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Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027£14.99I want to tell every person who has ever said running isn’t for them . . . that running can be whatever you want it to be. Relocating to Edinburgh, Ellie immediately laces up her trainers and sets off to the summit of Arthur’s Seat. What starts...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2011£4.99
Against a tumultuous backdrop of earthquakes, plague and civil unrest Emperor Justinian I is determined to take back the lost Western Roman Empire from the Vandals and the Goths. At any cost. Born an illiterate peasant’s son, he rose to become the...
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E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016£9.99In 1947, when India achieved independence, Britain portrayed the transfer of power as the outcome of decades, even centuries, of responsible planning – the honourable discharge of an historic responsibility. That view has never been seriously...
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E-Book | Pub: 24 Jun 2013£5.99
In “Kidnapped” (1886) and later fiction such as “The Master of Ballantrae” (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland’s past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Jun 2013£5.99
It is the third summer of the war, June 1863, and Robert Lee’s Confederate Army slips across the Potomac to draw out the Union Army. Lee’s army is 70,000 strong and has won nearly every battle it has fought. The Union Army is 80,000...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Oct 2018£8.99A verse novella by Glasgow Laureate Jim Carruth, Killochries tracks the relationship of two very different men working a remote farm over the course of twelve months. A young man is sent to work at Killochries, a farm belonging to a relative, after...
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Hardback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£12.99
A poet’s skill lies in their ability to distil complex themes into a few paragraphs; to pick out the fundamental quality in people that make us unique; they can describe nature in a way that makes us see its majesty. The poet traverses contents...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Oct 2022£18.99Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£17.99
This is the story of Champion Golfer Allan Robertson (1815-1859). Until now, Robertson’s role had been as a member of the supporting cast in the story of leading light Tom Morris. Between 1840 and 1859 the reality was Robertson shared centre...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2008£25.00
This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Nov 2011£30.00
The kingdoms of the Picts and Dal Riata, by the time of their union in the ninth century, formed the nucleus of medieval Scotland. This book by Marjorie O. Anderson remains the most significant study of the regnal lists and irish annals as sources...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2011£30.00
The events of 1000-1130 were crucial to the successful emergence of the medieval kingdom of the Scots. Yet this is one of the least researched periods of Scottish history. We probably now know more about the Picts than the post-1000 events that...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£30.00
This major collection of essays brings together in readily accessible form the fruits of research into the political thought and culture of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. As a collection, it ranges from detailed studies of the writings of...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023£9.99Denzil Meyrick’s three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape. From the author of the...
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Hardback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024£25.00MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a passion for the ingredients themselves, but also for the seasons and weather which nurture them, and...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2026£7.99Discover the adventures of Knobble, a real-life Minke Whale, as he explores Scottish seas, meeting some amazing animals along the way! Knobble has been encountered by many people on whale watching trips since 2002. Packed with fascinating facts...
