Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These twenty tales, re-told by on..

Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the B..

If you travel to the region, you'll want to take with you Moffat's Tuscany: A History; and if you re..

Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV a..

A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and ..

A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and ..

The first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and col..

This title is now a major Hollywood film starring Robert Carlyle and Billy Boyd. Ian Robertson Hamil..

Nephew of a semi-literate peasant, Justinian I was one of the most fascinating of the Roman emperors..

Early fifth century AD. The Western Roman Empire has been overrun by German tribes. Too weak to expe..

While the army of the Goths makes war, the Romans may live in peace!' AD 468. With the last Roman em..

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhul..

When veteran Labour MP Tam Dalyell retired as Father of the House in 2005, the Commons lost not only..

In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent an island described as th..

In the mid-17th century Edmond Halley, adventurer and astronomer, visits reclusive alchemist and fea..