November 2022 Issue Allan Massie Over the Sea to Skye ‘Pretty Young Rebel’: The Life of Flora Macdonald By Flora Fraser LR
December 2018 Issue David S Forsyth Separating the Sheep from the Men The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600–1900 By T M Devine LR
September 2018 Issue Allan Massie Law by Name, Lawless by Nature John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century By James Buchan LR
March 2017 Issue Gavin Weightman Roads to Glory Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain By Julian Glover LR
May 2016 Issue Dominic Green Fight & Flight Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion By Jacqueline Riding LR
August 2003 Issue Peter Washington Sons of Scotland Tobias Smollett By Jeremy Lewis Electric Shepard: A Likeness of James Hogg By Karl Miller LR
December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson LR
May 2012 Issue Allan Massie Taking the Low Road The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent By Sarah Fraser LR
March 2005 Issue Frank McLynn The Deadly Decorator John the Painter: Britain’s First International Terrorist By Jessica Warner LR
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