By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they wer...

His Waverley novels brought Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) great international famein his own day. ...

The combined soccer side of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Pegasus gained a tremendous follow...

No one would think from his friendly and informal style that Ken Shearwood was a housemaster at a...

This fifth and final volume of Cunninghame Graham stories and sketches brings together the three ...

First published in this format in 1884, this early chronological account forms a complete overvie...

John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language....

The Big House is a children's book with much to say to adult readers. On one level it is a charmi...

When a thin black and white Collie, lying quietly in her cage at the Rescue Centre, caught the ey...

Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her grandda...

A writer's job is to notice the world. To catch in words the qualities, textures, patterns, peopl...

George Gunn's writing is distinctive, with an urgent sense of people and place. This selection fr...