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• The Appin Murder

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Jul 2021

  £12.99

  On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he’s evicting farm tenants to make way for his...

• The Campbells, 1250-1513

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Apr 2024

  £20.00

  If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear,...

• Clans and Tartans of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022

  £6.99

  Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry – who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new...

• The Highland Clearances

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Jun 2016

  £14.99

  The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In...

• Insurrection

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Mar 2022

  £12.99

  Discover Scotland’s forgotten revolution… Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort...

• The Northern Earldoms

  Paperback | Pub: 20 Jul 2023

  £20.00

  The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the Norwegian and the Scottish. They were a maritime lordship divided, or united, by the turbulent waters of the Pentland Firth. This unlikely combination of island...

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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...

• 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...

• Where Demons Hide

  Paperback | Pub: 07 Jul 2022

  £8.99

  Fear is a state of mind . . . Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death . . . and when her body is found in the centre of a pentagram on a lonely moor, journalist Rebecca Connelly is determined to find the truth. Could she really have been killed by...