Synopsis
Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Whenever anyone mentions ‘Reiver’, no-one hesitates to add ‘Border’. It is an inextricable association, […]

The Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser
The definitive guide to the lives and times of the Border Reivers.
This book is highly entertaining. George MacDonald Fraser successfully relates the life and times of the Border Reivers in a way which had me laughing one minute and horrified the next. One […]