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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Richard Hannay is the star of John Buchan’s original spy thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. Spanning five novels and crossing paths with many of Buchan’s other characters, Hannay has stood the test of time. Towards the end of John Buchan’s last...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023£3.99Sherlock Holmes returns in these tributes to the classic 1940s Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. When unspeakable and unexplainable crimes strike the streets of wartime London, in desperation...
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E-Book | Pub: 27 Dec 2000£25.00
The ‘Rough Wooings’, fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth-century...
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| Pub: 16 Jul 2026£9.99This notebook features a gorgeous cover with artwork by artist Louise Day. It contains lined paper, head-and-tail bands, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened. This cover design features the beautiful Rowan.
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2017£14.99
The Russian Civil War of 1917-1920, out of which the Soviet Union was born, was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. The collapse of the Tsarist regime and the failure of the Kerensky Provisional Government nearly led to the...
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023£20.00Discover the story of Scotland, salt and the world. Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£25.00Immerse yourself in Scotland’s sauna culture. Saunaland is a love story – between flame and forest, sweat and salt, person and place. It explores the deep, healing rituals of sauna culture, rooted in Nordic tradition and Celtic practices,...
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Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2001£14.99Scapa Flow was one of the world’s great naval bases and the scene of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history. During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022£9.99
In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorland or over the storm-swept machair, and his...
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Paperback | Pub: 13 Jul 2017£6.99
Set sail with the School Ship Tobermory! Follow the exploits of the children who go to a most unusual school – the sail-powered training ship Tobermory. When a film crew arrives in Tobermory Bay, Ben and Fee are invited to be extras. But their...
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E-Book | Pub: 07 Mar 2019£18.00The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe’s economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2014£20.00
There has been very little previous attention paid to Scottish civilians during the Great War, but, as is revealed here, Scotland had its own unique experience. Of multi-disciplinary interest for academics, and of broad general interest too, this is...
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| Pub: 07 May 2026£19.99Scotland is a country of extraordinary contrasts. Its landscapes range from vertiginous sea cliffs and lonely moorland to misty Highland glens and towering mountains. Its fa-mous landmarks include prehistoric sites, medieval abbeys and castles as...
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Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2017£16.99
Discover the ultimate chronicle of a nation. In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of Scotland, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A...
