About the Author

Ronald McNair Scott was educated at Cheltenham College and St John's College, Oxford. As a young man he became a literary critic for the Sunday Times. He later became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and authored two novel. From boyhood he was fascinated by Robert the Bruce, and spent six years researching and writing this book.

Reviews

"Scott has a rare gift of underlining the significance of characters, places, and the customs of the time, conveying their presence almost as vividly as a photograph." --School Library Journal