particularly in Great Britain and the United States.

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Product Description: This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that postwar British politics, up to and including the Blair Government, can be largely characterised in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution from a period of conflict over the primary aims of government strategy to one of recent relative consensus...read more

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9780415232753 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship.

Paperback:

9780415862806 | Reprint edition (Routledge, July 20, 2015), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship.

Miscellaneous:

9780203991794 | Routledge, March 1, 2001, cover price $160.00

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Product Description: How a Scotsman and his family lived the dream, making their vacation home permanent—and how the local neighbors helped them endure that "dream" I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges...read more

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9781849530255 | New edition (Summersdale Pub Ltd, December 1, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: How a Scotsman and his family lived the dream, making their vacation home permanent—and how the local neighbors helped them endure that "dream" I could hardly believe my eyes.
9781840241129 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, June 12, 2000, cover price $14.10 | About this edition: A Scottish family give up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of Mallorca.

Product Description: After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca. Their adventure comes to an end with a paella feast with friends, full of bonhomie yet tinged with sadness. But returning to Scotland proves to be just as big an adventure, with quite a cultural shock in store...read more

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9781407927589 | Mp3 una edition (Soundings Ltd, December 1, 2011), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca.
9781845595814 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, February 28, 2007), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca.

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9781845595562 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, February 28, 2007), cover price $79.95

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Product Description: Comic shenanigans, quirky characters and sinister ploys abound in 'Fiddler on the Make', and it's Bert, Jigger's scruffy little sweet-toothed dog, who turns out to be the hero of the piece as the McClouds and their beloved Cuddyford teeter on the brink of disaster.

Hardcover:

9780753181386 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, September 1, 2008), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Comic shenanigans, quirky characters and sinister ploys abound in 'Fiddler on the Make', and it's Bert, Jigger's scruffy little sweet-toothed dog, who turns out to be the hero of the piece as the McClouds and their beloved Cuddyford teeter on the brink of disaster.

Paperback:

9780753181393 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, July 1, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Comic shenanigans, quirky characters and sinister ploys abound in 'Fiddler on the Make', and it's Bert, Jigger's scruffy little sweet-toothed dog, who turns out to be the hero of the piece as the McClouds and their beloved Cuddyford teeter on the brink of disaster.
9781905170692 | Accent Pr, November 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters.

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9781407905365 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 1, 2009), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: When the sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters, Jigger McCloud, a Jack-the-lad local farmer with a talent for playing the fiddle and an eye for the ladies, isn't slow to make a quick buck at their expense.

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9781407905358 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 1, 2009), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: When the sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters, Jigger McCloud, a Jack-the-lad local with an eye for the ladies, isn't slow to make a quick buck at their expense.

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Product Description: A strong cast of sharply-drawn and colorful characters gives Bob Burns and his two unlikely sidekicks plenty to cope with in an intriguing story of greed, guile, deceit and double-dealing that's sparked off by the discovery of a severed finger in a cruise ship passenger's quiche lorraine...read more

Hardcover:

9780753182826 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 2009), cover price $35.50

Paperback:

9781906373467 | Accent Pr, February 16, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A strong cast of sharply-drawn and colorful characters gives Bob Burns and his two unlikely sidekicks plenty to cope with in an intriguing story of greed, guile, deceit and double-dealing that's sparked off by the discovery of a severed finger in a cruise ship passenger's quiche lorraine.

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Product Description: Julie Bryson and rookie detective, Andy Green, once again aid Scottish detective Bob Burns. When Andy becomes the unwitting recipient of a drop of £100,000 in used notes, the trio become enmeshed in a web of murder, intrigue and Caledonian skulduggery, as the action shifts to Sicily, New York and a remote Hebridean island...read more

Hardcover:

9780753180280 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 28, 2008), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: The investigation of a bizarre murder in a small Scottish town rapidly turns into a complicated web of international intrigue and Caledonian skullduggery, as the action shifts to Sicily, New York and a remote Hebridean island, where the line between the good guys and the bad guys becomes increasingly blurred.

Paperback:

9780753180297 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, November 1, 2008), cover price $27.99 | also contains The Sporran Connection | About this edition: Julie Bryson and rookie detective, Andy Green, once again aid Scottish detective Bob Burns.

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9781845599874 | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, February 28, 2008), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: The investigation of a bizarre murder in a small Scottish town rapidly turns into a complicated web of international intrigue and Caledonian skullduggery, as the action shifts to Sicily, New York and a remote Hebridean island, where the line between the good guys and the bad guys becomes increasingly blurred.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781845599867 | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, February 28, 2008), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Julie Bryson and rookie detective, Andy Green, once again aid Scottish detective Bob Burns.

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Product Description: Doogie O'Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student, applies for a gap-year job as a tour rep in Africa, where he also hopes to find time to study the wildlife. Instead, he finds himself on Mallorca, thrust in at the deep end of the madcap package tour business...read more

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9780753183144 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, May 1, 2009), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: This humour-tinged romantic adventure follows the experiences of a young Scottish veterinary student called Doogie O'Mara, who takes a year off his studies 'to get his head together' following the death of his parents, but also to escape the claustrophobic influence of the daughter of his elderly home-town vet, who assumes that Doogie will not only become his partner, but his daughter's as well!

Paperback:

9780753183151 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 2010), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Doogie O'Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student, applies for a gap-year job as a tour rep in Africa, where he also hopes to find time to study the wildlife.
9781906373290 | Accent Pr, July 21, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This humour-tinged romantic adventure follows the experiences of a young Scottish veterinary student called Doogie

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The droll Scottish detective is once again aided by his game-for-anything forensic scientist lady friend, Julie Bryson, and abetted by keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green. The investigation of a bizarre murder in a small Scottish town rapidly enmeshes the trio in a complicated web of international intrigue and Caledonian skulduggery.

Paperback:

9781905170838 | Accent Pr, January 15, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The droll Scottish detective is once again aided by his game-for-anything forensic scientist lady friend, Julie Bryson, and abetted by keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green.

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Product Description: Traditional British crime - Bob Burns series

Paperback:

9780753178454 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, January 30, 2008), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Traditional British crime - Bob Burns series

CD/Spoken Word:

9781845596972 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, June 30, 2007), cover price $79.95

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9781845596552 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, June 30, 2007), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Bob Burns is an old-fashioned kind of Scottish sleuth, more interested in catching villains than creeping to get promotion.

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Product Description: Bob Burns is an old-fashioned kind of Scottish sleuth, more interested in catching villains than brown-nosing to get promotion. So, when his enquiries into a brutal and bizarre murder are blocked by his bosses, should he risk losing his career by carrying on his investigations? Encouraged by an attractive-though-maverick forensic scientist and assisted by a keener-than-bright young constable, Bob does it his way...read more

Paperback:

9781905170333 | Accent Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Bob Burns is an old-fashioned kind of Scottish sleuth, more interested in catching villains than brown-nosing to get promotion.

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The Kerr family say goodbye to their farm in Mallorca, and put it up for sale after three years of hard work. But now begins the return-to-Scotland adventure, and what a cultural shock is in store. The author explores Scotland, visiting such places as the 'Biarritz of the North', and giving us an insider's view of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Paperback:

9781840245066 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, May 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Kerr family say goodbye to their farm in Mallorca, and put it up for sale after three years of hard work.

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Product Description: It is the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana of Mallorca and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island. It's also crunch time and, after an eventful first year, hard facts have to be faced...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781845593780 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, April 30, 2006), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: It is the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana of Mallorca and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781845593360 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, April 30, 2006), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: It is the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana of Mallorca and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island.

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It's the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana Mountains of Mallorca, and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island. But it's also crunch time and, after an eventful first year, hard facts have to be faced.

Paperback:

9781840244403 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, June 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: It's the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana Mountains of Mallorca, and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island.

Product Description: "Beautifully descriptive and a joy to read." THE BOOKSELLERS BUYERS GUIDE Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca. Under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, Peter struggles to shake off the relaxed Spanish "tranquilo"ness that he has now mastered all too well...read more

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9781842839645 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 30, 2005), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: "Beautifully descriptive and a joy to read.

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Product Description: Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca. Under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, Peter struggles to shake off the relaxed Spanish "tranquilo"ness that he has now mastered all too well...read more

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9781592286188 | Lyons Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The third book in the award-winning series by the author of Snowball Oranges and Mañana Mañana.
9781840243802, titled "Viva Mallorca: One Mallorcan Autumn" | Summersdale Pub Ltd, May 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is the story of the Kerrs on their fruit farm, situated on the island of Mallorca.

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9781407904863 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, December 1, 2009), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca.

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An idiosyncratic tale of rural life in Scotland follows one farm family from the period immediately preceding World War II through the present, breaking stereotypes by depicting odd juxtapositions and superstitions as part of the landscape.

Hardcover:

9781592283781 | 1 edition (Lyons Pr, May 1, 2004), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: An idiosyncratic tale of rural life in Scotland follows one farm family from the period immediately preceding World War II through the present, breaking stereotypes by depicting odd juxtapositions and superstitions as part of the landscape.

Part comedy, part tale of woe, this fascinating travel memoir follows a Scottish family on an unlikely move to Majorca, a sun-baked Mediterranean island, where they tried to grow oranges and fit in to a new culture. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9781585745487 | Lyons Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Describes a Scottish family's decision to give up their home to grow oranges in the mountains of Majorca, a dream that was complicated by a freak snowstorm, local cuisine that features rats as a main ingredient, a shotgun wedding, and a goatherd's sex-improvement techniques.

Paperback:

9781585748662 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Part comedy, part tale of woe, this fascinating travel memoir follows a Scottish family on an unlikely move to Majorca, a sun-baked Mediterranean island, where they tried to grow oranges and fit in to a new culture.

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The continuing adventures of a Scottish family trying to grow oranges on the isle of Majorca recalls the culture shock and wonderful revelations of this unique emigré experience, in the sequel to Snowball Oranges. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781585746378 | 1 edition (Lyons Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The continuing adventures of a Scottish family trying to grow oranges on the isle of Majorca recalls the culture shock and wonderful revelations of this unique emigré experience, in the sequel to SHowball Oranges.

Paperback:

9781592284078 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The continuing adventures of a Scottish family trying to grow oranges on the isle of Majorca recalls the culture shock and wonderful revelations of this unique emigré experience, in the sequel to Snowball Oranges.
9781840241631, titled "Manana Manana: One Mallorcan Summer" | Summersdale Pub Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The tale of Peter Kerr and his family as they settle into the 'manana' pace of rural Mallorca, growing oranges on their little valley farm.

Features twenty circular walks based on good local pubs. This book includes routes near Craven Arms, Bridgnorth, Telford, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton and Whitchurch. It also contains maps and photographs.

Paperback:

9781853066689 | Gardners Books, May 24, 2001, cover price $11.45 | About this edition: Features twenty circular walks based on good local pubs.

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