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Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish castles by brushing with water to reveal colour. The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.

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This sticker book is a stimulating and fun way for young children to learn about Scotland's amazing coast and seashore. As well as animals. birds and plants, there are stickers of boats and many of the activities people enjoy on the water, including swimming, sailing and fishing

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Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish farms by brushing with water to reveal colour.The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.

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This book is an enthralling journey through the year and the pageants, parades, festivals and fairs which have played a huge part in Scottish life. It introduces the customs, traditions, lore and crafts associated with them, making it the ideal companion for anyone interested in this fascinating and rich aspect of Scotland's cultural story.

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This sticker book is a stimulating and fun way for young children to learn about the animals and wildlife of Scotland. As well as flora and fauna, the stickers show many of the activities people like to do out in the wild, from kayaking and camping to walking and climbing.

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Names are very important and can unlock vast amounts of information about places and their origins. The placename of Scotland are a goldmine of information about times past and the lives of early inhabitants.This comprehensive book features more than 300 names and is an essential book for all interested in Scottish history and culture.

(Paperback, Reissue)

The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. From Lady Macbeth to Anne of Denmark, this collection of mini-biographies reveals the fascinating lives of these unusual women, who all found themselves at the helm of a kingdom.

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Christina MacDonald MacQueen was born on St Kilda and grew up there at the close of the 19th century. Before the islands' evacuations, she wrote a series of passionate articles about her childhood and the history of the islands. These writings offer a personal and uniquely female perspective on the island's story and its imminent abandonment.

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A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story about youth and desire, class and wealth, secrets and mistakes, sex and obsession.

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Take a deep breath and prepare for a journey through all twelve days of Yuletide with a cast of skaters skooshin, lassies birlin, sheep a-shooglin and the all-important five gowden rings.The stunningly beautiful illustrations bring this Scots version of the ever-popular Christmas song to life in vivid detail.

(Paperback, New in Paperback)

The Bone Caveis a vivid account of a month-long journey in the Scottish Highlands. Walking and occasionally hitching, Dougie Strang follows a series of folktales to the locations in which theyre set, encountering along the way a depth of meaning to them that allows him to engage with the landscape from a different perspective.

(Paperback, New in Paperback)

This is the story of two young women who meet in Ethiopia. Beautiful Sylvie is full of joy and hope, but all her dreams come crashing down after a disastrous childbirth leaves her hiding from the world. And feisty Juliet, a surgeon in London, whose demons force her on the run to Africa which proves to be a rollercoaster of an adventure.

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This is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most scholars of Hebridean culture, Making extensive use of Maragret Fay Shaw's own dairies letters and notebooks, this book celebrates the legacy and life of a remarkable woman, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Gaelic and island culture.

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In a darkening, post-COVID world, fearless investigative reporter Shona Sandison is seeking meaning and her next big story. A secret contact inside the government has promised her something huge, but she has no idea of the danger she is in.Philip Miller's new mystery depicts the reality of the modern fight against a looming state oppression.

(Hardback)

The Edge of Silence isa profoundly moving and poignant book that explores the author's hearing loss as he journeys in search of endangered British native species. Neil's journey takes him to the mountaintops and islands of the Scottish Highlands to the marshes of England and the hills of Wales.

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Full of seasonal and surprising facts about Christmas and Hogmanay, and stuffed with recipes, history, poems and carols, jokes and stories, this little book celebrates Scotland' unique connection with the festive season. The perfect Christmas gift, illustrated throughout with line drawings and black and white photographs.

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Unashamedly feel-good with plenty of humour, tinged with poignancy, this is the story of how Herb la Fouche, a good, quiet and unassuming man, comes up with a unique invention and ends up on the Caribbean island of Martinique where he meetsand marries Celine, the divorced sister of the local police chief, Alphonse Charbonneau.

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When a pair of dead bodies are discovered in their newly-purchased whisky distillery in Campbeltown, Eilidh and her wife, Morag, are plunged headlong a storm of murder, suspicion, intrigue and small town bureaucracy. This is a darkly comic crime debut for fans ofColumbo,Midsummer Murdersand John Dickson Carr.

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Whendecorated novelist Malcolm Furnivall is found brutally murdered in his study,and his invaluable unfinished novel missing, it falls to his protege - atroubled but talented young author named Euan - toventure deep into Malcolm's labyrinthine mansion to find the manuscript before it falls into the wrong hands.

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From the winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. In 1930, the killing of a Soho prostitute is hardly a priority for Scotland Yard. But when a second, similar murders soon come to light, everything changes. Cuthbert and his team find themselves in a nightmarish world of people-trafficking, prostitution and drug use amongst the upper classes.

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Widely regarded as Munro's best historical novel, this is a gripping tale of high adventure, murder and mystery

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Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want. Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals,plunging herself into a murky, backstabbing world of threats, conspiracy and murder.

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Edinburgh, 1984. Six students are facing the end of an academic year, preparing to go their separate ways in a changing world. Years later, they meet for a reunion, for what may well betheir last evening together. It soon becomes clear to all that sometimes you have to let go of the past. You take away its lessons, but you let the rest go.