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• Darien

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Mar 2018

  £14.99

  The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was...

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  Every Breath You Take

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2021

  £16.99

  ‘one of the year’s most exciting releases’ – The Herald China is building the world’s first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and...

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  Keeping the Jewel in the Crown

  E-Book | Pub: 19 May 2016

  £9.99

  When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the...

• The Lockerbie Bombing

  Paperback | Pub: 06 May 2021

  £14.99

  The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988 was the largest attack on Britain since World War Two. 259 passengers and 11 townsfolk of Lockerbie were murdered. Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted...

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  Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £14.99

  ‘Deserves to sell like hot cakes’ – Allan Massie, The Scotsman 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...

• Riders on the Storm

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Aug 2020

  £9.99

  Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global Conservation Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability of our interconnected world, the effects of global...