Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison

A rediscovered fantasy classic!

Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives amongst dragons, converses with Valkyries and avoids warmongering heroes.

But times are changing, and an encounter with the Wanderer, Odin All-Father, finds her at a crossroads. Cutting a fold from his night-blue cloak and laying it over her shoulders, the Wanderer sends her on a journey into the unknown.

£10.99 PB

Rocks by Vojta Hybl

Vojta lives and works in the Cairngorms, check out his beautiful art.

What is that rock you’ve just picked up? Which minerals is it made of, what’s unique about it and what can it reveal about Earth’s deeper story?   Rocks gives you the tools to answer these questions. Geologist and science illustrator Vojta Hybl guides you through more than 100 rock types, explaining how they form, what they look like and the geological processes they represent. Rocks invites you to see the ground beneath your feet in a new way, connecting everyday stones to billions of years of planetary change.

£15.99 HB

The Waterlands by Stephen Rutt

EVENT 25/3/26

A new story of the miraculous powers of water. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; serene and spectacular lochs; crystal-clear chalk streams; blanket bogs that are both land and liquid, a thin skin of peat over millennia-old water.

On this epic journey, award-winning writer Stephen reveals how water shapes the land, shapes our lives – and how we shape it in return.

£16.99 HB

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel

The past is never done with…

In the depths of the Bodleian Library Harlow Donne discovers a lost account of the Trojan War, a glimpse into the founding of Western civilisation itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad. As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad, Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter, Helen. The text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day, and a personal message to his beloved child appears. In this masterpiece of myth, history and domesticity the universal song of homesickness and regret, of ambition, love and grief is ever present.

20 HB

The Book of Birds by Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane

From the creators of The Lost Words’ comes this dazzling re-imagining of the classic field guide..

A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last.

An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It does not have to be this way. The Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to Yellowhammer, all of which are declining or endangered in Britain.

£35 HB

John of John by Douglas Stuart

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

This is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation.

£20 HB

The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger

This is real-life cooking done right. Featuring more than 100 delicious and achievable recipes that you’ll want to cook again and again, it’s about how to cook, how to eat, how to live, and how to make things nice.

With weeknight dinners, week-ahead shortcuts and kitchen counter meals, Ella Risbridger also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and delightful gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are dishes that deliver even when you don’t have an abundance of time or energy, and all of them promise to make your life at least ten per cent more lovely.

£26 HB

Whistler by Ann Patchett

When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn’t expect it to be Eddie – her former stepfather. Married to her mother for a short time when Daphne was nine, she hasn’t seen Eddie for many years; not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again now, Daphne and Eddie feel that time has fallen away.

Their earlier relationship was brief but had a profound impact on both of them. Together, they consider not only their past, but the joys of the present and their commitment to face the future together. A moving, luminous story about how family, memory and love endures

£20 HB