The incredible story of Belle Stewart, one of Scotland’s most famous travellers and folk singers, written by her daughter. Includes a selection of the Stewarts’ songs and stories.   

Presenting the life and sayings of a 19th century packman, nicknamed for his passion for gun-powder. Farquhar dressed in rags ornamented with guns, pebbles, links of chain and scraps of paper, and led a vagabond life at a time when such travellers were often welcomed in the villages they visited.

This compelling biography untangles the truth from the mythology surrounding this determined and extraordinary man.

A team of leading historians and critics from both Scotland and England investigate what is known of medieval warrior William Wallace's career from contemporary sources, most of which, unusually for a national hero, were created by his enemies.

The name and writings of Hugh Miller, born in Cromarty in 1802, have always been and still are well known. Apart from an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, his wife, Lydia, born in Invemess in 1812, has remained undeservedly in obscurity. Now, in this book, she is at last brought on stage.

In 1930, the remnants of the proud, self-reliant population of St Kilda, were evacuated to the mainland. This is the story of the last days of remote island life.

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.

Rowena Farre’s simply powerful and touching autobiography is a moving insight into the private affectation of the raw Scottish Highlands on an unassuming girl. Seal Morning is a fascinating read of discovery and identity.

In this new edition, one of Scotland’s best known storytellers vividly recreates the world of the nomad which has now long since disappeared. Wiliamson provides a refreshing simplicity that contrasts to our modern, technologically-led and increasingly complex lives.

Continuing his anecdotal account of pastoral work, this book includes the shock and the pain of the Lockerbie disaster, but concentrates on life, love and humour in a rural ministry.

This is the story of Glentrium - a family estate. Enduring many changes in volatile times, Sandra Hall vivaciously and fondly depicts the many industrious adventures she embarks upon in order to enjoy and survive the realities of Highland life.

Neil Munro was regarded in his lifetime as the natural successor to Robert Louis Stevenson, and most widely known today for his great comic creation Para Handy, He was also a distinguished journalist and an important figure in British and especially Scottish literary circles of the first quarter of the twentieth century.

This is the amazing story of the cyclist who took on the world and rewrote the record books, a story that has been made into a major feature film starring Johnny Lee Miller and produced by Peter Broughan.

Born in Aberdeenshire in 1838, Thomas Blake Glover was a widely-travelled merchant and a key figure in the industrialisation of Japan.

What happened to Shirley could happen to anyone. Might you be the next person to pay the terrible price of innocence? A true story of persistence and endurance brought to the forefront of the Scottish political consciousness by a mere fingerprint.

This is the first book-length analysis of the Jacobite mind and it challenges the prevailing stereotypes about the kind of man who became a Jacobite.

Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer’s childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; laughter, tragedy and dramatic incident thread their way through the life of a growing boy and the lives of the people he observes. 

The murder of David Beaton lies like a great shadow over the Scottish Reformation and this is the first modern account of this great prince of the church.

Featuring new sections on the Wallace of literature and present-day perceptions, this book provides a more authentic picture of the greatest of Scotland’s heroes than has been previously available, placing the crude distortions and inaccuracies such as Braveheart in their proper context.

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date biography of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742­–1811) and his son Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771­–1851).

Betsy Whyte’s story is a unique description of a largely vanished way of life and the story of a people who have suffered much hardship and intolerance.

This selection of 180 [new] letters - destined to become another classic in the tradition of the Memorials - provides much fresh information about his career as advocate, judge, Whig activist, genial family man and pioneer in building conservation.

Fully illustrated throughout, the Merlin series is designed to provide introductions to key periods of Scottish history.

This is the personal story of Gavin Maxwell's boyhood, most of which he spent, in fact or in fancy, at the House of Elrig, a lonely, windswept house on the moorlands of Galloway.

The Voice of the Bard presents biographical portraits of fourteen poets and singers.

Unlike previous accounts of Celtic, this book discusses the tactics of the different historical periods, compares the players and managers of yesteryear with their modern counterparts and assesses the quality players in each generation.

In providing an all-round portrait of the man and his achievements, Michael Smith’s book places James Wordie in his rightful place amongst the greatest of British explorers.

This double volume covers Naomi Mitchison's Edwardian childhood in Oxford and Scotland, as well as the development of her very personal thoughts and ideas during her teenage years as she grew to womanhood.

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 well-researched biography of one of Britain’s best musicians renowned for his rock antics.

At the age of forty-seven Christian Watt began to write down recollections of her life; she continued until her death at the age of ninety in 1923. Her writings offer a vivid insight not only into the life of the north-east of Scotland during the middle and later part of the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth, but also on events of national and international interest. Previously privately published, this book has not been widely available for many years.

Part autobiography, part fiction, this is a beautifully written story of crofting life in the run up to the Second World War.

An extraordinary tale of surprising endeavours involving one man’s struggle to resuscitate two whisky distilleries from the brink of no return - Bruichladdich and Port Charlotte distilleries - on the small Hebridean island of Islay.

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.

George Mackay Brown wrote this beautiful and touching book in the years before his death in 1996. He did not want it published while he lived. An astonishing posthumous autobiography.

Janet Kennedy is the biography of a Scottish woman at court in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.     

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.

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

The striking autobiography of the prolific author Doris Davidson.

Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in Neil Munro’s lifetime, as well as a new story never previously published which was discovered in 2001.

The Hunt for Rob Roy investigates new and controversial sources that shake modern conceptions of a well-marked man.

Instantly recognisable wherever she goes, Winnie Ewing is one of the most influential Scotswomen of her generation.

This is the penultimate volume of Elizabeth Grant's vivid memoirs and diaries.

Walter Reid’s ground-breaking biography is the first study of Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available.

The Soap Man brings to light a little known civil war between crofter and laird, lower and upper class, on the isle of Lewis.

Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that she was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politician.

The Great Infidel gives a rounded picture of the man, the century in which he lived, his thought, and, above all, his humanity.

    

The Sea Wolf is the gripping biography of Thomas Cochrane, one of the most daring and brilliant naval commanders in British maritime history.

This is the tale of John MacLean - a rebel, a streetfighter, an international traveller, a seafarer - born from a sleepy Hebridean society. An extraordinary tale.

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.

Nine Against the Unknown is the story of nine great explorers; passionately written, the biographies are fascinating and revealing, the journeys dramatic and breathtaking.

An astonishing biography of a little-known Australian explorer.

From East Lothian to Wisconsin, this vivid yet subtle autobiography charts the journey across the pond and the trepid development of a child to an adult with an extraordinary natural talent.

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

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.

Throughout his lifetime, Angus MacLellan was regarded as one of Scotland’s finest traditional Gaelic storytellers - this definitive autobiography demonstrates his rich skill of the oral tradition.

Iain Thomson’s classic book vividly captures the splendour of one of Scotland’s most awesome landscapes that shaped his family’s life.

One of the world’s first global entrepeneurs, Sir Thomas Lipton’s life is one of fascination.

This is the first biography to be written of a man who can truly be said to have changed the face of British political life.

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