The Frommer’s Scotland With Your Family guide is a full colour, practical and accessible book for independently minded UK families looking to make the most of their family holiday. The guide highlights the best opportunities for families in the region and offer expert opinion on where to stay, where to eat and where to spend your holiday time enjoyably.
This full-length history of Scotland spans 18 centuries, from the Picts to the 1980s. The book focuses on social and cultural history, including life in the towns, the changing role of the nobility and the shifting images of Scottish identity.
The gripping new saga set in Liverpool from William Heinemann and Arrow's rising star After he is demobbed in 1919, handsome Michael Quinn, the cobbler, is a changed man. He moves his family from their comfortable home in Wallasey to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. He rules his family with a rod of iron and when his browbeaten wife dies, his daughter Vera has to keep house for him and his other two sons as well as bring up Benny, who is only a baby.
When in 1296, the nobles of Scotland together with their weak King Baliol, placed Scotland under the tyrranical rule of King Edward I of England, the country seemed prouds of her chains. However, some of the Scottish nobles were very much ashamed. One of these was Sir William Wallace, who retired to his castle Elderslie. Neighbouring nobles avoided him, fearing his attitude would cause them to lose favour with their conquerors. Therefore, Wallace and his wife were surprised one day, when they had a visitor.
The Lady of the Lake is the stirring tale of James Fitz-James, the disguised King James V of Scotland; the wrongly exiled yet loyal James of Douglas; his beautiful daughter Ellen, the “Lady” of the title; the fierce yet stalwart Roderick Dhu; and the “rash youth,” Malcolm Graeme. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, this romantic story of love, betrayal, and triumph helped to create an image of Scotland as a land of legend that persists to this very day.
