Fidra Books is a publisher based in Edinburgh specialising in reissues of bygone children's books, mainly those from the 1940s onwards. The firm was set...
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Fidra (archaically Fidrey or Fetheray) is a currently uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, 4 kilometres (2+1⁄2 miles) northwest of North Berwick...
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Elinor Lyon (section Books)
and four were reissued from 2006 onwards by an Edinburgh publisher, Fidra Books. Island Adventures (c. 1939, unpublished) Hilary's Island (1948) Wishing...
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Charles Booth's Survey of London". 21 March 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2018. "Fidra Books - Anne Digby". www.fidrabooks.com. Retrieved 13 June 2018. Law, Katie...
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several ministerial posts during his political career. "Shiela Stuart". Fidra Books. Retrieved 30 September 2022. "Restaurant review: Hawke & Hunter, Edinburgh"...
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K. M. Peyton (category Pony books)
"Introduction" by Kathleen Peyton, Fly-By-Night, K M Peyton, Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2007 Welcome to the web site of K M Peyton (autobiographical home page)...
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Macmillan. p. 67. Introduction by Elinor Lyon, The House in Hiding, Fidra Books, Edinburgh, 2006, p. v. More details can be seen in the 'In traditional...
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ISBN 9781639363322. The House in Hiding, London: 1950; reprinted, Edinburgh, Fidra Books: 2006, pp. iii–v. Author Arthur Ransome loathed BBC's 'Swallows and Amazons'...
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notes that Digby's style becomes "heavily teen mag" in her later books. Fidra Books has published a collector's edition of Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon...
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of Victoria's children's books - "The Winter of Enchantment" and "The House Called Hadlows" - have been reissued by Fidra Books. She is married and has...
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FitzRoy". Fidra Books. Retrieved 8 August 2007. Orders to Poach, Introduction by Olivia FitzRoy's sister, Barbara Ormrod. Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2006 Children's...
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Joanna Cannan (category Pony books)
the books listed, she also contributed to magazines during her lifetime. A Pony for Jean (1936) We Met Our Cousins (1937). Republished by Fidra Books in...
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Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1972 Pullein-Thompson, Josephine. Pony Club Team. Fidra Books, 2009, p. 109 Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis...
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Mabel Esther Allan (section Selected books)
Foreword by Mabel Esther Allan, Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2006 Robertson, Vanessa. Information on Fidra Books website. Mabel Esther Allan Papers, Special...
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Margot Pardoe (section Published books)
by Vanessa Robertson, Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2007 Children's literature portal Margot Pardoe's books at Fidra Books M. Pardoe at Library of Congress...
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The Far-Distant Oxus (category 1937 children's books)
book called Crowns (1947). Fidra Books reissued the novel in August 2008. Seven Stories, The National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle upon Tyne now...
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Primrose Cumming (category Pony books)
modern youth. Primrose Cumming died in 2004. None of her books are currently in print, but Fidra Books republished Silver Snaffles, which appeared in late...
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Fly-by-Night (Peyton novel) (category Pony books)
Ruth and Fly-by-Night compete in the hunter trials and come in sixth. Fidra Books is currently publishing Fly-By-Night, with the sequel, The Team, expected...
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The Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος, translit. Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several...
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Michelle Moore (since 2020) Gender Mixed Enrolment approx. 1000 Houses Craig, Fidra, Glen and Law Colour(s) Red & Black Website https://sites.google.com/edubuzz...
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scot/designation/LB8997 https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Fidra/ MarineTraffic, Wikidata Q18518862 "Listed building details (number=LB44556)"...
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basis for the map of the fictional Treasure Island – a claim shared by Fidra in East Lothian. In the 1950s, a Canadian sociologist, Erving Goffman, undertook...
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Treasure Island (category Cassell (publisher) books)
years after writing Treasure Island) and christened it "Treasure Island" Fidra in the Firth of Forth, visible from North Berwick where Stevenson had spent...
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Phaedrus (fabulist) (section The five books)
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros), or Phaeder (c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier...
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Stevenson worked on 26 lighthouses during his career. Among them are: Fidra (1885) Oxcar (1886) Ailsa Craig (1886) Skroo, Fair Isle (1892) Helliar Holm...
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Beaufighter TF Mk X JM220 of 132 OTU crashed into the Firth of Forth near Fidra during exercises at Dirleton gunnery range. Both crew were killed. 1945...
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the Azores. Her last patrol was not without success; she sank Trefusis, Fidra, Empire Tower and Ger-y-Bryn, all on 5 March 1943. She was sunk on 12 March...
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in nature were able to land on the island bird colonies of Bass Rock and Fidra. The oldest remaining part of the harbour is the "Auld Kirk Green" or "Anchor...
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Lesmahagow Priory Return to top of page Dirleton Red Friars Dunbar Priory Fidra Priory Haddington Blackfriars Haddington Greyfriars Luffness Whitefriars...
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Scottish Seabird Centre, near the important bird sanctuaries on Bass Rock, Fidra and the surrounding islands. The area is home to huge colonies of gannets...
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