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• The Battle of Carham

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Nov 2018

  £30.00

  Very little is known about the battle of Carham, fought between the Scots and Northumbrians in 1018. The leaders were probably Máel Coluim II, king of Scotland, and Uhtred of Bamburgh, earl or ealdorman in Northumbria. The outcome of the battle was...

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  Burke and Hare

  Paperback | Pub: 09 Oct 2014

  £14.99

  A true story of desperation, greed, corruption and betrayal. In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William...

• The Cairngorms

  Paperback | Pub: 16 May 2014

  £10.99

  Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a...

• 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...

• A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695

  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...

• The Faded Map

  Paperback | Pub: 17 May 2011

  £10.99

  In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern...

• The Grand Scuttle

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2016

  £9.99

  The remarkable true story. At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand...

• The Great Highland Famine

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £30.00

  The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish...

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  The Great Tapestry of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 22 Jul 2021

  £9.99

  The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of...

• Harris in History and Legend

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Aug 2024

  £12.99

  Occupying the southernmost part of the largest of the Western Isles, Harris boasts some of the most ruggedly beautiful and unspoilt landscape in Scotland. In this book, Bill Lawson, who has lived on Harris for many years, not only introduces the...

• Highland Homespun

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £9.99

  In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the...

• Insurrection

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Discover Scotland’s forgotten revolution… Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort...

• Isolation Shepherd

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Mar 2025

  £10.99

  In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch...

• James VI and I

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Nov 2021

  £100.00

  The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots....

• The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £30.00

  In this ground-breaking study of the medieval parliament, Roland Tanner gives the Scottish Parliament a human face by examining the actions and motives of those who attended. In the past, the Scottish Parliament was seen as a weak and ineffective...

• Lost Devon

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Mar 2025

  £14.99

  Devon’s colourful past may still be visible in its street names and pub signs, but in fact much of the region’s history has been obliterated – through necessity, social change and the demands of the outside world. The traditional occupations...

• Lost Edinburgh

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025

  £14.99

  From mean beginnings – ‘wretched accommodation, no comfortable houses, no soft beds’, visiting French knights complained in 1341 – the city of Edinburgh went on to become one of the architectural wonders of the world. But over the centuries...

• Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548–1560

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £30.00

  Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own...

• Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Dec 2003

  £20.00

  ‘Mobbing and rioting’ in late eighteenth-century Scotland was often the only recourse of the people in response to high food prices, the threat of eviction or the prospect of compulsory military service. This study of popular disturbances in the...

• The Reivers

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2017

  £10.99

  From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands suffered one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder in modern Europe. As a consequence of constant conflict, Borderers suffered horribly at...