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    Scottish Top Authors share their favourite reads…

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    Mairiuna, I just stumbled upon an article in the Scotsman online magazine that compiles a list of top Scottish authors’ favourite books for the year 2012.

    In all, 44 authors contributed to this project. Wow… Ain’t it exciting to find out what our best authors reads are?

    So happy to find on the list Christopher Brookmyre,  [...]

    January 18th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books | Leave a comment

    Great Scottish books to read by the fireside…

    Source : Le coffre aux images de Kate

     

    As Father Christmas is already driving his heavily loaded reindeer-drawn sleigh across the icy territories of his faraway country I’m very busy preparing the festivities of the end of the Year, dreaming of a vivifying walk in the countryside or [...]

    December 21st, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Books | Leave a comment

    Following Literary Trails in Scotland: Edinburgh…

     

     

    Edinburgh Advocate's Close © 2006 Scotiana

    To discover literary Edinburgh, you have to walk it, defying Robert Louis Stevenson’s “bleak winds” and exploring Dorothy Wordsworth’s “passes of dark stone”, simply because there is no other way of penetrating the ancient wynds, closes and creeper-ridden burial grounds of this city, whose literary past [...]

    August 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Edinburgh | Leave a comment

    Inspector Sweeney, a new Scottish detective in Edinburgh…

     

    (Keltia  n° 23 – juin/août 2012 – Editions du Nemeton)

    Open on my desk, at the very page of the article I’m going to write about today, lies the new issue of Keltia, one of my favourite French magazines which I’ve already mentioned in Scotiana. Indeed, I wrote an [...]

    June 13th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Books, Celtic Culture, Detective Novels | Leave a comment

    Google Doodles Celebrating Scotland…

    Hi Mairiuna!

    It was truly a pleasure to read your last post triggered by Google Doodle’s commemoration of the 220th birth anniversary of Gioachino Rossini. The music was such a joy to hear!

    Gioachino Rossini – Google Doodle- 29 February 2012

    Thanks for sharing such great insights about Rossini and the nature of his [...]

    March 18th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, Books, Google Doodles, Robert Louis Stevenson | Leave a comment
     
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