While the world teems with the champions of fiction titles, there are those who find that the twists and turns of real life are more than enough to keep them hooked on a good book. They find the joys and nuances of nonfiction of great value, especially when it comes to the art of biography.
This is a genre that never gets old – from the heights of the royals to the kitchen sinks of your next door neighbour, a biography is a gateway to understanding a life and lifestyle that’s not your own. And by spending time with another person this closely, maybe you’ll find out something important about your own life.
There’s nothing like biography, actually, when it comes to showing that people are people and we all have something in common. No matter if you’re reading notes scribbled years ago by the movers and shakers of Scottish history, modern approaches to important figures or the tell-alls of popular celebrities, there’s always something to learn when you read biographies or memoirs.
And East Neuk Books is the best place to find the latest and greatest Scottish biographies. Flip through our pages to see our current stock of hundreds of books that are sure to interest and surprise you! Or peruse through our collection below and buy biography books online. No matter your taste, historical interests or approach to the art, you’re sure to find something that will captivate you and make it hard to put the book down!
If you’re not sure yet exactly what you’re looking for, feel free to take a glance through some of our more popular titles. From memoirs of Scottish childhoods to explorations of the highlands to to the reminiscence of school-days long past to ambitious studies of great lives like that of Mary, Queen of Scots, our collection is bound to educate and delight.
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A Childhood in Scotland by Christian Miller Originally published in 1981, an autobiographical account of Miller's deprived yet upper-class childhoo...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie by Sir Fitzroy Maclean Published to mark the 250th anniversary of the '45, a study of Bonnie Prince Charlie which tells of h...
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Glasgow's Godfather by Robert Jeffrey Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities. As a bo...
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Memoir of her childhood days as the daughter of a parish minister in Glen Gairn, near Balmoral, Scotland at the turn of the century.
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John Gorrie was a respected colonial judge, albeit defiantly and decidedly not on the side of the ruling classes in the territories where he was po...
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n 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his...
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Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable h...
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Rob Roy MacGregor was mytholigised by Sir Walter Scott but was very much a fact in the Trossachs of Scotland in the late 17th and early 18th centur...
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The life of Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, Bruce became a gifted military leader an...
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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...
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Walk 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...
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The definitive biography of Scotland's legendary leader by British novelist and former Sunday Times literary critic, Ronald McNair Scott
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John Wilson was an Inspector of Schools during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. His career in educatio...
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Robert Crawford is a poet and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.Drawing on a surprising variety of untapped sourc...
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Saltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year - a ...
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Published 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...
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This is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travel...
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