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• The Blood is Still

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Mar 2020

  £8.99

  When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the ’45 Rebellion has enraged the...

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  Burnt Offerings

  Paperback | Pub: 05 Oct 2023

  £9.99

  How far would you go to save yourself when the truth can’t set you free? Scotland, 1589. Besse Craw is a young mother whose husband has mysteriously vanished. And in a time when women were powerless, she is accused of witchcraft, abused by her...

• The Devil’s Blaze

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Sep 2022

  £4.99

  The world’s greatest detective returns. London, 1943. Across the city prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate...

• The Early Stewart Kings

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2007

  £30.00

  The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors writing for the general reader as well as the student...

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  Edge of Empire, Rome’s Scottish Frontier

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jun 2023

  £14.99

  Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now Northumbria and, 20 years after and over 100 miles further north than Hadrian’s Wall, built a new...

• The King Over the Water

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Mar 2021

  £14.99

  Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought...

• The Men of the North

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Sep 2010

  £20.00

  The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or...

• A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Apr 2023

  £14.99

  Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the...

• Neville Chamberlain

  E-Book | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £9.99

  Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals...

• The Normans in Ireland

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Apr 2022

  £20.00

  The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many...

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  Putting the Tea in Britain

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Jun 2021

  £14.99

  ‘Deserves to sell like hot cakes’ – Allan Massie,The Scotsman Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response...

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  The Sea Kings

  Paperback | Pub: 20 May 2021

  £30.00

  The archipelagic kingdoms of Man and the Isles that flourished from the last quarter of the eleventh century down to the middle of the thirteenth century represent two forgotten kingdoms of the medieval British Isles. They were ruled by powerful...

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  The Shepherd and the Morning Star

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2019

  £9.99

  The Shepherd and the Morning Star is a remarkable double biography and autobiography. In the course of it the life of the son, Willie Orr, gradually emerges from under the shadow of that of his father, Lawrence Orr (PB), leading Ulster Unionist...

• Six Wounds

  E-Book | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £3.49

  ‘A gripping high-octane masterpiece’ – Andrew Child To make the perfect Spanish whodunnit cocktail, take one dead gangster, mix in six shifty expats, add one ruthless baddie and garnish with a suspicious police officer . . . Daniella...