CATEGORY: Biography and Autobiography
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A Quiet Life
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A Light Walk
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Famous Last Words: Two Centuries of Obituaries from the ‘Scotsman’
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Bred in the Highlands: Ponies, Cattle and Folk
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Voices from War…and Some Labour Struggles: Personal Recollections of War in Our Century by Scot…
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In Love and in Laughter: Portrait of Robert Mackie
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Finding Peggy: A Glasgow Childhood
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The Films of Sean Connery
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Flora MacDonald: The Most Loyal Rebel
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Nairn in Darkness and Light
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Come Dungeons Dark: Life and Times of Guy Aldred, Glasgow Anarchist
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Tea at Miss Cranston’s: Century of Glasgow Memories
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William Wallace: Man and Myth
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Freedom Found
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In Search Of Willie Patterson
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A Wee Guide To William Wallace
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18 Bookshops
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Alexander McQueen
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A Wee Guide To The Jacobites
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Hamish Henderson
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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David Robinson Reviews: Solitary Agents by David Goodman
‘This is very much an up-to-the-minute story of spycraft, positively revelling in all the things tha …
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The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
‘It is their resistance to the intrusions of the outside world − culturally, economically, environme …
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The Shortest History of Scotland: A Q & A with Murray Pittock
‘We need to be better aware of that to understand the challenges and achievements of the past, and t …
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David Robinson Interviews: John Lister-Kaye
‘I enjoy stillness. It creeps up on you and becomes almost a force. I’ve had squirrels run over my f …
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Spring 2026 Round Up of Scots & Gaelic Releases
‘Discover Jansson’s uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure.’
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Walking Edinburgh’s Lost Railways By Robin Howie and John McGregor
‘In earlier times it was a site where lovers came to relax and dream, hence the beautiful traditiona …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
David Torrance
David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library and a widely published historian of Scottish and UK politics. He has written unauthorised biographies of SNP politicians Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, as well as the biog …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Saraband
Saraband is a creative independent publisher known for its engaging, well-written and beautiful non-fiction titles (especially in nature, history and memoir), and for its emerging literary and crime fiction lists. The crime, mystery and noir titles are …