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E-Book | Pub: 05 Oct 2017£4.99June 1940. German troops pour across France. As the Nazi invasion rolls towards Paris, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In the French capital an individual code named ‘Roland’ has...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
A visceral historical novel retelling the story of Scotland’s only colony, from high hopes that united the country to a failure that bankrupted a nation. The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future. It took place on the other side of the world, amid the jungle-coastline at the junction between the continents of North...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023£10.00
In Three Fires, award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century – inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo...
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Paperback | Pub: 29 Jun 2010£9.99
After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2019£9.99
On an island of secrets, some sins never die . . . When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond’s return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was...
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Paperback | Pub: 23 Jul 2015£6.99One night at Bay Farm, three lambs are born. The mother sheep has only enough milk for one lamb, so the farmer’s wife decides to look after the other two herself. Tig and Tag soon show their mischievous natures, and get into all sorts of...
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Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2026£25.00In 1985, Tilquhillie Castle, in the picturesque Royal Deeside region in Aberdeenshire, was a ruinous Z-plan Scottish tower house. Originally built in the middle of the sixteenth century for the important local Douglas family, it had been derelict...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011£3.99
1582, St Andrews. A violent storm wrecks a ship nearby, and the only man about dies without revealing how he came to be there alone, or where the ship was headed. But neither he nor the wreck is really of interest to the townsfolk of St Andrews....
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Paperback | Pub: 27 Jun 2019£8.99
Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time. She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music....
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E-Book | Pub: 06 Oct 2011£9.99
Trevor Royle examines Scotland’s role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country’s geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war materiel and reinforcements, for conducting naval...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021£6.99Nursing staff throughout the world have endured an unprecedented increase in distress, anxiety and depression. Physical and mental health have come under attack from anxiety, depression, elevated blood pressure and increased stress hormone...
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Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2025£9.99
A cold case in the city of the dead. D.I. Lomond is a devoted family man. A good detective. When the body of a young woman involved in the worlds of art and adult streaming is found in the River Clyde, Lomond believes there may be echoes of a cold...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2011£14.99Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the best pieces of travel writing ever produced. Johnson and Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£9.99
The dead all have stories to tell. Glasgow, 1931. Visiting from London, Dr Jack Cuthbert unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a horrifying crime. As an experienced pathologist, the local police call upon him to lead the forensic investigation...
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E-Book | Pub: 17 Jun 2014£5.99At a country house party Cornelius Appin announces that he has discovered a method by which animals can be taught to speak. His latest pupil is none other than Tobermory, the ginger cat belonging to his hosts, Sir Wilfred and Lady Blemley. As the...
