Aberdeen is a city shaped by its geography, climate and architecture. Like the land from which it grew, it projects qualities of hard work and fortitude, firm solidity, a bold self-confidence and soaring aspiration.

Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era is the first such volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research.

An impressive compendium which thoroughly investigates French and other prisoners of war during the period of the Napoleonic War.

Anstruther: A History is written by a local author with a deep understanding of Anstruther, who conveys her enthusiasm for her subject in elegant prose and well-chosen pictures.

A commanding history of the most northern outpost of the Roman Empire.

Robert McGeachy tells the story of a revolution – one that would extend to the rest of the Highlands and Islands – set in train when Argyll’s leading families turned their backs on clanship and embraced an explicitly capitalist approach to the management of their estates.

This book examines the work in an area of Scotland famous for its potato growing and agriculture, during a period of great change, when the process altered from being very labour-intensive to being completely mechanised.