Politics & Current Issues

A hard-hitting, incisive and politically honest look at where the devolution journey has taken us, by former First Minister Henry McLeish and Tom Brown, one of Scotland's leading political commentators.

The result of broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's 150-mile cycle over the Western Isles. What does the future hold for Gaelic culture?

Fascinating interviews with Scottish societies around the world

Over thirty interviews with highly successful expatriate Scots around the world.

A series of books debating the political issues facing Scotland and Britain today

Poetry and essays from the Scottish Parliament's first writer-in-residence

The story of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly/Parliament

Newly updated for 2004, Notes from the North is the story of one Englishwoman, Emma Wood, settling in northern Scotland

Informed and intelligent, this new volume presents the journalist and writer Angus Calder at his thought-provoking best

Is Trident inherently unlawful and immoral? Angie Zelter debates the so-called 'nuclear deterrent'

This is a powerful and moving story told in the words of prisoners, their friends and families at Cornton Vale women's prison.

Land reform campaigner Andy Wightman delivers a hard-hitting critique of the oppressive absurdities of Scotland's antiquated land laws

You won't find this stuff in a history book, because this story is unofficial, and in this story, the men (and women) wear hard-hats

A stimulating, accelerated social and political history of Scotland told through powerful black and white images