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• Arras, 1917

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jul 2011

  £8.99

  Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author’s uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in Paisley, educated at Paisley Grammar School, then Glasgow...

• Cassius X

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £12.99

  Now a Major Feature Length Documentary: ‘Cassius X: Becoming Ali’ (Cinema release Spring 2023)  Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in...

• Chased by Bulldogs

  Hardback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025

  £10.00

  This memoir of the author’s early years details the advantages of a weirdly dysfunctional family, a mysterious Irish ancestry, a violent and expensive prep school (where he failed to blow up the headmaster with gunpowder), some good teaching –...

• A Croft in the Hills

  Paperback | Pub: 24 Apr 2025

  £8.99

  A Croft in the Hills, first published in 1960, is now acknowledged as a classic among Highland books. It captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A...

• Dancing in the Streets

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024

  £9.99

  The classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom Morton This is Clifford Hanley’s vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and ‘30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist. His...

• Down and Out in Paris and London

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jan 2024

  £7.99

  Published in 1933, and still relevant today, Orwell’s first full-length work is a compassionate and insightful description of the life of the working poor in Paris and the homeless in London. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his...

• The Dundas Despotism

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Jul 2004

  £30.00

  This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851). Aided by other members of their family, they ruled Scotland from the 1770s to the...

• 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...

• John Knox

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £10.99

  In this best-selling biography of John Knox, Rosalind K. Marshall traces the life of one of the Reformations’ central characters. Following his career in Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Germany, she explains in straightforward terms...

• Matchless

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £16.99

  Winner of the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award ‘Finally – a book that truly captures the inspiring and uniquely gifted women from a largely forgotten golfing age. A wonderful read from start to finish’ – Iona Stephen, Sky...

• Minister of Money

  E-Book | Pub: 26 Oct 2017

  £16.99

  Henry Duncan was a man of many parts: parish minister, savings bank founder, political lobbyist, anti-slavery campaigner, educator, geologist, poet, author. He restored the Ruthwell Cross, a medieval monument of international importance. He also...

• Polly

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024

  £8.99

  Early on a wartime winter’s morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260,000 bottles of whisky destined for the American...

• A School in South Uist

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022

  £9.99

  In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorland or over the storm-swept machair, and his...

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  The Shepherd and the Morning Star

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist...

• Sure and Steadfast

  Hardback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026

  £14.99

  Jim Wallace – Lord Wallace of Tankerness – was for decades an influential Liberal politician who achieved the rare distinction in politics of being disliked by almost nobody. A long-standing Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, he...

• The Taking of the Stone of Destiny

  Paperback | Pub: 23 Apr 2026

  £9.99

  Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster...

• Tales and Travels of a School Inspector

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022

  £9.99

  For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and Jura to Dundee, he visited hundreds of schools and met thousands of teachers and pupils. In these memoirs, first...

• Tales from the Tent

  E-Book | Pub: 21 May 2012

  £4.99

  Tales from the Tent continues Jess Smith’s story from the first book in the series, Jessie’s Journey. Jess has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper-mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once...

• Three Fires

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024

  £7.99

  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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  When I Heard the Bell

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £12.99

  On 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...