This is the first ever anthology of writing about Fife, a part of Scotland with an immensely rich tradition of history and literature. It gathers together all the great characters of Scottish
history who have acted out their dramas within the famous Kingdom of Fife - St Margaret and Alexander I, James VI and the Earl of Moray, Cardinal Beaton and Archbishop Sharp, Mary, Queen of
Scots and John Knox. Here too are the many great writers on Fife, from Robert Henryson to Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott to Thomas Carlyle, and right up to Joe Corrie and Ian
Rankin.
All walks of life are represented here - the whalers of Kirkcaldy and the miners of Lindsay Colliery; ambulance drivers and Hammermen; witches and magicians; golfers and distillers. The
background to their lives, the fine castles and quaint cottages, fishing villages and scenes of rural beauty are celebrated in wonderfully varied prose and poetry. Anyone who knows and loves
Fife will find in this book a collection of vivid and entertaining writing that unfolds the full splendour of Scotland’s ’fringe of gold’
