BRILLIANT BOOKS FOR AUTUMN

Check Out Our Recommendations Below!

  • John Macnab
    Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2007
    £9.99

    In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab. Three high-flying men – a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker – are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that…

  • Whiskies Galore
    Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £12.99

    From the author of the bestselling 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die. Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special combination of heritage, mystique and remote location…

  • Liquid Faith
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2026
    £10.99

    Since time immemorial, water has been a major theme in myth, religion and folklore throughout the world. With its 12,000-mile coastline, as well as a plethora of rivers and lochs, Scotland is a particularly rewarding place in which to explore the…

  • The Long Golden Afternoon
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024
    £16.99

    Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards for Best Sports Writing of the Year and the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris…

  • The Poems of Norman MacCaig
    Paperback | Pub: 09 Nov 2009
    £25.00

    This collection of Norman MacCaig’s poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion…

  • Saunaland
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £25.00

    Immerse yourself in Scotland’s sauna culture. Saunaland is a love story – between flame and forest, sweat and salt, person and place. It explores the deep, healing rituals of sauna culture, rooted in Nordic tradition and Celtic practices,…

  • Wild Island
    Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025
    £17.99

    In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, and…

  • Of Stone and Sky
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
    £9.99

    ‘An enthralling mystery, family saga and Sunset Song-esque ode to the land’ – The Herald, 25 Summer Reads Winner of the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize After Highland shepherd Colvin…

  • The Hidden Fires
    Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023
    £10.99

    Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous…

  • The Bone Cave
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026
    £10.99

    This is a book about stories – old stories of people and place, and of the more-than-human world. A vivid account of a journey through the Scottish Highlands, The Bone Cave follows a series of folktales and myths to the places in which they’re…

  • The Isle of Good Karma
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £18.99

    As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. It’s never too late to make a change. Single and approaching middle age, Maeve Macdonald feels she has reached a point at which, if she doesn’t do something drastic soon, life will have passed her by. And…

  • Fugitive Colours
    Hardback | Pub: 24 May 2016
    £12.99

    This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland’s Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether commissioned works, such as ‘Connecting…

  • Other Worlds
    Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022
    £12.99

    An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and…

  • Upland
    Hardback | Pub: 01 May 2025
    £18.99

    ‘Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion’ – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and…

  • Upland
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £10.99

    ‘Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion’ – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and…

  • Exile
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £12.99

    Discover a thrilling true story of treachery, deceit, hope and despair. From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, she was the prisoner of her cousin,…

  • The Gravity of Feathers
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £14.99

    Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize. Discover the true story of St. Kilda. When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its…

  • Double Proof
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024
    £9.99

    Stolen whisky, drug dealers, bent cops, social influencers and yakuza mobsters. And Robbie Gould is caught in the middle. 1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made – the legendary Dalziel Double Proof – goes missing. 2023. Albie,…

  • The Salt Roads
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £9.99

    Sometimes the simplest thing can change an entire culture. This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from…