This fascinating and comprehensive account of St Andrews traces its history from Pictish times to the present day. It is based not only on a huge amount of original research, but also on an intimate knowledge of the town which Raymond Lamont-Brown accumulated in over twenty years’ residence there.  Meer

Some cases should never be reopened When the remains of a young woman revive a cold case from DCI Lomond’s past, he’s pulled into a decades-long cover-up involving some of the most powerful police and officials in Scotland.  Meer

They’re dying to be on it When a famous crime writer is found dead, DCI Lomond suspects one of seven bestselling authors gathered to honour their friend.  Meer

The past can be a killer When mutilated bodies appear across Scotland, bearing the same chilling message, DCI Lomond faces a vigilante killer—and a reckoning with his own past.  Meer

Professor Raymond deals here with the evolution of the great Arab cities of the Ottoman period (1516-1800) - with questions of organisation, social life and the built space - looking in particular at Aleppo, Algiers, Constantine and, above all, at Cairo.  Meer

This book traces several troubling developments, and seeks to reveal the essential nature of privacy and, critically, what privacy is not.  Meer