The 13 interlinked stories in this book depict every aspect of life in Glasgow, evoking the slums and their inhabitants, both young and old, Catholic and Protestant, hopeful and disillusioned.

    Volume 1 of a four volume study of the national and local festivals of Scotland.

    He was married to a royal countess and lived with a beautiful commoner. He was the legal representative of the National authority in territories north of the River Forth and he waged a bitter war on the Church in the Province of Moray and on its Bishop Alexander Bur.He burned two towns, plundered an abbey and destroyed a great cathedral. He was excommunicated, condemned by his king, blackened by historians. Could anything good or new be said about such a man? Nothing, until a chance uncovered the story of Philip Hogeston, soldier-priest, crusader and prisoner of the water-pit in the island of Lochindorb, the lair of the Wolf of Badenoch.

    With its many islands, its miles of Atlantic coastline and its fertile glens it was one of the earliest parts of Scotland to be settled by prehistoric peoples. Later as the centre of the kingdom of Dalriada it was at the heart of the foundation of the emerging Scottish nation.