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  • Not the End of the World
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024
    £7.99

    Come on an adventure to the edge of the world! This is a true story about a real place. A place hidden behind the waves. The Vikings saw it in their dreams, and sometimes sea birds call its name. It’s a dot on a map. The blink of an eye. The beat...

  • Orkney Days
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Aug 2025
    £9.99

    This is the charming and poignant account of twenty-five years spent in Orkney. After her marriage to an islander, Christine Muir went to live on the tiny island of North Ronaldsay, where she and her husband brought up their four children and ran a...

  • An Orkney Tapestry
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021
    £12.99

    First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown’s seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the...

  • The Outer Hebrides
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021
    £12.99

    The Outer Hebrides lie 40 miles to the west of mainland Scotland, forming a barrier to the North Atlantic. Culturally distinct from early prehistory, the islands contain a wealth of historical and archaeological monuments, including the standing...

  • Overlord
    Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026
    £30.00

    The true story behind the infamous life of Henry VIII. Henry VIII is England’s most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married...

  • Pedigrees, Power and Clanship
    Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025
    £30.00

    This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king...

  • The Perfect Sword
    Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022
    £22.00

    The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion...

  • Picts
    Paperback | Pub: 01 May 2025
    £25.00

    Shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize and the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet...

  • Picts, Gaels and Scots
    Paperback | Pub: 21 Mar 2024
    £17.99

    Early historic Scotland – from the fifth to the tenth century AD – was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as...

  • Pip and the Puffer
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021
    £6.99

    Pip lives on island and is the captain of his boat Puffin, which he sails to the mainland to collect the things that the islanders need. One beautiful morning Pip and his crew set off as usual, but when they reach the mainland they learn that the...

  • Pirate Queen
    E-Book | Pub: 06 May 2021
    £5.99

    In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of...

  • The Pocket Guide to Edinburgh’s Best Buildings
    Paperback | Pub: 06 Mar 2025
    £9.99

    As a world heritage site and one of the most visited cities in the world, Edinburgh boasts a huge range of buildings from all periods and in many different styles. In this book, architectural writer Robin Ward introduces 300 of the city’s most...

  • The Pocket Guide to Glasgow’s Best Buildings
    Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2027
    £10.99

    Glasgow is one of the world’s most architecturally exciting cities — a Victorian city par excellence, adorned with opulent public buildings, mercantile palazzi, glittering art gal-leries and a Gothic Revival university, as well as the eccentric...

  • Realm
    Paperback | Pub: 01 Apr 2027
    £25.00

    Scotland has one of the most recognisable identities of any nation in the world. Yet many impressions that people have about Scotland’s story are gross oversimplifications or plain wrong. Even many Scots misunderstand their past. Realm puts the...

  • Regeneration
    Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022
    £10.99

    This is the inspiring story of one of the most successful rewilding projects in the UK. In 1995 the National Trust for Scotland acquired Mar Lodge Estate in the heart of the Cairngorms. Home to over 5,000 species, this vast expanse of Caledonian...

  • The Saga of the Earls of Orkney
    Hardback | Pub: 06 Nov 2025
    £30.00

    This fascinating history of the Earldom of Orkney, which was established in the Viking Age, records the adventures, feuds and battles of powerful Norsemen during its first three centuries. The medieval earls of Orkney owed allegiance to the kings of...

  • Salt
    Paperback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023
    £20.00

    Discover the story of Scotland, salt and the world. Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing...

  • Saunaland
    Paperback | Pub: 03 Sep 2026
    £25.00

    Immerse yourself in Scotland’s sauna culture. Saunaland is a love story – between flame and forest, sweat and salt, person and place. It explores the deep, healing rituals of sauna culture, rooted in Nordic tradition and Celtic practices,...

  • Scotland and the Low Countries 1124–1994
    E-Book | Pub: 01 Nov 2021
    £25.00

    This collection of essays presents historical approaches to the links which have existed for over 800 years between Scotland and one of the areas of continental Europe closest to her: the Low Countries. Topics include: Flemish settlers in...