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Rob Roy’s Gun, Dirk, Sword and Sporran at Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s House

Abbotsford Scotiana.com 2006

We can’t help returning to Abbotsford each time we go to Scotland to pay homage to the great writer. Sir Walter Scott’s presence can still be felt in each room of the vast house and along the quiet alleys of the beautiful park surrounding it. In some corner of the […]

November 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors | One comment

Rob Roy under the pen of Walter Scott at Abbotsford

Scott's View Eildon Hills Scotiana.com 2006

Day after day, in our quest of Scotland, we go deeper and deeper into that fascinating country and like hungry pilgrims on a never ending path we discover new horizons at each turn. So, let us walk on, listening on the road to what people say and […]

November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment

Winners of the CWA Award For The Best Crime Novel Writing and more…

Okay Mairiuna! 🙂 It’s with great pleasure that I will try to shed some light on the prestigious 2006 to 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award honoring the very best in English crime and thriller writings.

But before I disclose the names of the authors who received the ornamental dagger and a £20,000 prize tied to […]

August 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment

What Does Highland Park Whisky and Inspector John Rebus have in common ?

Rebus's Scotland – A Personal Journey – Ian Rankin

On the subject of anniversaries and detectives, I’m indeed very pleased Mairiuna to talk about another well known Scottish author, Ian Rankin, creator of the famous Scottish detective Sergeant John Rebus.

Back in 1987, when his novel Knots & Crosses introducing for the first […]

June 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment

From Conan Doyle’s Sycamore to Sherlock Holmes’s Violin

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)

Conan Doyle died of a heart attack on 7 July 1930. He was aged 71 and lived then at “Windlesham”, his house situated in East Sussex, England. He was buried in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire. The epitaph […]

June 28th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Authors, Detective Novels | 3 comments
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