That the gun was kept in a drawer of the old Singer sewing machine was never a secret; although, when his father died, its significance as a reminder of the old man’s mysterious occupation was quickly overshadowed by the discovery of a fortune in banknotes in the loft.

There was, too, the emergence of some alarming connections with an extreme...

Frustrated equally by misrule at Westminster and the Scottish government’s failure to progress the independence agenda, a reinvigorated Scottish National Liberation Army seizes power from Scotland’s ruling party, the SNP, after a campaign of attrition during the 2020s. This tale follows the adventures of two young revolutionaries as they pursue...

Frank is any one of us, and like each of us he is unique. This series of tales, drawn from actual and imagined events, threads together seven episodes from the life of an ordinary man. But by no measure are those episodes anything but extraordinary.

To be Frank, he has constantly to reconcile acquired principles with his natural impulse, until...