David Ross lives in East Kilbride. A keen motorcyclist and amateur historian, for years he has spent every free moment visiting historic sites, battlefields and castles, travelling everywhere by bike. He has immersed himself in finding out as much as he can about great Scottish heroes.

The biker-historian’s unique combination of unabashed romanticism and easy irreverence make him the ideal guide to historical subjects all too easily either swallowed up in maudlin sentiment or ‘demythologized’ by academic studies. The ScotsmanRoss writes with an immediacy, a dynamism, that makes his subjects come alive on the page. Dundee Courier