New Releases

  • Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023
    £20.00

    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 is one of Scotland’s oldest industries, dating to…

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £9.99

    From Socrates to Arthur Montford, via Bovril, Buckfast and, of course, pies, this is a unique journey through the extraordinary world of Scottish football. Packed with anecdotes and observations, Andy Bollen wallows in a nostalgic haze, a time of…

  • Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £22.00

    When BEATLEMANIA seized the nation: Relive the Mayhem of 1963 The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still drawn to the legacy of four lads from Liverpool. It really shouldn’t be like this. But,…

  • Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £30.00

    Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage – a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific – has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive…

  • Hardback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £12.00

    From the author of the award winning The Sound of My Voice After being sacked from his day job as a business executive, Morris Magellan has cashed it all in – the house, the car, family life – to be free at last to pursue his true passion:…

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £9.99

    Denzil Meyrick’s three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape. From the author of the…

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £8.99

    Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris at…

  • Paperback | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £10.99

    The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain. The mountains of Quinag and Suilven dominate a very varied landscape with wild, white hills inland and a complex, intricate moorland to the west. Here, rocky…

  • E-Book | Pub: 07 Sep 2023
    £3.99

    Katie Donald is learning the ropes at the Perfect Passion Company, which provides help to the lovelorn  citizens of Edinburgh. Katie is assisted in her matchmaking endeavors by William Kidd, a talented knitwear designer in the office next door with…

  • | Pub: 10 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic heron in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.

  • | Pub: 10 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic gannet in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, the notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.

  • | Pub: 10 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic heron in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.

  • | Pub: 10 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic oystercatcher in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.

  • Hardback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £16.99

    ‘It’s a wildly satisfying and moving read … I loved this special book’ – Graham Norton Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a…

  • Hardback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £18.99

    Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess…

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £9.99

    Margaret Bryce has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. In a place beyond, we join Margaret as she revisits her life, from her Aberdeen prefab childhood to the birth of her twin girls, through Thatcher’s Britain, the Piper Alpha oil rig…

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £10.00

    Iona Lee’s debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence,…

  • 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…

  • Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023
    £9.99

    This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled…

  • 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…

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    Discover Scotland’s Nature with Birlinn Calling all nature lovers! Our Birlinn Nature Writing subscription is the perfect pick up to get your fix, and delve deep into Scotland’s natural world. Discover a lost way of life in the…

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023
    £14.99

    Discover Scotland Today. Dig deep into the past with our Ultimate Scottish History bundle, featuring some of the best writers on Scotland’s history, including Alistair Moffat, Rosemary Goring, Tim Clarkson, James Hunter and more! Uncover the…

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023
    £9.99

    Get access to the full list of our authorised John Buchan Editions through our new subscription bundle! From Buchan’s famous spy thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps, to less well-known works like The Dancing Floor and Midwinter, this is a great…

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    Immerse Yourself in the Past From the 1500s to the Second World War, discover the stories of history like never before with our bumper historical fiction subscription bundle. Escape into a different time and place with ingenious mysteries, high…

  • E-Book | Pub: 01 Aug 2023
    £7.99

    It’s Time for Crime! Calling all crime aficionados! Get your fix with our bumper crime subscription bundle. From classic locked room mysteries from John Dickson Carr, to Denzil Meyrick’s global smash hit, Whisky From Small Glasses,…

  • Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023
    £14.99

    Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin’s A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland and A Late Voyage to St Kilda paint a fascinating picture of the Hebrides at a crucial…

  • Hardback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023
    £40.00

    Around 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…

  • Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023
    £20.00

    The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island…

  • Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023
    £14.99

    Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were…