Books published by Zeticula Ltd

A collection of ten short stories, first published in 1980 and widely noted for Urquhart's insight into the female characters portrayed. This edition reproduces the stories in facsimile, with a new introduction by Colin Affleck.

Both of the authors of this new guide have focused their chess careers at club and county level, and write from personal experience.

A new selection from poems published in various forms between 1991 and 2013 leads into eleven new works, including After the Rain, the poem from which the volume takes its title.

The history of the men who became managers of Ayr United - from 1910 to the present - and the times in which they did their job, from the pen of the Club's renowned historian.

A classic book on Christian life in the Scottish Highlands and Islands from the pen of Revd Murdoch Campbell, with additional biographical and historical material by J. Douglas MacMillan.

A physiotherapist, who does not normally treat dizziness, vertigo and labyrinthitis, is prompted to look into the possible reasons behind a successful treatment.

Three summers - and many journeys by bicycle and on foot - provide the inspiration behind 'A Summer in Kintyre' (2014), 'Another Summer in Kintyre: Reflections on a 2014 Diary' (2015), and now this concluding account of the author's close engagement with the places, people and nature in his life.

A Vermonter 'in spirit' brings to life the stories preserved in boxes of family documents, letters, diaries, photographs and books, from personal and archive collections, in a way that only a historian of societies and ideas can do. These stories reveal how individual lives helped make the Northeast Kingdom what it was, and cannot be again.

First published in 1948, this ties questions such as 'Why evil?' to Biblical fore-warnings of judgment on a thermonuclear scale.

The first biography of this remarkable man whose life, good deeds and disaster revolved around his beloved city of Hull. A contentious figure who left a controversial legacy, which this book examines in detail.

This book is an outcome of the year-long commemoration, in 2015, of the 250th anniversary of Muir's birth. It includes tributes by Alex Salmond, Sir Tom Devine and others, and essays covering different aspects of Muir's ideas and campaigns. Significant new research provides fresh insight into the Scottish political reformer's remarkable life.

A new edition of a classic memoir and defence of Christian mysticism by the Reverend Murdoch Campbell, author of 'Gleanings of Highland Harvest', 'The Loveliest Story Ever Told', and 'Wells of Joy'.

A new edition of a classic book of Christian teaching from the Reverend Murdoch Campbell, author of 'Gleanings of Highland Harvest', 'Memories of a Wayfaring Man', and 'Wells of Joy'. It is edited by his son, David Campbell.

The second novel to be brought back into print in The Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Series, a collection and study of her writings that explores the author's contribution to British working-class literature.

A new collection of John Galt's four classic novels of rural Scotland in the late eighteenth century, as agricultural society was giving way to the new industrial growth.

A major biography of a meticulous man with a restless and pioneering imagination. His life - as eminent surgeon, early researcher in medical bacteriology, ally of Lister, MP, and intrepid traveller - emerges from family and community memory and detailed archival study. Illustrated with rare images, from family photographs to scenes of the Boer War.

This new translation makes accessible an unusual account, by a soldier and administrator, of 17th century Japan and the civilizations with which it had contact. Short, introductory, pieces to the account itself offer glimpses of the region and period, including piracy, trade and the introduction of firearms into Japan.

In the style and character of its predecessor, 'A Summer in Kintyre', yet rich in differences. The narrative spans April to September 2014, but real time is irrelevant, as the author dips into history and prehistory, evoking people and events associated with the places he visits by bicycle and on foot. 50 black and white illustrations.

In July 1996, Edinburgh College of Art offered a Masterclass with the Italian-Scottish sculptor, Eduardo Paolozzi. The selection process chose 17 students with widely different backgrounds, including Ann Shaw - a former journalist with The Glasgow Herald. This is her diary of the ten days - of chaos and progress - in words and photographs.

This collection of poems, in strict form and in free verse, includes a number published previously - in books, anthologies and magazines - some of them 're-appearing' here with revisions. In this fresh view of his work, John Purser has also chosen to include three of his father's 'Six Sea Poems'. The collection is introduced by Alan Riach.

When first published, this 1887 volume was largely a reprint of "Castellated Architecture of Aberdeenshire" (1849), focussing on the 45 Castles featured as the centres of influence and action in a district rich in historic associations. Robert Bruce, Queen Mary, the Covenanters, the rising of 1715, and the Stuarts all feature in the accounts.

These extracts from the diary of Reverend Campbell, spanning the years 1930 to 1971, are of interest both for his life and times and as one of the few documented accounts of 20th century Christian mysticism. A Preface, Biographical Notes, and footnotes add background information and comment.

Jazz musician Bobby Hackett began his career in the 1930s; it ended with his death in 1976. An extensively researched discography of the vast number of recorded sessions in which he took part during these decades forms the core of this substantial book. It sits amid fascinating biographical insights gathered by the authors.

In a series of fourteen letters, written in 1722 as he journeyed through Scotland, John Macky set out to show that the 'kingdom will not appear so despicable as some parts of the world imagine'. It proved a popular, influential, publication. This new edition is introduced and annotated by Anne M. McKim, with a full index of people and places.

In the idyllic summer of 2013 in Kintyre, the author's journeys by bicycle and on foot were also 'a journey through landscapes of memory and emotion'. The story begins in the rugged south-west, at the Inneans and Largiebaan, and ends in the north-east, at a little loch near Tarbert, with people, places and happenings a-plenty in between.

An extensively annotated edition, and first publication in English, of Stevenson's early, unfinished, comic novel satirising the events and passions, personalities and the predicaments, of the late-Victorian scene.

When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilogy on the history and culture of the author's native Kintyre.