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BRAND NEW FOR 2026
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E-Book | Pub: 04 Jun 2026£4.99
A lost Hitchcock film. A deadly secret. It’s murder in Hollywood. Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is…
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£5.99
Emma Propeller is trying to swerve the wreckage of her marriage. When her husband returns from rehab with a new lover, Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. A job as a live-in driver for a glamorous…
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E-Book | Pub: 07 May 2026£4.99
A Working Mother is a perfectly crafted novel that will enthral, entertain and surprise in equal measure. Our unreliable narrator, Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children and feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and…
Discover One of Scotland’s Best-Loved Authors
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Feb 2024£6.99Rediscover what it means to fall in love. The Perfect Passion Dating Company at No. 24 Mouse Lane in Edinburgh’s New Town is run by Katie Donald who has an innate instinct for bringing people together. She has developed a skill for finding out…
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Feb 2025£6.99What if you met the person you were destined to be with? And what if you never saw them again . . . ? There’s a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Clea meets the man of her dreams. But having…
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Oct 2019£5.99In Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. Three sisters brought up in Penang,…
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Nov 2015£4.99In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them. Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012£5.99Imagine you’re on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences you’ve all had. But there is one more thing that you undoubtedly all share: you have all…
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E-Book | Pub: 31 Jul 2014£4.99IT TAKES A LOT TO GET UNDER THE SKIN OF CORNELIUS ‘FATTY’ O’LEARY, …literally. The heroically proportioned Fatty O’Leary can normally take life as it comes. Right at home in easy-going Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is happily married to…
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Oct 2020£9.99What really counts in this life? For the writer, Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship and love – themes that crop up time and again in his novels. And it is these themes that he explores in this collection of poems, with moments that swoop and…
FOR CRIME AND THRILLER FANS
DISCOVER DR JACK CUTHBERT
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Jan 2025£4.99
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen….
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Apr 2025£4.99
She was someone’s daughter . . . In 1930, the killing of a Soho prostitute is hardly a priority for Scotland Yard. But when a second, similar murder comes to light, and then a third, everything changes. Cuthbert and his team find themselves in a…
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£4.99
The dead all have stories to tell. Glasgow, 1931. Visiting from London, Dr Jack Cuthbert unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a horrifying crime. As an experienced pathologist, the local police call upon him to lead the forensic investigation…
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E-Book | Pub: 08 Jan 2026£4.99
Sins never stay buried. You may call it a sin; I say it was an act of desperation. Like all pathologists, Cuthbert finds dealing with dead children the hardest part of his job. However, when the body of a young boy is found in the grounds of a…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£4.99
The scales of justice are easily tipped . . . London, 1932. A brutal murder, a complex forensic investigation and a safe conviction – or so everyone thinks until D.C.I Mowbray hears the condemned man’s last words. Now he needs Dr Jack…
The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Mar 2019£3.99
On an island of secrets, some sins never die . . . When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond’s return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was…
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Mar 2020£3.99
When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the ’45 Rebellion has enraged the…
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Jul 2022£3.99
Fear is a state of mind . . . Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death . . . and when her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, journalist Rebecca Connelly is determined to find the truth. Could she really have been killed by…
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Jul 2023£4.99
We come from the mist, and to the mist we will return . . . Fergus MacGregor told people he was going to Pitlochry for the day but was never seen again. Years later, Rebecca witnesses his deeply religious mother holding an annual ritual in the…
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E-Book | Pub: 02 May 2024£4.99
‘The Hollow Mountain is possibly the best yet’ – S.G. MacLean The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession – blasting tunnels through mountains and under…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Jul 2025£4.99
There are two sides to everything, and fear isn’t any different – sometimes you have to push through to the other side . . . Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they’ll stop at nothing to get what they want. Investigative journalist Rebecca…
THE DCI DALEY SERIES
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Feb 2015£3.99Large measures, dark hearts. When 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…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Jul 2014£4.99
When your worst nightmare returns, survival is all. Ruthless crime lord James Machie was assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction. But now, five years later, he appears to be back from the grave and hell-bent…
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E-Book | Pub: 27 Apr 2015£4.99Death. Betrayal. Revenge. When a senior Edinburgh Civil Servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch Harbour, D.C.I. Jim Daley comes face-to-face with the murky world of politics. To add to his woes, two local drug dealers lie dead,…
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E-Book | Pub: 23 Mar 2016£4.99
It’s December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for their annual AGM. Shannon International is one of the world’s biggest private companies, with tendrils reaching around the globe in…
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Apr 2017£4.99
As the Second World War nears its end, a man is stabbed to death on the shoreline of Kinloch, in the shadow of the great warships in the harbour. Many years later, the postman on Gairsay, a tiny island off the coast of Kintyre, discovers that the…
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Sep 2018£4.99One of the Scotsman‘s Books of 2018 When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside – a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled – their delight…
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E-Book | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£4.99Silent waters run deadly . . . When the luxury cruiser, hastily renamed Great Britain, berths in Kinloch harbour, the pressure is on DCI Jim Daley. The UK Government are taking a high-powered group of businessmen and women on a tour of the British…
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E-Book | Pub: 04 Jun 2020£4.99
Voted Culture NL’s Book of the Year for 2020 Teenager Alison Doig disappeared from Kinloch over thirty years ago under mysterious circumstances. Her reclusive family still live in a remote part of the Kintyre peninsula, amidst rumours of…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£4.99A SUNDAY POST TOP PICK FOR SUMMER READING ‘This latest DCI Daley thriller is deftly plotted and peopled with sympathetically drawn local characters and satisfyingly nuanced local wrongdoers’ – Irish Independent When a light aircraft…
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E-Book | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£4.99
Everyone has a past they can’t forget . . . Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2023£4.99
Be sure your sins will find you out . . . one day. A potent new drug has hit the streets of Kinloch, and DCI Daley and Scott are struggling to catch the notorious gang behind this evil trade. After a party of Oxford students arrives in town for a…
THE RICHARD HANNAY ADVENTURES
The New Adventures from Robert J. Harris
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99June 1940. German troops pour across France. As the Nazi invasion rolls towards Paris, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In the French capital an individual code named ‘Roland’ has…
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E-Book | Pub: 08 Nov 2018£4.99
In 1920s Scotland a foreign dignitary on a secret visit has been abducted by men who plan to murder him. Veteran adventurer Richard Hannay must recruit three of his oldest friends to prevent a catastrophe that could plunge Europe into another war….
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Jun 2024£4.99
Richard Hannay Returns. JULY, 1942. Once again veteran adventurer Richard Hannay is called into action on a mission that will test him as never before. At stake is the fate of the beleaguered island of Malta where Hannay’s son is stationed as a…
Discover All of Richard Hannay’s Adventures Today
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Sep 2011£2.99
Selected as one of the 100 best novels in English in The Guardian Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot and is then…
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Sep 2012£4.99
November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top-secret mission to investigate rumours of a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front. Hannay must journey to Constantinople…
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Sep 2012£3.99Recalled from active service on the Western Front, Richard Hannay is sent undercover on a secret mission to find a dangerous German agent at large in Britain. Disguised as a pacifist, Hannay travels from London to Glasgow to the Scottish Highlands…
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E-Book | Pub: 12 Sep 2012£3.99
After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of…
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E-Book | Pub: 25 Aug 2012£3.99
A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay finds him honour-bound to resolve a violent vendetta in which the lives of a young father and his daughter are in danger from unscrupulous and desperate men. Hannay sets out on a high-octane chase from…
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99
June 1940. German troops pour across France. As the Nazi invasion rolls towards Paris, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In the French capital an individual code named ‘Roland’ has…
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E-Book | Pub: 08 Nov 2018£4.99
In 1920s Scotland a foreign dignitary on a secret visit has been abducted by men who plan to murder him. Veteran adventurer Richard Hannay must recruit three of his oldest friends to prevent a catastrophe that could plunge Europe into another war….
FOR THE HISTORICAL FICTION AFICIONADOS
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E-Book | Pub: 17 Jul 2025£5.99
They got away with murder once . . . In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all…
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E-Book | Pub: 02 May 2024£5.99
Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows . . . A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions – a…
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E-Book | Pub: 05 May 2022£3.99
Discover murder and mayhem in the court of Henry VIII Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp, Henry VIII’s court welcomes the Imperial emperor Charles V. Anthony Blanke – the son of the king’s late ‘black trumpet’, John…
The Hew Cullan Mysteries
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1579, St Andrews. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer, returns home from studying in Paris. But it proves to be a cold homecoming as Hew’s friend, university regent Nicholas Colp, is accused of murdering a thirteen-year-old boy. The boy was a private…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1581, Edinburgh. Running from his new responsibilities as head of the family in St Andrews, young lawyer Hew Cullan arrives in the vibrant capital of medieval Scotland. There he plans to publish his late father’s book and quietly endure the…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1582, St Andrews. A violent storm wrecks a ship nearby, and the only man about dies without revealing how he came to be there alone, or where the ship was headed. But neither he nor the wreck is really of interest to the townsfolk of St Andrews….
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E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2014£3.99
St Andrews, 1583, and tensions are running high. Dissension rages between King and councillors, and between separate factions of the Kirk. Hew Cullan is called to investigate a mysterious incident, and finds suspicion falling upon him as he is…
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E-Book | Pub: 17 Sep 2015£3.99
1587. After three long years, exiled from home and family, and drawn into the depths of the London underworld under the tutelage of Elizabeth I’s spymaster Francis Walsingham, Hew returns to Scotland with his new English wife, Frances. The…
A Calendar of Crime
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E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016£0.99
Whitsunday is the second instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. When a Lord Justice is found dead within the grounds of St Leonard’s College an unfortunate…
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E-Book | Pub: 09 Aug 2016£0.99
Lammas is the third instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. Lammas day, a day of celebration for some. Elspet, a serving girl at the harbour inn has been told for…
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E-Book | Pub: 04 Nov 2016£0.99
Martinmas is the fourth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. In St Salvator’s college at the start of the academic year a young student claims that he…
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E-Book | Pub: 25 Dec 2016£0.99
Yule is the fifth instalment of 1588: A Calendar of Crime, a collection of short stories published in step with the sixteenth century calendar. Despite prohibitions on celebrating Yule, the old traditions still persist among the tenant farmers on…
FOR FANS OF THE GOLDEN AGE DETECTIVE
Fireside Mysteries for Cold Nights
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Oct 2020£3.99London, 1942. A killer going by the name of ‘Crimson Jack’ is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is…
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Jun 2018£4.99
Having lost all his money in hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes, old Angus Campbell has nothing to leave his heirs but the proceeds of his life insurance policies. After he falls to his death from a locked bedchamber in the tower of Shira Castle in…
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E-Book | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£5.99
‘The Starberths die of broken necks’ goes the legend in the village of Chatterham . . . The Starberth family governed the now-abandoned Chatterham prison for many years, and each male heir must spend the night of his twenty-fifth birthday…
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E-Book | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£5.99
Rita Wainwright’s love affair with Barry Sullivan is flamboyant enough to deserve a dramatic ending, so that when the pair of them vanish over a cliff one rainy night, leaving a farewell note for Rita’s husband, no one doubts for a moment that…
JOURNEYS INTO THE WILD
Nature Writing
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Oct 2022£9.99
Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award In 2016, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was…
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E-Book | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£9.99Shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award Red kites were once Britain’s most common bird of prey. By the early 1900s they’d been wiped out in Scotland and England following centuries of ruthless persecution. When some…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£9.99
Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this…
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E-Book | Pub: 21 Jul 2022£9.99
‘Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness’ – Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and nature have been at the heart of Polly Pullar’s world. Growing up in a remote…
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E-Book | Pub: 10 Dec 2012£7.99
New and updated edition. In 1743, according to legend, the last wolf in Scotland was killed by a huntsman near Inverness. Long regarded in folk takes and history as a slayer of babies, a robber of graves, a devourer of battlefield dead, its…
FOR HISTORY BUFFS
DISCOVER THE STORY OF A NATION
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E-Book | Pub: 22 Sep 2015£9.99
Discover the ultimate chronicle of a nation. In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of Scotland, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£7.99In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2012£8.99
The Holy Grail, the kingdom of Camelot, The Knights of the Round Table and the magical sword Excalibur are all key ingredients of the legends surrounding King Arthur. But who was he really, where did he come from, and how much of what we read about…
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£6.99
‘The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it’ – The Scotsman Alistair Moffat’s journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and…
