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Latest Releases
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future. It took place on the other side of the world, amid the jungle-coastline at the junction between the continents of North…
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£17.99To find out where we are going, we sometimes need to find out where we came from. Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori Montagna, who is suffering from an acute identity crisis, wants to know more about her own past, and after doing a DNA test, she discovers…
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Hardback | Pub: 06 Aug 2026£12.00
The Darien Venture was the singular event at the end of the seventeenth century that fundamentally altered Scotland’s future. ‘A powerfully clear account . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in the colonial history of…
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Jul 2026£7.99Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish farms by brushing with water to reveal colour. The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.
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Paperback | Pub: 16 Jul 2026£7.99Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scottish castles by brushing with water to reveal colour. The book also features very short captions (around 10-15 words) to describe the various scenes.
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| Pub: 16 Jul 2026£9.99This notebook features a gorgeous cover with artwork by artist Louise Day. It contains lined paper, head-and-tail bands, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened. This cover design features the beautiful Rowan.
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| Pub: 16 Jul 2026£9.99This notebook features a gorgeous cover with artwork by artist Louise Day. It contains lined paper, head-and-tail bands, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened. This cover design features the beautiful Scottish Heather.
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£12.99
Join Robin Crawford on a personal journey from the source of the River Tay to the sea. With the widest catchment area of any river in Britain, the Tay drains much of the lower Highlands of Scotland. A vast network of lochs and smaller bodies of…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£10.99
A journey like no other. Acclaimed nature writer Neil Ansell has suffered from progressive hearing loss his whole life. As his world is becoming ever more silent, he suddenly hears something quite unexpected – the haunting call of the great…
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Diary | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£8.99This 112-pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.
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Diary | Pub: 02 Jul 2026£14.99This 112pp week-to-view diary features 33 stunning illustrations from wildlife artist Jane Smith including, birds, animals and plants set against magnificent scenery.
Current Bestsellers
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
A Working Mother is a perfectly crafted novel that will enthral, entertain and surprise in equal measure. Our unreliable narrator, Betty – arch, witty, clever – is married with children and feels trapped. While her husband, Adam, drinks and…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
‘It is dark now and my window onto the world is a small one. I do not know how much longer I will be here.’ Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction On 9 July 1857, Angus MacPhee, a labourer from Liniclate on the…
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Apr 2026£9.99
Emma Propeller is trying to swerve the wreckage of her marriage. When her husband returns from rehab with a new lover, Emma bolts with her baby on a midnight train to a castle in the Scottish Highlands. A job as a live-in driver for a glamorous…
Val McDermid and Jo Sharp Show Support for the Trans Community at Glasgow Pride
21 Jul ’26
The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller longlisted for the 2026 McIlvanney Prize
03 Jul ’26
Polygon Signs Two-Book Deal with Natalie Jayne Clark
29 May ’26
Escape into a Good Book – delivered right to your door!
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jan 2025£9.99
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize Death is a lonely business . . . No one who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen….
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Paperback | Pub: 04 Jun 2026£9.99
A lost Hitchcock film. A deadly secret. It’s murder in Hollywood. Hollywood, 1959. When struggling mystery writer Bobby Burgoyne is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on the script for his new film Crescendo, he thinks his future success is…
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Paperback | Pub: 07 May 2026£8.99
The building trade in the west of Scotland has slowed, and Mac leaves his home and his companions in the Paxton Arms for the oil-rich north to seek his fortune. But he soon finds himself out in the wilderness, chasing the promise of a job. In the…
