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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pep Revolution For three extraordinary seasons at...

'An important wake up call.' -Rob Lott in Whale and Dolphin ConservationFully revised edition wit...

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border pos...

Find out what happens when Captain Kit welcomes his passengers aboard his ferry in this charming ...

'Much more than a travelogue... it's the author's exploration of the connections between the plac...

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Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose hellfire and damnation sermons pushed the city o...

The first book to look at the lost heritage of Plymouth

When the last inhabitants of St Kilda were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the...

Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase. When Dr David Cairney, a ...

Immerse yourself in Scotland's sauna culture.Saunaland is a love story - between flame and forest...

An updated edition of the gazetteer of Scotch whiskey, with entries on new distilleries. Contains...

The Utterly Otterley family live in a cosy burrow near the river where everything is just about p...

A brutal murder, a complex investigation, a safe conviction. Or so everyone thinks until D.C.I. M...

Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully writ...

Cornwall's lost heritage

Death is the inevitable fate of every single person on earth. How do we accept the inevitability ...

The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentall...

Presents George Mackay Brown's writings on many of the places, people, legends and seasons that f...

What is England, and who are the English?The man who first posed and answered these questions liv...

A biography of the author's uncles, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch,...

This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the ...

With further, indisposable hints on the social niceties of reeling, the conventions of the dance ...

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Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book PrizeWhy did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Since time immemorial, water has been a major theme in myth, religion and folklore throughout the...

A new edition of the biography looking at the life and career of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, whic...

A fascinating mix of autobiography, essays and speeches by one of the most charismatic and eloque...

In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs f...

This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent...

Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1...

From simple faith and active compassion, a single thought has mushroomed into a beacon of hope an...

The history of James Gillespie's high school.

Henry VIII is one of history's best-known characters and England's most famous monarch. Drawing o...

To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from. Sister Maria-Fi...

Scotland has one of the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for un...

Voted 'The Best Scottish Book of All Time' and 'Scotland's Favourite Book'.

In this beautifully illustrated book, featuring over 100 old photographs, maps and prints, Craig ...

Love in all its forms is celebrated in this diverse and highly accessible poetry anthology with p...

The Edge of Silence is a profoundly moving and poignant book that explores the author's hearing l...

Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to wo...

During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champi...

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds - heaven, hell or fairyland. By the late...

Widely hailed by enthusiasts as one of the most detailed reference books on the subject of Celtic...

This is the story of Champion Golfer Allan Robertson (1815-1859).Until now, Robertson's role had ...

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish En...

With its natural predators long exterminated, huge deer populations controlled by landowners - la...