Robert the Bruce
by Ronald McNair Scott | 
Queen of Scots
by John Guy | 
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
by Stefan Zweig | 
Arbella
by Sarah Gristwood |
Nelson and Emma
by Roger Hudson | 
Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser | 
Bess of Hardwick
by Mary S. Lovell | 
Scotland
by Magnus Magnusson | 
Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Marion Meade | 
History of William the Conqueror
by Jacob Abbott | 
Glencoe
by John Prebble | 
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
by Arthur Herman |
Genghis Khan
by Harold Lamb | 
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
by Alison Weir |
The Scottish Nation
by T. M. Devine | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers | 
Mobituaries
by Mo Rocca |
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place of his birth have been mis-stated - until now. James Mackay uses all his skills as a historical detective to produce this definitive biography, telling the incredible story of a man who, without wealth or noble birth, rose to become Guardian of Scotland. William Wallace, with superb generalship and tactical genius, led a country with no previous warlike tradition to triumph gloriously over the much larger, better-armed and better-trained English forces. Seven hundred years later, the heroism and betrayal, the valiant deeds and the dark atrocities, and the struggle of a small nation against a brutal and powerful empire, still create a compelling tale.