In The Year the World Went Mad, Professor Mark Woolhouse, advisor to the Scottish and UK governments, gives his account of the pandemic period, explains what was done wrongly and why, and warns that pandemics will recur.
Dr Mungo Lyon is recruited by the Crown to investigate a shipwreck and murder in the Scotland of 1829. His adventures lead him on a pursuit across the Scottish countryside, kidnap and treason, an unwanted trip to the West Indies, insurrection and falling in love.
WW1 is over. As a nurse at the front, Clementine has found and lost love, but has settled for middle class marriage. Vincent had half his face blown off, and wants more than life offers... Læs mere
In Come By The Hills, Cameron McNeish shares his journeys through Scotland on foot, by bike and in his wee red campervan. He takes us into the loveliest of glens, Etive and Lyon, and to the most distant islands in the Hebrides and Shetland.
The red deer, majestic monarch of the glen, is Britain’s largest land mammal and undisputed king of woodlands and glens. Yet to some, red deer are seen... Læs mere
In The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland, Clifton Bain has completed a journey around our most spectacular natural areas and unites his vast conservation experience with detailed accounts, maps, and strikingly beautiful imagery.
The Adventure Game is the story of Keith Partridge's life told through several expeditions ranging from the deep caves of Papua New Guinea to the summit of Mount Everest. It is illustrated throughout with stunning photography.
Evie is a near-perfect bioengineered human. In a broken-down future England where her kind has been outlawed, her ‘husband’ Matthew keeps her hidden. When her existence is revealed, she must take her chances on the dark and hostile streets.
Following the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, C.J. Schüler charts the origins of amber, the myths and legends that have grown around it, and the dazzling artefacts crafted from it and traded along the way.
18 Bookshops form a life as well as a review of memories, history, and universal affections.
Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. Published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s. Jane and Dorothy compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds.