A collection so thick with West of Scotland pride and charm, it is a disservice to describe it in any other way than Pure Dead Brilliant

Like a connoisseur picking up a find in a junk-shop, Davies holds up these events to a completely fresh light, and in so doing transforms them in our eyes. All sorts of unsettling questions spring to mind, and the comforting received versions of what happened in those years that some of us grew up with and grow old in appear alarmingly wide of the mark

Lovers of serendipity will find much to enjoy here

"Russia" delivers a thoroughly satisfying history...a lively opinionated narrative.

Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader

Stylish look at two centuries of quarrels and catfights

Entertaining... An elegantly written, wise and authoritative volume

This is a timely book. It comes at a moment when British politics is haunted by the intimate enmity of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and by all its attendant sub-feuds

This is a most engaging and rewarding book...stylish, scholarly and notably perceptive

He [Campbell] captures the determining role of personality in politics and the book is strong on tactics, strategy and, most of all, skulduggery

a wonderfully, irresistibly compelling read

...cleverly conceived and stylishly executed...

...well worth staying the course... Campbell's dissection of this last union covers much familiar ground, but he shows just how much a close political relationship can hobble an administration as much as energise it

The book is a joy to read: meticulously researched, beautifully written and scrupulously fair.

stylish book

Entertaining study