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Authors and books that will make you love Scotland…

Scotiana Posted on January 31, 2024 by MAJAFebruary 4, 2024

January… February…what about sitting by the fireside with a good book when it’s freezing cold outside and the wind is howling ;-).  Add to that a cup of tea, coffee or chocolate and you’ll begin to like winter! Unless, of course, you prefer to go out and face the elements. I must admit that when travelling in Scotland, even in … Continue reading →

Posted in Alexander McCall Smith, Authors, Books, George Mackay Brown, Kenneth White, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses | Tagged 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, A Tour of Val McDermid bookshelves, Bill Forsyth's film Local Hero with Burt Lancaster, Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown 'The Bard of Orkney', George Mackay Brown's poem 'A New Child', Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown, Kenneth White's waybooks and staybooks, La Carte de Guido/Guido's Map: A European Pilgrimage, La Maison des Marées/House of Tides, Le rôdeur des confins/Across the territories, Loch Coruisk on the Isle of Skye, Modern Scottish Literature by Alan Bold, Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain, Picturesque Scotland In Lay and Legend Song and Story by Francis Watt 1889, Poets' Pub a painting by Alexander Moffat, Schlomo the spirit of Salomon Ibn Gabirol Hebrew poet and Arab philosopher, Scottish Literature An Introduction by Alan Riach, Scottish short stories, short stories by George Mackay Brown and Iain Crichton Smith, the ghost of Rainer Maria Rilke, the Scottish £5 banknote featuring Nan Shepherd, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Wild History by James Crawford 2023, Windswept by Annie Worsley 2023, Winter Tales by George Mackay Brown | Leave a reply

Forgotten treasures and new gems in my Scottish Library!

Scotiana Posted on March 31, 2021 by MAJAApril 9, 2021

“The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I’d almost forgotten I owned.” John Burnside As we are going to move soon from our house in the South of Bordeaux to a new home situated in a lovely corner of Périgord Noir, I am making boxes and boxes of books and it made me … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged An Apple from a Tree by Margaret Elphinstone, Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Reminiscences of a Jacobite by Michael Nevin, Scottish author John Burnside, Scottish Books & Authors, Scottish Fantasy Literature by Colin Manlove, Scottish Ghost Stories, Scottish short stories, The Last of the Light by Peter Davidson | Leave a reply

Great Scottish books to read by the fireside…

Scotiana Posted on December 21, 2012 by MAJADecember 24, 2012

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 a good book to read by the fireside… Source : Le … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Dumfries and Galloway a literary Guide Julia Muir Watt, Edwin Muir's Scottish Journey, George Mackay Brown, George Mackay Brown The Masked Fisherman, George Mackay Brown Winter Tales, Iain Crichton Smith, Iain Crichton Smith short stories, Ian Rankin Standing in another man's grave, John-Erich Nielsen Murder on the Green, Kenneth White Across the Territories, Kenneth White Le chemin des crêtes, Mary Queen of Scots Antonia Fraser, Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Scotland's Books Robert Crawford, Scottish Books, Scottish short stories, Scottish winter tales, Sea Dog Bamse Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr, The Glasgow Cookery Book, Walter Scott The Shorter Fiction The Edinburgh edition of the Waverley Novels, Where the Whaups are Crying Innes MacLeod, Wojtek the Bear Aileen Orr | Leave a reply
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