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Balmoral in Winter by Mark Leman
R o y a l  D e e s i d e  P h o t o g r a p h i c  B o o k  1 9 9 9

Foreword by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales


Picture above: Balmoral in Winter by Mark Leman

This book features pictures by photographers, both local and world wide, of the scenery, people and wildlife set within Royal Deeside's oustanding natural beauty.
With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales to introduce what the area and its environment mean to him and his family, and local people, the book is a beautiful pictorial record.

An initiative of the Royal Deeside Partnership copies are available at local bookshops and can be ordered through Ballater Royal Deeside.


Alec Clark
"THE HAPPY FISHERS"
Alec Clark and launch of Ballater Angling Assoc. (1983). Founding years. Very readable & appealling to fishers. Photos incl. HRH Duke of Edinburgh.
Available from A.B. Yule or A. Clark, Ballater.
ISBN 0 9527041 0 2. 


Sabine van Dessel
"HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT MEAT"
Vegetarian cookery book
Vantage Press
ISBN 533 04833 8

Sabine Muir
"MATTHEW AND THE HIGHLAND RESCUE"

A Children's Novel
ISBN:1413759165

To web site
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Peter MacPhee
"BALLATER GOLF CLUB 1892 - 1992"
Formation & development. Biogs of Captains and Ladies, maps, photos (incl. Braid & Vardon 1906). Origin of Sunday Golf.
Available from A.B. Yule or Golf Club, Ballater. RRP £12
ISBN 0 9518793 0 8 

Peter J.M. McEwan
"DICTIONARY OF SCOTTISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE"
Architects, Artists, Ceramic, Jewellery and Textile Designers, Illustrators, Photographers, Masons, Academies, Associations and Movements.
11 years in the writing. The definitve and only Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture.
Available from McEwan Gallery, Ballater. Also - Art Galleries, Libraries and Publishers - The Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Price £49.50.
ISBN 1 85149 134 1. 

Douglas Morgan
"WINDOWS ON CRATHIE"
Notes on the stained glass windows in Crathie Parish Church
Available from A.B. Yule, Ballater
ISBN 0 9524994 0 1 

Mary Munro
(née Davidson)

NEW FROM MARY MUNRO

"TALES IN THE MITHER TONGUE"
(2005)


(Available as below)

"DEESIDE REETS"
("Deeside Roots")
(2004)

Sheena Blackhall says of this book -
"A wealth of stories, memories and poems in the rich mither tongue of a Ballater Quine whos' heart has never left the hills of home".

Available from Mary Munro at:

5 Darroch Court, Ballater, Scotland

Tel.
(UK) 013397 55024
(Intl) 00 44 13397 55024

£9.99 + £2 P&P Overseas
£9.99 + £1 P&P UK

OR From:

A.B. Yule, Bookshop and Newsagent, Bridge Street, Ballater


Ian Murray
Dr. Sheila Sedgwick

"THE CURIOUS YEARS" - the story of the Churches in Tullich, Glenmuick & Glengairn since 1661 - £5.00

"DEPARTED GLORIES" - the story of Tullich - £2.50

"RECALLING GLENGAIRN" - life in Glengairn - £2.50

"THE STORY OF BALLATER" - from Royal Tullich to Royal Deeside - £3.99

"THE LEGION OF THE LOST" - life in the settlements in Glenmuick - £6.99

"THE GRUE & THE GLORY" - stories from the upper reaches of the Dee - £3.99

"VARIORUM" - Stories of Deeside - £3.99

All available, post free, from Dr.Sedgwick
(UK) 013397 55292

(Intl.) 00 44 13397 55292

Agnes Short
Novels with a historical, mainly Scottish background. Pub. Constable & Co.
Family saga with a fishing background based in 19th Century Footdee, Aberdeen. Family saga with granite industry background, 19th Century Aberdeen. Agnes Short as Rose Shipley
Pub. Barrie & Jenkins
Late 19th/early20th Century novels with an English (East Anglian/London) setting.

H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGAR
Available in local newsagents. 

Various
"THE BALLATER AND CRATHIE EAGLE" Quarterly community magazine by various

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