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Colonsay Bookshop

Publications about Colonsay

The tiny island bookshop at Port Mor carries a large selection of books, specialising in titles with a Scottish and Hebridean flavour. We also have an antiquarian section for rarer sources. It is more than just a bookshop, also selling craft items, woolen items, cards and small gifts. The Bookshop is open in summer, Monday - Saturday 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. and on Wednesdays and Saturdays opens a little earlier, at midday. It can be accessed at other times by contacting Kevin and Christa Byrne just up the road at Homefield, or ringing Georgina, at home on 01951 200375, to discuss any special or unusual books.

It can normally supply any of the following books about Colonsay which are mostly still in print - prices are given as a guide only and exclude postage.

For more information on any title or for a price inclusive of carriage please Email bookshop@colonsay.org.uk

Write to: Colonsay Bookshop, Isle of Colonsay, Argyll, PA61 7YP

Telephone: 01951 200232




"Colonsay and Oronsay Etc." LATEST EDITION 1:25000 Map (4cm to 1km)   Ordnance Survey Explorer Series

£7.99

"Elements of an Island" by Brian Hindmarch***
  A collection of outstanding colour photographs. An excellent souvenir.

£12.99

"Colonsay Calendar 2009" also with photographs by Brian Hindmarch***

£6.95

"Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1994) Argyll, Volume 5, Islay, Jura and Colonsay"

Second-hand only more than £100

"Exploring Colonsay - # 11 in The West Highland Series"
   A new addition to our own popular series for walkers and motorists (2007)

£3.50

"The Birds of Colonsay and Oronsay"
  David Jardine. Absolutely full of local tips and information

£5.99

"The Flowering Plants of Colonsay and Oronsay"
  P.M.Clarke & J. Clarke 1991

£3.50

"Colonsay and Oronsay in the Isles of Argyll"
  John de Vere Loder (new edition 1995, replaces rare 1935 edition)

n/a

"Colonsay - One of the Hebrides"
  Murdoch McNeill 2001 (limited facsimile of the rare 1909 edition)

£12.99

"Summer in the Hebrides"
  Frances Murray (1994 limited facsimile of the rare 1887 edition)

£19.95

"The Book of Colonsay and Oronsay" 2 vols.
  Symington Grieve 1923

SCARCE at around £400.00

"Scotch Law" Statesmen No. 154
  Lord Colonsay, portrait by "Spy" Vanity Fair Sept. 13 1873

£95.00

"The Crofter and the Laird"
  John McPhee (new European edition, published by House of Lochar)

£8.99

"Colkitto! - A Celebration of Clan Donald of Colonsay (1570-1647)"
  Kevin Byrne (includes the names of 254 Colonsay residents of 1624, culled from Vatican records by Catholdus Giblin and now arranged by family etc.)

£13.99

"Moch is Anmoch"
  A collection of poems including those of the late Donald "Garvard" MacNeill, with notes and translations by Alastair Scouller and illustrated by Andrew McMorrine. This is a limited edition.

£6.99

"Colonsay's Fallen" by Alan Davis. Limited edition.
  This is an outstanding tribute which gives biographical information about all those who are commemorated on the Colonsay War Memorials

£10.00

"Highland Warrior - Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars"
  by David Stevenson. The life of the island's greatest hero; contains a long section on Colonsay in the sixteenth century.

£14.99

"JURA - Island of Deer"
  Peter Youngson pb edition

£16.99

"Jura - Language and Landscape" by Gary McKay
  Outstanding collection of stories and stunning photographs to celebrate our amazing neighbour

£15.00

"Saving Finnegan"
  Sally Grindly (childrens book based on the true story about a whale that beached on the nearby island of Coll

£5.99

A selection of beautifully illustrated Katie Morag stories about life on an imaginery Hebridean island
  Mairi Hedderwick

£5.99


*** N.B. High quality and enlarged copies of the images in "Elements of an Island" can be especially ordered. Some examples may be seen in Colonsay Bookshop.

 

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