The author owns The Bookshop, Wigtown – Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. In these wry and hilarious diaries he provides insight into the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, ... Learn More

‘The greatest enterprise of its kind in history’ was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when the Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its ... Learn More

This meticulously researched and disturbing book traces the ways in which, over the last three decades, a criminal elite of politicians and ‘businessmen’ have moved their thieved fortunes around t... Learn More

Beginning in 410 with the rise of the Saxons, the author divides the chapters into time frames, each focusing on important events of the period. This allows a comprehensive discussion of time periods ... Learn More