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History Waverley Books publish books on Scottish history, Irish history, Welsh history, and also books on aspects of culture that reveal history and our heritage. We publish books for children, and adults. There are 44 products in this category.
Fiction Fiction from Waverley BooksThere are 26 products in this category.
Nostalgia Books about the history of Glasgow, trains in Scotland, music and how concert halls developed in Glasgow, the past and fond memories, dance halls, and where people met; The Glasgow Cookery Book, and how people used to train for the catering profession. Glasgow Word Search - where you will learn a lot about Glasgow's past; Whisky, Wit and Wisdom - lots of jokes, acerbic comments and witty banter about whisky; A Scottish Tradition - the book by Deidre Kinloch Anderson about the 150 year old history of Kinloch Anderson, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland; Glasgow's Grand Central Hotel - a history of this magnificent hotel at Central Station, Glasgow; Writing on the Road by Sue Reid Sexton, a travel autobiography about campervans, and marital breakdown, and travelling alone. There are 10 products in this category.
Food and drink The Scottish diet might be the subject of jokes but Scotland produces some of the world's finest food and drink. Salmon, whisky, tablet, scones, shortbread, broth, The Glasgow Cookery Book has it all and you know it . there is no country finer for an afternoon tea with kippers and steak pie. We are also expert at dieting, cycling, and mountaineering, so we need a lot of fuel and so have a lot of books on food and drink. There are 9 products in this category.
Humour Waverley Books has produced humorous books on cooking, diets, and lifestyles, as well as many joke books. Browse here for some light entertainment. From Robert Burns, that master of irony on life, to a new way of looking at that bane of our lives - how to lose weight with style and a smile, this section lists books that will brighten your day.There are 6 products in this category.
Children's Waverley Books publishes books on Scottish history for children. We aim to produce affordable books that teachers and parents can supply that will help with homework. There are 17 products in this category.
Graphic novelsThere are 2 products in this category.
E booksOur eBooks are a collection of digital versions of recently published books, and classics chosen by the Waverley Books team from The Gresham Library - part of our heritage. All of the eBooks featured can be bought from online sellers. As you browse, you can click the links and read some samples and enjoy them. We regret you cannot order them directly from Waverley Books on this site.There are 25 products in this category.
Travel WritingSue Reid Sexton's 'Writing on the Road' is set in Scotland (mostly) and charts her life as a lover of campervans. Travelling solo throughout the UK, and in Scotand, Sue discusses how to confront fear, smells in your campervan from cooking food, and how she overcame her unhappiness after the breakdown of her marriage. A book that has sold strongly since its publication, this book will brighten your day and prove a great read. There are 3 products in this category.
Waverley Scotland - Tartan Notebooks and Journals from ScotlandThis beautiful high quality tartan notebook range uses genuine tartan cloth for the binding and comes from a quality Scottish publisher Waverley Books, based in Glasgow. Established for over 26 years the name Waverley Books is known for its high production values. The authentic tartan cloth is sourced by Kinloch Anderson, a family owned company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
AUSTRALIA: If you are reading this in Australia, and wish to place an order for a notebook/journal please note that we have a distributor : Peribo link here: http://www.peribo.com.au/titles-by-publisher/waverley-books
The team at Peribo will be happy to help you with your order.
USA: If you are reading this in USA, and wish to place an order for a notebook/journal please note that we have a distributor : Waverley West https://www.waverleywest.net/There are 88 products in this category.
Waverley Scotland Large Format Commonplace NotebooksThere are 27 products in this category.
Scottish Traditions: Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks
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Rights AvailablePublishers,
Please look at the following list to see what is available and contact us at :
info@waverley-books.co.uk for more information about titles and we will be happy to help,
Waverley BooksThere are 7 products in this category.
Waverley Scotland Pocket Format Clan Tartan Commonplace NotebooksThere are 40 products in this category.
New Waverley Scotland Notebooks, Journals and Stationery – available now Please browse our new spring real cloth notebooks and guest book - available now!There are 16 products in this category.
Corporate tartan notebooks for your companyThere is 1 product in this category.
Hunting tartans The hunting tartans tend to be dark greens and natural colours to blend in with the environment of the Highlands of Scotland.There are 4 products in this category.
Robert BurnsThere are 5 products in this category.
New Large Waverley tartan notebooks These are our new notebooks available now from us. Please contact us for information about these exciting new additionsThere are 15 products in this category.
Outdoors and Survival Skills for beginnersThere are 2 products in this category.If you like black and dark tartan notebooks, look no further... Black. We're thinking inky, dark, sable, coal, raven, ebony, jet, gun-metal, night, sooty, and the associations of this colour are very strong: power, sophistication, authority, rebellion, strength, elegance, Armani, formality, death, funereal, mystery. Think Ian Fleming's Mr Bond also, and his dark suits, and the cutting dash of the After Eight mint, and a black tie event. Lovely. Some people won't wear it, others wear only black. It's striking and makes a statement.However, we have added notebooks/journals with black threads in this category, as we had differing views here in the office. Colour is always subjective after all...There are 20 products in this category.If you like green tartan notebooks, look no further...Emerald, pea, olive, grass, leaf, charteuse, lime green, forest green, seagreen, dark olive, green-yellow, spring-green and khaki. Green is the colour of growth, spring, rebirth and renewal. It restores us and renews us, and those with depleted energy are revived with green. It brings us a sense of well being. It brings a sanctuary from the strain of today and renews our sense of personality. Green as a colour to wear can mean calm and kindness, compassion and generosity. You are good to have around in a crisis if you are dressed in green! Think of Robin Hood. In the west, green is a colour of luck and freshness and calm, and in China and Japan, green is the colour of new birth, youth and hope. But a green hat in China can be a symbol of infidelity. There are 27 products in this category.If you like yellow tartan notebooks, look no further... Lemon, lemon-chiffon, moccasin, peachpuff, pale gold, gold, khaki, yellow-green, olive, dark olive, lime-green, green-yellow, spring-green, primrose.
We've added in the notebooks with a yellow elastic. Yellow is the colour associated with freshness and hope. It is for sunshine and positivity, happiness and clarity, energy and optimism. It is for enlightenment and remembrance, primroses and light. But too much can be a bad thing and babies apparently cry more in an over-yellow room. It can also mean cowardice and deceit or can mean caution and sickness. Black and yellow are combined for school buses in America as the two colours together stand out from long distances.There are 2 products in this category.If you like brown, tan, biscuit, caramel, chocolate, bronze, rust, nut-brown, coppery.. tartan notebooks, look no further... What's in a name or colour? The hues of brown are many: tan, biscuit, caramel, mushroom, chocolate, russet, tawny, coppery, copper, nut-brown, bronze... We've gathered those tartan notebooks we have that fall into this category and wonder if we should add more. Brown shoes are often worn with kilts of all tartans and look good. We love these notebook shades and hope you do too.There are 13 products in this category.If you like orange tartan notebooks, look no further... For this category, you will find the orange tartans we have but also notebooks with an elastic closure that is orange.
Apricot, ginger, cantaloupe, tomato, coral, peach, auburn, carrot, salmon, titian, tangerine, flame, copper, brass, vermilion, pumpkin, citrus, burnt-orange, orange-yellow-brown.
In terms of association, orange spiritually, psychologically and intuitively is the colour of creativity, fascination, enthusiasm, and determination. It's a happy colour, symbolising success, happiness, encouragement, stimulation and heat. It is used in advertising to represent holidays, sun, warmth, tropical surroundings and fire and sunshine.There are 3 products in this category.If you like grey tartan notebooks, look no further... Grey - it is timeless, elegant, cool and balanced. Sophisticated and formal, and fits in anywhere. Practical and goes with most other colours. An ideal choice when you're not sure what to get. There are 2 products in this category.If you like a dash of white in your tartan notebooks, look no further... White always cuts a dash in a tartan. Elegant, striking. timeless - often white thread is used as part of the design in a dress tartan, and you would wear those for an official event such as a ball, ceilidh, wedding, function. There are 11 products in this category.
New notebooks with pens - celebrating Scottish traditional songs Here at Waverley Scotland - we love tartan and fabric, and try to use the cloth in a new way - contemporary and fun. We love to celebrate the history of tartan and the wonderful, vibrant colours. For some time we have published books on Scottish traditions, and as an initiative, we have looked at famous songs from Scotland. Plus we all love singing!
We have four new notebooks celebrating four of our most famous songs. Each notebook has the lyrics of all four songs on a leaflet inside. We hope you will love them.There are 3 products in this category.
MAPS Maps - at Waverley we have just two: but they are good! We have one on whisky by Neil Wilson, and Jim McEwan, and we have Clans and Tartans - also new. There are 5 products in this category.Frankfurt Book Fair Rights Available The books listed in this category have rights available for publishers overseas. There are 11 products in this category.
Home learning books for children and students - from Geddes & GrossetOur educational books for schools and home learning
We are happy to present our range of educational books for home learning, and colourful, imaginative books for pre-school children. Here we present some of the books from our Geddes and Grosset range. You can more here: https://www.geddesandgrosset.com/
Geddes and Grosset: Who we are
Geddes and Grosset began publishing in 1988 in New Lanark, set up by Ron Grosset. Ron worked for Collins in Bishopbriggs and London.
Today we are based in Glasgow. We set up Waverley Books in 1992 to publish Scottish-interest books as a sister company. Now we also publish under Waverley Scotland.
Chlldren's Books
Geddes and Grosset (G&G) creates and publishes children’s books. G&G has won export awards. As the company grew, we have been commissioned to create educational books for publishers around the world for their own-brands.
We publish books for schools and home learning for toddlers, children, teenagers as well as adults who are learning English. We create books that are specifically designed for each age-range, abilities and interests.
Today
Today we produce books and gifts with a focus on teaching the English language for our company and other publishers.We have packaged books, dictionaries, spiral-bound English grammar products for many leading publishers around the world. There are 10 products in this category.Found 23 products.
Ghostly Scotland - The Supernatural and the UnexplainedOur price: £7.99 Ghostly Scotland
Happy Valentine'sOur price: £0.00We are wishing you a very happy day of uplifting friendship and kindness on February 14th.
Incredibly Awful Jokes - with over 500 jokesOur price: £4.99
MacDonald Tartan: Large: 21 x 13cm: Waverley Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace NotebooksOur price: £15.99MacDonald Tartan Large Notebook
Nelson: Britain's Greatest Naval CommanderOur price: £7.99Nelson: Britain’s Greatest Naval Commander by David Ross
Numbers Colour Fun Book 1 - colouring in numbers and learn as you colourRRP: £5.99Our price: £3.99You save: £2.00 (33%)
Really Rotten JokesOur price: £4.99
Really Rotten Jokes: 96 pages, over 500 jokes 
Seriously Silly Jokes - a joke book for all the family with over 500 jokesOur price: £4.99Sale price: £1.99You save: £3.00 (60%)
Simply Dreadful JokesOur price: £4.99
Tailored For ScotlandOur price: £20.00Tailored for Scotland Author : Deirdre Kinloch Anderson 
The Malt Whisky Map of Scotland - new edition (4th) 2024 (folded)Our price: £8.99Malt Whisky Map of Scotland (Fourth Edition 2024) Available 21 July 2024
The Malt Whisky Map of Scotland - new edition 2024 (4th) available July 2024Our price: £11.99The Malt Whisky Map of Scotland - folded and presented in a cardboard tube (4th edition map, published July 2024)
Waverley Books for Boys Leaflet to promote readingOur price: £0.00Books chosen specifically for the enjoyment of boys age 8 upwards
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Large Notebook – Macleod of LewisOur price: £15.99Macleod of Lewis Large Tartan Notebook 
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebook – Black Watch Mini Notebook with penOur price: £8.50 
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebook – Colquhoun AncientOur price: £10.99Colquhoun Ancient Tartan Pocket Commonplace Notebook 14 x 9cm 176 pages Left side blank, right side ruled. Comes with a printed clan map of Scotland and a brief history of tartan. The Colquhoun Ancient Tartan is green with blue and black, with thin white and red stripes.The Colquhouns are a Lowland clan. They adopted the surname 'Colquhoun' after the name of the Dunbartonshire lands that they were granted in the time of Alexander II's reign. The principal branch of the family is based in Luss at Loch Lomond. Their historic seat was at the now-ruined Dunglass Castle by the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire. The Colquhouns also have a connection to Dumbarton Castle. Dumbarton Castle is open to the public, but little of the mediaeval structure remains. King James 1 is said to have asked John Colquhoun, 10th of Luss, if he would seize Dumbarton Castle. The chief is said to have replied in French 'Si Je Puis', which became the clan motto “If I can”. The chief's clansmen did secure the castle. Since 1875, the Luss Highland Gathering has been held just outside the village. The chief of Clan Colquhoun is the chieftain of the games.
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebook – MacRae Modern Red (pocket)Our price: £10.99There are several tartans associated with the MacRae
clan, but this attractive MacRae Modern Red tartan is predominantly red with
dark blue and dark green.
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebook – Royal Stewart mini with penOur price: £8.50 
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebook – Stewart Modern Camel (large)Our price: £15.99The Stewart Modern
Camel tartan featured on this large format notebook is predominantly light brown in colour,
with white black and red, and has a light and contemporary feel to it.
Waverley Scotland Genuine Tartan Cloth Notebook: Blue Loch Tartan: Mini: 7.5 x 10.5cm with penRRP: £8.99Our price: £8.50You save: £0.49 (5%)Blue Loch Tartan Mini Notebook with pen RRP £8.99 new and available from mid May 2025
Waverley Scotland Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks merchandising display unitOur price: £0.00An acrylic stand designed to hold 24 copies of the pocket size Waverley Scotland Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks.
Waverley Scotland Tartan Notebook: Dress Stewart Pocket NotebookOur price: £10.99Waverley Scotland Dress Stewart Pocket Notebook : New for 2025 and available from mid-May
Waverley: Tartan Worldwide - French translation - This is an extract from the multi-lingual leaflet which accompanies each Waverley Tartan notebookOur price: £0.00