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Mike Daniels
Locked Antlers

With its natural predators long exterminated, huge deer populations controlled by landowners - largely for their own private interests - have had far-reaching environmental impacts. Despite efforts by con…

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Fiona Anne Downie
She is But a Woman

She is But a Woman , the first in-depth study of medieval Scottish queens, investigates the relationship between gender and power in the medieval Scottish court by exploring the art of queenship as practi…

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Tom Doyle
Man on the Run

Man on the Run paints an illuminating picture: from McCartney's nervous breakdown following the Beatles' split through his apparent victimisation by the authorities to the rude awakening of his imprisonme…

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David Duff
Sunset on Hibs

David Duff was Chairman of Hibernian at the most extraordinary time in the club's history, when in 1990, Wallace Mercer, then Chairman of Hearts, pushed for a merger of the two clubs. Sunset on Hibs unvei…

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Andrew Fleming
The Gravity of Feathers

When the last inhabitants of St Kilda were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at 'the edge of the world' lost its permanent population after five millennia. This book tells the absorbing and eventful stor…

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Richard Frazer
The Strength Within

From simple faith and active compassion, a single thought has mushroomed into a beacon of hope and fulfilment. This is the inspiring story of the amazing ways in which the lives of people on the streets o…

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Allan Gaw
The Last Gifts to the Dead

The Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries

A brutal murder, a complex investigation, a safe conviction. Or so everyone thinks until D.C.I. Mowbray hears the condemned man's last words just before he is hanged. Now he needs Dr Jack Cuthbert to reop…

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Allan Gaw
The Shadows and the Dust

The Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries

When the body of a young boy is found in the grounds of a church orphanage, pathologist Dr Jack Cuthbert not only has to steel himself for the task ahead, he is also forced to revisit his own childhood gr…

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Allan Gaw
To the Shades Descend

The Dr Jack Cuthbert Mysteries

Glasgow, 1931. After a devastating crime, Dr Jack Cuthbert finds himself working at the intersection between rising British fascism, anti-Semitism and the infamous Glasgow razor gangs. To solve the case, …

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sunset Song

Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!'Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But…

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Robert J. Harris
Crescendo

Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is assured at last. Instead he is…

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Robert Hay
Monks and Bishops

The Isle of Lismore has a long reputation as a holy island, beginning with the foundation of a monastery by St Moluag in the sixth century. Robert Hay tells the story of Moluag's monastery, recently redis…

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John Hunter
A Companion to the Small Isles

This book is the essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Inner Hebridean islands of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna, known collectively as the Small Isles. As well as focusing on his…

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

Names are incredibly powerful things and are a crucial part of the way we see and classify the world around us. Plant names are especially fascinating in this respect. Some are simply descriptive or speak…

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Penny Kiley
Atypical Girl

It's 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary Eric's club is home to the city's rebels, posers and misfits. It's a place of attitude, adventure and new possibilities, and it changes lives…

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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 tog…

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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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