Product Description: When a child is born or given a name, friends and relatives will want to wish the baby well, welcome them to the world, and find a special way of expressing their love, hope and blessings. Share these words with friends and families – touching and eloquent as a message sent with a baby gift, clear and immediate if you choose to read them aloud at a naming ceremony...read more

Product Description: Selected from more than 2000 entries to the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short story competition of 1999, these stories include the six shortlisted stories as well as the winner. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is the story of six characters sailing a yacht from Tahiti to New Zealand. Three of them are Scottish, and as they sail from island to island, each colonized in its different way, the small northern country that has formed them exerts its own magnetic pull.

Product Description: Candia McWilliam was a joint winner of the 1988 Betty Trask Award with "A Case of Knives", and her second novel tells - sometimes with humour - the story of two women whose blindness threatens their own lives and the future of a child...read more

Eminent heart surgeon Lucas Sacik finds a wife for the young man with whom he is in love and contrives to control the couple's lives