Michael Fry is a highly regarded author and journalist, and a regular contributor to many newspapers and journals, notably the Scotsman , the Glasgow Herald and the Sunday Times. He is the author of eight books of Scottish history, each of which has overthrown some cherished myth or embarked on a revision of history ambitious enough to make the work sell beyond Scotland. Waterstone’s main bookshop in Edinburgh has a whole section devoted to the works of `Michael Fry, Scotland’s most controversial historian’.