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• Dark Encounters

  Hardback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023

  £12.00

  Tales of suspense for the twilight hour… Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic...

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  A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable

  Hardback | Pub: 21 Oct 2021

  £35.00

  INCLUDES HUNDREDS OF NEW AND EXPANDED ENTRIES From ‘Aald Rock’ to ‘Zeenty-teenty’, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable is an unputdownable gallimaufry of curious items embracing sayings, put-downs, insults, mottos, traditions, legends,...

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  Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £25.00

  Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland’s Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona,...

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  Edinburgh: The Autobiography

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024

  £20.00

  Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world’s great...

• 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...

• Other Worlds

  Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £12.99

  An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and...

• The People’s City

  Paperback | Pub: 13 Jan 2022

  £7.99

  ‘Five engrossing, resonant stories here, with no weak links’ ― The Herald The world’s first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from...

• Pianos and Flowers

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023

  £8.99

  In Pianos and Flowers we are invited to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. Three sisters brought up in Penang,...

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  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...

• Scotland: Her Story

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Feb 2020

  £12.99

  Scotland’s history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe...

• Tales for Twilight

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023

  £9.99

  Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at...

• The Wallace Book

  Paperback | Pub: 12 Feb 2010

  £20.00

  Through his personality, ingenuity and ability, he initiated a resistance movement which ultimately secured the nation’s freedom and independence. Yet, Wallace was reviled, opposed and eventually betrayed by the nobility in his own day to...

• White Leaping Flame / Caoir Gheal Leumraich

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jul 2023

  £20.00

  This collected editon of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean’s own edited volumes of poetry, poetry previously published in various magazines, literary journals and anthologies, and poetry which has never been...