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Paperback | Pub: 17 Oct 2016£12.99
A remote, barren and ruggedly beautiful island lies at the southern end of the Outer Hebrides. Its people, loyal for centuries, have abandoned it but the beauty and history of Mingulay remain. The story of St Kilda, whose inhabitants were also...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£10.99Winner of the Highland Book Prize. ‘The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which it is said always travels in the...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£12.99Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf’s first superstar. Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and inexpensive...
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E-Book | Pub: 17 Dec 2012£4.99
After the death of her father, 10-year-old Renee and her mother are forced to open up their Aberdeen home to two lodgers. An impressionable and romantic child, Renee grows up weaving romantic fantasies around both men, firstly the dependable Jack...
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Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025£14.99The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century, when it became a major centre of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Bishopric of Argyll was founded on Lismore...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Apr 2025£9.99
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: 25 Jan 2001£30.00
This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context...
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023£25.00
This edition is signed by the author. Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to...
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Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018£9.99
Recalled 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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Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2025£9.99
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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Paperback | Pub: 25 Oct 2018£9.99
Mull and Iona are two of the most visited islands in Scotland, and have played a central role in the history of the country. As the cradle of Christianity in Scotland, Iona has been a place of pilgrimage for almost 1,500 years and was a beacon of...
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Paperback | Pub: 22 Jun 2017£6.99Lying off the south-western tip of Mull, the island of Iona has huge significance as the first important centre of Christianity in Scotland. But the Abbey itself is built upon rocks that tell of events of much greater antiquity: the Lewisian...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2024£5.99Young children will love these colouring books featuring simple illustrations of a variety of Scottish themes. Contents feature: Castles * Unicorns * Scottish Country Dancers * Bagpipes * Loch Ness Monster * Seashore * Farmyard * Boats and trains *...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2024£5.99Young children will love these colouring books featuring simple illustrations of a variety of Scottish animals. Contents feature: Puffin * Ducks * Garden birds * Hedgehog * Hare * Owls * Capercaillie * Wildcat *Geese * Eagle * Scottie Dog * Pine...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025£4.99Young children will love these colouring books featuring simple illustrations of a variety of Scottish themes. This colouring book will introduce budding artists to the beautiful coasts and seashores of Scotland.
