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Roger Hutchinson
Island of Roe Deer

This is the story of the Hebridean island of Raasay from the time of the hunter-gatherers to the 21st century. It is dramatic tale which includes Irish missionaries, Viking invaders, the medieval Lordship…

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Gregory J. Kenicer
Scottish Plant Names: An A-Z

Scottish plant names reveal Scotland's rich botanical heritage through diverse languages, histories, and cultural meaning.Names are incredibly powerful things and are a crucial part of the way we see and …

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Penny Kiley
Atypical Girl

Punk's Liverpool origins shape Penny Kiley's lifelong quest for identity through music and misfit resilience.It's 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary Eric's club is home to the city'…

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Hannah Lavery
Everything Everyday

Everything Everyday is a poetic journal of the year that charts winter through to autumn in a richly textured sequence of diary-poems, lyric fragments and a crown of sonnets.Each month's entry weaves toge…

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Diana Leitch
Islay Scenes

Neolithic farmers, iron age settlers, clan dynasties and, in the 20th century, the infrastructure of war all left their mark on Islay, but the way the island looks and works today stems primarily from the…

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Catriona M. M. MacDonald
The Caledoniad

Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book PrizeWhy did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical …

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Fiona J. Mackenzie
The Cadence of a Song

The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw's passion for the Hebrides led her to the island of South Uist in 1929 and then to Canna in 1935 as the wife of the eminent folklorist John Lorn…

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Graeme Macrae Burnet
Benbecula

Darkland Tales

On the 9th of July 1857, a twenty-five-year-old labourer named Angus MacPhee bludgeoned to death his parents and aunt in the crofting community on the remote Hebridean island of Benbecula.Five years later…

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Graeme Macrae Burnet
Benbecula

Darkland Tales

'It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.'On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the island of Benbecula, murdered his…

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Alexander McCall Smith
Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream

44 Scotland Street

"It's like ice cream, Mr Flynn," Bertie continued. "When you have ice cream, you need to eat it straight away, otherwise it melts. If there are people who haven''t got any, you should share…

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Alexander McCall Smith
Looking for You

The Perfect Passion Company

What if you met the person you were destined to be with? And what if you never saw them again . . . ?There's a new case for the Perfect Passion Company. After a serendipitous meeting in a supermarket, Cle…

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Alexander McCall Smith
McCall Smith, A: Pavilion in the Clouds

A brand new stand-alone novel from Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds is a beautifully evocative story, set mostly in 1930s Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). This atmospheric novel, set in …

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Alexander McCall Smith
Pianos and Flowers

In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are im…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Prime of Bertie Pollock

To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from. Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own pa…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Private Side of Friendship

Featured on BBC Radio 4's Take Four BooksSix friends. One city. The time of their lives. It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon s…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Private Side of Friendship

Featured on BBC Radio 4's Take Four BooksSix friends. One city. The time of their lives. It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon s…

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Alexander McCall Smith
The Winds from Further West

After a throw-away comment lands him in a difficult situation, Dr Neil Anderson's principles are put to the test. He ultimately leaves his job, his partner, and Edinburgh far behind for the seclusion and …

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Alexander McCall Smith
Trains and Lovers

A heart-warming stand-alone novel about trains and love! McCall Smith weaves a tale of four strangers who meet on a train. They have one thing in common - they have all been in love. They all have very di…

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Molly McElwee
Building Champions

Tennis is one of the only sports in which women have consistently played on the same stage as men for the past 50 years, creating their own culture and narrative. Building Champions explores the complex, …

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Alan Mckirdy, John Gordon, Roger Crofts
Land of Mountain and Flood

Scotland is justly famed for its magnificent scenery - mountains, lochs, islands, wild rocky places and sandy beaches. All this is evidence of an exciting geological history which began 3,500 billion year…

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