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Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 19th August, 2013
We have scanned and uploaded most of the Higher Scottish set texts to the Books for All Database and so they are now available for any of your learners who have print disabilities. The books are PDF files so they can be read on almost any device - Windows or Mac computers, iPads, Android tablets etc. They have been scanned from paper originals and converted to readable text using an automatic optical character recognition process, so there may be some errors in the text, but they look pretty accurate to me. Together with the digital versions of the set texts for National 5 we uploaded in July, these files should help learners get to grips with this session's English courses.
I've also searched for commerical eBook versions of the set texts, and the table below gives you links to both the eBook and scanned books on the Database.
The Books for All web site has quick guides on reading PDFs, and there are also some video guides.
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RM Books |
Books for All Database |
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil by John McGrath |
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Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart |
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The Slab Boys by John Byrne |
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In progress |
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Prose |
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Short stories by Iain Crichton Smith. The Red Door, The Telegram, Mother and Son, In Church, The Painter, The Crater
(All in The Red Door: The Complete English Stories 1949-76) |
Listen to the Voice, £7.56 |
Listen to the Voice, £8.99 |
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The Cone-Gatherers by Robin Jenkins |
The Cone-Gatherers, £4.63 |
The Cone-Gatherers, £8.99 |
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Short stories by George Mackay Brown. A Time to Keep, The Bright Spade, The Wireless Set, The Whaler’s Return, The Eye of the Hurricane, Tartan.
(All in A Time to Keep and other stories) |
A Time to Keep, £5.49
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In progress |
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Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
Sunset Song, £1.39 |
Sunset Song, free |
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The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway |
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Poetry |
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Carol Ann Duffy. War Photographer, Havisham, Valentine, Originally, Anne Hathaway, Mrs Midas (All in New Selected Poems 1984-2004) |
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Norman MacCaig. Sounds of the Day, Assisi, Visiting Hour, Memorial, Aunt Julia, Basking Shark (All in The Poems of Norman MacCaig) |
The Poems of Norman MacCaig, £7.91 |
The Poems of Norman MacCaig, £11.99 |
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Sorley MacLean. Hallaig, Screapadal, Heroes, Shores, An Autumn Day, I gave you Immortality. (All in Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems) |
Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems, £14.40 |
Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems, £21.99 |
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Don Paterson. Waking with Russell, The Thread, 11:00: Baldovan, Two Trees, The Ferryman’s Arms, Nil Nil (All in Don Paterson: Selected Poems) |
Don Paterson: Selected Poems, £5.99 |
Don Paterson: Selected Poems, £9.99 |
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Liz Lochhead. The Bargain, My Rival’s House, View of Scotland/Love Poem, Some Old Photographs, For my Grandmother Knitting, Last Supper (All in A Choosing) |
Dreaming Frankestein & Collected Poems, £6.96 (does not include View of Scotland or Some Old Photographs) |
Dreaming Frankestein & Collected Poems, £7.99 (does not include View of Scotland or Some Old Photographs) |
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Robert Burns. Holy Willie’s Prayer, Tam O’ Shanter, To a Mouse, A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter, Address to the Deil, A Man’s a Man for a’ That |
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns.PDF Poems and Songs of Robert Burns.DOC
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