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• The Beggar’s Benison

  E-Book | Pub: 04 Apr 2013

  £7.49

  Two clubs, dedicated to proclaiming the joys of libertine sex, thrived in mid and late 18th-century Scotland. The Beggar’s Benison (1732), starting from local roots in Fife, became large and sprawling, with branches in Edinburgh, Glasgow...

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  Celtic Saints

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2020

  £7.99

  They may be coated in layers of myth and pious anecdote but dig deep enough and the pioneering leaders of Celtic Christianity are revealed as reassuringly human individuals, responding to their faith by deliberately living on the edges of...

• Imprimatur

  E-Book | Pub: 15 Feb 2012

  £4.99

  ‘An exuberant and discursive historical novel, crammed with fascinating detail’ – The Independent 11 September 1683, Rome. Rome is a city on a knife-edge. The citizens wait anxiously for news of the outcome of the Battle of Vienna,...

• Islands of the Evening

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022

  £10.99

  ‘Magnificent’ – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude in remote places, but their mission was also to...

• Kinship, Church and Culture

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jan 2016

  £30.00

  John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century...

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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 Sky’s Dark Labyrinth

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Jun 2011

  £4.99

  At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe...

• Three Fires

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jul 2024

  £7.99

  In Three Fires, award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’, a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century – inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo...

• The Wild Wind

  E-Book | Pub: 09 Jun 2019

  £4.99

  By the Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Others. Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in...