Scotland – Pictures and Conversations

An Amazing Illustrated Atlas of Scotland by David MacPhail and Anders Frang

I really do love a map and I love Scotland even more! So this book always seemed like a good choice for me. If the…

In my less realistic and rational moments (I can't actually write and I don't own the copyright) I imagine writing a follow on novel for…

Regular readers of this blog will have been unable to avoid the revelation that my favourite mid twentieth century writer is Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it but I ended up…

Benny, a cute and friendly robot, has one button that is to be pressed only in the event of an emergency. We've met Benny before…

I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…

If I ever had to make the decision to keep my entire collection of only one author, my choice would be Dorita Fairlie Bruce. I…

My first foray into books that were published for adults takes me very close to home. I've known Peebles in the Scottish Borders since I…

I reviewed all three books in Teresa Flavin's trilogy, mostly because I loved them and thought that they were well written but partly because I…

I know I'm not alone in having had horrible experiences of being compelled to read books in primary school that I hated. But, hopefully, I'm…