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E-Book | Pub: 07 Aug 2014£2.99
For a gentleman seeking more prestigious company amidst the bawdy houses of an eighteenth-century city, the House of Masques provides the perfect no-touch escorts. Girls, highly educated and socially trained, are geisha-like status symbols for...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2016£12.99
The island of Gigha is a small gem, the most southerly of the true Hebridean islands, lying just off Tayinloan on Scotland’s Kintyre peninsula. Gigha’s good harbours, fertile land, mild climate and strategically useful position have...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jul 2018£8.99
After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form a close bond, but when Francoise...
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Paperback | Pub: 30 Sep 2026£14.99Celebrating 25 years of AFC Wimbledon. On May 28, 2002, the most-shameful decision ever taken in the history of English football was rubber stamped. A three-man commission, appointed by the FA, allowed Wimbledon FC to be airlifted from its community...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Oct 2018£6.99A young girl and her mother settle in the woods for a night’s sleep, after a long and tiring journey. But who will keep them safe from harm? A wee bird is watching from the trees. And he knows just what to do. A vividly illustrated telling of a...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 Mar 2017£8.99
As the Second World War nears its end, a man is stabbed to death on the shoreline of Kinloch, in the shadow of the great warships in the harbour. Many years later, the postman on Gairsay, a tiny island off the coast of Kintyre, discovers that the...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£7.99Meet Usha, a little girl off on a big adventure! She’s going on holiday to the Hebrides and is excited to show off her brand new, bright blue wellies. But who will she meet along the way, and will they have their own wellies to show her? What...
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Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024£12.99On 31 December 1918, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh for Stornoway, bearing home to the Hebrides nearly 300 naval veterans of the Great War. She never made it. At two in the morning, the ship ran aground by the mouth...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022£8.99
Fear is a state of mind . . . Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death . . . and when her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, journalist Rebecca Connelly is determined to find the truth. Could she really have been killed by...
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Jun 2024£75.00Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£12.99
From the author of the bestselling 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die. A Gourmand World Cookbook Awards Finalist. Island whiskies have long held a fascination and a powerful emotional draw on whisky drinkers the world over. Their special...
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Hardback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023£40.00Around the year 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of Harper’s Weekly Gazette, a journal which featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with the history and detailed descriptions of the whisky-making...
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Paperback | Pub: 29 Jan 2015£9.99
Large measures, dark hearts. When the body of a young woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the west coast of Scotland, D.C.I. Jim Daley is despatched from Glasgow to lead the investigation. Far from home, and his troubled marriage, it seems...
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Hardback | Pub: 17 Sep 2012£12.99The must-read Scottish classic. It’s 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of the...
