| The Edinburgh Fringe | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Kelsae: A History of Kelso from Earliest Times | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Remembering Charles Rennie Mackintosh | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Sea Kingdoms: The History of Celtic Britain & Ireland | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Homing: A Memoir | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Heartland: Images of the Scottish Borders | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tyneside: A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| East Lothian in Photographs | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Edinburgh: A New History | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Wall: Rome’s Greatest Frontier | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tuscany | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Highland Clans | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Faded Map: The Story of the Lost Kingdoms of Scotland | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Scots: A Genetic Journey | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Britain’s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Great Tapestry of Scotland | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| British: A Genetic Journey | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Hawick: A History from Earliest Times | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Bannockburn | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Scotland: A History from Earliest Times | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Scotland’s Last Frontier: A Journey Along the Highland Line | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Who Built Scotland | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Hidden Ways: Scotland’s Forgotten Roads | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Britain’s DNA Journey: Our Incredible Genetic Story | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Islands of the Evening: Journeys to the Edge of the World | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Scotland’s Forgotten Past | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |