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Paperback | Pub: 12 Mar 2015£10.99Orkney lies only 20 miles north of mainland Scotland, yet for many centuries its culture was more Scandanavian than Scottish. Strong westerly winds account for the scarcity of trees on Orkney and also for the tradition of well-constructed stone...
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Paperback | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£6.99The archipelagos of Orkney and Shetland are the products of some of the most dramatic events which have occurred in the Earth’s history. The Shetlands are the eroded roots of a vast mountain range that once soared to Himalayan heights and extended...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Jul 2025£9.99
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...
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Paperback | Pub: 10 May 2018£6.99The remote archipelago which lies off the north-west coast of Scotland boasts a huge range of contrasting and spectacular land- and seascapes. Lewis is austere, with a featureless peatland core, bounded by dramatic sea cliffs, whilst neighbouring...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021£12.99The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2017£12.99
Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen. From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen’s unique brand of poetry captures a...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£20.00In the 1880s two Edinburgh architects began to survey, measure and sketch the castles of Scotland, travelling the length and breadth of the country on trains, bicycles and on foot. Together they produced the five magnificent volumes of The...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£4.99When the beautiful pearl-fisher, Effie Williamson, arrives in a rural Scottish village, with her grandparents and siblings, the residents react in many different ways, from hospitable warmth to outright rejection, exacerbated when the religious,...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024£6.99Pebble the pony lives on a wild and lonely moor. He loves the holidaymakers who come up from the ton – especially when they bring picnics and feed him their leftovers! One day, Pebble makes up his mind to see the town for himself, but when he gets...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001£20.00
Few Scottish historians are better known than T. C. Smout and fewer still more deserving of the high esteem in which they are held. He has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish historical studies both as an academic discipline and as a...
