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Paperback | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£6.99
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize The rocks of northern Scotland tell of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces, creating a chain of mountains, the remnants of which we see today on both sides of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024£7.99Come on an adventure to the edge of the world! This is a true story about a real place. A place hidden behind the waves. The Vikings saw it in their dreams, and sometimes sea birds call its name. It’s a dot on a map. The blink of an eye. The beat...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023£10.00
A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure…. In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£7.99
Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize and The Highland Book Prize A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure… In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022£8.99
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...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023£9.99
Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King’s chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey’s household. A...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019£8.99In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration. He recounts the history of the leading...
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Paperback | Pub: 15 Apr 2010£14.99In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts – once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland – were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025£7.99This delightful counting book introduces numbers from 1–12 and is set on a farm. Children will have enormous fun looking for the various groups of animals – including cats, dogs, ponies, geese, rabbits, ducks, hens, cows and sheep – in the...
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E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2015£4.99
For an eleven-year-old boy, living with his widowed mother and younger brother in a remote seaside village on one of the Western Isles of Scotland, growing up has its difficulties, as well as its idyllic pleasures. Iain Crichton Smith’s vivid...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021£8.99
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the...
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026£30.00
By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on...
