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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...

• Way of the Wanderers

  E-Book | Pub: 05 Nov 2012

  £6.99

  ‘Jess reveals a way of life that leaves the reader full of admiration’ – Mary Horner Scottish Gypsies, known as Travellers or Tinkers, have wandered Scotland’s roads and byways for centuries. Their turbulent history is...

• 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...

• When The Clyde Ran Red

  Paperback | Pub: 08 Mar 2018

  £10.99

  When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919,...

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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...

• William Burrell

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £12.99

  In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell...

• The Wisest Fool

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Sep 2024

  £14.99

  James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man...

• Witches

  Hardback | Pub: 04 Sep 2025

  £20.00

  Discover how one man’s obsession changed the world.  Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, belief in the potency of witchcraft has...

• Witches

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £12.99

  Discover how one man’s obsession changed the world.  Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, belief in the potency of witchcraft has...

• Working People

  Hardback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £25.00

  Stonemasons, quarriers, seamen, steam laundry workers, crofters, calico packers, power loom weavers, tinsmiths, gamekeepers, carters, shepherds, coachmen, navvies, domestic servants. These are some of the working people whose lives are uncovered by...