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• After Brexit

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £8.99

  Pressure for independence remains a major force in Scotland, but the case for it has changed substantially since the referendum of 2014. In the 2016 Brexit referendum, 60 per cent of the Scottish electorate voted to remain part of the European...

• Alternatives to Valium

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £12.99

  “A few years ago, I asked Tom Petty how his songs had been influenced by his life. As a rule, songwriters aren’t keen on unpicking their work, and Petty was no exception. He didn’t want to get into specifics. ‘Life is so difficult,’ he...

• Fast and Bonnie

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022

  £20.00

  From humble beginnings at Fairlie, Ayrshire, in the early years of the nineteenth century, William Fife and Son grew to become one of Britain’s premier yacht-building yards, attracting commissions from as far afield as America, Canada and...

• The Finest Road in the World

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called ‘killer’ highways – stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for...

• The Grand Scuttle

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2016

  £9.99

  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 Fleet’s principal anchorage...

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  Hubris

  E-Book | Pub: 28 Sep 2012

  £8.99

  In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain’s oldest commercial bank. Voted ‘most admired bank’, respected by competitors, applauded by investors and trusted by customers, it looked forward to the next three hundred....

• The Origins of the Scottish Railway System

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the existing literature is written for the railway enthusiast, concentrating mainly on...

• The Poor Had No Lawyers

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2015

  £14.99

  Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in...

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  Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £14.99

  ‘Deserves to sell like hot cakes’ – Allan Massie, The Scotsman From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response to a crisis.  But tea itself has a dramatic, and often...

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  A Quite Impossible Proposal

  Paperback | Pub: 24 Sep 2020

  £20.00

  In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool.  Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger...

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  The Railway Atlas of Scotland

  Hardback | Pub: 09 Oct 2015

  £35.00

  The rich diversity of Scotland’s railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 181 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country’s railways from the early nineteenth...

• Riders on the Storm

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Aug 2020

  £9.99

  Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global Conservation Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global...

• The Salt Roads

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Sep 2022

  £17.99

  The salt fish industry powered the economy of Shetland for more than two hundred years, and herring and cod from here was a staple food throughout Europe. This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetland’s most enduring export. It ranges from...

• Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £30.00

  The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership. This ground-breaking...

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  When The Clyde Ran Red

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £9.99

  When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919,...