Presenting a meditation on the literary and visual arts of the American West, this book explores how this region has developed its own distinct culture, in literature and painting. It…

This collection of poetry faithfully moves from the private to the public, f rom individual experience to civic responsibility through an elegy for the 1960s and the world that has…

Alan Williamson artfully joins social and literary history with personal experience in The Pattern More Complicated, a collection of his very best poems over the last twenty years. A powerful…

Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) came to be recognised as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and…

A fully illustrated history of the disastrous 1980 attempt to rescue the 53 US Embassy hostages in Tehran, which involved the new Delta Force and a complex series of airlifts…

Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people on the fringes–junkies, soccer hooligans, ravers, working-class…