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  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...

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  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...

• Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2020

  £14.99

  From the author of the award-winning The Drowned and the Saved 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 violent,...

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  Riders on the Storm

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2020

  £9.99

  In this profound new book, Alastair McIntosh explores the science, psychology and spirituality of climate change. He summarises the up-to-date science and shows the damage caused both by climate-change denial as well as exaggeration. In outlining...

• The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

  Hardback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £25.00

  It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city’s...