Nature Writing & Gardening
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Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021£9.99
After giving up a hectic life as a journalist in Europe and Hollywood in the late 1960s to return to his boyhood love of nature, Mike Tomkies moved to Eilean Shona, a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. There he rebuilt an abandoned croft...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Jun 2025£17.99Nature artist Jane Smith has been fascinated by wildlife communities and ecosystems her whole adult life. Starting from her own garden in Argyll, she travels to ten locations in the west of Scotland – from the towering cliffs of St Kilda and...
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£10.99
A journey like no other. Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world is becoming ever more silent, he suddenly hears something quite unexpected – the haunting call of the great...
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Paperback | Pub: 22 Aug 2024£14.99Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched...
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Hardback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£35.00Flora Celtica documents the continuously evolving relationship between the Scots and their environment. Based on a mixture of detailed research and information provided by the public, this book explores the remarkable diversity of ways that native...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024£12.99
Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly...
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Paperback | Pub: 19 Sep 2011£9.99
The Great Wood of Caledon – the historic native forest of Highland Scotland – has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by...
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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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E-Book | Pub: 30 Jul 2012£7.99
Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. In this groundbreaking new book, Alastair McIntosh summarises the science of what is happening to the planet – both globally and using Scotland as a local case study. He...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£12.99
‘A masterclass in why sheep count’ – Mark Stephen, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors Acclaimed nature writer Polly Pullar has been fascinated by sheep since childhood, when she formed an inseparable bond with her pet...
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Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026£16.99This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the 21st century. It is dramatic tale which includes Irish missionaries, Viking invaders, the medieval Lordship of the Isles, adoption by the crown of...
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£16.99At the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventurer Ella Christie returned home from a trip to Japan inspired to build her own Japanese garden. As might be expected from a woman who thought nothing of travelling to the other side of the world...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021£9.99
When Mike Tomkies moved to a remote cottage on the shores of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, he found a place which was to provide him with the most profound wilderness experience of his life. Accessible only by boat, the cottage he...
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Paperback | Pub: 05 Feb 2026£9.99
New and updated edition. In 1743, according to legend, the last wolf in Scotland was killed by a huntsman near Inverness. Long regarded in folk takes and history as a slayer of babies, a robber of graves, a devourer of battlefield dead, its...
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Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026£10.99
With its natural predators long exterminated, huge deer populations controlled by landowners – largely for their own private interests – have had far-reaching environmental impacts. Despite efforts by conservationists to reduce populations and...
