New Releases

  • This Door of the Seas (SIGNED)
    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…

  • Loose Threads
    Paperback | Pub: 30 Jul 2026
    £9.99

    Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase. When Dr David Cairney, a politics lecturer, goes missing on the way home from his retirement party, his wife asks ex-boxer and journalist Robbie Gould for help. Gould wants…

  • Heather Notebook
    | Pub: 16 Jul 2026
    £9.99

    This 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 Scottish Heather.

  • Rowan Notebook
    | Pub: 16 Jul 2026
    £9.99

    This 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.

  • The Scottish Farm Magic Painting Book
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Jul 2026
    £7.99

    Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish farms by brushing with water to reveal colour.  The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.

  • Scottish Castles: Magic Painting Book
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Jul 2026
    £7.99

    Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish castles by brushing with water to reveal colour. The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.

  • The Sound of Many Waters
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £12.99

    Join Robin Crawford on a personal journey from the source of the River Tay to the sea. With the widest catchment area of any river in Britain, the Tay drains much of the lower Highlands of Scotland. A vast network of lochs and smaller bodies of…

  • The Edge of Silence
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £10.99

    A journey like no other. Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world is becoming ever more silent, he suddenly hears something quite unexpected – the haunting call of the great…

  • Exile
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £12.99

    Discover a thrilling true story of treachery, deceit, hope and despair. From the moment Mary, Queen of Scots set foot on English soil in 1568 until her execution at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587, she was the prisoner of her cousin,…

  • Summer Hours
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £8.99

    ‘Everything about this book is alive’ – Maria Sledmere It’s a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best…

  • Weird Sisters
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £25.00

    Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds – heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then…

  • The Scottish Nature Pocket Diary 2027
    Diary | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £8.99

    This 112-pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.

  • The Scottish Nature Desk Diary 2027
    Diary | Pub: 02 Jul 2026
    £14.99

    This 112pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.

  • Liquid Faith
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2026
    £10.99

    Since time immemorial, water has been a major theme in myth, religion and folklore throughout the world. With its 12,000-mile coastline, as well as a plethora of rivers and lochs, Scotland is a particularly rewarding place in which to explore the…

  • The Caledoniad
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2026
    £30.00

    Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book Prize Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium…

  • Máel Coluim III, ‘Canmore’
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2026
    £30.00

    Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers,…

  • Upland
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £10.99

    ‘Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion’ – Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied – from awe and wonder to fear and…

  • The Private Side of Friendship
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £9.99

    Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Take Four Books Six friends. One city. The time of their lives. It’s 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn’t seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the…

  • Bannockburn
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £8.99

    Relive the battle for a nation. As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June 1314 near the Bannock Burn, many would have thought that the result a foregone conclusion. But…

  • The Gravity of Feathers
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £14.99

    Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize. Discover the true story of St. Kilda. When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its…

  • The Man on the Endless Stair
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £9.99

    A secluded island. A murdered genius. A missing masterpiece. When troubled but talented young author Euan meets decorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall, he feels his luck has finally changed. Malcolm takes Euan as a protégé, vouching for him in the…

  • Crescendo
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £9.99

    A lost Hitchcock film. A deadly secret. It’s murder in Hollywood. Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is…

  • Bede: The Man Who Invented England
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026
    £17.99

    What is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the…

  • James Hutton
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2026
    £12.99

    Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment’s brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed…

  • Island on the Edge
    Paperback | Pub: 21 May 2026
    £10.99

    Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay – ‘Access by courtesy of fishing boat’. She had…

  • Tilquhillie Castle
    Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2026
    £25.00

    In 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…

  • Edinburgh: The Autobiography
    Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £12.99

    Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world’s great…

  • My First Scottish 1 2 3
    Board Book | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £6.99

    My First Scottish 1 2 3 is a colourful counting book. Eilidh Muldoon’s distinctive illustrations guide young readers from numbers one to ten, encouraging them to identify and count animals, birds and sea creatures associated with Scotland such as…

  • My First Scottish A B C
    Board Book | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £6.99

    Eilidh Muldoon brings the alphabet colourfully to life in this adventure story from A to Z. Follow a group of animals as they journey through the alphabet, identifying each letter and connecting it to features, animals and buildings in Scotland. The…

  • The Japanese Garden
    Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026
    £16.99

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventurer Ella Christie returned home from a trip to Japan inspired to build her own Japanese garden. As might be expected from a woman who thought nothing of travelling to the other side of the world…