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• The Bass Player

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Sep 2025

  £14.99

  Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the Year Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975,...

• 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...

• The Drowned and the Saved

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024

  £10.99

  Winner of the Saltire Society History Book of the Year Next morning at about 6 o’clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors … I...

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  Voices of the Forest

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022

  £25.00

  The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and...

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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...