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A ‘snapshot’ of the single most important moment in 19th-century Scottish history. This book is based on an extraordinary painting by David Octavius Hill of the Disruption – a now half-forgotten schism in the Church that was so divisive in Scottish society and so explosive that it shaped Scotland as we know it today.

Roland Walls’ name is known only by word of mouth, and few of his teachings have ever appeared in print – until now. For the first time, the views of this prophetic, wise, mischievous and deeply loved former priest-in-charge of the famed Rosslyn Chapel are available and accessible to all, in his favourite conversational form.

John Reith is the father of our media age. He was also the father of Marista, whose compelling account of the great heights and desperate depths of being in Reith’s life unfolds in this unique biography.

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND AS AN E-BOOK In this remarkable book, the real voices of ordinary people caught up in war - both at home and on the Front - are moving, inspiring and utterly fascinating.

Living in a country that has more than 10,000 miles of coastline, it’s only natural that the Scots have an ancient, deep-rooted and fascinating connection to the sea. The seas around Scotland are the source of vast wealth, great hardship, dramatic conflict and new beginnings and, throughout history, Scots have taken to the water: to catch fish, to defend the country, to have fun and to travel to new lands.

The lavishly illustrated book of the critically acclaimed BBC Scotland television series

The first six volumes in a series about the life and key works of the world’s greatest composers.

Brahms was every inch the romantic who played the piano with fire. He was a summer composer inspired by sunshine and lakeside resorts, where he said that the air was so full of melodies that you had to take care not to tread on them.

The Victorians dismissed him, but he was the greatest child prodigy in the history of music and an adult genius whose work became even more intense in the troubled years of his life. Conrad Wilson revises his reputation.