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Crime fiction inspired by Scotland's iconic buildings: in Bloody Scotland twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are by turns gripping, chilling and redemptive.

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for Holyrood Park including Arthur's Seat, packed with research, photography and illustrations.

The Arnol Blackhouse is the last tangible link with a traditional way of life, and evokes a form of living and working on Lewis that now lies beyond the memory of individuals.

In Mousa to Mackintosh, Frank Arneil Walker examines the recognisable and recurring features evident in Scotland's structures across the centuries.

The chambered tomb of Maeshowe sits in one of the richest and best preserved Neolithic landscapes in Europe. This was a place of stone circles, villages and burial monuments; a place where people lived, worshipped and honoured their dead.

A guide to Melrose Abbey, a centre of work, prayer and worshop for almost 1,000 years.

John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. His photographs of late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland in the 1960s, 70s and 80s show a way of life that has now all but vanished. In A Life of Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of what has been lost - and preserved.

Can you imagine a different Scotland, one where women are commemorated in statues and streets, hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where fictional streets, buildings and monuments are dedicated to real women, telling their often untold or unknown stories.

Scotland's vibrant and bloody past captures the imagination. But there is far more to Scottish history than murder and mayhem, tragedy and betrayal. In Scotland's History, historian Fiona Watson looks back across thousands of years into the lives of the people of Scotland.

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for Iona Abbey and Nunnery.

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for Doune Castle, packed with research, photography and illustrations.

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney, packed with research, photographs and illustrations.

The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland draws together all the known symbol-bearing stones and artefacts, providing the definitive resource for anyone, academic or amateur, with an interest in Pictish sculpture.

The Honours of Scotland tells the turbulent story of the Honours - Scotland's crown jewels - and the equally dramatic tale of the Stone of Destiny.

The first book ever published on a vast archive of 'Top Secret' WWII aerial reconnaissance photography. Includes never-before-seen and previously classified MoD imagery from across Europe that gives a new perspective on key moments in world history.

A detailed yet accessible account of Britain's most remote island. This new book explodes the myth of St Kilda as a 'lost world', demonstrating how, for 3,000 years, it has been connected to and influenced by communities across the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland.

In Who Built Scotland, the authors pick twenty-five buildings to tell the history of a nation. In vivid travelogues, they explore Scotland's social, political and cultural heritage, placing our people, ideas and passions at the heart of our architecture and archaeology. This is a story of how we shape buildings and how buildings, in turn, shape us.

The 107-year history of an organisation set up in 1908 to create an 'inventory' of Scotland's archaeology and buildings.

In this landmark book, Diane Watters looks at the history of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross. She traces the story of an architectural failure which morphed into a tragic modernist myth. This is a historian's account of St Peter's: an exploration of how one of Scotland's most singular buildings became one of its most troubled - and most celebrated.

In this sumptuous new book, Alexander McCall Smith curates his own distinctive story of Edinburgh - combining his affectionate, incisive wit with a wealth of stunning imagery drawn from Scotland's national collection of architecture and archaeology.

The complete story of Stirling Castle, from ancient times to the present, drawing on intensive research and investigations carried out over two decades.

A celebration of Scotland's listed buildings through 20 stunning postcards.

This extensively illustrated book explores all the available information on the Picts in an appealing, accessible and authoritative way.