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Hardback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023£16.99People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022£10.00
These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout. In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027£12.99
Bere is the native barley of Orkney. In the past it was an important multi-use crop and a Scottish staple, its use declined as more easily processed crops, such as oats, were introduced. The Agronomy Institute UHi Orkney continue to grow beds of...
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E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012£8.99
The Book of Lost Books is a book of stories involving kings, heretics, untimely interruptions and back room deals, falling tortoises and fairy princesses, train crashes and war atrocities, bravery, cowardice, rent boys, chamber maids, love, quests,...
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Multiple-component | Pub: 23 Mar 2020£50.00Whatever your pleasure, these booze-based gems will point you in the right direction to find something new! Explore the best champagne, gin and rum available across the world, delve into Whiskies Galore, for a tour of Scotland’s world famous...
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024£14.99
This is the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation’s history for thousands of years. The hunter-gatherers, who first discovered the bounty of the ancient Wildwood, the Celtic warlords, the Romans, the...
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Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2013£30.00
James Boswell’s relish for life, unflinching honesty and wide social contacts make him one of the raciest and most entertaining of all diarists.This is a one-volume edition of the journals he kept while making his living as an advocate in...
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Paperback | Pub: 11 Jul 2019£9.99
Silent waters run deadly . . . When the luxury cruiser, hastily renamed Great Britain, berths in Kinloch harbour, the pressure is on DCI Jim Daley. The UK Government are taking a high-powered group of businessmen and women on a tour of the British...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2026£9.99
Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. Mollie Hughes has explored some of the wildest environments on earth, from the top of Mount Everest to the vast frozen continent of Antarctica, where at the age of 29 she skied solo...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£9.99
A feel-good, uplifting tale of two women who make a life-changing connection. In Ethiopia, beautiful Sylvie’s successful life is derailed by a disastrous childbirth. With no money and no hope, all seems lost. In London, feisty Juliet is...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Mar 2011£30.00
The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell. This book reviews Argyll’s formative influence in shaping British frontier policy...
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E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012£5.99
The brow of the Gallowgate is where Albert Ogilvie buys his property in 1890 – the shop he has dreamed of for years, and above it, a house with nine rooms to accommodate the large family he and his beloved wife, Bathie, desire. As their babies...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£14.99Featuring a foreword by Billie Jean King. Since the turn of the century, women’s tennis has established itself as one of the world’s most unpredictable sports. With 36 different Grand Slam champions from 2000 to 2024, upsets have become the norm...
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Paperback | Pub: 12 Oct 2017£6.99Originally written in the 1440s by Richard Holland, a Scottish cleric who was chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, The Buke of the Howlat is one of the great poetic gems of fifteenth-century Scots. Believing himself to be ugly, a young owl...
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Multiple-component | Pub: 04 Nov 2021£35.00Pick up some of our finest fiction in our new Bumper Fiction Box. From haunting exploration of humanity in Bitterhall, to the global sensation The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, to love in the midst of adversity in Angus MacDonald’s Ardnish, find...
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E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2017£4.99
By the Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Others. After more than thirty years in London, recently-widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India. He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a...
