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  • Harvie’s Dyke
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Jul 2025
    £17.99

    In the early 1820s, Thomas Harvie, a newly rich, arrogant Glasgow distiller, bought Westthorn estate on the eastern edge of the city close to the north bank of the River Clyde. To establish the bounds of his property and keep out intruders, he...

  • Heart of Scotland
    Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026
    £22.00

    From pre-Roman times, Stirling was seen as a strategic location because of its position at the crossing of the river Forth. In many accounts it appears as the key link between Britain, Scotland and the world beyond, as a place of borders as well as...

  • Hebridean Journey
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022
    £18.99

    Shortlisted for the Scottish Nature Photography Book Awards Washed by the surging waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the island chain of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides lies at the very edge of Europe. From white shell sands, peaty moors and gnarly...

  • The Hebrides
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024
    £14.99

    Paul Murton has spent half-a lifetime exploring some of the most beautiful islands in the world – the Hebrides. He has travelled the length and breadth of the Scotland’s rugged, six-thousand-mile coast line, and sailed to over eighty islands. In...

  • Hey America!
    Hardback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022
    £25.00

    This is the untold story of black music – its triumph over racism, segregation, undercapitalised record labels, media discrimination and political anxiety – told through the perspective of the most powerful office in the world: from Louis...

  • A Higher World
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2014
    £12.99

    This new and compelling history of eighteenth-century Scotland paints a rich and detailed portrait of the country at a time when it was of truly global significance. This journey from the Union of 1707 to its centenary and beyond takes in vivid...

  • Highland Homespun
    Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026
    £9.99

    In May 1933 Margaret Leigh took over the tenancy of Achnabo farm, in a beautiful corner of the West Highlands overlooking the isle of Skye. In this unsentimental yet exquisitely written book, she recounts a year of farming life there, from the...

  • The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025
    £14.99

    Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before. From the...

  • Historic South Edinburgh
    Paperback | Pub: 19 Oct 2023
    £25.00

    First published in four volumes in the early 1980s, Charles Smith’s Historic South Edinburgh has become a much sought-after and extremely rare classic. This completely new edition combines all four volumes into one, and has been completely revised...

  • The History of Orkney Literature
    Paperback | Pub: 23 Sep 2021
    £25.00

    Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Viking age, through to the colourful folklorists, polemicists and translators of the Victorian era, and the...

  • The History of St. Kilda
    E-Book | Pub: 13 May 2013
    £6.95

    As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination for travellers from mainland Britain and beyond. The unique way of life and customs of its inhabitants has generated an enormous...

  • Homecoming
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Mar 2024
    £12.99

    One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friendsʼ seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to...

  • How an Island Lost Its People
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023
    £12.99

    In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400...

  • The Iceman
    E-Book | Pub: 31 Jan 2012
    £4.99

    The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland’s biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen....

  • Independent and Free
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Jan 2001
    £25.00

    This is the first comprehensive account of the formation of the Scottish National Party, and it explains the peculiar circumstances in the inter-war era which gave rise to this phenomenon. The text fills a vacuum in one of the most under-researched...

  • Insurrection
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022
    £12.99

    Discover Scotland’s forgotten revolution… Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort...

  • The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle
    | Pub: 06 Jul 2023
    £19.99

    Iona is one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish Hebrides, and full of historical associations. It was here that St Columba came by boat in 563 from Ireland, bringing Christianity to Scotland and establishing a monastery that became one of the...

  • Ireland: Mapping the Island
    Hardback | Pub: 02 Oct 2025
    £30.00

    Hodges Figgis Book of the Year for 2025 Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards History Book of the Year Maps allow us to see how the world is organised spatially and show us relationships which cannot be understood from simply reading a text....