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Peter Marshall
Storm’s EdgeLonglisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize Fro...Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk be... -
Fern Riddell
Victoria's Secret : The Private Passion of a QueenMine is a nature which requires being loved, an...Mine is a nature which requires being loved, and I have lost almost all those who loved me most on earth. From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became kn... -
Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in ChemistryChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woma...Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Instit... -
Lindsey Hilsum
I Brought the War with Me : Stories and Poems from the Front LineI was standing outside an apartment block that ...I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering ... -
Andrew Ziminski
Church Going : A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British IslesChurches are many things to us - they are place...Churches are many things to us - they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our ... -
Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson
Victory & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story i...‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer! It’s a stoatir, so it is!’ Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression ‘big in the 80s’. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in... -
Lindsey Banks
Who Were the Martyrs of Wigtown?In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a sta...In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a stake out at sea to commemorate the drownings of two women in 1685. Who were these women and why were they drowned? Lindsay Banks weaves the stories of t... -
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands : A World in the MakingThis is the past as we've never seen it before....This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Awar... -
Anne Weber
SanderlingHow do you live with a history you can’t escape...How do you live with a history you can’t escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today? These are the questions at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work o... -
Maxim Samson
Invisible Lines : Boundaries and Belts That Define the WorldOur world has innumerable boundaries, ranging f...Our world has innumerable boundaries, ranging from the obvious - like oceans and mountain ranges - to the intangible - like subtle differences in language or climate. Most of us cross invisible lin... -
Iain MacGregor
The Hiroshima Men : The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use ItAt 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese ...At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superf... -
Ann Shukman
44 Days in PragueAfter discovering that her grandmother had pro-...After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman’s 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British del...
