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Birthday Centenary of George Mackay Brown…

Born on 17 October 1921, in Stromness, Orkney, George Mackay Brown, “The Bard of Orkney” would be a hundred years old today. We would like to join his many fans all over the world to celebrate this anniversary and pay homage to the great Scottish poet.

As one of the leading Scottish poets and authors […]

October 17th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors, George Mackay Brown, Orkney | Leave a comment

15 August 2021: Happy Birthday Sir Walter!!!

Today, 15 August 2021, is a keydate on the Scottish calendar. It is the 250th birthday of Sir Walter Scott, one of the most popular authors in Scotland and his popularity goes far beyond its frontiers. As one of his French admirers, I could not help writing a few lines on Scotiana today. How I […]

August 15th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Events, Scottish Writers & Artists Houses, Sir Walter Scott | Leave a comment

For the Islands the great Orcadian poet will sing forever…

Almost before you are aware of it the summer is over, we are in September, the autumn equinox is hard upon us, and we go wheeling down into the storms, the snow, the darkness of winter. It was all over too soon, the season of peaches (I never ate so many – […]

October 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Scotland | Leave a comment

On the Shelves of our Favourite Scottish Writers’ Libraries

 

Agatha Christie Postern of Fate Fontana 1976

 

‘Books!’ says Tuppence in Agatha Christie’s Postern of Fate

(Chapter 1: ‘Mainly Concerning Books’)

“Is there anything I can take down for you?”

“Well, I wish you would”, said Tuppence. “I’m falling off […]

March 26th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Authors | Leave a comment

Following the Blue Road on the Steps of Kenneth White in Quebec : Episode 7

Kenneth White The Wanderer and the Charts Polygon Books 2004

I’ve always delighted in the reading of old geographers and explorers.You feel in their texts the first tentative steps, see the earliest visions, register the initial astonishment at the […]

January 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Travelling Quebec | Leave a comment
 
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