Collection: Reserve Stock Adult Non Fiction

The author's personal selection of influential Scottish men and women spans fifteen centuries and embraces many walks of life. His profiles feature the saintly - St Margaret and St Columba, the legendary - Thomas the Rhymer and Rob Roy, the literary - Robert Louis Steveson and James Boswell, the ...

A series of evocative images from every walk of life - including pictures from magazines, song sheets and advertising - create the flavour of the 1930s. Opie also compiled the successful Wartime Scrapbook.

When pop music meets politics, the results are often thrilling, sometimes life-changing and never simple. This book tracks this turbulent relationship through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday crooning 'Strange Fruit' to Greenday raging against the ...