The Art of Scottish Golf by Martin Dempster (7 November 2024). (Amazon paid link.)
Scotland is the birthplace and the home of golf, with a rich tradition which is recognised around the world. The Art of Scottish
Golf is the perfect companion for golfers everywhere, with a mix of golfing lore, history, iconic Scottish courses, brilliant anecdotes
from players and caddies past and present, and much more. With a wealth of detail and stories, The Art of Scottish Golf shows why
Scotland is such a special destination for golfers from home and overseas
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Take Me to the River by Vicky Allan and Jackie Kemp (11 September 2025). (Amazon paid link.)
Immerse yourself in an ocean of great literature. Be transfixed by Iris Murdoch's monster rising from the waves. Learn how to swim like the
frogs with John Muir. A selection of joyful, immersive and life-affirming writing about wild swimming. From gentle dips in calm waters to
fights for survival in stormy seas. From the erotic charge of a streamlined body to moments of revelation amidst the waves. Take Me to the
River is an anthology of stories of how a jump into deep waters can change us.
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The View from the Shoulder: A Portrait of Scottish Surfing by Roger Cox (3 July 2025). (Amazon paid link.)
The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream, to Andy Bennetts and the pioneers of the 1960s, who discovered many
of the nation's best breaks, to contemporary big wave surfer Ben Larg, a native of Tiree who travels the world riding walls of water for a
living. The View From the Shoulder draws together 20 years of surf journalism from the pages of The Scotsman newspaper, together with fresh
context, to create a portrait of a wave-riding community like no other.
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Extreme Scotland: A photographic journey through Scottish adventure sports by Nadir Khan (4 October 2018). (Amazon paid link.)
In Extreme Scotland, award-winning adventure-sports photographer Nadir Khan takes us on a jaw-dropping tour through Scotland's
epic mountain landscape. Nadir showcases his work with some of the best adventure athletes in the world including Ines Papert
and James Pearson in a portfolio that has placed him at the forefront of adventure-sports photography in the UK.
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Scottish Cycle Routes by Alasdair Cain (11 May 2015). (Amazon paid link.) 30
circular road cycle routes of 35 miles to 115 miles, exploring the best of
Scotland's panoramic back roads from the Far North-West to the Borders. The
routes include two Cairngorm crossings and the spectacular Bealach na Ba in
Applecross, as well as gentler cross-country and coastal routes.
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The
Encyclopaedia of Scottish Football by Phil H. Jones & David W. Potter (28
November 2011). (Amazon paid link.) Scottish football is an enormous subject that has been
deeply ingrained in Scottish culture for well over a century and the
publication of the first-ever Encyclopaedia in 2008 provided a hugely in depth
work on football in Scotland. The second edition now takes this to a new
level.
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Cycling in the Hebrides by Richard Barrett (4 February 2016). (Amazon paid link.)
This guidebook describes 37 day rides for all abilities, and 22 linking routes for more experienced cycle tourists, allow riders to
visit all the essential sights in over 20 islands of the Hebrides and of the Firth of Clyde and the neighbouring areas of mainland Scotland.
Routes range from those suitable
for short weekend breaks to a challenging 600-mile tour.
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The Mountains are Calling: Running in the High Places of Scotland by Jonny Muir (17 May 2018). (Amazon paid link.)
The exhilarating story of the runners who go to high places. From its origins in the Highlands, hill running in Scotland remains as pure and traditional
as sport gets. Jonny Muir explores the history and culture of the sport, and meets the legends of hill running who are revered for their extraordinary
endurance, up to and including the supreme test: Ramsay's Round, a continuous loop of 24 of Scotland highest mountains within 24 hours.
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The Fast Men by Tom McNab (19 November 2015). (Amazon paid link.)
Butch Cassidy and Sundance make way, here come Buck Miller and Billy Joe Speed, the fastest men in
the West, but not with their guns. With their coach and mentor, the Honorable Professor Moriarty, they con their way
from Kansas City to Mexico in 1870s America. They don't play by the rules and sometimes only their vaunted speed gets
them out of town ahead of the lynch mob.
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our full review.
Sporting Scots: How Scotland Brought Sport to the World by John K.
V. Eunson (18 April 2012). (Amazon paid link.) The stories of the Scots who brought sport to
the globe and transformed the histories of golf, football, rugby, athletics,
ice hockey, cricket, swimming, baseball, cycling, motor racing and many other
sports in the process. It is also the modern history of the Scots abroad as
they left a lasting sporting legacy around the globe.
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Lies, Damned Lies and Anglers: Fishing Tales and Other Stories by
Bruce Sandison (20 May 2011). (Amazon paid link.) The latest collection of thoughts and
reflections on one of the UK s most popular pastimes, from one of our most
respected fishermen. It s also a practical guide to angling in Scotland which
will give readers some great tips on where and when to find the best fish.
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The
Scottish Junior Cup 1946-1975 by Tom Purdie (30 August 2011). (Amazon paid link.) The Scottish
Junior Cup has been in contention since 1886 and is one of football s oldest
trophies. With over 160 teams competing each year, the knockout competition is
an important part of life: over 77,650 attended the final of the 1951 Scottish
Junior Cup between Petershill and Irvine Meadow XI.
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Jim Clark: Tribute to a Champion by Eric Dymock (28 April 2017). (Amazon paid link.)
This classic of motor racing celebrates the life and achievements of Jim Clark (1936-1968), World Champion 1963 and 1965.
Patrons Sir Jackie Stewart, David Coulthard, Dario Franchitti and Allan McNish celebrate the new edition, Sir Jackie describing
Clark as '...the best racing driver I ever raced with and against'. Seemingly equal to the odds of the most dangerous eight years
at the top of motor racing, Clark died in an unlikely accident on April 7 1968.
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Flanagan's Run by Tom McNab (17 July 2014). (Amazon paid link.) It is depression-era
America and notorious huckster, Flanagan, plans the ultimate race. At the
starting line 2,000 audacious hopefuls line up from every walk of life and all
ends of the globe, each with something to prove. Their different stories,
ambitions and dreams converge through a shared determination which will inspire
you to push on to the finishing line.
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A Swing Through
Time: Golf in Scotland 1457-1744 by Olive M. Geddes (9 May 2007). (Amazon paid link.) This book
takes a close look at the earliest records of the game in Scotland, from the
1457 Act of Parliament banning golf to the first printed book devoted entirely
to the game - Thomas Mathison's poem "The Goff", published in 1743.
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The
Scots & the Turf: Racing and Breeding, The Scottish Influence by Alan Yuill
Walker (30 September 2010). (Amazon paid link.) This book reveals the unexpected contribution
that people of Scottish ancestry have made to the world of the thoroughbred
racehorse: as the the Scottish connection has influenced the Sport of Kings.
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Hearts: The Golden Years by Tom Purdie (6 November 2012). (Amazon paid link.)
Saturday 23 October 1954 was a dank afternoon in the city of Glasgow, but a
happy one for the thousands of Hearts fans at Hampden Park who witnessed their
team defeat Motherwell 4-2 in the final of the Scottish League Cup, the first
major trophy the club had won since the 1905/06 Scottish Cup final. It was the
start of the Golden Years.
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Soldier's Game by James Killgore (21 July 2011). (Amazon paid link.) After football
practice each week, Ross goes to visit his grandmother, and this week she has a
special present for him. Pat digs out a pair of old football boots and strip
which belonged to her father, who once played for Heart of Midlothian Football
Club, and who was part of a battalion of footballers and fans who fought in the
First World War at the Battle of the Somme.
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The
Darkness Below by Rod Macdonald (6 October 2011). (Amazon paid link.) A collection of absorbing
adventures gained from a lifetime in diving. As one of the UK's leading
Technical Divers, Rod takes the reader on a spellbinding and gripping journey.
Told in intimate detail with a beguiling sense of self-deprecating humour, he
recounts epic dives on some of the most fabulous shipwrecks around the
world.
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On
Fire with Fergie by Stuart Donald (12 May 2011). (Amazon paid link.) Their reaching the
Scottish League Cup Final in 1976 was the first in a series of events that
would forge an amazing relationship with my Dad as we followed Aberdeen at home
and away, for the next ten years. It was a time when we watched Alex Ferguson's
Aberdeen rise to the top of Scottish and European football, and then fall down
again.
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Ayr
United Miscellany by Duncan Carmichael (14 June 2011). (Amazon paid link.) From the ill-advised
experiment with floodlit football in 1878 to Alex Williams love-in with a
referee in 2009, football's propensity for the abnormal has not diminished with
time. What was life like on a stinking (literally) football special in 1901?
Who was the fag-juggling Crocodile Dundee lookalike of Dunston?
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Golf on the Rocks: A Journey Round Scotland's Island Courses by Gary
Sutherland (12 May 2011). (Amazon paid link.) Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he
acquired his late dad's putter. After studying a crumpled golf map of Scotland,
Gary decided to embark on a voyage. His target was to play 18 rounds of golf on
18 Scottish islands in honour of his dad, a ship's captain.
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Rivers and Lochs of Scotland: The Angler's Complete Guide by Bruce
Sandison (24 March 2011). (Amazon paid link.) This new, comprehensive and completely revised
edition describes more than 5,000 freshwater fishing locations complete with
access details, flies and tactics and where to obtain permission to fish. For
anyone fishing in Scotland, this book is the angler's bible.
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