Scottish Books

Scottish Books

Scottish Books

Scottish Books

Scotland and Scottish interest books, historical and modern, photographic and scenic to walking guides, famous Scots and kings and queens and history. The Duke of Edinburgh meets our Annie in the image.

BLACK WIDOW
CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE    Book Number: 91327
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback

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Cutting between a courtroom trial and the events surrounding it, you will be racing through to the final tense pages, full of betrayal, revenge and shocking revelations in this Jack Parlabane thril...
REGIONAL TRAMWAYS: Scotland
PETER WALLER    Book Number: 91734
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback

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Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Trams, Glasgow and Preservation, this big glamorous volume concentrates on the big city systems that survived WWII. It provides a comprehensive narrative det...
SCOTTISH VERSE TO LANDSCAPE DVD
KEN GREY & ROD RODRIGOS    Book Number: 91845
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Unknown

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Take in the dramatic and contrasting beauty of Scotland and experience both the traditional and popular poetry in verse while immersing yourself in images of peaceful lochs, beautiful trees, reflec...
BRITISH STEAM IN SCOTLAND DVD
DIRECTED BY JEREMY ENGLISH    Book Number: 91967
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Unknown

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The mountains of the Highlands and the shores of the Lowlands provides some of the most glorious railway images north of the Border. Steam railway has been part of Britain's heritage for 200 years...
SCOTLAND ACROSS THE BORDER: BELLAMY'S WILD BRITAIN DVD
BRENDAN QUAYLE    Book Number: 91976
Bibliophile price: £6.75
Product format: Unknown

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We travel north of the border into bonnie Scotland with our irrepressibly enthusiastic narrator and naturalist, David Bellamy. He explores from ground and air the natural environments of Britain's...
BENEATH TROUBLED SKIES: Poems of Scotland at War 1914-1918
EDITED BY LIZZIE MACGREGOR    Book Number: 92198
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback

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In collaboration with Sir Hew Strachan and the First World War historian Yvonne McEwen, editor Lizzie MacGregor in compiling this book reflects a longstanding interest in Scottish poetry in the fir...
STORM
ELISABETH MCNEILL    Book Number: 92217
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback

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A Scottish saga based on true events. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her...
STUDENTS OF HOSPITALFIELD
PEGGY BEARDMORE    Book Number: 92218
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback

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Sub-titled 'Education and Inspiration in 20th Century Scottish Art', this is the first dedicated study of the fascinating transformation of a private home into an art college. For over half a cent...
SCOTT-LAND: The Man Who Invented a Nation
STUART KELLY    Book Number: 92333
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback

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A BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, part biography, part literary criticism, part exploration of Scottish identity, this is by far the best book on Sir Walter Scott. No writer has ever been as famo...
GATHERING: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH    Book Number: 92978
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback

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A personal journey through the landscape of Scottish poetry, some poems are well known, others less familiar, but all are private gems that Alexander McCall Smith feels should be more widely shared...
SUPREME SACRIFICE: A Small Village And The Great War
WALTER REID    Book Number: 92938
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Paperback

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From the Prologue: 'These men were, as Shakespeare had put it, 'but warriors for the working day'. Much can be learned from them: not least we learn the awfulness of war. They never questioned the ...
EDINBURGH IN THE GREAT WAR
DEREK TAIT     Book Number: 93221
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.75
Product format: Paperback

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What became known as the Great War began on 4th August 1914. It triggered a wave of patriotism. Scotland led the way with 320,589 men voluntarily enlisting before conscription began in 1916. Sco...
DEADLOCK: A Bob Skinner Mystery
QUINTIN JARDINE    Book Number: 92234
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Paperback

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Hostile takeovers, government-sanctioned killing, extortion and the seedier side of publishing, this is a novel with an ingenious twist and turn. Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising. After retir...
CROMWELL AGAINST THE SCOTS: The Last Anglo-Scottish War
JOHN D. GRAINGER    Book Number: 93384
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states. He narrates in detail the events following...
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' SECRETARY: William Maitland
ROBERT STEDALL    Book Number: 93403
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £9.50
Product format: Hardback

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Politician, academic, traveller, reformer and conspirator, William Maitland of Lethington was the most able diplomat and enigmatic personality during the lifetime of Mary Queen of Scots, establishi...
SUNSET SONG
LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON    Book Number: 93425
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback

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Handsome hardback edition of one of the most cherished Scottish novels of the 20th century. Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. Born...