In this new book by one of Britain’s foremost experts in mediaeval linguistics and history, Dr Graeme Davis counters popular historical belief by proposing that there was a Saxon settlement in both Orkney and Shetland during the fourth century AD.

A biography of an extraordinary man, this book also paints a remarkable portrait of the life and times of a beautiful part of Scotland from the late Victorian era to the middle of the twentieth century.

This book examines the changes that took place in the area during the period following the 1745 Jacobite uprising.

The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society, the first of its kind, was formed in 1881, ’for the practice or promotion of Scottish National Music, more especially Reel and Strathspey playing in the old Highland fashion’.

Charting the city’s literary past and present, this book is a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cultural capital as seen and recorded by writers through the centuries.

Lavishly illustrated in black and white and colour throughout, The Edinburgh New Town Gardens covers each the gardens in the centre of the city, from the large public spaces of Princes Street Gardens to the more intimate and secluded gardens of the elegant New Town crescents.

The story of one of the last of the great city reformations that took place all over Europe in the 16th century.

This is a major contribution to the literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and an extraordinarily lucid insight into Edinburgh during the most exciting and stimulating period of its history.

Iain Thomson mixes his own personal story with Scotland’s historical past in a melting-pot of ideas, snapshots and autobiographical accounts, which conjure up the vital past and continuing force of the elusive Highland spirit.

This is a political and intellectual biography of Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867), historian, social critic, criminal lawyer, and sheriff of Lanarkshire.

A worthy successor to the best-selling Para Handy. Meet Erchie Macpherson, waiter and Kirk Deacon, his wife Jinnet, and his friend Duffy, the coal merchant, three pawky characters, putting the world to rights in Edwardian Glasgow.

Escalator is Michael Gardiner’s stunning fiction debut. Sparsely written and beautifully observed, these stories resist cliché and overstatement, and refuse to judge their subjects, presenting a compelling glimpse under the skin of an enigmatic country.

Angus Watson’s Essential Gaelic–English and English–Gaelic dictionaries are well-established as one leading dictionaries of the Gaelic language.

A description of the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scottish language and Literature (Medieval and Renaissance).

An accessible and useful book which will be of benefit to all levels and ages of Gaelic learners. 
    

This is a new and updated edition of the bestselling title, now with an Audio CD to improve pronounciation and comprehension.     

A comprehensive revision and study guide to evidence and its role in cases. Part of the new Law Essentials series from Dundee University Press.

The quiz book based on Scotland’s most listened-to football phone-in radio show.

A startingly original tragicomedy based around a fictional Tibeto-Jewish refugee community in London.

In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the naturalist and ornithologist George Clayton Atkinson set out from Newcastle to explore Skye and the Outer Hebrides, including the remote island of St Kilda.