The fiddle has long played an important part in Scottish musical tradition: here are lively stories that reflect that importance.

The inimitable humour of the Highlander through the ages.

Journey back to the dark ages where the throne is splattered in blood and death lurks in every corner. Chilling and gory Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining.

This new edition of Made in Scotland features the stories behind a wide number of the best-known household names that originated in Scotland. It is a fascinating and nostalgic journey into the past and a wonderful celebration of Scottish industry.

One of the world’s first global entrepeneurs, Sir Thomas Lipton’s life is one of fascination.

In this fascinating book, Dane Love uncovers a strange collection of tales of devious fraudsters and curious hoaxes.

Blood-spattered Scottish history at its most wickedly entertaining. Crowned with exciting illustrations, this book is a heartbreaking royal romance that will leave you laughing your head off. One of eight volumes of the 'And All That' series.

This is an essential short introduction to a man who is a byword for poetic awfulness, as well as providing a fascinating snapshot of Victorian Scotland.

This readable yet informative book explores the castles of Hebridean myth.

The first substantial social history of mineworkers in Scotland to encompass the entire span of commercial mining, from its origins in the Middle Ages to the extinction of deep coal mining.

After his passing, Ray Ward’s son discovered his father’s memoirs of the Second World War in the basement of their family home. The Mirror of Monte Cavallara is a very personal, poignant and revealing account.

Moleskin Joe is one of Patrick MacGill's most memorable of characters. Humourous, poignant and vivid, Moleskin Joe is an unmissable read.

Set in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War and after the death of her father, Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. The impressionable Renee begins to form unusual attachments and romantic self-illusions which only spurs a cycle of self-effacement. A subtle treatment of human relationships during a time of flux.

This is the first serious history ever written of one of the most beautiful and most visited of Hebridean islands.

This collection of photographs of the island of Mull and its neighbouring isles forms part of a new and exciting series of images of Scotland’s most beautiful scenery taken by some of its finest photographers.

Murdo Macrae is one of the most extraordinary and fascinating of Iain Crichton Smith’s literary creations.

This book is a history of the small town of Cromarty, north of Inverness at the tip of the Black Isle peninsula. Although it has less than 750 inhabitants, Cromarty is viewed by its residents as a town rather than a village, which reflects the settlement’s beginnings as a royal burgh and its days as a leading port for the northern Highlands.