stock categories
Please note that this page is under construction! What it says about new books is substanially true ...
Although we have some specialist areas, we are general booksellers. The shop has a section for new books and a section for second-hand books, although in certain cases (for example, books by George MacDonald), we’ve put new and second-hand books together.
In the new section, you'll find:
SCOTTISH & LOCAL
Books by & about George MacDonald; popular and academic writing on Scottish subjects such as travelling folk & folkways, cookery, mountains & walking; books and pamphlets by local writers (poetry, memoirs, fiction, local history); Deveron Arts publications; small selection of Scottish music books
OLD TIMES
Farming & the land, railways, Shire collectors' titles, Halsgrove illustrated books
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS
Landranger and Explorer series for the North-East of Scotland & other popular Scottish destinations
NATURE WRITING & NATURAL HISTORY
Includes field guides (e.g. birds, weather, minerals, insects, fungi, flowering plants, trees, mammals, stars); essays & memoirs on nature, birds, &c; Shire natural history titles & other popular science
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL WRITING
History: military & otherwise. Biography & travel: a small selection, which we're always happy to add to at your suggestion; category includes adventures, exploration, voyages, climbing
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
A small selection of relevant titles
REFERENCE
English and a few foreign-language Dictionaries
COOKERY & GARDENING
Mainly Scottish cookery titles
FICTION
General fiction; sci-fi & fantasy; crime; classics & modern classics in Penguin, Wordsworth, OUP editions
CHILDREN’S
Paperback fiction for children & teenagers, children's picture books, Peter Rabbit series, Scottish writing for children
