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Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain Piers Dudgeon 9780755317141
RRP: £10.99£6.47This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of... -
The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora by Billy Kay
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the extraordinary influence the Scots have had on communities and... -
The Granite Men: A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland by Jim Fiddes 9780750990011
RRP: £20.00£16.04Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of... -
Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape by Carolyn Anderson
RRP: £30.00£21.30Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the two world wars, as well as the Cold War, all resulted... -
Aberdeen by Alistair Burnett 9780752418285
RRP: £12.99£9.62AberdeenBook InformationISBN 9780752418285Author Alistair BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £18.99£12.83Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans and their definitive conflicts. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the... -
The Glasgow Girl at War: The new heartwarming saga from the author of the G.I. Bride by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: £7.99£5.60The next heartwarming saga novel from Eileen Ramsay, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Donna Douglas.1930s Scotland.Growing up in a convent in Glasgow, Ferelith Gallagher dreams of bigger and better things. With no money behind her, and no family to... -
What Lies Buried by Margaret Kirk
RRP: £8.99£5.45'Shadow Man is a harrowing and horrific game of consequences' Val McDermid THE BRILLIANTLY COMPELLING SECOND NOVEL IN THE DI LUKAS MAHLER SERIESA missing child. A seventy-year-old murder. And a killer who's still on the loose.Ten year-old Erin is... -
Scotland the How?: The Hows and Whys of Scottish History by John and Noreen Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£11.55How much do you know about Scottish history?We all know bits of it. This book by the authors of Scottish History: Strange but True sets out to show how these 'bits' fit together - how the characters and events of Scottish history made the country of... -
Darien Disaster John Prebble 9780712668538
RRP: £14.99£10.95The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political... -
The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward
RRP: £14.99£9.80Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought... -
A-Z Secret Edinburgh Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: £6.99£4.80Discover hidden gems around Edinburgh with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert,... -
In Fingal's Wake: A Tender Tribute by Trevor Boult 9781445648064
RRP: £20.00£13.34Fingal represented the last and final 'classic' style of tender once found throughout the three General Lighthouse Authorities of the British Isles. Performing a wide range of duties at Oban and at Stromness, Fingal served all the area needs of the... -
The Blackhouse by Peter May 9781529415018
RRP: £10.99£3.51THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford
RRP: £22.00£15.11From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past... -
Edinburgh: Mapping the City by Chris Fleet 9781839830433
RRP: £35.00£25.47Maps can tell much about the story of a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This is particularly true of Edinburgh, one of the most visually stunning cities in the world and a place rich in historical and cultural associations. This... -
Hear No Evil: Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize 2022 by Sarah Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.16SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 2022Glasgow, 1817: Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witnessed throwing a child into... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Wars of Independence, 1286-1328 Michele Sine Duck 9781398345454
£20.84Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
RRP: £9.99£6.80The new novel from the acclaimed author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2018!'Sarah Maine is a master of Scottish historical fiction' Sunday Post****It is the women who are keepers of tales.Atmospheric,... -
The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community by Tom Steel
RRP: £12.99£8.48The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom,... -
Seal Morning by Rowena Farre
RRP: £7.99£5.46At the age of 10, Rowena Farre left the security of her parents' home in India and was sent to live with her aunt on a lonely croft in the wild and remote Highlands of Scotland. During her stay in Sutherland, she drew strength from the isolation of... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb 9781509804719 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII,... -
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
RRP: £12.99£8.78'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain, fought over by Henry VIII,... -
Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay by Anne Cholawo
RRP: £9.99£6.70Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay - 'Access by courtesy of fishing boat'. She had never heard of Soay before,... -
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 by Alex Woolf
RRP: £25.99£23.98In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by... -
The Blackhouse: Murder comes to the Outer Hebrides (Lewis Trilogy 1) by Peter May
RRP: £10.99£5.47BOOK ONE IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A RICHARD & JUDY PICK. WINNER OF THE USA'S BARRY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR.PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES'One of the best regarded crime series... -
The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter
RRP: £14.99£10.77This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... -
Gaelic Proverbs by Alexander Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Designed for those interested in the lore and tradition of a language, spoken until comparatively recently across much of Scotland, this is a compendium of Gaelic sayings and usage. The book includes notes, historical and social, and comparisons with... -
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £10.99£7.41'What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.' Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford travel across the country to... -
The Kings & Queens of Scotland by Timothy Venning
RRP: £12.99£8.48The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the 'Celtic' nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when... -
Edinburgh Castle by Peter Yeoman 9781849171601
RRP: £6.00£4.29Dominating the city from its volcanic rock, Edinburgh Castle is one of the oldest fortified places in Europe. This natural stronghold has been occupied for thousands of years, shifting its shape as it was adapted for new uses and against new threats. ... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.93'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an... -
The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 by Stuart MacDonald
RRP: £20.00£14.05Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by... -
From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795 by Brother James E. Fraser
RRP: £25.99£21.46From Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the... -
Independence or Union: Scotland's Past and Scotland's Present by T. M. Devine
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Deserves to be read by everyone interested in the future of the United Kingdom' Andrew Marr, The Sunday TimesThere can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the... -
Hadrian's Wall by David J. Breeze
RRP: £14.99£10.95A penetrating and lucid history of the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. Taking into account new research findings about the building of the Wall, Breeze and Dobson include fascinating details about the Roman army,... -
Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord Colm McNamee 9781780275949
RRP: £10.99£7.32The life of Robert Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, briefly 'king of summer' and then a desperate fugitive who nevertheless returned from exile to recover the kingdom he claimed, Bruce became... -
The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent by Sarah Fraser
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland's most notorious and romantic heroes. He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy. ... -
For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses by Donald S Murray
RRP: £14.99£10.33'There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our relationship, as if they have kept pace and in close contact with me.' Lighthouses punctuate Scotland's coastline - a stoic presence on the edge of the... -
Mary Queen Of Scots Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610919
RRP: £16.99£11.94'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday TimesAn infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a...