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Glasgow: A Sense Of Place in Scottish Crime Fiction

What a great tour into Sue Walker’s literary work you just guided us through Mairiuna!

It is so interesting that I will continue on the same path for a while and explore how the unique atmosphere of a particular place provides inspiration to an author. And come to think of it, to capture such “sense […]

July 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: A Sense of Place | 2 comments

A Sense of Place in Scottish Fiction and in Scotland

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 […]

July 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: A Sense of Place | 2 comments

Edinburgh: A Sense of Place in Scottish Crime Fiction

Sue-Walker-Scottish-Crime-Fiction-Author photograph by A Hargreaves

(…) “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 […]

July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: A Sense of Place | Leave a comment