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Vegan recipe developer Jackie Jones provides a huge selection of recipes for deliciously vegan versions of classic Scottish as well as newly designed dishes using healthy ingredients and cooking techniques, including braising, sprouting and steaming.

Scottish oats are famous the world over. In this practical and imaginative book, award-winning cookery writer Nichola Fletcher features 45 recipes which show the remarkable versatility of different kind of oats.

When the last inhabitants of St Kilda were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ lost its permanent population after five millennia. This book tells the absorbing and eventful story of St Kilda from up to the evacuation and its aftermath, using previously untapped sources to provide fresh insights, and tell the true story.

Join Alistair Moffat in this concise and colourful account of Edinburgh, one of the UK’s top tourist destinations with 4 million visitors annually. This book is published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Founding of the City of Edinburgh.

This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley’s sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist in the 1940s and 1950s. One of the great Glasgow classics, first published in 1957, back in print after many years.

This is a brilliant, eclectic and colourful celebration of the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. Not simply a book about the great and good, the famous and infamous; there is testimony from ordinary folk who may not have made their mark on history but who have contributed to Edinburgh’s ever-expanding tapestry.

Scotland is renowned for its rich tradition of baking. In this sequel to The Scottish Vegan Cookbook, you will find all the recipes you might need for making vegan versions of classic Scottish bread, biscuits, fruit loaves, tarts and cakes.

In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. What emerges is a portrait of James as his contemporaries knew him: a gregarious, idealistic man obsessed with the idea of family, whose personal and political goals could never match up to reality.

In this evocative book Iain and Anne Fraser take the reader, both visitor and resident, on a personal journey through the centre of one of the world’s most unforgettable cities. Working with four talented local artists they reflect the character and cultural history of Edinburgh through 80 pages and 150 beautiful and original illustrations.

From acclaimed food writer Sue Lawrence, this is the ultimate celebration of the amazing variety of Scottish baking, from traditional favourites such as Selkirk Bannocks, Ecclechan tarts and Cloutie dumpling to modern recipes such as Haggis tartlets with red onion marmalade, Roast rhubarb and ginger blondies and Lemon curd and polenta cake.