In Kidnapped (1886) and later fiction such as The Master of Ballantrae (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland’s past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in Kidnapped, whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite.   

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel set in the third summer of the war. Robert Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia slips across the Potomac to begin the invasion of the North.

A new and engrossing biography of the most significant Scottish politician of the Stewart age.

George IV’s great journey to Scotland in 1822 is one of the defining moments in the creation of our country. Prebble has created a thoroughly investigated book, which makes a great read for any history enthusiast.

Lavishly illustrated, this is the first full history of MacBrayne ferries, which are travelled on by over 5.4 million passengers annually.

This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of the Isles.

When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope.

The explosive follow-up to Two-Way Split.

The Klondykers: The Oilmen Onshore is Mackie's sequel to his The Oilmen: The North Sea Tigers,  which shifts focus from the oilrig to how this historical development affected communities on land.

An important collection of essays dealing with aspects of the execution of Britain’s foreign policy at a crucial period in her emergence as a major international power.