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Robert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced t...
View full detailsRobert the Bruce had himself crowned King of Scots at Scone on a frozen March morning in 1306. After years of struggle, Scotland had been reduced t...
View full detailsWalk in the footsteps of a Scottish King and discover what happened when he ventured to Ireland in Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled. This explo...
View full detailsThe definitive biography of Scotland's legendary leader by British novelist and former Sunday Times literary critic, Ronald McNair Scott
Scotland is Not for the Squeamish by Bill Watkins This work mingles the myths and traditions of Celtic nations with true and tall tales of high-sea...
View full detailsFrom Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment...
View full detailsScotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation 1100 - 1707 Edited by: Bob Harris, Alan R. MacDonald Part of an authoritative and thought-pr...
View full detailsThe grandeur and beauty of Scotland's castles, which number over a thousand, is reflected in this authoritative selection based on a variety of the...
View full detailsOne of Scotland's best-loved authors, Nigel Tranter wrote over ninety novels on Scottish history. He died at the age of ninety on 9 January 2000.Th...
View full detailsScotland's worst and most infamous murders: Includes accounts of the infamous Burke and Hare, cannibalistic Sawney Bean, child murderer Jessie King...
View full detailsThis revised and expanded edition includes data on over 220 families, the develompment of surnames, a reading list and a guide for beginners in sea...
View full detailsA story based on the real voyage of "The Georgiana", by an author whose own ancestors were among the crofters who had to emigrate from Skye to Aust...
View full detailsFirst published in 1883, MacKenzie's History of the Highland Clearances has remained in print to the present times. John Prebble wrote "...it has b...
View full detailsGhosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great...
View full detailsJohn Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in educatio...
View full detailsStories from the old aristocracy of Scotland. A Laird is the Scottish word for a landowner.
The final volume in the author's trilogy on life in rural Scotland. This work completes the cycle begun with "Willie Gavin, Crofter Man" and "The C...
View full detailsRobert Crawford is a poet and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.Drawing on a surprising variety of untapped sourc...
View full detailsThis is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl u...
View full details'The Canongate Strangler' is a psychological thriller with supernatural overtones set in Edinburgh: the wynds and closes of the old town, the Geo...
View full detailsA handy book for basic information on the major clans and tartans of Scotland, Discusses Highland dress and clans, and illustrates clan tartans.
The Concise Scots Dictionary First published in 1985, the Concise Scots Dictionary offers a comprehensive single-volume reference. This new edition...
View full detailsA pivotal period in Prentice McHoan's life is described, seen through his preoccupations with death, sex, his relationship with his father, unrequi...
View full detailsThe original texts, which are the basis of the study of the Celtic Shamanic tradition, are so often missing from the contemporary practical books o...
View full detailsSet in the early years of the 19th century, this story is a tale of conspiracy, secret societies, foreign agents and a fiendish plot to assassinate...
View full detailsJeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, wh...
View full detailsIn the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnifi...
View full detailsEric Richards author of several well-known books on the Highland Clearances re-examines many examples of factorial behaviour from different parts o...
View full detailsSaltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year - a ...
View full detailsTrue crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journal...
View full detailsAt the age of twenty-one, John Prebble set out to ‘discover’ Scotland, and just as Scott had been enthralled by this fiercely distinctive land, so ...
View full detailsPublished to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, an account of the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie, of his childhood and u...
View full detailsThis is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travel...
View full detailsThis new edition of Michael Fry's remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of th...
View full detailsA cultural history of the Scottish Highlands with stunning photographs.
The author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Cana...
View full detailsDark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks' best novel since THE CR...
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