The New Curiosity Shop: 25 books

Alchemy – a subject of much speculation and a lot of confusion. Is it all about turning lead into gold, or is it more than that?This book guides you through the arrival and growth of alchemy in England in the medieval and Tudor periods.On the way we meet famous people like Roger Bacon...

England v Scotland is the world football’s oldest rivalry, and this fascinating book tells the story of how it all began.Sports historian Andy Mitchell, former head of communications at the Scottish FA, has researched the events that led to the creation of a global phenomenon.He...

‘Sounds in the silent air’ takes it title from a song by Ivor Gurney (1890 –1937). He was one of a number of English composers who fought in the First World War, alongside Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams. How did their experience affect the music they wrote and what impact did it have...

Keep you brain active with a few different sorts of puzzles, with many original one interspersed with the odd quiz questions (to keep your memory muscle amused), lateral thinking puzzles and wordy interludes and few of the better known puzzles and riddles from history with a little background to their...

Stories The Last Days of the Lotus Eaters – Leigh Harlen Keeping the Peace – Catriona Butler & Rob Butler Death Acceptance – Tony Clavelli Apocalypse Beta Test Survey –  Gregg Chamberlain Spirejack – Patrick Warner Lowland Clearances – Pippa Goldschmidt The Last Moonshot...

After only 3 years in existence Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine won the  British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical. To celebrate this occasion we decided to publish a selection of stories from the Issues 1-10 (including a special edition 8½). We could...

It is one of the most astonishing monuments in the British Isles, never mind Scotland. Deep in the Perthshire countryside stands a cairn of boulders topped with a tall, spindly cross, the stones painted with the stark words:MAggie Wallburnt here1657 as a WitchThere is nothing like it...

‘Let’s Build a Human Being’ is a fun physiology book with a difference. Whilst textbooks inform you about each of the organs of the body and their functions, this straight forward book goes one step further by looking at the reasons behind the intricate design and biological processes that are...

The Folger Variation follows three interconnected lives throughout different strands of time. Pancake: Pancake Patterson is a former jazz musician who spends all his time roaming the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, frequenting abandoned factories and participating in Russian Roulette tournaments,...

This collection’s four main stories feature time travel by land, sea, air and fire, representing the classical elements, and the three supporting stories also involve people or messages travelling into the past or the future, in very different ways. Three of the main stories were published...

Scotland is served by 37 national or daily newspapers. Not a single one supports independence. (The only publication to back a Yes vote is a weekly.) Almost all of them are owned and/or controlled outside Scotland. When Scotland faces a decision as important as the one it’ll make on September the...