Famous for jute, jam and journalism, the city on the Firth of Tay was a 19th-century industrial powerhouse and is now a vibrant hub of the arts and education. Fully illustrated and featuring colour maps, this first modern guide to the city explores the central area around the High Street before surveying its historic suburbs, museums and galleries, parks and gardens, and its five castles.

Beloved by style icons from Grace Kelly to the Duchess of Cambridge, cashmere depends on three components for its production: the goat, the water and the artisan. In this illustrated volume, Lynne McCrossan explains how makers across Scotland employ centuries-old practices to craft clothing for fashion powerhouses including Hermes and Dior and offers advice on creating a cashmere capsule wardrobe.

This second volume picks up Williamson’s story with his second marriage, to the young American folklorist Linda Headlee, whose energy and encouragement brought his Traveller tales to a national and eventually a global audience through festivals, radio and print. Slightly off-mint.

In conversation with the author David Campbell, Williamson recalls his childhood in the Traveller community, where he heard his first stories; his life as an itinerant labourer; his elopement with his cousin Jeannie; and his grief at her death in 1971. Slightly off-mint.

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In his idiosyncratic dialect, playwright and poet McLellan recalls a childhood spent in the Clyde valley in the early 20th century. His tales evoke a bygone era, of fishing for mennans, strictly observing the Sabbath and the perils of scrumping for apples.

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For well over a century, the story of the West Lothian village Philpstoun was deeply linked to the shale industry. This carefully researched local history recalls life and times in an era of community spirit and village pride, with descriptions and photos of Rows houses, horse-drawn grocers' vans and the yearly summer galas which crowned a village queen.

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Set in Edinburgh in 1686, this thriller finds the lawyer John MacKenzie and his scribe Davie Scougall investigating the mystery surrounding the macabre death of Sir Lachan MacLean, the chief of a proud but poverty-stricken Highland clan.