Based on detailed research of local and national records, this book follows the development of the Royal Burgh of Tain.

Tales Until Dawn is an extraordinary collection of texts recorded from the lyrical and adept Gaelic speaker Joe Neil MacNeil. Translated by John Shaw, this book truly captures the breadth and richness of the Gaelic speaking community which covers and records many genres and subjects in this comprehensive collection.

Tales and Traditions of the Lews is a marvellous pot pourri of local history, myth and legend from prehistoric times to the present day; it brings alive the island of Lewis in a way few other histories can.

First published in 1928, the personal account of John Wilson’s experiences is both compassionate and humorous, providing a valuable insight into the social and educational conditions of the Gaelic Highlands and Islands.

This omnibus edition of Christina Hall’s memoirs brings together her two books, To the Edge of the Sea and Twice around the Bay.

This is the story of a war between a hostile London government and an army of cottage whisky-makers, mostly in the Highlands of Scotland, illustrating the indomitable spirit of the Highlander and the importance of Whisky in Scottish culture.

Tales of the Morar Highlands is a book packed with extraordinary incident and remarkable characters, from mysterious loch monsters and fugitive princes to lords, priests and smugglers as well as the ordinary people who have made Morar, the ’Highland of the Highlands’ their home for thousands of years.

Spanning a century, this book investigates Scotland’s contribution to military flying in Britain.

The Tartan Pimpernel is the remarkable autobiography of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion in 1940. A true story of heroism and sacrifice in occupied France during the Second World War. 
    

Anna Blair recreates a bygone era through the recollections of countless Glaswegians who shared their memories with her during extensive interviews.

Edited by his son, this illustrated autobiography of John Logie Baird covers the wild escapades of his early career and the dramatic pioneering days when he transmitted the very first television pictures.

In the decade since Terry Farrell and Partners founded their office in Scotland, three major buildings and two public squares have been designed and constructed in the capital. This book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, explores the philosop

That’s Fourpence You’re Eating! takes the reader back to another period, recounting a middle-class upbringing in Victorian and Edwardian Perth and Edinburgh.

Amanda Beam offers an alternative perspective to the Balliols who have continuously been cast as weak and ineffectual throughout Scottish history. Beam provides an interesting insight and removes any misconceptions.

The first biography for eighteen years of one of Scotland’s greatest domestic and international players and now a popular TV and radio pundit.

A long-awaited re-issue of a continual classic originally published in 1881.

The reign of James VI (1567–1625) remains one of the most enigmatic in Scottish history. There are long periods within it which resemble black-holes in our knowledge.

The Reivers is an extraordinary book which tells the historical tale of a land that was at all times no-man’s-land but a land over which blood was shed on both sides of an invisible border.

Here is the first complete edition of Alfred Barnard’s writing, which incorporates How to Blend Scotch Whisky and two other books by this author. The whisky ‘bible’ for the connoisseur.

This is the extraordinary story of Theoderic the Goth, a man who rose to the equal of Emperors, who raised his people to a pinnacle of power and wealth. It is a story that spans Europe, from the intrigues and wiles of Constantinople to the battlefields of the future France, from North Africa to the Balkans.

A supernatural mystery based on the Clydebank Blitz and written for 9–12 year old readers. Pete's whole family has suddenly and unexpectedly moved from London to Scotland and in their new house he hears unexplained voices. He meets new friends in the abandoned air raid shelter in the back garden but gradually realises that all is not as it seems.

Scapa Flow is known worldwide. In two world wars it was the northern base which sheltered ships of the Royal Navy and Allied fleets from both storm and enemy attack. This book tells a fascinating history of a little seaway in the furthest reaches of Scotland's coast.

The Thistle is the unlucky local football team of Drumsagart, a drab industrial town in Lanarkshire. When the team’s luck begins to change, the whole town unites to support them.

A powerful and perceptive semi-autobiographical novel, which captures the true spirit of a traditional fishing community in the very north of Scotland's isolated coasts.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic adventure story offers a dreamlike vision of prehistoric life and opens up new vistas to the imagination. This is a classic science-fiction tale from the 1930s, with an introduction by Ian Campbell.

Ronald Frame’s deceptively gentle writing spins a taut web of desire, betrayal and loss as his characters play out their roles in the intimate and claustrophobic amphitheatre of Carnbeg.

A Time to Keep is George Mackay Brown’s second volume of short stories inspired by both ancient and modern life on the island of Orkney.

To War with the Black Watch is a sharp, witty and moving insight into Scots–Italian relations in the latter part of the Second World War.

A highly entertaining and informative accountof Scotland’s culture and character in the eighteenth century as told by two of Britain’s most notorious men of literature.

Today Tomorrow is a celebration of the life and work of poet George Bruce, bringing together all the poems from previous collections, uncollected poems previous to Sea Talk (1944) and uncollected poems after the publication of Pursuit:

One of the definitive pieces of travel writing from the period, charting Thomas Pennant’s second trip to Scotland.

The guide provides an authoritative survey of the vast range of material held in the National Archives of Scotland—dealing with houses, streets, estates and farms, administrative divisions of Scotland as well as schools, businesses and recreational activities.

In presenting the full story of Bristol’s involvement in the slave trade, as well as its subsequent demise, Victoria Coules’ original and timely book shows how port cities around Britain profited from the slave trade.   

A new and revised edition of a most popular book that captures in words and pictures the unique atmosphere of Edinburgh's northern borders.

A study of social change in Scotland covering a wide range of issues including agrarian economy, evolution of tenant farming and landlordism.

This is a touching story about love, both human and divine. Leila Aboulela’s debut Polygon novel is a captivating read.

Winner of 2007 Dundee International Book Prize

As a child Arabella Cordon idolises her Father, but his enthusiasm is reserved for steam engines, motorcycles and Margaret Thatcher.

On the day Thatcher comes to power, Arabella’s life changes irrevocably. Alone and adrift in London, she takes a job as a striptease artist in Soho. She is determined to leave the past behind but her identity and survival seem inextricably linked to her childhood and the question of what a father is.                

’an excellent and ground-breaking book’ – Times Literary Supplement

A remarkable collection of Scotland’s first 800 years of literature.

Welcome reissue of a book that has reprinted 5 times and sold more than 10,000 copies.

An inspiring narrative of one man’s exploration within the fringes of the arctic circle. A truly unique perspective.

For the first time, a full canon of twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic verse is available in one handsome volume.

This is the story of a very particular and quaint way of life now lost to mechanisation. Tales of a happy, nostalgic fondness from the wife of a lighthouse keeper.

A-format edition of the first novel from Allan Guthrie, one of crime fiction’s toughest new writers.    

This is the first edition of Allan Guthrie's debut novel which won The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007.