Raasay forms part of the parish of Portree, Skye. This book is the only history of Raasay currently available, and traces the island’s story from the medieval period into the twentieth century.

A fascinating compendium of facts and a superb tribute to the men who have brought skills, thrills and glory to Rangers Football Club in the modern era.

Both a sequel and a parallel to Children of the Dead End, The Rat Pit tells the tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl Norah Ryan against poverty at the turn of the century.

The early postwar decades witnessed a national reconstruction drive of unpre-cedented vigour - a revolution in architecture and building, whose uncompromising Modern monuments still dominate our towns and cities.

This book is a charming yet insightful memoir of a bygone way of life. From it emerges a detailed picture of fisherfolk and fishing: their boats, methods of fishing, life and customs. The result is a valuable and vivid record of what was a central part of Scotland’s fishing industry.

Long awaited, this book will be welcomed by a vast range of readers, especially those who share Eric Cregeen's enthusiasm for approaching the history of the Highlands with a mind alert to the claims of oral tradition.

Although best known as one of Scotland’s greatest modern poets, Iain Crichton Smith was also prolific as a writer of short stories. Here in one volume is a comprehensive collection demonstrating the versatility of Crichton Smith’s range.

Betsy Whyte was a gifted, natural storyteller and this remarkable memoir brings to life her joys and sorrows - the bitter and sweet ’red rowans’ and ’wild honey’ - in a way that no work of the imagination can.

This definitive work details the commissioning of regiments, recruitment, individual military careers, and the disbanding of units.

Alistair Moffat presents to us the definitive book regarding a land and its people which once witnessed continuous and fierce sparring from both side of the Scottish-English divide.

A Scots GP flies with Search and Rescue helicopters to many spectacular and tragic incidents.

Dr Walker's report gives us a last opportunity to see the basis of the old island economy and the life and conditions of the inhabitants.

A passionate defence of the importance to the Scottish educational tradition of a philosophical and generalist approach.

This volume continues the story begun in The Scottish Revolution of the Covenanters' sudden rise to power, but how their soaring ambitions and religious zeal in the end led Scotland to an unparalleled disaster.

Sport has always been a central part of the leisure of the Scots. Riot, Revelry and Rout follows its history from the time of James IV until the early years of Victoria's reign.

The Road to Drumnafunner is a journey through the secret history and legends of North-east Scotland. Beginning at Drumnafunner Farm, where the Donald family lived and where the poet Charles Murray – ’Hamewith’ – walked over the moors to school, the road winds its way through many intriguing places, uncovering the stories and characters associated with them.

Follow Rob’s quest through glens, dungeons and river rapids as his enemies close in for the kill . . . Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.

For the first time, over fifty of Robbie Shepherd’s Press and Journal Doric columns have been brought together in one collection, with superb illustrations by Graham MacLennan.

The first popular biography for 40 years and an enthralling read. Colm McNamee is an expert on the Irish dimensions of the Wars of the Bruces.

Join Burns’s quest to rescue a lost musical treasure - and get chased by ghouls as he explores the dark side of life. Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.

Originally published in 2000 by Polygon to mark the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s birth, this new edition contains all Fergusson’s finest poems in both Scots and English, and features a new introductory essay, revised orthography, a substantial section of notes and a glossary.        

Robert Garioch was one of Scotland's most distinctive poetic voices. Born in Edinburgh in 1909, he was educated at the university there, and subsequently embarked on a teaching career, writing poetry in his free time.

A real-life adventure packed with historical facts about Scotland’s warrior king. Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.

The latest in a series of guides to historic sites and monuments in Scotland, providing comprehensive narrative, gazateers and maps.

This book offers an enthralling trail through the rich tapestry of events witnessed by Rosslyn over the centuries. Andrew Sinclair, himself descended from Prince Henry St Clair.

A complete and comprehensive history of the ever mysterious yet famous Rosslyn Chapel.

The Rough Wooings fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of Mary Queen of Scots were wars as intense, wide ranging and devastating as the wars of the three Edwards which ravaged fourteenth century Scotland. All for one of the

Royal commemorative mugs and beakers must be the most popular of all the small antiques and collectables ever to take pride of place in our homes.

An extensive historical guide to Rum - one of Scotland's most well-known of the Hebridean Islands.

Evan Mawdsley's lucid account of this vast and complex subject explains in detail the power struggles and political manoeuvres of the war, providing a balanced analysis of why the Communists were victors.