Discover history at your finger tips. While historical fiction allows you to take in the grand sweep of history through the lens of an intimate story, there’s so much that the genre leaves out. The true scale of the passing of time is, more often than not, best addressed in by the greatest of our history writers. We don’t need contrived plots or imagined dialogues between the Greats of our history in order to really delve into the past – all we need is a gifted writer who knows how to breathe life into history through their prose.
Thankfully, we have all that and more! As one of the larger sections here at East Neuk Books, we pride ourselves in carrying a large stock of history books ranging through all major periods of our nation’s past. Are you looking to do some research on the great clans of old? A great number of our books will help you do just that. Searching for glimpses into Scottish history before and after the Unification with England? No problem! Hoping for a deep dive into the personalities and histories of larger-than-life figures like Robert the Bruce of Mary, Queen of Scots? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
We live and breathe Scottish history at East Neuk Books, and nothing makes us happier than helping locals rediscover their past. They say that you can’t know the future without knowing the past, and that has never been easier with the flood of great writers and academics doing create research and writing on all periods of our history.
So no matter if you’re looking for a glimpse into a particular decade or a brisk tour of the north’s great history, it’s never been simpler to find great volumes or buy history books online. This weekend, curl up with your next fantastic read and get to know the major figures of our history!
The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom...
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Jim Johnstone has spent most of his working life showing his beloved Scotland to visitors from all over the world. During these trips he has always...
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..revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series “Wayfaring Stranger” ...in these pages revisit people and pl...
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Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archip...
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In this new addition to the Real Places series Ian Spring walks the streets, parks, pubs, workplaces, past and present of Glasgow, Scotland s alleg...
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His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the r...
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On December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone on board...This...
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The history of Peebles spans nine centuries, so it is inevitable that there is a wealth of history in which to delve for nuggets of interest. David...
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Peeblesshire and its attractive county town are situated in Upper Tweeddale, an area of great beauty and tranquillity. Tucked into the Borders Hill...
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Victorian visitors had shooting lodges Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte Scots had Butlins.Why have the inhabitants of ...
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The gallant rearguard action which led to the capture of the 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux (two weeks after the famous evacuation of...
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East Lothian is one of Scotland\x27s most important and historic counties and this is the most comprehensive book yet published on the subject, wit...
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Visions of the Roman North: Art and Identity in Northern Roman Britain is the first book to present an analysis of art from the northern frontier z...
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The “Calendar of Musselburgh witchcraft” was inspired by the recent rediscovery of the Musselburgh burgh records, which had been believed lost. The...
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In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon...
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On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a g...
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The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen and remains, to this day, one of the great achievements of man...
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This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revoluti...
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The Picts were an ancient nation who ruled most of northern and eastern Scotland during the Dark Ages. Despite their historical importance, they re...
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Discover Scottish Highlands and Islands with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recomme...
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A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after ...
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Having been granted city status during the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002, Stirling is Scotland’s smallest city, but has an enthralling wealt...
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The extraordinary story of the UK’s most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom, t...
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The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigr...
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For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time ...
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As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotlands politics have been expressed in its architecture...
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Scotland has a distinctive place in the world. Nation to Nation explores how this unique relationship with the rest of the world has developed over...
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All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland's nat...
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There can be no relationship in Europe's history more creative, significant, vexed and uneasy than that between Scotland and England. From the Mid...
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Born in 1828 near Kelso in the Scottish Borders, Wyllie went to sea as an apprentice seaman in 1852 and quickly rose through the ranks. By 1862 he ...
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From the Saxons to the Windsors, from the Tudors to Hanovers, Britain's royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Kings a...
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This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines...
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With a wealthy of previously unpublished images comes a photographic celebration of Class 20 locomotives on the railways of Scotland.
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Andrew Grant Forsyth’s photographs show the changing locomotive scene throughout Scotland after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. Forsy...
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During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long proce...
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As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the rea...
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The Sword of Scotland is the story of Scotland's military heritage. Scotland's fighting men have played a part in shaping the history of our world,...
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This is a fascinating acount of the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment. They played a key role in the liberation of Europe and the Regiment was ...
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Drawing on extensive research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growin...
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'What we build always reveals things that are deeply and innately human. Because all buildings are stories, one way or another.' Kathleen Jamie, Al...
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By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across ...
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Assorted strange phenomena abound in Scotland – witches, wizards, fairies, sea monsters, yeti-type creatures, UFOs and a plethora of female spirits...
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This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over 1,000 proverbs arranged in easily accessible A–...
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There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which stil...
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In 1560, Mary of Guise moved the Scottish Court to Leith, a site that is now Parliament Street, off Coalhill. Serving Edinburgh’s shipbuilding and ...
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Line by Line: Scotland is an illustrated guide to the country’s railway, showcasing a collection of images captured over around twenty years. A cel...
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In the final quarter of the seventh century the Picts were a vassal nation. Regular offerings of livestock, agricultural produce and other material...
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The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the blood...
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