Scotiana

What a good idea, Janice, to have chosen this quotation from Sue Walker. It perfectly illustrates the idea of a “sense of place” which has always played so important a part in Scottish literature.
Sue Walker is a popular Scottish crime fiction writer.  As she was born and has lived for some time  in Edinburgh she [...]

(…) “I was asked by an acquaintance recently how the inspiration for my novels came about. A common enough question and I had a straightforward reply. ‘Location, location, location.’ And that answer, to a great extent, is the whole truth. It is certainly the case that the locations used in The Reckoning (the island of [...]

Take a good detective novel with you in the car, read it or listen to it and you’ll soon forget bad weather, heavy traffic and  long hours of driving on dull motorways. As Janice mentioned it to you, in her last post, that’s exactly what we did on our long journey from Bordeaux to Scotland.
Motorways [...]