An excellent collection that includes over three hundred poems ranging from the early medieval period to the C21st. Three finer editors would be hard to imagine.
Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on O... read more
After her adventures with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the aftermath of Culloden, Flora MacDonald emigrated to North Carolina, married, and got caught up in the War of Independence. This is an a... read more