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Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025£30.00
David II (1329–1371), son of the hero King of Scots, Robert Bruce (1306–1329), has suffered a harsh historical press, condemned as a disastrous general, a womaniser and a sympathiser with Scotland’s ‘auld enemy’, England. Bringing together...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Feb 2013£4.99
Europe is marching blindly into the First World War and Berlin is in a storm of nationalist marches and army recruitment. Albert Einstein anticipates the carnage to come when his university colleagues begin work on poison gas to ‘shorten the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027£9.99
Journalist Shona Sandison investigates sinister crimes forged in the shadows of Edinburgh’s buried past. After being caught in a deadly blast that rips through the city’s Old Town, Sandison unearths a dark trail that uncovers the...
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E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016£4.99The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022£9.99
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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Paperback | Pub: 12 Mar 2020£9.99The Declaration of Arbroath, 6 April, 1320, is one of the most remarkable documents to have been produced anywhere in medieval Europe. Signed by 51 Scottish nobles, it confirms Scotland’s status as an independent sovereign state with the right to...
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Paperback | Pub: 22 May 2025£9.99
Ride the Oasis rollercoaster ahead of Live ’25. Oasis were Artful Dodgers from a housing estate who created stadium anthems that connected with millions. They became the band of the people by giving the people what they wanted: rock...
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Multiple-component | Pub: 04 Nov 2021£30.00Denzil Meyrick is one of the UK’s bestselling crime novelists with over 1 million copies sold worldwide. If you haven’t tried his books yet, now is your chance, with our Denzil Meyrick starter box. Grab the first in the D.C.I. Daley...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2016£12.99
Fully revised and edited edition. Shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize. Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Aug 2025£9.99
Shortlisted for the 2026 McIlvanney Prize. Shona Sandison might be about to get her biggest scoop yet – if she can make it to the end of the investigation alive. In a darkening, post-COVID world, fearless investigative reporter Shona Sandison is...
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Hardback | Pub: 21 Oct 2021£35.00INCLUDES 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: 11 Apr 2024£7.99Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scotland by brushing with water to reveal colour. Very short captions (c. 10 words) describe the various scenes. Just dip the brush (included with the book) in water and apply...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025£10.99
From dark humour to chilling realism, from factual to fictional, these twenty-four stories – from writers including Muriel Spark, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan and George Mackay Brown – reflect the unique facets of the Scottish...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£3.99Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced...
