Scotland of Old

Reducere. Discover this action-packed Assassin's Creed Fragments novel about siblings tested and separated by the bloody carnage of war between England and S...

Reducere. Spring, 1897. London. Margaret Harkness, now in her early forties, must leave England for her health but lacks the funds. A letter arrives from her...

Reducere. Is Britain one nation, or many? Is it a nation with more than a thousand years of history, or 'an invented nation', only as old as the 1707 union o...

Reducere. "Tell me, Doctor, could the wound have been made by the antlers of an angry stag?"With Scotland Yard overstretched, Anthony Bathurst is recruited t...

Reducere. Baker Somerset was a Scotland Yard Detective sent to Ottawa to help solve a brutal kidnapping case. After the suspect put four bullets in her, she ...

Reducere. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828 - Born the seventh daughter of the seventh daughter, Anna Stewart is cursed as a witch. Shunned by society, she is blamed...

Reducere. The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early...

Discover the ancient territories of the principal Scottish clans in the 17th century.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Collins MapsIllu...

Reducere. Action adventure! Ten-year-old, eco-warrior Snorkel McCorkle is determined to fix the unfixable in her life-a manatee's missing flipper, the school...

Reducere. It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying, Soho's nightlife is buzzing and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.She ha...

Reducere. Anna turned 21 years old on the day that she arrived in Vancouver, British Columbia. She felt twice that age. The mirror on the train reflected dar...

Reducere. Thirteen-year-old Iain Robertson is homesick for the Highlands of Scotland. It's September 1773, and he has just arrived in Nova Scotia with his pa...

Reducere. Some people, even today, think that Dr. Crippen was wrongly convicted and should never have been hanged for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore. T...

Reducere. Sometimes she wished she could stick up a large notice saying: "FOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT TOO MANY" . . .Raising four young children on her own in the ...

A woman leaves her old life behind, escaping to a remote estate in Scotland. But what secrets lie in her past? And how long can they stay hidden?Pu...

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership brought Scotland to within 200, 000 votes of independence in 2014. Break-Up tells the extr...

Reducere. One day we had been well-off and secure; the old grey London house had been 'home' and we imagined that our lives . . . would continue to run smoot...

Reducere. #1 in the Young American Immigrants (nonfiction) series. Experience a true American adventure through the eyes of a child who walked it. Nine-year-...

Prodded by a childhood haunting, an ostensible descendant of KING ROBERT I, the Bruce of Scotland, takes a side road to his mother's family burial ...

Reducere. The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspi...

Reducere. 'Stabbed?' she repeated, in horror. 'Was he really?''I'm afraid so. From behind. He was sitting at his desk.'The soign e actress Tessa Crichton wou...

"You know, you should edit an anthology about COVID-19. Capture the raw emotions and coping mechanisms of people from all over the world-while the ...

Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy. W...

Reducere. A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night...

Reducere. In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Ag...

From bestselling Scandinavian crime writer Åke Edwardson--whose books are international sensations in Europe--comes this gripping novel of suspense...

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is on the case when a rare edition of Rebecca leads to murder in this latest installment ...

Adventure from your armchair.Twenty years ago, I set off on the greatest journey of my youthful life. Twelve months sketching nature on three conti...

Stranded in the wilds of 1694 Scotland, 13-year-old Mercy must rely on Calum, a duty-bound Highland lad, and her talent with plants to fulfill her ...

Reducere. Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, go on a trip to Orkney in Scotland to visit an old friend and see some intrig...

Reducere. During the political upheaval of Tudor-era England, the lawyer Matthew Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie in "one of the best ongoing my...

Reducere. I sat down on one of the couches. 'So, Stepfather, ' I said, 'Who did you kill?' 'He didn't kill anyone ' Mother snapped. 'Don't be silly ' I sighe...

Reducere. Award NameThriller AwardsAward categoryFirst NovelIn this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an o...

Reducere. Quislings...Nazi collaborators! Could it really be true that several members of Solveig Strand's own family were among them, and that her own broth...

The final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who started in the first of the Niccolo series as an 18-year-old apprentice. Now in his 30s, his flair ...

Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 clung to a single hope of survival as a nation and an alliance with France to be...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers an explosive, absolutely riveting novel (Entertainment Weekly) that delves into the ...

Reducere. Featuring tales of murder, adultery, beheadings, civil war, usurpation, and madness, this book takes you on a gallop through the history of all of ...

Reducere. After the Norman invasion, King Malcolm of Scotland sweeps through Northumbria leaving death, destruction . . . and orphans in his wake. He also fi...

Reducere. When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hit...

Reducere. Victoria Frankenstein is a brilliant, visionary young woman. It's an age of enlightenment, a time when old orders begin to crumble and everything s...

Reducere. Pathologist Toni Day and her husband, Hal, are mystified when she starts receiving grisly Christmas cards depicting murders, each accompanied by a ...

An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture. -- .

Reducere. Hop into the world of Peter Rabbit and his friends in this series of charming board books All of Peter's friends are getting ready for a picnic, an...

Reducere. This is a special re-print edition of "Highland Superstitions" by the Rev. Alexander McGregor, M.A., and was first published in 1901. This book cov...

Love on the Links American attorney Julie Leonard has come to Scotland on a working holiday, determined to improve her golf game and earn a leg up ...

DescriptionAt Police Scotland HQ, Grace Macallan has pitched up in Counter Corruption, but the demons of her past are never far behind. Edinburgh's...

Dashing Ape has an eye for design, a knack with scissors, and a desire to transform the coiffure of everyone in the jungle. Thus, he opens Ape with...

It is 2045 and fifteen-year-old Gaia has lived her whole life in a secret Naturist Compound built to guard and nurture insect species in danger of ...

Reducere. The blue-skinned old woman who made the mountains. Finfolk, selkies and the Makers of Dreams. Within these pages are the little-known stories of Sc...

The best surprises are the ones you never see coming.All Sydney Pearce needs is a change-something to end the stress and chaos of running her grand...

Reducere. Kiskeya Burgos, pastry chef on the come up, arrives in Scotland with one goal in her sight: win the Holiday Baking Challenge and finally prove to h...

Reducere. THE VIKING RUNES is a study of the ancient Norse fu ark script used in everyday inscriptions, carved memorials and divination. It covers the Elder ...

Abernethy Forest is a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the central Highlands of Scotland. The trees in th...

In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession; in Orkney an old man lives with the ghosts of his past. In the Outer Hebrides some travellers lea...

DescriptionA practical guide to the Anglo-Saxon Futhark and how runes were used in Old England - Examines the 33 Northumbrian runes of the Anglo-Sa...

DescriptionThe heart-warming tale of Greyfriar's Bobby, the loyal Skye terrier, is well-known and loved throughout Scotland and the world. Bobby th...

Reducere. With the new year approaching, hospital chaplain Lindsay Harding heads for a much-needed break in the peaceful resort town of Duck on North Carolin...

Reducere. There was a young lady named Perkins, Who had a great fondness for gherkins; At afternoon tea She ate twenty-three Which pickled her internal worki...

Reducere. Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly deta...

Reducere. If you have ever wanted to run away to the wilds of Scotland and stay, I invite you to come along as I share the story of a life unfolding at The G...

First and Last is the amazing story of Jackie Plenderleith, the only surviving player from the first British side to compete in the European Cup. T...

DescriptionWhen Teresa Craddock joins her brother Tommy on an island that is and isn't Dominicam she is in flight from life and the death of her fi...

Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritim...

DescriptionFrom the Collins Crime Club archive, the third standalone novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.Se...

Reducere. SOMETHING OLD... Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave and chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, will marry Kate Wakefield in three w...

Reducere. DescriptionThe D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. "That was a great case you brought us. You'll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der...

Reducere. MURDER IN MAYFAIR Modern art dealer Granville Hardwick has a way with people -- a way of making them wish he were dead. His London gallery is fille...

As the Young Pretender and his Jacobite army approach, Coroner Titus Cragg must solve a brutal murder -and prevent himself being executed for the c...

Reducere. Past crimes cause new murder in this tense and twisting psychological thriller A few days before the summer solstice a 92-year-old woman is found b...