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| | Audubon in Edinburgh (book) | French-American ornithologist and artist John James Audubon visited Edinburgh several times where his superlative bird paintings were first engraved and the ambition of their publication realised | | £29.99 |  |
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| | Going to the Pictures: Scottish Memories of Cinema | Take your seat...sit back and relax...as we whisk you back to the days of art deco palaces and local fleapits. See what cinema-goers from all Scotland have to say as they recollect the silent days, the novelty of talkies and the sheer glamour of the stars. | | £8.99 | |
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| | Mary Queen of Scots | Another in the excellent Scottie Books series bringing information about Scotland to young readers. Here we have the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Colourful, informative and with lots of stimulating activities. | | £4.99 | |
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| | Queen Margaret of Scotland | A familiar and well-loved figure, Margaret, the queen and the saint, has occupied a place somewhere between legend and history in the minds of nine generations of Scots. | | £8.99 | |
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| | Scottish Kings and Queens | For upwards of 750 years, Scotland had its own kings and queens..This is another in the Scottie Books series of information books for young readers. | | £4.99 | |
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| | Scottish Showbusiness: Music Hall, Variety and Pantomime | Scottish Showbusiness examines two centuries of popular live entertainment in Scotland and includes many eye-witness accounts and reminiscences from the singers and stagehands, comics and chorus lines, acrobats and agents of the era. | | £8.99 | |
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| | Sporting Scotland | Scotland's past in action. An entertaining wee book about the history of sport in Scotland. | | £4.99 | |
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| | Stone of Destiny (book) | The true story of how on Christmas Eve 1950 Ian Hamilton a law student at Glasgow University assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson broke into in Westminster Abbey in the heart of London, took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair and in doing so became a Scottish national hero. | | £9.99 | |
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| | The Ballad and the Plough (book) | The era of the great farms of Scotland is over now. They flourished for nearly eighty years from the mid 19th century, and those years are renowned for the strength of their characters and the legendary status of their stories. | | £8.99 | |
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| | The Cornkister Days (book) | The author recalls a society based on the plough, a society that moved ‘against the tapestry of the year: ‘This was the backcloth against which the farmtoun folk lived out their days; its seasons and rituals governed their lives, and ultimately their destinies. | | £8.99 | |
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| | The Cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a Geologist | The Cruise of the Betsey is a forgotten classic of Scottish literature. Re-printed for the first time in a century, it is an ideal introduction to its author Hugh Miller, a titan of Victorian Scotland. | | £19.99 | |
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| | The Scottish Suffragettes | This book tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Scotland, from the early Victorian era to the winning of limited rights in 1918 | | £6.99 | |
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| | Willie Gavin, Crofter Man (book) | A portrait of a crofting life in the bare and sometimes bitter landscape of Scotland’s North-east lowlands. It is the closely reconstructed life of one man in particular, and beyond that, the wider story of a croft and its people, assembled from the family’s folk memories. | | £8.99 | |
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