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Buy Non Fiction books from East Neuk Books, there is a huge selection of old and new titles.


When one thinks of literature, the joys of fiction are one of the first things that comes to mind. Or the unique pleasures of poetry. But of course there’s a wide demographic of readers that feel deeply that reality can indeed be stranger than fiction. That with the bizarre and quirky happenings that go on in real life, there is more than enough material for great literature. And so there has risen a large cry for nonfiction, for texts that engage with the world as it is as compared to how we can imagine it to be. Of course, they’re right!

 

One of the largest sub-sections of our whole online store, nonfiction can truly be said to have something for everyone. It includes the joys of comedy and the deep dives into the past provided by historical texts. Whether you’re looking for the best collection of show dogs or an in-depth engagement with just how important the Battle of Bannockburn truly was, looking through our nonfiction section will prove to be a real treat.

 

One of the great pleasures of meandering through such a broad section is that you may find titles that you didn’t even know you were looking for. Someone looking for a volume of military history might come out with a biography of Scottish childhood, or a Medievalist may find a book on the diaspora completely engrossing. This is the power of Scottish nonfiction books, and here at East Neuk Books you’ll find the best place to buy nonfiction books online!

 

No matter what your tastes are, you can rest assured that you’ll always find something you’ll like!

A Dictionary of Scottish History - East  Neuk Books Ltd
A Dictionary of Scottish History - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Dictionary of Scottish History

John Donald Publishers Ltd

A Dictionary of Scottish History, by Gordon Donaldson, Robert S. Morpeth This reference contains relevant information on Scottish history including...

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Ancient Scotland by David Ross - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Ancient Scotland by David Ross - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Ancient Scotland by David Ross

Waverley Books

As well as illustrating and explaining standing stones, tombs, stone circles, hill forts and artefacts of the ancient races, the author portrays th...

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Arthur And The Lost Kingdoms by Alistair - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Arthur And The Lost Kingdoms by Alistair - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Arthur And The Lost Kingdoms by Alistair

Orion Publishing Co

Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, asserting that he was not a king but a cavalry ...

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Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Collins Pocket Reference - Clans and Tartans

HarperCollins Publishers

Tartans are synonymous with Scotland and for many Scots, both at home and abroad, they are recognized and acknowledged as symbols of clan kinship. ...

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Grassic Gibbon and His World by Peter - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Grassic Gibbon and His World by Peter

Aberdeen Journals Ltd

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was born in 1901 in Aberdeenshire as James Leslie Mitchell. Among his work is the trilogy A Scot’s Quair,  which is considered...

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John Gorrie - A Maiden of Mauritius - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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John Gorrie - A Maiden of Mauritius

Pink Pigeon Press

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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Making History Now and Then: - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Making History Now and Then: - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Making History Now and Then:

Palgrave Macmillan

This book brings together David Cannadine's most important reflections on how history has been written and made in Britain in the twentieth century...

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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Modern Scottish History 1707 to the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Modern Scottish History 1707 to the

John Donald Publishers Ltd

This is the first volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course gives...

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Off in a Boat: Hebridean Voyage by - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Off in a Boat: Hebridean Voyage by

House of Lochar

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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Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914 - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914

Edinburgh University Press

What did it mean to be a Scot in an age marked by the movement of people and the flow of information? This revised and updated volume of the 'New H...

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Patrick Sellar and the Highland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Patrick Sellar and the Highland - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Patrick Sellar and the Highland

Edinburgh University Press

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 by Nigel Tranter - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Rob Roy MacGregor by Nigel Tranter

Neil Wilson Publishing

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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Robert the Bruce King of Scots - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Robert the Bruce King of Scots - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Robert the Bruce King of Scots

Birlinn General

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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Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Robert the Bruce: A Life Chronicled

Birlinn General

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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Scottish Castles: Tales and Traditions - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Scottish Castles: Tales and Traditions

Neil Wilson Publishing

One 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...

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Strange Scottish Stories - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Strange Scottish Stories

Pumpkin Press

Ghosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series which relates ghost stories from Great...

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Tales and Travels of a School - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Tales and Travels of a School - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Tales and Travels of a School

Birlinn General

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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Tales from Scottish Lairds - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Tales from Scottish Lairds - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Tales from Scottish Lairds

NMSE - Publishing Ltd

Stories from the old aristocracy of Scotland. A Laird is the Scottish word for a landowner.

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The Clans and Tartans of Scotland by - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Clans and Tartans of Scotland by

Bacon (G.W.) & Co .Ltd

A handy book for basic information on the major clans and tartans of Scotland, Discusses Highland dress and clans, and illustrates clan tartans.

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The Concise Scots Dictionary - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Concise Scots Dictionary

Edinburgh University Press

The Concise Scots Dictionary First published in 1985, the Concise Scots Dictionary offers a comprehensive single-volume reference. This new edition...

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The Encyclopaedia Of Celtic Myth And - East  Neuk Books Ltd
The Encyclopaedia Of Celtic Myth And - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Encyclopaedia Of Celtic Myth And

Ebury Publishing

The original texts, which are the basis of the study of the Celtic Shamanic tradition, are so often missing from the contemporary practical books o...

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The Highland Clearances by John Prebble - East  Neuk Books Ltd
The Highland Clearances by John Prebble - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Highland Clearances by John Prebble

Penguin Books Ltd

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnifi...

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The Law Killers: True Crime from - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Law Killers: True Crime from

Black and White Publishing

True crime from Dundee, covering the most fascinating and shocking cases from the last century. Having reported on many of them first-hand, journal...

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The Lion in the North: One Thousand - East  Neuk Books Ltd
The Lion in the North: One Thousand - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Lion in the North: One Thousand

Dorset Pr

At 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 ...

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The Road to Mingulay: View of the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
The Road to Mingulay: View of the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Road to Mingulay: View of the

TIME WARNER PAPERBACKS*

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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The Scottish Empire by Michael Fry - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Scottish Empire by Michael Fry

Birlinn General

This 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...

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The Scottish Highlands by Andrew Beattie - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Scottish Highlands by Andrew Beattie

Signal Books Ltd

A cultural history of the Scottish Highlands with stunning photographs.

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The Steel Bonnets: Story of the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
The Steel Bonnets: Story of the - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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The Steel Bonnets: Story of the

HarperCollins Publishers

The author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Cana...

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Tranter's Terrain , Michael Pritchard - East  Neuk Books Ltd
Tranter's Terrain , Michael Pritchard - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Tranter's Terrain , Michael Pritchard

Neil Wilson Publishing

This comprehensive companion details the recurring placenames which feature in Nigel Tranter's works. Over 200 places are listed alphabetically, wi...

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