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Summer Reading: Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street

 

 

'Girl stands in a field reading her book' Harold Knight (1874-1961)

 

Hi everybody!

With autumn already touching our gardens and woods with its warm colours, it may seem a little late to write a page about “summer reading” but isn’t it a good idea to make […]

August 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alexander McCall Smith, Authors, Books | Leave a comment

Scotland’s Storyteller Nigel Tranter Historical Epic: The Bruce Trilogy

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Abbotsford Nigel Tranter exhibition author's typewriter © 2006 Scotiana

Since we are speaking of Robert the Bruce I would like to introduce today Nigel Tranter, a very popular Scottish author who has written, among many other books of historical fiction, a trilogy about the great Scottish king. He died in 2000, at […]

July 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Historical Fiction | 2 comments

Rob Roy Came Alive Under Sir Walter Scott’s Pen…and Now Lives Again In Scotiana’s Audio Series

Rob Roy MacGregor – Engraving – Source: Wikipedia

In February of 1671, was born in Glengyle, a couple of hundred yards above river Gyle’s northern bank, near Loch Katrine, the third son of Donald MacGregor (aka Donald Glas, or pale, from the natural pallor of his skin), a chief of Clan Gregor […]

April 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Comments are closed

With Rebus Gone, What Next For Ian Rankin?

Hey Mairiuna, hope you don’t mind if I talk again today about our favorite crime writer, Ian Rankin. I’m just kidding, as i know you will be thrilled to read about the subsequent books that were published after the “Rebus finale“.

Exit Music – Last Inspector Rebus series – Ian […]

April 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus Crime Thriller Series Finale…

Ian Rankin’s Exit Music, published in December 2007, was to be the final instalment of a series of eighteen ( if we include Death Is Not The End, a novella that was further expanded in the novel Dead Souls) crime novels featuring the well known and charismatic Edinburgh’s Inspector John […]

April 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | One comment
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