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• Supreme Sacrifice

  E-Book | Pub: 11 Aug 2016

  £7.99

  The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable...

• An t-Òban

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £17.99

  This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today. It traces the impact of early Celts,...

• Tales of the Morar Highlands

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £9.99

  Beyond Fort William, on the road to the Isles, lies Morar, the ‘Highlands of the Highlands’ and centre of the ‘Rough Bounds’, that wild, desolate, but uniquely beautiful part of Scotland that was once the homeland of the Clan...

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  Tilquhillie Castle

  Paperback | Pub: 14 May 2026

  £25.00

  In 1985, Tilquhillie Castle, in the picturesque Royal Deeside region in Aberdeenshire, was a ruinous Z-plan Scottish tower house. Originally built in the middle of the sixteenth century for the important local Douglas family, it had been derelict...

• To See Ourselves

  Hardback | Pub: 12 Jun 2025

  £18.99

  Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

• To See Ourselves

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026

  £10.99

  Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

• The Tobacco Lords

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jun 2024

  £20.00

  In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable success came about against fierce international...

• Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026

  £14.99

  A new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family research, and now that the National Records of Scotland are...

• Under the Hammer

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes – William Wallace and Robert Bruce – have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers,...

• The Vatersay Raiders

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where...

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  Villages of Glasgow

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £12.99

  This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart’s best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain’s most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now...

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  Villages of Glasgow

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023

  £12.99

  This revised and updated edition of Aileen Smart’s best-selling book paints a fascinating picture of those villages north of the Clyde that helped forge Glasgow into one of Britain’s most energetic and vibrant cities. Although now...

• Walking With Cattle

  E-Book | Pub: 07 Sep 2017

  £4.99

  Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland’s rural economy, and for centuries Scotland’s glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution,...

• Waters of Life

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £12.99

  ‘From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them . . .’ In November 2021, in a major moment in Scotland’s history, a family of beavers...

• Weird Sisters

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026

  £25.00

  Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds – heaven, hell or fairyland. By the later sixteenth century, as witchcraft prosecutions gathered pace, fictional witches were connected more firmly to the Devil and to hell. Writers then...

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  When I Heard the Bell

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £12.99

  On 31 December 1918, His Majesty’s Yacht Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh for Stornoway, bearing home to the Hebrides nearly 300 naval veterans of the Great War. She never made it. At two in the morning, the ship ran aground by the mouth...

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  Where Men No More May Reap or Sow

  Hardback | Pub: 06 Jun 2024

  £75.00

  Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This...

• Where Wind and Water Cleave

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £30.00

  Take a rollercoaster ride through Scotland’s fearsome environmental history. When the icesheet that covered what is now Scotland began to retreat around 12,000 years ago, it revealed a land stripped to its rocky bones but ready to be reclothed...

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  Wild Island

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025

  £17.99

  In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, and...

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  Wild Men and Holy Places

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Aug 2025

  £17.99

  Drawing upon historical research and archaeological discoveries, Daphne Brooke brings to life the events and personalities of the ancient realm of Galloway from Roman times until the fifteenth century. This mysterious region of south-west Scotland...