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A Selection of Scottish Authors & Books for Christmas 2021

How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books?

(Robert Louis Stevenson – From A Child’s Garden of Verses)

I could not have found more charming lines to introduce my new selection of books for Christmas than the above verses written by Robert […]

November 30th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Children's Literature, George Mackay Brown, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment

The Scottish Tales of Moray Firth with Hugh Miller…

Hugh Miller was born in 1802, in Cromarty. It is a lovely little town, a former royal burgh, situated at the end of the so-called “Black Isle” which, contrary to what the name suggests and also, on a quite different register, contrary to Herge’s description of the place in his volume of Tintin entitled The […]

January 21st, 2017 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Folk Tales & Mysteries | One comment