Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North
By: Gordon Noble
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. AD 300 to defy the might of the Roman emp…
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1. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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4. The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland
By: Tim Clarkson
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following the story of the Britons through the troubled centuries between 400 and 1100, this salien… read more
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5. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
6. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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8. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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9. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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11. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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12. Infamous
By: Lex Croucher
3.55
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everythi… read more
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"Oh,"-Lex Croucher, Infamous
13. The Coffin Maker’s Garden (Ash Henderson, #3)
By: Stuart MacBride
4.01
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A village on the edge…As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling… read more
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14. The Bone Chests
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history o… read more
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15. The Wars of the Bruces: Scotland, England and Ireland, 1306 - 1328
By: Colm McNamee
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is a very readable narrative of a momentous episode in British history. Former studies of thi… read more
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16. Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North
By: Gordon Noble
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. AD 300 to defy the might of the Roman emp… read more
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17. Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45
By: Maggie Craig
4.25
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots Magazine Too many historians… read more
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18. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
19. Walking the Antonine Wall: A Journey from East to West Scotland
By: Alan Montgomery
4.38
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Walking the Antonine Wall charts a voyage on foot along one of Scotland’s most fascinating ancient … read more
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20. Áedán of the Gaels: King of Scots
By: Keith John Coleman
3.44
Format: 180 pages, ebook
This is the first full-length work devoted to Áedán mac Gabrain, 6th century king of Dál Riata in S… read more
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21. Alexander III, 1249 - 1286: First Among Equals
By: Norman H. Reid
4.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Sco… read more
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"The reign of Alexander III followed a long period which effected a transformation of law, government and society, forging a coherent medieval kingdom out of a patchwork of territorial lordships. As t…"-Norman H. Reid, Alexander III, 1249 - 1286: First Among Equals
