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• A Distant Thunder

  Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025

  £10.99

  From dark humour to chilling realism, from factual to fictional, these twenty-four stories – from writers including Muriel Spark, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Buchan and George Mackay Brown – reflect the unique facets of the Scottish...

• Driftwood and Tangle

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Apr 2027

  £8.99

  Driftwood and Tangle is a moving and poignant memoir of life in the north-west of Scotland just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Margaret Leigh recounts the years she spent in Wester Ross, Moidart, Coigeach and Barra as a crofter, an...

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  The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland

  Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2027

  £9.99

  The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’. Originally Norwegian,...

• The Funny Thing About Death

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023

  £16.99

  ‘It’s a wildly satisfying and moving read … I loved this special book’ – Graham Norton Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a...

• Harpoon at a Venture

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Aug 2013

  £8.99

  A shark fishery based on the tiny Hebridean island of Soay was the beginning of Gavin Maxwell’s enduring love affair with the west coast of Scotland. This, his first book, tells the whole story – the challenge and drama of the shark...

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  Midges

  Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £5.99

  Whether resident or tourist, no-one is spared from the bloodlust of Scotland’s most savage insect . . . The midge does not like sunlight and thrives in the wet, so the Scottish summertime brings perfect climatic conditions for this ruthless wee...

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  The Poems of Norman MacCaig

  Paperback | Pub: 09 Nov 2009

  £25.00

  This collection of Norman MacCaig’s poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion...

• Spade Among the Rushes

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £8.99

  One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the enchanted, magical beauty of this much-loved area of the country. Margaret Leigh was already a successful author when her longing for freedom and independence...