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• ‘The People Are Not There’

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023

  £25.00

  Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region’s destiny:...

• Abbotsford to Zion

  E-Book | Pub: 11 Aug 2016

  £5.99

  Over the centuries countless Scots have travelled to every conceivable corner of the globe – some to start a new life, others asentrepreneurs, explorers, missionaries, colonial administrators, soldiers and in a multitude of other contexts....

• Age of the Passions

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £20.00

  The eighteenth century is often described as the age of reason. This book argues that it should also be considered the age of the passions. Eighteenth-century writers recognised the passions as the springs of human life and actions. They began to...

• Alexander III, 1249-1286

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £30.00

  Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship.  The events which followed his early and unexpected death...

• The Alistair Moffat History Collection

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Apr 2023

  £19.99

  Uncover the story of Scotland with Alistair Moffat’s history collection. From the Ice Age to the modern day, this bundle leaves no stone unturned. Journey through the long-lost kingdoms of Roman times and the Dark Ages, uncover the bloodshed...

• Argonauts of the Scottish Isles

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £9.99

  Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing...

• Arisaig and Morar

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £12.99

  Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the ‘river-mouth bay’ and the ‘great water’, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands. From...

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  Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Aug 2016

  £7.99

  The Isle of Arran dominates the Firth of Clyde. A favourite haunt of holidaymakers, it is also a place of fascination for the geologist, offering a huge variety of rocks that represent a massive slice through geological time. From the ancient bent...

• Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty. Its history stretches back to the great stone circles, more than 5,000 years old, whose remnants still decorate the plains of Machrie. Runic inscriptions tell of a...

• Assassins and Secret Listeners

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £20.00

  Uncover the story of a nation’s hidden heroes. Throughout Britain, all day, every day and in the dead of night, the secret listeners went about their solitary work. Hands on headphones, these men and women, drawn from all walks of civilian...

• Atypical Girl

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2026

  £12.99

  Set against the backdrop of the Liverpool music scene of the 1980s and beyond, this is a story about the search for identity and the role that music plays in all our lives. It’s 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary...

• Ayrshire

  Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025

  £14.99

  Ayrshire has a rich and varied history. The region has been inhabited from earliest times, as the remains of duns, cairns and barrows show. In the medieval period it played a key role in the emergence and consolidation of a unified Scotland, and it...

• The Balliol Dynasty

  Paperback | Pub: 19 May 2008

  £35.00

  This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France. The generally accepted opinion in previous historiography was that John (II), king of Scots...

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  Barholm Castle

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Jul 2025

  £16.99

  In 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lain ruinous and derelict for over two hundred years when Janet Brennan-Inglis and her husband John bought it as a restoration project. Together with a team of architects, surveyors and builders, overseen by...

• The Battle for George Square 1919

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Oct 2025

  £25.00

  The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the...

• Bede: The Man Who Invented England

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026

  £17.99

  What is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the...

• The Black Douglases

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001

  £30.00

  During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the...

• Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625

  E-Book | Pub: 24 Nov 2003

  £30.00

  Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies....

• Bloodfeud in Scotland 1573-1625

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £30.00

  Feuding had an effect on the history of most of Europe. Scotland provides a fascinating focus for the study of the bloodfeud because feuding survived until remarkably late there, and thus is much better documented than in other European societies....

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  Boatlines

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023

  £16.99

  People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be...