The Paperback edition of The Small Isles is now available for pre-order, with a release date of May 25th, 2025.

This comprehensive guide – illustrated with a wealth of photographs, maps and drawings takes readers on a tour of both place and time. Crisscrossing the landscapes of four fascinating and evocative islands, it reveals traces of a forgotten past in everything that has been left behind. 

"Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly-emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and explore. We know this because the evidence of their presence has been preserved down the millennia – in traces of flint and quartz, in charred fragments of grain and animal bone, in great heaped piles of ancient shellfish. The islands were Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck – four distinctive shapes rising from the waters of the Inner Hebrides between Ardnamurchan and Skye. Collectively, they are known as the Small Isles". 

• Author: John Hunter, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham
• Publisher: Historic Environment Scotland