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• 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...

• 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 (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) 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,...

• 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

  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 the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

• To See Ourselves

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026

  £10.99

  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 the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 1950s. At that time the rhythms and...

• 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...