Scotiana

Gosh…Mairiuna….we’ll miss the 2009 Edition of Wigtown Book Festival, but let us not forget to include this major event inside our 2010 itinerary. It’s a must! Very welcoming sign board indeed. Let’s see if I can guess which nationality  lies behind each “Welcome”… Willkommen … gotta be German. Failte … for sure it is Gaelic. [...]

The Wigtown Ploughman Hotel On our next Scottish itinerary, we’ll certainly not leave Scotland without spending a day or two in Wigtown. That’s really a nice little town and of course, as we’ve already mentioned it, a fabulous place to buy books, especially the old ones we are looking for desperately and which have been [...]

The first Scottish fictional female detective, Valeria, created by Wilkie Collins, back in 1875, in his book titled The Law and the Lady was all about attacking the “Not Proven” verdict that still exists today in Scotland laws. It is quite surprising Mairiuna, that Wilkie Collins had a great success with this book, because, in [...]

How amazing! Our blog seems to possess a life of its own now, with its authors sometimes desperately trying to follow it ! There are so many roads opening everywhere that we sometimes feel as if lost in a labyrinth. Mind you ! That’s the kind of thing that may well happen to you if [...]

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 [...]