Books published by Zeticula Ltd

This social history of the 'ordinary' people of the south-western peninsula of Argyll, in Western Scotland, has become a classic since its original publication in 1984. It is reprinted here with a new Introduction by the author, a native of Kintyre who knows its geography intimately.

This comprehensive and social history of both Club and International Ice Hockey in Scotland, from the late 19th century up to 1940, aims to restore the Scottish game to its right and proper place as a pioneering nation in the early development and organisation of this great world-wide sport.

This study, first published in 1976, is the first to attempt to trace the real relationship between Hogg and his Edinburgh contemporaries, and to show how Hogg developed from poetry to fiction and his major novels.

A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first published novel written by a working-class woman in Britain.

Esther Warden was the 'terror' of West End Fremantle and the most dangerous woman in Western Australia. Lilly Doyle kept company with thieves and rogues and was listed as an 'undesirable'. May Ahern was a 'fallen' woman who lured men into dark street corners, tempting them away from the paths of virtue. Esther, Lilly and May were notorious female criminals in early twentieth-century Perth and Fremantle. Criminalised as drunks, prostitutes and vagrants, women committing offences against good order faced a double punishment for their social and gender transgressions. 'Drunks, Pests and Harlots' takes a trip through the underworld streets of Perth and Fremantle from 1900-1939. It offers a glimpse into the lives of criminal women facing close police surveillance, negative media coverage, strict incarceration and institutionalisation. These lives present historical perspectives on female offenders and the development of public critiques of women who fail to meet the expectations of society.

The Spanish language edition of 'William Kirkpatrick of Malaga: Consul, Negociant and Entrepreneur, and Grandfather of the Empress Eugenie' (ISBN 9781845300715).

The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here the author effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and of 'Lovely Mantinea'. This book illustrates a fundamental change in his work.

The three collections, Thirteen Stories (1900), Success (1902), and Progress, and Other Sketches (1905), display Cunninghame Graham's growing confidence in his skills and ability to handle the wide-ranging subject matter that became his trademark. With an overview of the Life and Writings, and Appendices.

The three collections, 'Charity', 'A Hatchment' and 'Brought Forward', were published just before and during World War I when Cunninghame Graham was in his sixties. The stories reveal amazing powers of recall for the experiences and feelings of youth and a close empathy with nations at war. With an overview of the Life and Writings and Appendices.

The three collections - 'His People', 'Faith' and 'Hope' - first published between 1906 and 1910, present a typical mix of Cunninghame Graham's stories, set in widely separated locations and drawing on his vast experience of life in different classes of human society. With an overview of the Life and Writings, and Appendices.

Manson's collection of letters to the Scottish poet and political activist Hugh MacDiarmid is a major work. Described by Alan Riach in the introduction as "rich in diversity, ... strata of human character, social engagement, political motivation...", it spans the 1920s to the 1970s. Fully indexed, with brief biographies of the 286 correspondents.

Three early works from Cunninghame Graham. Notes on the District of Menteith (1895) surveys the area around his estate, Gartmore. Father Archangel of Scotland (1896) is essays and sketches from the author and his wife Gabriela. The Ipane (1899) is short stories and sketches. With an overview of the Life and Writings, and Appendices.

For 20 years historian and poet Angus Martin has walked the hills and shores of his native Kintyre and recorded his experiences as 'By Hill and Shore', in Kintyre Magazine. This book is a selection - a rich evocation of places, people, and creatures great and small - with extra articles and 90 illustrations, mostly the author's own photographs.

The story of those who took trade unionism and working class politics to countries of the Scottish Diaspora, forming trade unions where they settled, often when membership could mean dismissal, eviction and deportation. Each chapter is a short history of a trade union or political party told through the biographies of the Scots who helped shape it.

This small collection of Gaelic poetry (with translation into English provided alongside) offers craftsmanship and passion, pointing both those who knew the author, and new readers, to 'wells of joy' which he found incomparable and which he commended tirelessly.