Filter By
Books (51)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
With Thy Towers High: Stirling Castle: The Archaeology of a Castle and a Palace by Gordon Ewart
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.34Dominating the surrounding landscape from its volcanic outcrop, Stirling Castle is an enduring symbol of an epic past. The castle's history is inextricably bound with that of the Scottish nation. It... -
Iona Abbey and Nunnery by Peter Yeoman 9781849171700
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.46The tiny island of Iona has been a vibrant centre of Christian worship since Columba arrived in AD 563. His monastery thrived for centuries, despite repeated Viking raids beginning in 795. Around... -
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings by Kathleen Jamie 9781849172240
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.91Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and James Crawford pick twenty-five buildings to tell... -
Above Scotland by James Crawford 9781849173322
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The heart of Scotland is its landscape. Follow in the footsteps of countless generations to experience the drama, romance and mystery of this ancient country. Aerial photography has the power to... -
Stirling Castle: Offical Souvenir Guide by Historic Scotland 9781849173308
RRP: $9.38Booksplease Price: $7.32Stirling Castle is one of the great highlights of Scotland's colourful historic landscape. With a history dating back at least to the 1100s, it has been both a crucial fortress - guarding a main... -
Scotland's History by Fiona Watson 9781849173070
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Who was St Columba? Why was Mary, Queen of Scots executed? When were the Jacobite risings? Where was the new Scottish Parliament built? Scotland's vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination... -
Dumfries House: An Architectural Story by Simon Green 9781902419954
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.58On 18 July 1754, William Crichton Dalrymple, the 5th Earl of Dumfries, laid the foundation stone of Dumfries House. It was the first country house built by Robert, John and James Adam - the brothers... -
Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus by Jane Geddes 9781849172264
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.04The Drosten stone - one of Scotland's premier monuments - came to light during restoration work at St Vigeans Church, near Arbroath, in the 1870s. A rare example of Pictish writing, the Drosten stone... -
Melrose Abbey by Historic Scotland 9781849172288
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $5.57St Aidan of Lindisfarne established a monastery at ‘Mailros’ in the 7th century – a place of solitude and contemplation in the Border hills. Five centuries later, Cistercian monks settled nearby and... -
Where are the Women?: A Guide to an Imagined Scotland by Sara Sheridan
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.79For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at Scotland's heritage and... -
For the Safety of All: A Story of Scotland's Lighthouses by Donald S Murray
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.67'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... -
The Honours of Scotland: The Story of the Scottish Crown Jewels and the Stone of Destiny by Chris Tabraham
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours - Scotland's crown jewels - and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny. Over the centuries, Scotland's monarchy... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.34'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... -
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.79'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... -
Monuments of Orkney: A Visitor's Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.93From the Early Neolithic farm at Knap of Howar to the flamboyant chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s, the Orkney Islands are amazingly rich in historic and prehistoric sites. At... -
St Kilda: The Last and Outmost Isle by Angela Gannon
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.70In 1527 Hector Boece, the first Principal of King's College Aberdeen, wrote in his extensive History of the Scottish People of an island of rocky crags and prehistoric sheep, which could only be... -
Bloody Scotland by Lin Anderson 9781849176668
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.06WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER In Bloody Scotland a selection of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are by turns gripping,... -
A History of Scotland's Landscapes by Fiona Watson 9781849173339
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.58It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us – the way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, forests, hills and mountains, roads, railways, canals,... -
who will be remembered here: queer spaces in Scotland Ali Smith 9781849173698
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.13Queerness weaves through Scotland's past, but it is largely intangible and absent from accounts of what came before us. By making invisible stories visible, who will be remembered here captures... -
Edinburgh Castle: Offical Souvenir Guide Historic Scotland 9781849173452
RRP: $9.38Booksplease Price: $7.32Edinburgh Castle is one of Scotland's great historic landmarks. The city's most prominent feature, it stands on a volcanic crag that has been occupied since the Bronze Age. This was a medieval... -
Doune Castle by Nicki Scott
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $5.57One of Scotland's finest late-medieval strongholds, Doune Castle stands high on a promontory between the River Teith and the Ardoch Burn in Perthshire. It is a testament to the power of one nobleman,... -
A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume by Daniel Gray
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.58John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of... -
The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum by Jill Harden
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.79The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their... -
Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney by Rachel Pickering 9781849172479
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.46The chambered tomb of Maeshowe sits in one of the richest and best preserved Neolithic landscapes in Europe. This was a place of stone circles, villages and burial monuments; a place where people... -
Holyrood Park including Arthur’s Seat by Historic Scotland 9781849173063
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.46Few capital cities contain a landmark as rugged and expansive as Edinburgh's Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat. Not only does this space provide superb recreational opportunities; it also contains... -
Jedburgh Abbey by Chris Tabraham 9781849170222
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $5.57Jedburgh Abbey is one of the most elegant examples of 12th-century architecture in Scotland. It was founded by King David I, both as an act of piety and to assert his claim to the Borders. The... -
Skara Brae by David Clarke
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.46The Neolithic village known as Skara Brae was continuously occupied for about 300 to 400 years, before being abandoned around 2500 BC. Despite severe coastal erosion, eight houses and a workshop have... -
Urquhart Castle by Historic Scotland 9781849173056
RRP: $9.38Booksplease Price: $7.32Urquhart Castle is now a picturesque ruin overlooking the deep and murky waters of Loch Ness. But these walls belonged to a powerful stronghold, perhaps the most important in the Highlands. Iron... -
The Small Isles: Canna, Eigg, Muck and Rum John Hunter 9781849173681
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.70Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were... -
The Small Isles by John Hunter
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.04Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were... -
Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age Bruce Peter 9781849173445
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.98'the entire effect is gay, welcoming, and, so to speak, "future"' Raymond Mortimer on Glasgow's Empire Exhibition, Vogue, June 1938 Art Deco is a design style infused with glamour and energy... -
Wanderings with a Camera in Scotland: The Photography of Erskine Beveridge Lesley Ferguson 9781849173773
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.03In the early 1960s, in the course of recording a Dunfermline mill building that was scheduled for demolition, surveyors discovered an incredible collection of over 800 glass plate negatives. Taken... -
Arnol Blackhouse: Official Souvenir Guide Historic Scotland 9781849173582
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.46NEW EDITION - PARALLEL ENGLISH AND GAELIC TEXT This guide explores the rich history of the atmospheric Arnol Blackhouse and township on the Isle of Lewis - a history which reaches back over 2,000... -
Awesome Scottish Castles: Sticker and Activity Book by Moreno Chiacchiera 9781782506317
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.30Discover awesome Scottish castles in this sticker and activity book bursting with colouring, doodling, puzzles and more than 100 stickers! Have fun... -- Filling Edinburgh Castle with fun stickers --... -
Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland by Louisa Campbell 9781784919825
Booksplease Price: $40.01In a break away from the traditional mono-disciplinary scope of academic enquiry, this volume sets forth a challenge for practitioners within, and outwith archaeology to develop multi-disciplinary... -
Little Explorers: Skara Brae (Push, Pull and Slide) by Louise Forshaw 9781782506324
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Discover the secrets of the Stone Age and travel back in time to see what life was like for the villagers of Skara Brae on Orkney. This book introduces little explorers to Neolithic life through... -
The Queen’s bahookie and other tales from Scotland’s castles Robin Laing 9781804251362
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Who saw the Queen’s bahoukie?Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose?Which castle was known as ‘the ship that never sailed’?The world and history of Scottish castles has been explored through... -
Mingulay: Archaeology and Architecture by RCAHMS
RRP: $4.69Booksplease Price: $4.26The island of Mingulay lies at near the southern tip of the Western Isles archipelago, its fertile valleys and rugged coastline of cliffs and sea stacks a spectacular setting for a wealth of... -
A Companion to the Small Isles: Eigg, Muck, Canna and Rum John Hunter 9781839830815
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89This book is the essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna, known collectively as the Small Isles. As well as... -
Edinburgh Castle for Kids: Fun Facts and Amazing Activities by Moreno Chiacchiera 9781782505631
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $5.68Explore Scotland's most famous castle -- home to kings and queens, the site of historic battles, and probably the best-known place in Scotland. Published in partnership with history experts at...