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• Arran

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £12.99

  Arran is an archaeological and geological treasure trove of stunning scenic beauty. Its history stretches back to the great stone circles, more than 5,000 years old, whose remnants still decorate the plains of Machrie. Runic inscriptions tell of a...

• The Complete Soul Trilogy

  E-Book | Pub: 20 Apr 2023

  £14.99

  Spanning three different cities across the United States, Stuart Cosgrove’s bestselling Soul Trilogy blends history, culture and music to paint a vivid picture of social change through the last years of the 1960s. Strap in for a journey through...

• A Dance Called America

  Paperback | Pub: 05 May 2022

  £14.99

  Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond. A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks...

• Dancing in the Streets

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024

  £9.99

  The classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom Morton This is Clifford Hanley’s vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and ‘30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist. His...

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  Everyday Gaelic

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Apr 2024

  £14.99

  This is an invaluable learning resource for anyone interested in Scottish Gaelic. In addition to basic words and phrases, it also includes more complex and idiomatic material, all arranged thematically and covering topics such as meeting and...

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  Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2023

  £12.99

  It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow’s place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the...

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  Hebridean Healers

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Oct 2024

  £14.99

  The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered Celtic cross on a coastal headland on the beautiful Scottish island of Mull led the authors of this book on a fascinating voyage into the history of one branch...

• Knoydart

  Paperback | Pub: 10 May 2018

  £10.99

  Knoydart – the northern edge of the ‘Rough Bounds’ is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking...

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  The Makers of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jul 2013

  £9.99

  During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men...

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  On the Crofter’s Trail

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Apr 2010

  £14.99

  In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts – once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland – were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from...

• Scotland: A History from Earliest Times

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2017

  £16.99

  Discover the ultimate chronicle of a nation.  In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of Scotland, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A...

• Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023

  £14.99

  Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks has been written both as a self-tuition course for beginners and also for use within the classroom. You may want to learn Gaelic because of a general interest in Celtic or Scottish history and culture, or because it...

• 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...

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  Skye

  Paperback | Pub: 27 Sep 2018

  £8.99

  This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and...

• Under the Hammer

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes – William Wallace and Robert Bruce – have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers,...