Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines! A farmer’s daughter from Galloway in south-west Scotland, Jane went to work at the Scottish Jewish Mission School in Budapest in 1932, where she was a boarding school matron in charge of around 50 orphan girls. The school had 400 pupils, most of them Jewish. Jane was back in the UK on holiday when war broke out in 1939, but she immediately went back to Hungary to do all she could to protect the children at the school.......
Jock Stein is a piper and preacher from East Lothian. He brings to his writing experience of the Sheffield steel industry, life in East Africa, directing Carberry Tower, a sabbatical in Hungary, servicing Charities . . . He writes poetry in many styles, serious and quirky....
Following the death of her mother and her father’s remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed in the convent at Brehna. She will never see her father again..
Wittenberg 1525. The unexpected marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina von Bora has no fairytale ending. A sign of apostasy to their enemies, and a source of consternation to their friends, it sends shock waves throughout Europe.
The Khaki Man and the Clergyman is the appetiser story of two Glasgow boys, their families and their connections through life. The khaki man Jim spent about 18 years as a private in the British Army, and 29 years as a labourer in Glasgow's...
Renegade. Reformer. Revolutionary. Five centuries after his birth, the influence of John Knox can still be felt across his native Scotland and throughout the world....