Never Mind the Captions: An off-beat guide to Scotland's history and heritage

Alistair Findlay has not only articulated the silent unspoken questions which people ask of museum pieces and cultural icons, he lets the objects answer back, to the delight and entertainment of the reader. - Dr Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum

Alistair Findlay worked for over thirty years as a social worker in communities across the UK, and also has a Masters Degree in Modern Poetry in English from Stirling University. In August 2007 Alistair was awarded a Writer's Bursary by the Scottish Arts Council to produce this book, which is his third collection of poems on social workers, and also to edit an anthology of Scottish Marxist poetry - Lenin's Gramaphone. As well as his poetry, Alistair Findlay is the author of Shale Voices, a creative memoir of the shale oil communities of West Lothian.