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Urquhart Castle by Historic Scotland 9781849173056
RRP: €8.40Booksplease Price: €6.55Urquhart 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... -
Melrose Abbey by Historic Scotland 9781849172288
RRP: €6.00Booksplease Price: €4.99St 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... -
Stirling Castle: Offical Souvenir Guide by Historic Scotland 9781849173308
RRP: €8.40Booksplease Price: €6.55Stirling 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... -
Holyrood Park including Arthur’s Seat by Historic Scotland 9781849173063
RRP: €7.20Booksplease Price: €5.78Few 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... -
Edinburgh Castle: Offical Souvenir Guide Historic Scotland 9781849173452
RRP: €8.40Booksplease Price: €6.55Edinburgh 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... -
Arnol Blackhouse: Official Souvenir Guide Historic Scotland 9781849173582
RRP: €7.20Booksplease Price: €5.78NEW 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... -
Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland by Sally M. Foster 9780859767224
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €17.16Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had... -
National 5 History - Scotland Study Guide by Christopher Mackay 9781906736408
Booksplease Price: €19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906736408Author Christopher MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprin -
Eyemouth Keith Harrison 9780864921284
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €11.34A spellbinding Scottish novel set in Edinburgh and Upper Canada during the tumultuous years of the French revolution and the Napoleonic war, Eyemouth is a wonderful novel with a definite Scottish... -
Castles Map of Scotland: Explore Scotland’s ancient monuments (Collins Pictorial Maps) by Collins Maps 9780008665005
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.22Discover Scotland's ancient monuments and castles. Explore Scotland's ancient monuments with this pictorial map featuring over 700 castles and fortified houses. Includes an easy-to-use... -
Scottish History: From Bannockburn to Holyrood (Collins Little Books) by John Abernethy
RRP: €8.39Booksplease Price: €7.61The perfect stocking filler for lovers of Scottish History. From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this pocket-sized book covers all of the main events in Scottish history. ... -
Jedburgh Abbey by Chris Tabraham 9781849170222
RRP: €6.00Booksplease Price: €4.99Jedburgh 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... -
Jimmy Reid: Walking with History: The Autobiography of Jimmy Reid Jimmy Reid 9780857163011
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €16.62Jimmy Reid: Walking with History is the long-anticipated posthumous autobiography of one of the most influential political voices of the twentieth century. Compiled from fourteen years of... -
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald by Flora Fraser 9781408879856
Booksplease Price: €13.19A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator 'Enthralling . . ... -
Scotland Cuties Cosy Colouring Book by Scholastic 9780702350993
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €7.68Welcome to a little corner of colouring joy with Cutie Colouring: Scotland Cuties! Discover the perfect way to relax with the very best of Scotland, Cutie-style! Celebrate ... -
Doune Castle by Nicki Scott
RRP: €6.00Booksplease Price: €4.99One 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,... -
Skara Brae by David Clarke
RRP: €7.20Booksplease Price: €5.78The 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... -
Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney by Rachel Pickering 9781849172479
RRP: €7.20Booksplease Price: €5.78The 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... -
Scotland's Clans & their Tartans: The Histories and Origins of the Clans and their Tartan Plaids by Ian Grimble 9781788405935
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.22Scotland's Clans & Their Tartans offers an authoritative exploration of the origins and evolution of Scotland's unique clan system, tracing its roots back to the 5th century in Ireland, where the... -
Not All Mud and Scrums: Rugby Union Before Professionalism by Gordon Allan 9781898595199
Booksplease Price: €19.91A celebration of Rugby Union, based upon a sports journalist's recollections of 50 years of following the sport, before the game moved into its modern period, governed by money and media interests... -
Lured by the Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon mystery by Ian Walford
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.60Emotions swing wildly in this tense, intriguing tale of mystery and obsession. Ordinary folk react in dramatically different ways as they are caught up in savage struggles between Anglo-Saxon and... -
Edge of Empire, Rome's Scottish Frontier: The Antonine Wall by David J. Breeze
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.92Two thousand years ago, southern Scotland was part of a great empire, the Roman Empire. About AD 140, a Roman army marched north from what is now Northumbria and, 20 years after and over 100 miles... -
The Honours of Scotland: The Story of the Scottish Crown Jewels and the Stone of Destiny by Chris Tabraham
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88The 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... -
Hunting Picts: Medieval Sculpture at St Vigeans, Angus by Jane Geddes 9781849172264
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €23.32The 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... -
Bude Through Time by Dawn G. Robinson
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €12.28In 1800, Bude would have been lucky to have a population of 100, but people flocked to the town for work when the canal opened. When the canal closed, Bude would have crumbled, but for the developing... -
Little Explorers: Scotland Then and Now (Lift the Flap, See the Past) by Louise Forshaw
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.47Turn back time and introduce little explorers to Scotland's past through some of its most famous historical places. Explore Orkney's Skara Brae with Stone Age villagers, command Urquhart Castle with... -
Bude The Postcard Collection by Dawn G. Robinson
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €12.28The north Cornwall seaside resort town of Bude has undergone quite a transformation since its humble beginnings as Stratton's unremarkable neighbour. As one local candidly put it, 'Stratton was a... -
Secret Bude by Dawn G. Robinson
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €12.28The third book about Bude by Dawn Robinson is a little different to the first two. Certainly, it contains historical and contemporary images; however, its focus is very much on the facts, fiction,... -
Barholm Castle: The History of a Home and the Making of a Garden Janet Brennan-Inglis 9781839830877
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.54In 1999, Barholm Castle in Galloway had lain ruinous and derelict for over two hundred years when Janet Brennan-Inglis and her husband John bought it as a restoration project. Together with a team of... -
100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust John Chu 9780707804606
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €9.24Presented in a beautiful gift format, this engaging book aims to introduce to a general audience the National Trust's vast collection of paintings through a selection of 100 important examples from... -
Aspects of Edinburgh: Poems by Stewart Conn Drawings by John Knight by Stewart Conn 9781910895283
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.13'North-east the Firth, a bracelet merging with mist; south-west the Pentlands, sharply defined. Directly opposite, the Castle. A sudden gust makes me lose my footing. Gulls slip past, eyeing us... -
Triumph TR2, & TR3 - All models (including 3A & 3B) 1953 to 1962: Essential Buyer's Guide by Alastair Conners
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.61The Triumph TR2 and TR3 were the heralds of a long-running line of Triumph Sports Cars, culminating in the futuristic TR7 of the 1970s. They were truly sporting cars, suitable for competition and... -
Garden Plants for Scotland by Kenneth Cox
RRP: €34.79Booksplease Price: €24.00In this book, Scottish gardeners will find accurate information and hundreds of plants ideally suited to where they live. Scotland is one of the best places in the world to garden. Its maritime...