30 fascinating stories from throughout Scottish history. Meet pirates, heroes, and ordinary people: revealed through their letters, period news stories, and many other sources, combined with the author’s personal observation, to fill in the details that have been forgotten by history.
Read about the veteran of Bannockburn with a mechanical hand, and the cannibal family that terrorised Dundee.
Find out how the people of Inverness changed history with a barrel of whisky, about Jack the Ripper’s visit to a Scottish fishing village, and about a disastrous game of curling.
Leonard Low explores the dark and mysterious, the tragic and the heroic, and brings the stories to life with his evocative writing.
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