Author: Tony Inglis

Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desp …

Woodstock opens in farce, yet it is one of Scott’s darkest novels. It deals with revolution, to Scott the most disturbing of all subjects: ‘it appears that every step we made towards liberty, has but …