The Poor Had No Lawyers

frank, fearless and at times ferocious - a remarkable book ~Herald

Superlative ~Scotsman

It is historical and oh-so contemporary and, perhaps, in these exciting times, a call to arms ~Laura Marney

An essential guide to who owns Scotland and why land reform has flowered there in recent years' ~The Guardian (the best books about land and power 2020)

A more important book about Scottish land ownership has yet to be written' ~David Ross, Press and Journal

One of the defining literary and scholarly works of modern Scotland ... it demands to be read if you want to reach an understanding of why Scotland cannot be considered a fair society while prevailing patterns of land ownership persist in our most beautiful places' ~Kevin McKenna

A more important book about Scottish land ownership has yet to be written’ 

  ~David Ross, The Press and Journal