Andrew Drummond is een Schotse schrijver wiens werk de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring verkent door middel van een bedachtzame stijl en een uniek perspectief. Zijn romans, vaak geïnspireerd door geschiedenis en taal, onderzoeken de lange reizen en onverwachte verbanden die ons leven vormgeven. Drummond opereert als een literaire ontdekkingsreiziger, die de diepten en onuitgesproken verhalen binnen het schijnbaar gewone blootlegt. Zijn schrijven biedt lezers een boeiende verkenning van een wereld van subtiele details en meeslepende verhalen.
In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a finger to build one.
"The self-styled Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyovszky, Counsellor to the Duke of Saxony and Colonel in the service of the Queen of Hungary, was in fact only confirmed to have been an officer in a regiment of the Polish Confederation of Bar. While he did escape from Russian captors and subsequently travel to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar, many of his exploits were wildly exaggerated or simply invented. Andrew Drummond reveals an alternative picture of events by looking at statements from Benyovszky’s travelling companions and sceptical officials as well as contemporary documents from the places he claimed to have visited, untangling the truth behind his stories and examining what these stories can nonetheless tell us about the era in which Benyovszky lived."--Provided by publisher.
This first volume of a series on the Scottish church dealing largely with the church's relationship with the secular community and with the nature of Scottish nationhood after the country had been deprived of its parliament in 1707.
Thomas Müntzer: radical millenarian preacher, revolutionary, iconoclast
On 5 December 63 BC the Roman senate voted for the execution without trial of five alleged associates of Catiline. This is one of the most famous and controversial episodes in Roman political history, involving important questions of individual liberties and public security. This monograph employs a variety of approaches to construct a new and original analysis of the senatorial debate and the issues it raises. It incorporates a systematic analysis of the evidence, with particular emphasis on the interrelationship of individual sources and their own specific characteristics and priorities; it examines the narrative of Sallust in detail and offers a fresh assessment of its methods, objectives and value; it discusses the terms in which the legality of the executions was defended in antiquity; and it addresses fundamental general issues of the interaction between law and politics at Rome.