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  Between Two Enlightenments

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £7.99

  Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a cost? The sequel to the Enlightenment, known as modern life, has expanded our horizons enormously but...

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  The Black Halo

  E-Book | Pub: 07 Nov 2013

  £7.99

  The house was extraordinarily peaceful as if by an act of will I had banished all the fertile ghosts. It had an unearthly calm as if I were floating on a dumb sea of solitude. I found myself humming to myself as if I had come to the silence of...

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  A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695

  Paperback | Pub: 25 May 2018

  £9.99

  One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin’s wrote...

• Scotland: Her Story

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £12.99

  Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe...

• Stories from South Uist

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £9.99

  This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland’s finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of...

• Struileag: Shore to Shore

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Mar 2015

  £9.99

  The descendants of the Gaels are scattered far and wide across the world – a diaspora that is at once cherished and overlooked. This unique, heartfelt book brings vividly to life through raps, secular psalms, love poems and aphorisms the...

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  Sy Story

  E-Book | Pub: 22 Feb 2015

  £7.99

  Lewisman Donald S Murray tells in his inimitable verse and prose Stornoway’s story from the days when Mesolithic people sheltered there to its present-day life as a bustling, modern harbour, casting light on men and boats, native herring girls...

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  Un-Discovered Islands

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2016

  £14.99

  Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an archipelago of ex-isles and forgotten...