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Highland Myths and Legends - George W. Macpherson
Storyteller George Macpherson was only three years old when his grandfather placed him on his knee and told him a story. The boy then had to tell the story back........
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The Mermaid Bride and Other Orkney Folk Tales - Tom Muir
Over sixty stories of selkies, fairies and trows comprise the first-ever collection of folk tales from Orkney, which, as storyteller Tom Muir writes, ‘are as ol........
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Out of the Mists - John Barrington
How can you protect yourself from faerie magic? What happened to Scotland’s last dragon? How did Arthur’s Seat get its name? Enter a world of magic and wonder i........
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Between Ourselves - Donald Smith
This passionate new novel by Donald Smith imaginatively fills in the gaps between Robert Burns’ correspondence with his many friends and lovers. It focuses on t........
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The King and the Lamp - Duncan Williamson
Some of the late Duncan Williamson’s most memorable tales have been collected for this volume, transcribed from recorded sessions for the sound archives of the ........
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God, the Poet and the Devil - Donald Smith
Robert Burns was both Christian and libertine, both moral and promiscuous. He was, along with his country, immersed in the language and ideas of the Church, but........
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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children - Duncan Williamson
The great Duncan Williamson recounts tales that have been handed down through generations of Travelling people. This is a new and expanded edition of Williamson........
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Pilgrims of the Mist - Sheila Stewart
These stories gathered by Sheila Stewart from family and friends are not the polite versions, suitable for the nursery; they paint a vivid picture of the rawnes........
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Reek Roon a Camp Fire - Stanley Robertson
Stanley Robertson weaves personal recollection with story and myth as he introduces a host of storytellers, real and imagined, who recount their tales to their ........
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Land of the Seal People - Duncan Williamson
No stories were more potent, more engaging, more subtle or profound than these half-animal, half-human tales of the sea. Time and time again listeners enthralle........
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Tales of Edinburgh Castle - Stuart McHardy
Edinburgh Castle is one of Scotland's most awe-inspiring and striking landmarks. A site of human habitation since the 9th century BC, it has a rich and varied h........
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Tales of Whisky - Stuart McHardy
Whether dodging the men of the excise, fighting with government troops or simply indulging in a spot of the national sport of drinking whisky, Scots have long h........
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Tales of Loch Ness - Stuart HcHardy
This book helps you explore the myths and legends surrounding one of Scotland's most famous locations. The home of the fabled Loch Ness monster, or Nessie as sh........
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West Highland Tales - Fitzroy Maclean
In the Highlands of Scotland the Seanachie, or Bard, occupies an honored place in the household of every clan chief. The multitude of tales they told were passe........
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The Silver Chanter - Stuart McHardy
All over the world people associate the bagpipes with Scotland. In this informative and entertaining book Stuart McHardy introduces Scotland's national instrume........
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Out of the Mouth of the Morning - David Campbell
The ancient Celtic lands of Erin and Alba, Ireland and Scotland, are rich in myth, legend, folklore and the tradition of oral storytelling. From stories of the ........
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School of the Moon - Stuart McHardy
Behind the tales of cateran raiding in the Scottish Highlands was an age old practice, beloved of the clan warriors. Trained in the ways of the School of the Mo........
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The Fantastical Feats of Finn MacCoul - Norah Montgomerie
This collection of mystical folk tales about the Celtic hero Finn MacCoul is magical and bloodthirsty compendium full of humour, love and heroism. The legend of........
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The Fisherman's Son - Judy Paterson & Sally J. Collins
When an old fisherman agrees to give his firstborn son to a seamaid, he lives to regret his foolish promise. His son leaves home to find service as a warrior to........
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Lang Legged Beasties - Ewan McVicar
Surprising, funny and sad traditional stories about cats, frogs, foxes, wolves, seals, robins, pigs and more retold by one of Scotland's best known storytellers........
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Peerifool - Judy Paterson
A cabbage-stealing giant helps himself to two princesses in an effort to get his housekeeping done. But the youngest princess, with the help of the Peerie Folk ........
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Tamlane - Judy Paterson
In the Borders of the 13th century lived fairies who would steal children. Such is the fate of nine-year-old Tamlane. The years pass but Tamlane is not forgotte........
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Magnus - George Mackay Brown
First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown s tour de force his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelfth-century st........
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A Calendar of Love - George Mackay Brown
In this, George Mackay Brown's first collection of short stories, the themes he would develop over his career are set out - an obsession with his home Orkney, i........
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Jack and the Devil's Purse - Duncan Williamson
Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These twenty tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insig........
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ABC, My Grannie Caught a Flea - Ewan McVicar
Ewan McVicar, one of Scotland's best-known storytellers and song writers, has collected songs in over 40 Scottish schools to create this new condensed compendiu........
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Anthology of Aesop's Animal Fables, Book and CD - Helen Ward
Through the centuries many artist have risen to the challenge of interpreting their favourite tales, endeavouring to capture the spirit, and the simplicity, of ........
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The Coming of the Unicorn - Duncan Williamson
'Stories are something you carry with you, something to last your entire life, to be passed on to your children, and their children for evermore.' Duncan Willia........
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Highland Folk Tales - Bob Pegg
The Highlands of Scotland are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and supermarket, old legends dating as far back as the ti........
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How the Olympics Came to be - Helen East
If you want to know about the ancient Olympic games, ask someone who was there! Who better to ask than Tethys, the grandmother of all the Greek gods. The Greek ........
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MacPherson's Rant - And Other Tales of the Scottis - Stuart McHardy
The fiddle has long played an important parting Scottish musical tradition. Here in MacPherson's Rant and Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle there are stories t........
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Six Fairy Tales from Brothers Grimm - David Hockney
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm according to David Hockney are like no other version you will have read before. Although inspired by earlier illustrators ........
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Trick of the Tale - John and Caitlin Matthews
Meet the tricksters, clever creatures who scam, bamboozle and con their fellow animals to come out on top. They may win, they may be outwitted, but you must alw........
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Magnus Fin and the Selkie Secret - Janis MacKay
When a rusty metal chest is flung ashore in a storm, Magnus Fin decides to investigate. But he injures his hand on the strange box, and his sealskin starts to s........
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Magnus Fin and the Moonlight Mission - Janis MacKay
On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he was half selkie -- part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he ca........
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Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest - Janis MacKay
'This book is filled with the importance of friendship and family values. It fires anyone's imagination and unlocks the mysteries of the sea. Older primary and ........
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Scotland the Brave Land: - Stuart McHardy
10,000 Years of Scotland in Story - From bold heroines to clan battles, standing stones to castles, there is hardly any aspect of Scotland s heritage that does ........
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An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk Tales - Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper
Slithering stoorworms, mischievious brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies -- these are the creatures of Scottish folklore. Award-winning children's autho........
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Arthur's Seat: Journeys and Evocations - Stuart McHardy and Donald Smith
Arthur's Seat, rising high above the Edinburgh skyline, is the city's most awe-inspiring landmark. Although thousands climb to the summit every year, its histor........
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The Accidental Time Traveller - Janis Mackay
One ordinary day, Saul is on his way to the corner shop when a girl appears suddenly in the middle of the road. She doesn't understand traffic, or the things in........
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