TWENTY ODD PIECES - journalism and essays from turn of the century Scotland.

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1. Snow on High Ground - a memoir of Scotland’s last herring fishery.

2. Duncan Stewart of Haiti - the Balquidder-born doctor to le roi Christophe.

3. A Cider Called Spartacus – ‘we couldn’t count and they didn’t have to’.

4. Oysters from Sweetings - a newly-discovered masterpiece by the British Empire’s greatest writer, John Buchan.

5. Paperback Bolsheviks.

6. A New Scottish Enlightenment?

7. A Laconic Lump of Water.

8. A Small Miracle in Tarbert.

9. Do We Need these Tories Now?

10. Downhill from the Bay of Strangers.

11. Of Keepers and Kings.

12. How Bush Rules - chronicles of a radical regime.

13. English Takes Over.

14. These Hills Were Mine - land-law, lawyers and a west-Highland loch.

15. The Great War for Civilisation.

16. The Last Jacobite - a re-write of Lady Gregory.

17. Decent People from the South.

18. Pass the Bottle - a dialogue for two hands.

19. Failte Gu la Nouvelle Dordogne - jobs, houses and settlers in the old Rough Bounds.

20. At Last - a University of the Highlands and Islands.

21. The Forty Five in Atholl.

22. The Red Virgin - mankind, madness and a woman’s place.