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  The Burns Supper Companion

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Dec 2022

  £7.99

  In 1801, some five years after Robert Burns’ death, nine of his friends sat down to dinner in what is now known as Burns Cottage in Alloway to celebrate his extraordinary life and to give thanks for his friendship. Over the years the informal...

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  The Little Book of Scottish Rain

  Paperback | Pub: 17 Apr 2025

  £4.99

  Bleeters come and bleeters go, they never, never stay – if it’s not raining now more rain is on the way. It’s widely reported that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow. Given the equivalent ubiquity of rain in Britain’s northern climes, it is...

• The Placenames of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £12.99

  Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland’s capital city? Are the ‘drum’ and ‘chapel’ still to be found in Drumchapel? And which ‘king’ had...

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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...

• 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...

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  Scottish Quotations

  Paperback | Pub: 02 May 2024

  £6.99

  The Scots have always had a reputation for clarity of thought and also for the vigour with which it is put into words. This collection spans the entire gamut of a nation’s recorded thought and experience from Roman Scotland to the present day....