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One hundred and fifty years after it was first contested, photographer Alan McCredie and writer Daniel Gray spent the 2023/24 football season seeking out the charms of the modern Scottish Cup. Travelling to matches from hamlet to Hampden, they found them in abundance.

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Thirteen full moons, thirteen special nights on Scotland's highest mountains, the Munros, in the course of one exceptional year of full moons. Add a soundtrack for each walk and a surprising range of celebratory drinks and you have a fitting finale to the Moonwalker book series

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Ballon d'Or winner. Champions League winner. Serie A winner. Captain of Ukraine at their first-ever World Cup. Andriy Shevchenko conquered the football world. His career featured some of the sport's greatest characters - from Valerij Lobanovsky, who shaped his early years at Dynamo Kyiv, to Carlo Ancelotti, Paolo Maldini, Andrea Pirlo and Kaka as part of a world-class Milan team. But Shevchenko's story transcends football. Growing up 150km from the Chernobyl disaster, witnessing the decline of the Soviet Union and its descent into lawlessness, the struggles of his beloved Ukraine to gain independence in 1991 - and then the agony of the Russian invasion of his homeland in 2022. This is a football and human story like no other.

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** NEW COVER & INTRODUCTION BASED ON EXCLUSIVE PEP GUARDIOLA INTERVIEW ON THE 2022-23 TREBLE ** Over his first three seasons in England, Pep Guardiola built something the Premier League had never seen before: a team that dominated games like no other, scoring goals and collecting points and trophies at record-breaking pace. Throughout that journey, the Spanish journalists Lu Martín and Pol Ballús were embedded with the club, reporting this inside account of how a phenomenal team was constructed: from the recruitment of Guardiola himself, to the backroom staff that provide the platform for his team and the superstar players that set a new standard in British football

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When Arrigo Sacchi's Milan destroyed Steaua Bucharest 4-0 in the 1989 European Cup final, everything changed. With the world-class talents like Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard, they threw off the shackles of Italian football's defensive traditions. This is the story of one of football's greatest-ever teams.

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Leo Moran - connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions - sets out from the splendid isolation of his Glasgow apartment for Biggnarbriggs Hall in Kirkcudbrightshire. He soon finds himself haunted by visions after a local girl mysteriously disappears.

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From Stornoway to Strathaven, Dumfries to Aberdeen, 101 Men in Kilts brings together men from all walks of life including bus drivers, engineers, barbers and doctors in a year-long photographic project.

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Alan Gilzean was a truly great footballer, winning the league with Dundee and four trophies with Tottenham Hotspur; After a fan on a Spurs internet forum claimed that Gilzean was living as a down-and-out, James Morgan sets out to restore the legacy of an iconic footballer. Updated with prologue and epilogue following Gilzean's death in July 2018

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A witty, sexy, intelligent and moving novel set against the foreground of a short-listed writer's bizarre dash across London to attend a literary prize-giving ceremony. Taking place across decades, across London and across America, this novel asks the question - are we forever responsible for those we have tamed?

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Over three seasons, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has built a team that dominates games like no other, scores goals and collects points and trophies at record-breaking pace. Lu Martin and Pol Ballus have been embedded with the club, reporting this inside account of how a phenomenal team was constructed

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Through extensive interviews with one player in every key position on and off the pitch - including Manuel Neuer, Vincent Kompany, Xabi Alonso, Chicharito, Christian Pulisic, Roberto Martinez and Michael Zorc - Grant Wahl (Sports Illustrated) breaks down the technical and tactical revolution that has transformed modern football.

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Gary Sutherland could never fathom hillwalkers and had always managed to ignore the West Highland Way despite living on the doorstep of Scotland's most famous trail. Then one day he decided to consecutively walk the West Highland Way, Great Glen Way and Speyside Way to complete a hat-trick of iconic Scottish treks.

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How did you spend the long, hot, World Cup summer of 2018? For Jonathan Northcroft, chief football writer of The Sunday Times, it was 35 unforgettable days spent criss-crossing Russia, covering the biggest sporting event on the planet and writing about a young England team. This is his personal account of an unforgettable month of football

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Welcome to the world of Leo Moran - connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions. Asked by an old acquaintance to investigate a curse which is said to haunt the beautiful Scottish Isle of Sonna, Moran finds himself drawn into an extraordinary drama of envy, shame and vengeance.

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Leo Moran – connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions – sets out from the splendid isolation of his Glasgow apartment to solve the murder of a young woman at Loch Dhonn in the Argyll countryside.

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Fresh from seven years of nocturnal peak-bagging in Moonwalker, Alan Rowan now has his sights set on a new mountain list, the Corbetts. A Mountain Before Breakfast is the second and concluding part of the Moonwalker saga. It is filled with passionate tales of Scotland's wild lands and high places, laced with a healthy dose of humour.

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This is the story of the greatest achievement in the history of international football. After decades of failure, Spain won Euro 2008 and then the World Cup in 2010. At Euro 2012 they became the first team to win three consecutive tournament titles. This book has remarkable eyewitness accounts and new interviews with star players.

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