Castles of Scotland

REVIEW BY KK With more than 1,500 castles – a term that Andrew Powell-Thomas uses to cover everything from medieval military fortifications and tower houses to crenellated mansions and great estates – still standing in Scotland today, no book can hope to cover them all. Castles of Scotland selects just 50 of them, with Powell-Thomas choosing to highlight a mixture of the ones that are most famous, such as Edinburgh, Balmoral, and Stirling, and those that are a bit more obscure, such as Buchanan Castle near Loch Lomond and Innes Chonnel Castle on an island on Loch Awe. Each entry provides a brief overview of the site, primarily discussing its history and architecture. For those loo