"Students of English and Scottish history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have so long been familiar with the record known as The Chronicle ...

Now in his mid-eighties, Tom Carbery - OBE, KSG, and holder of the Lord Provost's Medal for Services to the City of Glasgow - has been telling stories ...

Sir James Fergusson used to maintain that for anyone lucky enough to live in the Girvan valley the only joy of travel must be the pleasure of coming home. ...

John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - published ...

Originally published as From My Games, 1920-1937, the fifth World Champion comments on his rise to the top.Euwe was a hero in his native country of the ...

Morphy, Charousek, Pillsbury, Fischer... the history of chess is illuminated by shooting stars who burn briefly across the chess firmament, only to vanish ...

'Poetry was always a natural thing to me, part of letter-writing and simply another way of responding to the world'. Thus the author prefaces this substantial ...

Forfar Athletic have had some dreadful times, but they have had their share of success as well. Here the author has found something memorable that has ...

Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succeeding books she has produced an extraordinary out-put ...

A meticulous account, compiled over six summers, of the route through the Debatable Lands, following the border eventually agreed between two nations of ...