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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

Scotiana’s Books for Christmas : “Six Dinner Sid”…

 

Many thanks

and a big bear hug to Nathalie & Jean for their lovely interpretation of Jingle Bells !!!

Jean, my grandson, who just turned 9 last month, started to learn English at his primary school in Toulouse. Hear him sing Jingle Bells accompanied by his […]

December 23rd, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature | Leave a comment

Scotiana’s Books for Christmas: Alistair Moffat’s Scotland

 

Santa’s Sleigh, part of a display in Glasgow – Wikimedia

Dear readers,

The book I’ve chosen today for our Christmas selection is Scotland, A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat. It is the author’s last published book and a very good choice for people who love Scotland and more especially the […]

December 20th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

Scotiana’s Books for Christmas: Jules Verne’s Scotland

 

Wigtown quotation in The Bookshop © 2006 Scotiana

 

‘A mind amongst books, like fire in the heather’

 

Wigtown The Bookshop © 2007 Scotiana

Books ! Books ! Books !

Wigtown, the famous Scottish book town situated in Dumfries & Galloway,

is […]

December 15th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

Scotiana’s Books for Christmas: “Darker Ends”

Christmas funfair in George Square Glasgow – Photo Thomas Nugent

Dear readers,

Christmas time is quickly approaching now, so I’d better hurry to add a couple of books to Scotiana’s selection for Christmas. My problem is to choose among so many interesting books published in Scotland recently;-)

A Drop in the Ocean, […]

December 9th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature | 2 comments
 
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