History & General Interest Books

In The Healing Power of Plants, discover plants that will clean the air you breathe, help you get a good night’s sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, ...

A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume publication covers Scotland’s foremost expert on industrial heritage. John’s greatest passion wa...

The Highest Apple / An Ubhal as Àirde is the first comprehensive anthology of the Gaelic literature of Scotland, from the early Middle Ages to the ...

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

Midhope and more is a 68 page book of illustrations and memories from 10 Outlander filming locations, in and around Edinburgh. Created in conjuncti...

Follow in the footsteps of Jamie and Claire with this guide to the inspiring locations where the Outlander novels were set and the tv show was film...

In Who Built Scotland, experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair Moffa...

In Victorian Scotland learn that Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age. Their society was driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, and...

The Small Isles is a comprehensive guide illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings. It takes readers on a tour of both place and ...

Using stunning photography Scotland's Sporting Buildings brings the special interest of these sites and structures to life for the first time in a ...

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...

Scotland’s vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination, but there is far more to Scotland's History than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betray...

Scotland's First World War tells the story of the war through Scotland's people and places. It explores the buildings where, one hundred years ago,...

In Hunting Picts: Medieval sculptures at St Vigeans, Angus Volumes 1 and 2, learn that during restoration of St Vigeans Church in the 1870s, a coll...

In Bloody Scotland, twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are by turns grip...

A History of Scotland’s Landscapes Hardback explores the many ways that we have used, adapted and altered our environment over thousands of years. ...

Technical Reference Series: Saracen Foundry volumes 1 & 2. This is the first of a number of Technical Reference books to be produced by the Tec...

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....

In The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories, learn that there are strange relics hidden across Scotland’s landscape. Forgotten ...

The Poetry of Robert Burns features some of Scotland's best loved poems. This new paperback anthology brings together The Bard's great wit, sentime...

In The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way, learn about coorie, the Scottish version of hygge - a term for warm, cosy and comfortable...

In St Kilda The Last and Outmost Isle, archaeologists Angela Gannon and George Geddes spent over 9 months living and working on St Kilda. They have...

A new handbook sized edition of Spirit of Place: Whisky distilleries of Scotland, a wide-ranging and evocative portrait of Scotland's distilleries,...