Saraband: 72 books
by Jane Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
"A chilling and hard-hitting first novel" The Herald. At the age of thirty, Campbell Johnstone is a failure. He’s stuck behind the bar of a shabby pub, watching from the sidelines while everyone else makes a success of their lives. The most visible is Eve Sadler, a childhood friend and...
A Handbook of Scotland's Wild Harvests
The Essential Guide to Edible Species, with Recipes and Plants for Natural Remedies, and Materials to Gather for Fuel, Gardening and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
"The exciting thing about this book is the number of unusual flavours and species it highlights" (Andrew Fairlie, Gleneagles) This inspirational guide is bursting with invaluable know-how on Scotland's wild harvest, covering what, where, when and how you can use your bounty in sustainable...
The Garden Cottage Diaries
My Year in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
"Done with great wit and intelligent determination"( The Guardian) "A riveting tale of a rather extraordinary journey" (Family History Monthly) Bemoaning the evils of the modern diet, Fiona Houston was challenged to prove her claim that people ate better 200 years ago than they...
Barn Owl
Encounters in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
"An utter delight" Jennifer Tetlow. Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain’s most iconic and loved animals - here, the barn owl.? The Encounters in the Wild series not only offers insights into their extraordinary lives, but also considers the conservation efforts to protect them and how the future looks for these much loved animals.
Overlander
Bikepacking coast to coast across the heart of the Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
"Sensitive, personal and culturally informed." Andy Wightman MSP
Seeking a temporary escape from city life and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the wild and lonely interior of the Highlands. He traverses paths historic...
The Gathering Tide
A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
"Entrancing…sparkles with lyrical imagery-Miriam Darlington, BBC Wildlife "Full of earthy realism, authentic observation
and quiet lyricism" - Mark Cocker. Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make up ‘nature’s amphitheatre’....
by Sara Allerton
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
WINNER: 2011 PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE. Torpedoed by a German U-boat, adrift on the open ocean, gravely weakened and slowly dying of thirst - the odds of making shore are lengthening with each gruelling hour. Deliverance from the decaying lifeboat will take something far more remarkable than sheer endurance....
The Dragonfly Diaries
The Unlikely Story of Europe's First Dragonfly Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Britain is home to some forty species of dragonfly, and public interest in their plight is high right now thanks to their primeval beauty, aerobatic grace and a growing realisation of their importance for water eco-systems. In 'The Dragonfly Diaries', Ruary Mackenzie Dodds shares his quirky fascination...
Your Country Needs You
The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The iconic image by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with outstretched hand and finger, exhorting you to 'do your bit', is a design classic and has been repeatedly imitated worldwide. In the run-up to the World War I anniversary, Your Country Needs YOU celebrates the magnificent artwork of Leete and...
Nature's Architect
The Beaver's Return to Our Wild Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
"Sublime writing… a genuinely important book” --Ken Lussey.
Hundreds of years after their extinction in these isles, beavers are back in Britain. These highly skilled engineers of the natural world have been reintroduced at several sites across the UK and, even as they become established,...
by J David Simons
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
"A quietly brilliant book" The Skinny. Suffragettes in Scotland. With rent strikes, anti-war sentiment, Cat and Mouse wrangling in London and a revolution brewing in Russia, a young Jewish woman in Glasgow discovers a taste for protest and the empowerment made possible by birth control....
by Claire O'Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero – and villain. But Emily herself remains an enigmatic...
by Laura Marney
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Voted one of the 20 best Scottish books of all time in The List magazine. "A biting laugh-out-loud satire" (Louise Welsh) Digitally remastered with author revision, new edit & BONUS creative writing masterclass on creating a sense of place. Trisha, a lonely unsentimental boozer, unexpectedly...
by Catherine Czerkawska
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Moving, poetic and quietly provocative' - The Independent. City life in the early nineteenth century was never short of drama: poverty and pollution preyed on all but the lucky few, and 'resurrection men' prowled the streets to procure corpses for anatomists to experiment on. Life is improving, however,...