Locked Antlers: The Battle Over Scotland’s Deer by Mike Daniels (1 October 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
With its natural predators long gone, huge deer populations have had far-reaching environmental impacts. Despite efforts by conservationists to
reverse the damage, historic deer management has left vast areas of rural Scotland under siege from high deer densities. As climate breakdown pushes
deer management up the political agenda, the book explores the conflict around deer in Scotland from the perspective of someone who has been at
the heart of the debate for decades.
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Tales from the Back Green: A Glasgow Childhood by Bill Paterson (6 August 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
Veteran actor Bill Paterson brilliantly evokes his 1950s Glasgow boyhood in this beautifully written and keenly observed memoir.
It was a world full of intriguing characters and extraordinary events set against the background of the changes and challenges of the
post-war era, among them the nuclear threat, the fading dominance of the Kirk and the arrival of Rock and Roll. Paterson was an astute
observer of the dramatic developments which altered the face of Scotland’s largest city forever.
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Family Man: The Third Book of Aldo by Colin Burnett (6 April 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
Adolfo Ali makes his long-awaited return in this third outing. Complex anti-hero, Aldo, is the de facto head of
Edinburgh’s most powerful crime family. But being a crime boss isn’t what it used to be. Not only does Aldo need to balance
his duties running his crew of killers and psychotic hitmen, but he also needs to hope and pray that one or two secrets stay
dead and buried. As rival criminal organisations start threatening his authority on the Scottish capital’s streets, Aldo is tested
like never before.
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Bridge of Sighs by Ken Lussey (14 July 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
A fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. In a chilling echo
of an event five decades earlier, a light aircraft takes off from a small Scottish airfield and doesn’t return. Meanwhile, someone is trying to prevent
the development of the of the Sutherland Viking Haven near Kylesku. Who? And are they also damaging the vehicles of irresponsible users of the North
Coast 500? Events take a very sinister turn when a body is found in a burned-out shop in Inverness. And then there’s another killing.
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A Companion to the Small Isles: Eigg, Muck, Canna and Rum by John Hunter (2 April 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
The essential companion for those who wish to learn about and visit the Small Isles. As well as focusing on history, archaeology and landscape
change from earliest times to the present day, it is a fascinating account of the people who have lived there – their subsistence, legends and
superstitions, interactions and the ways in which they exploited the land and the sea. It takes the reader through prehistoric landscapes and
Iron Age forts into the Age of the Saints and the incoming Vikings.
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Where Wind and Water Cleave: An Environmental History of Scotland by Richard D. Oram (1 October 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
This book tells the story of Scotland’s rollercoaster ride through past eras of profound climate change that brought bounty or crisis. It
traces how climate and weather, and the human population’s interaction those forces and with the wider environment of which they are a part
shaped the Scotland we know today. The dawning awareness of loss, threat and a need for balance and protection measures to safeguard all our
futures is arguably the most pressing crisis we face.
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Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World by Angus Konstam (4 June 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
The dramatic history of the Norse earls of Orkney, who ruled their own semi-autonomous empire with lands in mainland Scotland and the Western Isles.
At their military height in the 11th century, they held territory stretching from Shetland down to the Clyde Estuary. Drawing on contemporary sagas,
renowned historian and Orkney native Angus Konstam describes how these Norse earls led Viking raids around the British Isles and beyond.
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Walking Edinburgh’s Lost Railways: City and Suburban Explorations by Robin Howie & John McGregor (10 July 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
Hidden within Edinburgh’s modern landscape lies the ghost of a railway network that once fuelled the growth of Scotland’s capital that in more
modern times has been transformed into some of the city’s most attractive walking and cycling trails. Combining railway history, industrial archaeology
and urban exploration, the book traces more than 40 miles of disused railway trackbeds that once formed a vital part of Edinburgh’s transport
system.
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Glasgow in Photographs by David Collie (15 February 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, has long been an important cultural and trading centre. Its historic university and the wealth generated by
the Atlantic trade, followed by massive industrial expansion, has left a legacy that can be seen in the fabric of the city today. This book
celebrates today’s Glasgow in a collection of stunning images which portray not just the new constructions that characterise the modern city,
but also how the older buildings of Glasgow also survive alongside them.
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Loose Threads by Martin Stewart (30 July 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
When Dr David Cairney, a politics lecturer, goes missing on the way home from his retirement party, his wife asks ex-boxer
and journalist Robbie Gould for help. Meanwhile, the body of another politics lecturer, Professor Stephen Hogg, has been found,
his body folded into a suitcase beside the Clydeside Expressway. While poking around the murder victim’s office, Gould encounters
pathologist Sarah Badar. She worked on Hogg’s post mortem, only to find her report redacted, and she wants answers too.
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Plant Magic: The Supernatural Side of Botany by Gregory J. Kenicer (1 October 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
This fascinating book explores some of the many ways in which trees, herbs, ferns, mosses and other organisms such as fungi have been
used in supernatural and magical traditions across Europe. Covering such diverse themes as alchemy, luck, curses divination, magical
medicine, transformations and witchcraft, this book underlines that for thousands of years has played a vital role in the way we make
sense of both the natural and supernatural worlds around us.
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An t-Òban: The People and the Place by Mhairi Livingstone (1 October 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
This long-overdue new history of Oban (An t-Òban, meaning ‘the little bay’ in Gaelic) tells its story from the arrival of the first settlers
in 10,000 BC to the development of the vibrant town it is today. It traces the impact of early Celts, Scots and Vikings, the formation of
the Lordship of the Isles and the subsequent dominance of Clan MacDougall and then the Campbells. Through disasters, wars, famine and
clearance, the people of Oban showed a spirit of recovery, entrepreneurship and resilience.
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Look Out, Little Otter by Jo Weaver and Frances Stickley (7 May 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
Little Otter likes nothing better than snoozing in the sun. When the rock she falls asleep on what turns out to be the head of a Highland cow,
a real-life adventure begins as she is carried further and further away. But just as she finds herself as far from home as she can be, her animal
friends rally round and help her return to her family. This delightful book is a moving tale which shows that sometimes we don't know just how
brave we really are until we have to be.
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Friend or Foe? by Ken Lussey (14 July 2025).
A fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. It’s late June 1943. Bob and Monique Sutherland’s
journey home from Malta is interrupted in London to hear Soviet claims of a German spy. Back in Scotland, they travel with a Military
Intelligence 11 team to Galloway to track down a ghost who may already have uncovered vital military secrets. When two Soviet agents
arrive in Galloway to help, Bob and Monique need to decide if the spy exists, or whether he is a Soviet invention intended to lure
MI11 into danger.
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Skye Munros: The walker's guide to bagging the Cuillin summits by Adrian Trendall (15 February 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
A definitive 2-volume guidebook to the 12 Munros of the Cuillin on the Isle of Skye, rising in a jagged 3000ft skyline straight from the sea.
More than simple hillwalking, these summits demand Grade 3 scrambling, rock climbing to Moderate and abseiling, technical skill, a head for
heights and confidence on steep and exposed rocky ground. This set is written for experienced mountain walkers, Munroists and seasoned
scramblers looking to complete the Cuillin ridge peaks safely and efficiently.
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The Last Gifts to the Dead by Allan Gaw (3 September 2026). (Amazon paid link.)
A brutal murder, a complex investigation, a safe conviction. Or so everyone thinks until D.C.I. Mowbray hears the condemned man’s last
words just before he is hanged. Now he needs Dr Jack Cuthbert to reopen the forensic investigation and prove that they have not been responsible
for a tragic miscarriage of justice. Cuthbert had already worked hard on the case and is ninety-nine per cent sure he was right.
But might the unthinkable be true? Have they hanged the wrong man?
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