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What's New?

This page lists new additions to Undiscovered Scotland during the last year. For earlier years, see the "What's New?" drop-down index above.

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October 2025

New Book Reviews are added for The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw by Fiona J. Mackenzie, Graveyards and Cemeteries of Perthshire by Charlotte Golledge, Sea Marked: Throwing a Line to a Coastal Past by Linda Cracknell, Take Me to the River by Vicky Allan and Jackie Kemp and Walking Rum and the Small Isles: Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna by Peter Edwards and Katie Featherstone.

September 2025

The feature pages for the Great Glen Way, the Rob Roy Way, the Speyside Way, the Clootie Well, Croick Church, the Edinburgh Foodies Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Early Railways of Scotland by Anthony Dawson and Ed Bethune, Losing Sight of the Shore: Scotland's Medical Explorers 1815–1915 by Wendell McConnaha, The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay: Scotland's Festive Traditions by Anna Marshall, and 15 Short Walks in Perthshire North - Pitlochry, Aberfeldy and Dunkeld by Nicole Bukaty.

August 2025

The feature pages for the Royal Highland Show, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Edinburgh International Book Festival are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for North Sea Oil: A History: Sixty Years of Triumph and Tragedy by Victor Gibson, The Dummy Drome: Stories from a WW2 Decoy Aerodrome in the North of Scotland by Rob More, Witches: A King's Obsession by Steven Veerapen and Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland published by Historic Environment Scotland.

July 2025

A new feature page is added for Alloa Tower. The feature pages for Leith, The Royal Yacht Britannia, Newhaven, Limekilns, Charlestown, Dollar, Castle Campbell, Tillicoultry, Alva, Menstrie, Menstrie Castle and Alloa are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare by Michelle Sloan, 15 Short Walks in the Scottish Borders by Ronald Turnbull, To See Ourselves: A Personal History of Scotland Since 1950 by Alistair Moffat and The Man on the Endless Stair by Chris Barkley.

June 2025

A new feature page is added for Clackmannan Tower. The feature pages for Kincardine, Tulliallan Kirkyard, Alloa, Clackmannan, The Kelpies, Grangemouth, Haddington, St Mary's Haddington, St Martin's Haddington, Airth, Denny, Bathgate, The Bennie Museum, Old Bathgate Parish Church, Armadale, Mid Calder, Kirk of Calder, East Calder, Kirknewton, Livingston, Ratho, St Mary's Dalmahoy, Preston Tower, Preston Cross, The Battle of Prestonpans, Falkirk, Callendar House and The Carron Company are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The View from the Shoulder: A Portrait of Scottish Surfing by Roger Cox, Campaigning for Edinburgh: The Cockburn Association 1875–2049 by Richard Rodger and Cliff Hague, Castles of Scotland by Andrew Powell-Thomas, 15 Short Walks on the Isle of Skye by Terry Marsh, The Malt Whisky Murders by Natalie Jayne Clark, Friend or Foe? by Ken Lussey, Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom, Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag Henderson, The Other Side of Fear by Douglas Skelton and Community: People and Wildlife on the West Coast of Scotland by Jane Smith.

May 2025

New feature pages are added for Dalkeith Country Park, St Mary's, Dalkeith, Perth Museum, Perth Art Gallery, V&A Dundee, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum and The Howff. The feature pages for Doune, Doune Castle, Deanston, Deanston Distillery, Callander, Dalkeith, Perth, Greyfriars Burial Ground, St John's Kirk of Perth, The Stone of Destiny, John Duncan Fergusson, Dundee, HMS Unicorn and Discovery Point are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Donald Watson: Bird Artist and Writer by Roger Crofts, Now That's What I Call Edinburgh by Jack Gillon, To the Shades Descend by Allan Gaw, Rabbits by Hugo Rifkind, River Tay Way: From Loch Tay to Perth and Dundee by Jacquetta Megarry and The Devil's Draper by Donna Moore.

April 2025

New feature pages are added for Glenkinchie Distillery and Falkirk Distillery. New Book Reviews are added for Never to Return: Convoys to Russia in the Second World War by Roderick G MacLean, Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age by Bruce Peter, Wild Galloway: From the hilltops to the Solway, a portrait of a glen by Ian Carter, Waters of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers by Tom Bowser, Glasgow Harbour by Graeme Smith and Mike McCreery, Upland: A Journey through Time and the Hills by Ian Crofton and Murray Hall: A Novel by Milo Allan.

March 2025

New feature pages are added for St Ninian’s Priory Parish Church of Whithorn and Jackton Distillery. The feature pages for Newton Stewart, Stranraer, Creetown, Wigtown, Garlieston, Gatehouse of Fleet, Whithorn Priory, Whithorn, Isle of Whithorn, Cruggleton Church, Cairnryan, Bladnoch Distillery and Kirkinner are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The Moon's More Feeble Fire by Allan Gaw, There She Goes: New travel writing by women, edited by Esa Aldegheri, The Pocket Guide to Edinburgh’s Best Buildings by Robin Ward and 15 Short Walks in the Trossachs - Callander and Aberfoyle by Katie Featherstone.

February 2025

New Book Reviews are added for The Silent House of Sleep by Allan Gaw, Bones: The Life and Adventures of Doctor Archibald Menzies (1754-1842) by Graeme Menzies, A Natural History of Sea Serpents by Adrian Shine, Secret Perth by Gregor Stewart, Scottish West Coast Isles in Photographs by Alastair MacDonald Jackson, and Walking the Fife Pilgrim Way: Pilgrimage from Culross and North Queensferry to St Andrews by Shana Lee Hirsch and Victoria Hunter. All external links on the site are checked to ensure they operate as they should and updated where necessary.

January 2025

The feature pages for The Edinburgh Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh Foodies Festival, The Edinburgh International Book Festival and The Royal Highland Show are revised, updated and given new images.

October 2024

Our Website Design, Maintenance and Hosting page is updated to reflect recent projects. The feature page for Alford Valley Community Railway is revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The Art of Scottish Golf by Martin Dempster, The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots by Jan-Marie Knights and Mach Book One: The Awakening by David Hutchison.

September 2024

New feature pages are added for Tarves Heritage Centre and St James the Less Church, Cruden Bay. The feature pages for Tarves, Tarves Tomb, Craigievar Castle, Castle Fraser, Collieston, The Grampian Transport Museum, Inverallochy & Cairnbulg, Fraserburgh, The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Peterhead, Boddam, Cruden Bay and Slains Castle are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Lies of the Flesh by F.J. Watson, Hebridean Baker: The Scottish Cookbook by Coinneach MacLeod, Scotland From the Air by Shahbaz Majeed, Forgotten Vikings: New Approaches to the Viking Age by Alex Harvey, Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape by Glen Cousquer, Edinburgh: A New History by Alistair Moffat, Edinburgh: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor, The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda by Andrew Fleming, Thicker Than Water by Ken Lussey, and Not the End of the World by Talya Baldwin.

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