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Notes about “The Antiquary” by Sir Walter Scott…

Dear readers,

Autumn is back with its gorgeous colours and shorter days. A good time for fireside reading and for me to go on with my promise to Sir Walter Scott to read all his books. A promise that seems to be well on its way though I still feel like the climber at the […]

September 29th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

Forgotten treasures and new gems in my Scottish Library!

“The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house

comes from stumbling across books that I’d almost forgotten I owned.”

John Burnside

As we are going to move soon from our house in the South of Bordeaux to a new home situated in a lovely corner of […]

March 31st, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

Great Scottish Books to Help Pass the Time in Lockdown…

Dear readers,

Ages seem to have passed since my last post on Scotiana and our wonderful trip to Scotland in winter. In the meantime, there has been the outbreak of that infamous covid 19 pandemy and I sincerely hope that you, your friends and family are doing well in such hard times.

Country […]

April 30th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books | Leave a comment

22 May 1859 : Birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh

22 May 2019

Today is the 160th birth anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but not everybody knows that the father of Sherlock Holmes was born in Edinburgh. A beautiful bronze statue of the detective stands in Picardy Place at the top of Edinburgh’s Leith Walk just opposite the birthplace (demolished c. 1970) of Sir […]

May 21st, 2019 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Authors, Detective Novels, Guided Tours | Leave a comment

Scotiana’s choice of books for Christmas 2018…

“Heap on more wood! The wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.”

(Sir Walter Scott – “Christmas in the Olden Time” from Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, 1808)

With hardly one month left until Christmas, it’s high […]

November 30th, 2018 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment
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