CATEGORY: The Environment
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Ploughing a New Furrow: A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming
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A Last Wild Place
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Gavin Maxwell: A Life
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Taming the Flood: Rivers, Wetlands and the Centuries-Old Battle Against Flooding
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The Story of my Boyhood and Youth: An early years biography of a pioneering environmentalist
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Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature
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A Handbook of Scotland’s Wild Harvests: The Essential Guide to Edible Species with Recipes & Plants for Natural Remedies, and Materials to Gather for Fuel, Gardening & Craft
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The Life of Buzzards
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The Landscape Below – Soil, soul and agriculture
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Otters of the World
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On the Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands
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Recycling Our Future: A Global Strategy
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A Saga of Sea Eagles
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The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland: A Traveller’s Guide
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The New Northwest Passage: A Voyage to the Front Line of Climate Change
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US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday
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A Handbook of Scotland’s Wild Harvests: The Essential Guide to Edible Species, with Recipes & Plants for Natural Remedies, and Materials to Gather for Fuel, Gardening & Craft
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Hebridean Memories
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Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
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Kestrels for Company
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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The Scottish Colourists: Art & Life by Alice Strang
‘Together the quartet embodied a new spirit in Scottish art and they are celebrated as Scotland’s le …
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David Robinson Reviews: Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
‘As I suggested at the start, there’s a whole heap of plot in Our Noble Selves – spies, murders, and …
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‘They had spoken perhaps ten sentences each and it had already begun. Moira’s resentments, her preju …
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Ayont the Thistle by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach and James Robertson
‘Nane ae this then but – ma hert daen its hing/ an yon wee smile ae yours in the saft smir ae the ga …
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David Robinson Reviews: This Door of the Seas
‘He sees what he wants to. And it makes a kind of sense too – especially to colonists from Scotland, …
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The Broons and Oor Wullie Celebrate their 90th Birthdays!
‘Whatever the future may hold, we can be sure that The Broons and Oor Wullie will always be a part o …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Peter May
Peter May was a novelist, originally from Glasgow but lived and worked in France. He started out as a journalist, studying at the Edinburgh College of Commerce, and winning the Fraser Award aged just 21 for his writing. He was named Scotland’s Young Jo …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Canongate Books
Canongate was founded in 1973, and was taken over by current CEO Jamie Byng in 1994 following a management buyout. It has since emerged as one of the most dynamic publishing houses in Britain. With a distinctly international outlook, Canongate Books co …