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    Ann Cleeves’s Scottish Sense of Place in The Shetland Quartet

    Very hot summer day in Bordeaux, especially in my attic room which overlooks our neighbours’s blue swimming pool ! I feel like flopping down on a deck chair in the garden with a good book and fresh lemonade. Of course I would choose a detective novel or a thriller ! It’s quite topical on Scotiana [...]

    August 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: A Sense of Place | Leave a comment

    The Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective

    Christopher Brookmyre at Sherlock Award Ceremony

    The Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective? Sure Mairiuna, it is with great pleasure that I will talk more about it, especially that information on this very unique literary award is not easily gathered online. Furthermore, it is rather confusing as they are several categories.

    I first heard [...]

    August 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

    The Sense of Place in Scottish Magazines

    How are we going to cope with our Scottish reading list, that’s what I wonder Janice… we’re adding new authors and new books everyday,  in all genres, from all times and not only Scottish books of course, though these ones do appear to be on the top of our list ! Not to mention our [...]

    August 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Magazines | 2 comments

    Christopher Brookmyre’s Pandaemonium Book Launch at The Mitchell Library Theatre

    Christopher Brookmyre – Scottish Crime Fiction Novelist

    There is so much to say and so much going on at The Mitchell Library in Glasgow that I will, Mairiuna, stay in the building for another blog post.

    Especially so, that there will be a Book Launch this month in the Mitchell Library Theatre, for Pandaemonium, [...]

    August 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | 2 comments

    From Mitchell Library to Loch Croispol Bookshop

    Books books books! What insatiable bookworms we are, Janice, ”de vrais rats de bibliothèque” as we would say in France.  Are we going to become like Inspector Rebus?  Remember what Ian Rankin has written about him in Knots & Crosses?

    Rebus collected unread books. Once upon a time, he had actually read the books that he [...]

    August 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Bookshops & Librairies | Leave a comment
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