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Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar, whose hellfire and damnation sermons pushed the city o...

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pep Revolution For three extraordinary seasons at...

The first book to look at the lost heritage of Plymouth

An updated edition of the gazetteer of Scotch whiskey, with entries on new distilleries. Contains...

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Death is the inevitable fate of every single person on earth. How do we accept the inevitability ...

Presents George Mackay Brown's writings on many of the places, people, legends and seasons that f...

A biography of the author's uncles, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch,...

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A new edition of the biography looking at the life and career of SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, whic...

A fascinating mix of autobiography, essays and speeches by one of the most charismatic and eloque...

This book examines the role of religion in the story of Oliver Cromwell's invasion and subsequent...

The history of James Gillespie's high school.

From simple faith and active compassion, a single thought has mushroomed into a beacon of hope an...

Scotland has one of the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for un...

Voted 'The Best Scottish Book of All Time' and 'Scotland's Favourite Book'.

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During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland's champi...

A personal and revealing perspective of Russia by the acclaimed former BBC and 'Sunday Times' Mos...

Partly inspired by the real-life killings of prostitutes in Ipswich, this book features detective...

With essays by Anne Marzaroli, Jim Grassie, Robert Crawford and Peter Ross, this book celebrates ...

The wild plants of the British Isles have been providing essentials for people's lives since mank...

Forced into service at the age of fourteen, orphan Katie Mair must enter the bleak and cut off ho...

A dictionary of the Gaelic language. It is suitable for learners of Gaelic at different levels. I...

She is But a Woman, the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relati...

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Attractively illustrated with beautiful sketches of seasonal Western Island scenes. Firm Sale.

Widely hailed by enthusiasts as one of the most detailed reference books on the subject of Celtic...

In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long...

In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs f...

Love in all its forms is celebrated in this diverse and highly accessible poetry anthology with p...

What is England, and who are the English?The man who first posed and answered these questions liv...

Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to wo...

When the last inhabitants of St Kilda were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the...

Three homicidal maniacs. Two radioactive shoes. One body in a suitcase. When Dr David Cairney, a ...

Relive the battle for a nation.As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 En...

Witches in medieval fiction were linked with otherworlds - heaven, hell or fairyland. By the late...

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish En...

Winner of the Frank Watson Book PrizeThe legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as '...

Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1...

A secluded island. A murdered genius. A missing masterpiece. When troubled but talented young aut...

Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion' - Stephen ...

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The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentall...

Henry VIII is one of history's best-known characters and England's most famous monarch. Drawing o...