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Paperback | Pub: 02 Dec 2021
£9.99£7.99Walter Smith was one of the most respected managers in British football. This insightful biography casts a reflective and analytical eye over his life and career, examining this shrewd professional through the many highs and lows that he has…
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Hardback | Pub: 11 Nov 2021£30.00£24.00Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian’s Wall; an important centre of monasticism; a ‘royal’ bulwark against attacks and invasion from Scotland; and the…
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021£9.99£7.99It’s 1968, and the fishermen of Kinloch are preparing to celebrate the old New Year on the twelfth of January. The annual pilgrimage to the Auld Stones is a tradition that goes back beyond memory, and young Hamish, first mate on the Girl…
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021£17.99£14.39Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. In Drummond Place gardens it seems that Olive has their future together all planned out. Meanwhile, upstairs at 44 Scotland Street, Bertie’s father Stuart is powerless…
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Oct 2021£12.99£10.39This is the inside story of St Johnstone’s Historic Cup Double in Season 2020-21 – one of the most remarkable achievements in Scottish football history. Having waited 130 years to lift a major trophy after winning the Scottish Cup in 2014,…
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Hardback | Pub: 21 Oct 2021£35.00£28.00INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From ‘Aald Rock’ to ‘Zeenty-teenty’, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends,…
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Oct 2021£6.99£5.59After a terrible storm, the Kingdom of Birds is looking for a leader. Will it be the bird with the loveliest song, or the brightest plumage? The fastest in the air, or underwater? The bird who flies highest, or those who stick together and work as a…
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021£25.00£20.00On this culinary journey through the Highlands of Scotland, award-winning food writer Ghillie Basan meets a host of artisan food producers, farmers, crofters, fishermen and distillers. From the wild glens of the Cairngorms, the bountiful waters of…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021£14.99£11.99The 21st century’s own Gin Craze continues unabated, with exciting new crafted gins launched on a regular basis. Most recently, we have seen growing interest in Pink Gins and the development of a range of flavoured gins, not to mention the…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021£12.99£10.39Jeda is a girl on the cusp of adulthood, living in Edinburgh; with a white father and a black mother, she feels self-conscious and out of place. Her feelings of alienation allow the stories of the shapeshifting Shadowman, who embodies all that is…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021£14.99£11.99Brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn enjoyed a rare bond: they were intimate companions and theirs was one of the most significant musical relationships of the 19th century. They shared and commented on each other’s compositions, each…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021£4.99£3.99In today’s world of ready meals and snacking, the value of healthy eating has never been more important. Seafood is one of the healthiest things you can put on your plate: fish is good for the heart, improves circulation, keeps your joints…
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021£25.00£20.00Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the…
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Hardback | Pub: 16 Sep 2021£17.99£14.39The summer of 1967 was Scottish football’s finest hour. Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Kilmarnock got to the semis of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Scotland defeated world champions England…
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Sep 2021
£12.99£10.39The gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux (two weeks after the famous evacuation of the main British army from Dunkirk) may have burned itself into the consciousness of an older…
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021
£9.99£7.99It’s 1968, and the fishermen of Kinloch are preparing to celebrate the old New Year on the twelfth of January. The annual pilgrimage to the Auld Stones is a tradition that goes back beyond memory, and young Hamish, first mate on the Girl…
Current Bestsellers
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Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021
£9.99£7.99It’s 1968, and the fishermen of Kinloch are preparing to celebrate the old New Year on the twelfth of January. The annual pilgrimage to the Auld Stones is a tradition that goes back beyond memory, and young Hamish, first mate on the Girl…
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021
£10.00£8.00It’s Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She’s hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn’t know that her Palace is surrounded – that, right now, an army of men…
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Hardback | Pub: 07 Oct 2021
£25.00£20.00On this culinary journey through the Highlands of Scotland, award-winning food writer Ghillie Basan meets a host of artisan food producers, farmers, crofters, fishermen and distillers. From the wild glens of the Cairngorms, the bountiful waters of…
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2020£12.99£10.39This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Records of Scotland…
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Hardback | Pub: 16 Sep 2021
£17.99£14.39The summer of 1967 was Scottish football’s finest hour. Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup. Kilmarnock got to the semis of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Scotland defeated world champions England…
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Hardback | Pub: 18 Mar 2021
£20.00£16.00In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian woodlands, subarctic mountains, bogs, moors, roaring burns and frozen lochs could be a…
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Aug 2021£8.99£7.19‘An intriguing Highland mystery peopled with quirky characters and peppered with wit’ – Times Crime Club, Pick of the Week ‘[a] compelling thriller, laced with dark humour’ – Sunday Post In 1752, Seamus…
‘RETURN AT DUSK’ – Extract from DARK ENCOUNTERS by William Croft Dickinson
03 Dec ’21
Jenni Fagan’s Hex – the powerful new Darkland Tale
03 Dec ’21
St Andrew’s Day Poem: ‘Canedolia’ by Edwin Morgan
30 Nov ’21
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021£17.99£14.39One of the Financial Times Top 5 Best Sports Books of the Year 2021 The 1970 World Cup is widely regarded as the greatest ever staged, with more goals per game than any World Cup since. But more than just the proliferation of goals was the quality…
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Paperback | Pub: 10 Sep 2020£14.99£11.99The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other…
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021£16.99£13.59‘one of the year’s most exciting releases’ – The Herald China is building the world’s first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and…
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Paperback | Pub: 29 Jan 2015
£8.99£7.19When the body of a young woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the west coast of Scotland, D.C.I. Jim Daley is despatched from Glasgow to lead the investigation. Far from home, and his troubled marriage, it seems that Daley’s biggest obstacle…
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Paperback | Pub: 24 Apr 2007
£9.99£7.99On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence,…
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Jul 2013£9.99£7.99During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men…
