Mary, Queen of Scots, lived during one of the most fascinating periods in history. Graham s epic work paints a unique picture of this controversial woman, showing her to be neither a Catholic martyr nor murdering adulteress but an innocent young woman caught up in the ruthless sea of sixteenth-century politics, someone who lacked the shrewdness and empowerment of her contemporaries: Catherine de Medici, Diane de Poitiers and Elizabeth Tudor. Instead, she relied on her beauty and charm and tragically allowed herself to be a victim of circumstance When she did finally attempt to control her...

How did Christianity come to Scotland? A sixteen-hundred-year-old fog of mystery separates us from the dawn of Christianity in Scotland - but there are some intriguing signposts. Roderick Graham's thorough research challenges the myths. He reveals what Scotland was like before Ninian, Columba and Kentigern and explores the nature of the Christianity that they brought. He seeks answers to the question of Ninian's existence and the arrival of Christianity at Whithorn, why Columba came to Iona, who the mysterious Culdees were, the fate of Kentigern's mother and why Kentigern met with Columba in...

A deeply researched, comprehensive biography of John Knox which vividly brings its subject and the milieu of the Scottish Reformation to life. The author shatters the myth that Knox was a ranting, dogmatic misogynist. This man of action lived a dramatic life in the midst of one of the most volatile periods in Christian and Scottish history.