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• 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...

• 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...

• 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...