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  Appointment in Arezzo

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Oct 2018

  £8.99

  This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark’s life revealing her as she really was....

• The Book of Lost Books

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012

  £8.99

  The Book of Lost Books is a book of stories involving kings, heretics, untimely interruptions and back room deals, falling tortoises and fairy princesses, train crashes and war atrocities, bravery, cowardice, rent boys, chamber maids, love, quests,...

• 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 Hidden Fires

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023

  £10.99

  Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous...

• An Orkney Tapestry

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £12.99

  First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown’s seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the...

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  Poacher’s Pilgrimage

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023

  £14.99

  Immerse yourself in this imaginative and beautifully observed travelogue. The islands of the Outer Hebrides are home to some of the most remote and spectacular scenery in the world. They host an astonishing range of mysterious structures –...

• The Salt Roads

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023

  £9.99

  Sometimes the simplest thing can change an entire culture. This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from...

• Shackleton’s Boat Journey

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012

  £6.99

  On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London’s West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival...