George Mackay Brown was as enigmatic a man as you could find, even by the standard of poets – and Orcadians. Notoriously guarded about his personal life, and particularly his religious and spiritual life, his poems were infused with his acute...

A deeply researched, comprehensive biography of John Knox which vividly brings its subject and the milieu of the Scottish Reformation to life. The author shatters the myth that Knox was a ranting, dogmatic misogynist. This man of action lived a...

This popular history offers a broad sweep of major themes in the story of the post-reformation Church of Scotland, century by eventful century.