Scotiana

 
Hi everybody,
We don’t live in Edinburgh and, as the number of our visits there happen to be rather limited, our vision of this fascinating city owes much to our readings, each of them adding its little touch to the sense of place we got there and making us still more eager to [...]

Hi Mairiuna!
First, let me tell you that I absolutely fell in love with Arnold Lobel’s illustration “Books to the Ceiling” that we can see inside your post: “First Steps in Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street… Very original rendering of a house full of books!
As we are both great book lovers, no wonder this charming [...]

 
 
 
Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
(Arnold Lobel – Whiskers & Rhyme)
 

Hi everybody!
The little corner of my library devoted to Alexander McCall Smith’s books is beginning to become crowded. As I’ve mentioned in my last post, [...]

 
 
 
Hi everybody!
With autumn already touching our gardens and woods with its warm colours, it may seem a little late to write a page about “summer reading” but isn’t it a good idea to make  summer last a little longer. Indeed, the Indian Summer is still to come, isn’t it Janice?
But before embarking on our ”summer [...]

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 those [...]