General Interest Books

New Historic Environment Scotland Publication  John R Hume is Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion was – and...

New Historic Environment Scotland Publication  ‘There have always been lighthouses in my life. There has been a closeness and steadiness to our rel...

Available together to purchase together for the first time, this bundle of our own bestselling publications is great for any avid book collector or...

For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time ...

Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffat, James Robertson and ...

Winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger Award  In Bloody Scotland, twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's buil...

Scotland’s vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination, but there is far more to Scottish history than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betrayal...

The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours – Scotland’s crown jewels – and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny....

As seen on TV! Prepare yourself for a journey into the skies above Scotland. In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the ...

HES holds the National Collection of aerial photography for Scotland with millions of images dating from the 1920s to the present day.  These photo...

Archaeologists Angela Gannon and George Geddes spent over 9 months living and working on St Kilda. They have been part of a team which has been res...

Over the past 10,000 years, every inch of Scotland has been shaped, changed and moulded by it's people. Scotland’s Landscapes tells the enduring st...

This comprehensive guide to the Small Isles – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings – takes readers on a tour of both place a...

The Dunimarle Collection is an exceptional collection of fine and decorative arts, assembled during the late 18th and 19th centuries. It includes p...

The Murray family played an important role in all the Jacobite rebellions. During 1715 the Duke of Atholl remained loyal to the Hanoverian governme...

The Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age, their society driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, and an enormous appetite for economi...

Athletics, bowling, cricket, curling, football, golf, Highland games, horse-racing, swimming and tennis are just some of the sports that saw a huge...

This compelling book tells the story of the First World War through Scotland's people and places. It explores the buildings where, one hundred year...

During restoration of St Vigeans Church in the 1870s, a collection of Pictish sculpture emerged, reused as building material. This collection, incl...

Known as Scotland's Cradle of Christianity, Whithorn was an important centre of worship and pilgrimage as early as the 5th century.  Roy Ritchie's ...

For for the first time, the story of the University and its buildings can be told through a wealth of never-before-published archive material, rang...

It is easy to overlook how much of our history is preserved all around us. The way the narrative of bygone days has been inscribed in fields, fores...

In this landmark book, Diane Watters looks at the history of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross. She traces the story of an architectural failure which ...

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive and beautiful, often highly pr...