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  Boatlines

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Mar 2023

  £16.99

  People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be...

• The Death of Remembrance

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Jun 2022

  £9.99

  Everyone has a past they can’t forget . . .  Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from a bar where he knows a crime is about to be committed. It is a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. In the present, an old...

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  Moder Dy

  Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019

  £10.99

  Winner of the Highland Book Prize. ‘The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which it is said always travels in the...

• The Salt Roads

  Paperback | Pub: 03 Aug 2023

  £9.99

  Sometimes the simplest thing can change an entire culture. This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from...

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  The Viking Isles

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £17.99

  Paul Murton has long had a love of the Viking north – the island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old counties of Caithness and Sutherland – which, for centuries, were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great classic the Orkneyinga...