Books published by Zeticula Ltd

The House of Argyll acquired its Kintyre lands in 1607 and sold them in 1956. During that period, the Campbells exerted a powerful influence in Kintyre, through politics, religion, and agrarian reform. The core of this book is the 5th Duke of Argyll's estate instructions to his Kintyre chamberlain, or manager, from 1785 to 1805. Through these annual directions, and the chamberlain's responses, emerge the complex workings of a West Highland estate. Kintyre historian Angus Martin has taken the late Eric R. Cregeen's hitherto unpublished transcript of the instructions and illuminated them with a lengthy series of commentaries, explaining agricultural practices, social customs and cultural nuances, and providing biographical sketches of the chief personalities of the time. The study is informatively introduced by both Cregeen and Martin, enhanced by 72 illustrations, ranging from eighteenth century portraits to present-day photographs, contains a reproduction of George Langlands' celebrated 1801 map of Kintyre, and is fully furnished with references, notes and index.

Scenes, sketches and stories from 'Cloisters Bookshop', in an old west of Scotland town - an oasis of culture and quirky authenticity.

Naomi Mitchison's 1947 novel about events two hundred years earlier - in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 - as a family, based on her own ancestors, gathers at Gleneagles.

A new edition of Isobel Murray's acclaimed biography of the inspirational Scottish novelist, playwright and radio producer, Jessie Kesson.

The Second World War diary and poems of Jack Rillie, edited by his grandson Alasdair Soussi. A real insight into the early life of the inspirational university lecturer described by Alexander Maitland as 'an unsung hero of Scotland's post-war literary scene'.

The tragedy of Douglas was first performed in 1756, at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment, and created a scandal. The controversy was literary, religious and political. This title reprints the text of the play, and illustrates its popular reception - mainly as expressed in contemporary pamphlets.