One of the greatest joys of entering into a bookstore is looking at used second hand books, going through the different sections and getting a sense for just how many books there are for the reading. Not being confined to one particular aisle gives you the feeling of being an adventurer, going through different realms in search of something lost but not entirely forgotten. Perhaps you’ll finger the spines until you find exactly what it was you were looking for.
Although East Neuk Books is an online store, we pride ourselves in being able to replicate this exact, wistful experience. While you can approach each of the different sections on their own, we also have a page full of various Scottish books for the taking. Mixed in of course with a number of other classics from around the British Isles, you’ll find here classics such as the Chronicles of Narnia mixed in with accounts of Ewan McGregor’s motorcycle memoirs, or texts on 19th century Scotland mingling with A.S. Byatt’s profoundly moving fiction.
No matter what your taste are, there’s always something to be had when drawn out from the great wealth of world (and Scottish!) literature. Here at Kingdom Books, we want to draw attention to how these interminglings and intersections produce some of the best thinking and the best art the world has ever seen. We hope that, by wandering through this section, you’ll start making some of these connections for yourselves. We like to think of Scotland as occupying a special place in the world, and its literature doubly so. And so by placing the very best all in one spot, mixed in as it were, we hope that you find something that speaks to you personally and deeply.
East Neuk Books is a store with a twist – we may exist on the internet, but we put love in all that we do. This is what makes us one of the best places to buy various books online, and we know that you’ll agree. Enjoy your next great read!
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Scotland's worst and most infamous murders: Includes accounts of the infamous Burke and Hare, cannibalistic Sawney Bean, child murderer Jessie King...
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This short book but interesting book is a brief introduction to the history of witchcraft in Scotland with particular focus on the witch hunts of t...
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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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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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A 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...
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An introduction to the medieval abbeys and priories of Scotland.
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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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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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An account of the mutinies in Highland regiments, beginning with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ending with the mutiny...
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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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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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A strong editorial team and the majority of Scotland's most distinguished historians have lent their talents to this major project: a landmark in S...
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This is the second volume of a distance-learning history of Scotland course running from January 1998. The successful completion of the course give...
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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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In 1857, the Tweed Fisheries Act made it illegal to fish for salmon in 50 square miles of open sea off the mouth of the River Tweed. A local school...
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In this guide, Arthur Stewart traces ten long distance routes offering the keen backpacker a wide range of options.
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The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland : The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots by Michae...
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Fraser writes about this beautiful area of Scotland with a style that will delight any historian or follower of social history; observing the detai...
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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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The author gives a vivid account of Scottish military history from the coming of the Romans to Scotland to the Battle of Culloden in 1746. There ar...
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An up-to-date, authoritative and accessible survey of Scottish history from the 10th century As perhaps at no other time in recent memory, Scottis...
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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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Born Yesterday: Memories of a Scottish Childhood by Douglas Sutherland. This autobiography is a memoir of a childhood spent in Scotland almost 70 y...
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A Dictionary of Scottish History, by Gordon Donaldson, Robert S. Morpeth This reference contains relevant information on Scottish history including...
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A Childhood in Scotland , is a memoir by Christian Miller originally published in 1981, and an autobiographical account of Christian Miller's depri...
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A Buchan Companion By Paul Webb. A Guide to the Novels and Short Stories is a book of Literary criticism of stories by Scottish author John Buchan...
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An updated handbook explains how to get started in researching one's family history on the Internet, describes useful online sources of and service...
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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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