The 'Guardian Pigs' series is a collection of comforting stories designed to help childrenfeel safe, brave, and protected, one bedtime at a time.Oliver is the Night Pig. With quiet courage, gentle hooves, and his glowing lantern, hepatrols the nighttime and protects the house while children dream.Featuring beautiful illustrations and a gentle rhyming story, Oliver The Night Pig is aperfect bedtime book to encourage calm and peaceful sleep.

This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’ in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country’s economy and shaping the world’s drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor’s letters written over a forty-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually det...

This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to...