One man's obsession with scotland. One shamanic detective. one twelfth century monk catapulted through time to present day England.

A devil, a megalomaniac maths lecturer and the world on the brink of economic collapse. It sounds a convoluted tale, but it all fits together - honest.

And what's more, while it doesn't actually explain how time travel is possible, it does at least prove that it does exist. Irrefutably.

That is, of course, if you believe the word of a man whose business card contains no contact details, who smokes mushrooms through a pipe and who talks to mooses.

And what has any of this got to do with Scotland?