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Tales from Border Reiver Country

Featuring the Armstrong Clan                     

RIDING WITH MOONLIGHT                                                     

by Tom Armstrong

For three hundred years the border between Scotland and England was in a state of almost continuous violence and bloodshed.

Many families on both sides of the border were forced into reiving to survive. These are stories of one such family - the Armstrongs, but could apply to many other border clans.

83pp

The Spur on the Plate

by Maureen Rylance

Meg and Rob are Armstrongs and are proud of it.

Their uncle Johnnie is famous along the English/Scottish border for his boldness, cunning and riches. This makes it especially difficult for Meg to accept her father's drinking and refusals to ride out and provide for his family.

So, headstrong and wilful as always, she decides to take matters into her own hands. too late she is shocked by the perilous and far-reaching consequences of her actions. Instead of helping her family, she leads them further and further into danger.

Will any of them survive? And if so, will their lives ever be the same?

100pp

The Border Reivers

The Debatable Land

The Battle of Sollomoss

by James Bell

This book by James R. Bell covers three outstanding aspects of Border history in the Western Marches, and has produced many facts not widely known which do not appear in many other accounts of Border history.