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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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Mhairi Livingstone
An t-Oban

This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning 'the little bay' in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today…

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Catriona M. M. MacDonald
For the Good of the People

In 1901 Andrew Carnegie founded an educational trust in Scotland to make its universities more available to the country's 'deserving and qualified youth', to improve their status, and to extend research. …

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Catriona M. M. MacDonald
The Caledoniad

Scottish history as shaped by authors and elites, not merely recorded, reveals how voices were decided, silenced, and reimagined to form a collective past and identity.Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book…

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Fiona J. Mackenzie
The Cadence of a Song

Margaret Fay Shaw's dedication to Hebridean tradition reshaped how Gaelic songs and island life are understood today.Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.The first biography of one of the twentieth …

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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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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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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 Isle of Good Karma

As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime. From one of the world's favourite authors comes a beautifully atmospheric novel set in the Hebrides and Nepal about having the courage to make a change late in lif…

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

This is the complete story of Scotland's remarkable landscape.Scotland is justly famed for its magnificent scenery - mountains, lochs, islands, wild rocky places and sandy beaches. All this is evidence of…

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Alistair Moffat
Bannockburn

On Bannockburn, eight thousand Scottish spearmen clash with eighteen thousand English forces as dawn breaks over two dramatic days that sealed Scotland's independence and reshaped history.Relive the battl…

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Alistair Moffat
Glasgow: A New History

Scotland's largest city has always been one of the most vibrant, varied and fascinating places in the country.This new history of Glasgow begins with the river, for the Clyde made the city flourish. From …

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Alistair Moffat
To See Ourselves

Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now entirely different from what it was like when Alistair Moffat grew up in the quiet Border town of Kelso in the 195…

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Christine Muir
Orkney Days

Orkney Days captures the rhythms of island life on North Ronaldsay through twenty-five years of family farming, seasonal observation, and intimate natural and cultural details that foreground a distant, e…

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