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  Scottish Quotations

  Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2024

  £6.99

  The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation’s recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day....

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  Scottish Surnames

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026

  £6.99

  Surnames give us a sense of identity and belonging. Even in today’s mobile society they can have strong links with particular areas. They are keys to our family history. And they always have an original meaning. This new collection of some 400...

• The Secrets of Rosslyn

  Paperback | Pub: 19 Sep 2024

  £10.99

  Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world’s most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have...

• Set Adrift Upon the World

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £14.99

  Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were...

• She is But a Woman

  E-Book | Pub: 23 Oct 2006

  £25.00

  She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practised by Joan Beaufort and Mary of Guelders,...

• The Soap Man

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Jul 2024

  £10.99

  In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought – lock, stock and barrel – the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its...

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  Songs of Gaelic Scotland

  Hardback | Pub: 07 Nov 2019

  £40.00

  Gaelic Scotland is one of the world’s great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics from all over the Gaelic-speaking Highlands and Islands – an extraordinary tradition that...

• Spade Among the Rushes

  Paperback | Pub: 16 Apr 2026

  £8.99

  One of very few books available on Moidart in the north-west of Scotland, it evokes the enchanted, magical beauty of this much-loved area of the country. Margaret Leigh was already a successful author when her longing for freedom and independence...

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  St Andrews: A New History

  Hardback | Pub: 06 May 2027

  £14.99

  As the spiritual centre of Scotland, the crucible of the Reformation, the site of the oldest university in the country, the story of this small town on the coast of Fife is the story of the nation. Its university – the third oldest in the...

• St Kilda: My Island Home

  Paperback | Pub: 15 May 2025

  £9.99

  Christina MacDonald MacQueen (1884–1959) was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Yearning for the bright modern world beyond the island, she was the first woman to leave of her own accord in 1909, settling in...

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  The Star Drive

  E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £9.99

  Discover the technology that may take humanity to the stars. In May 2018 NASA called a press conference to announce the successful test-run of their tiny nuclear reactor KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology). This revolutionary...

• 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...

• The Surnames of Scotland

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £40.00

  First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black’s The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in...

• An t-Òban

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Oct 2026

  £17.99

  This long-overdue new history of Oban 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, Scots and Vikings, the formation of the Lordship of...

• The Taking of the Stone of Destiny

  Paperback | Pub: 23 Apr 2026

  £9.99

  Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster...

• Tales from the Back Green

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026

  £9.99

  Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir. It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set against the background of the changes and...

• 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

  ‘A relatable and enjoyable march through the decades’ – Sunday Post 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...

• To See Ourselves

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026

  £10.99

  ‘A relatable and enjoyable march through the decades’ – Sunday Post 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...