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‘On a whim, my father would turn onto a previously untravelled road, just to see where it might take us. We explored back roads and undistin …
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David Robinson Reviews: Big Sk...
‘It has been nine years since Kate Atkinson published her last Jackson Brodie novel, and her new one, Big Sky, reminds us what we have been …
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‘I felt consumed by an enormous sense of joy, and it seemed no time before we’d reached the col between the two Munro tops – only to have to …
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Carla Sassi Reviews: The Burni...
‘She was a remarkable woman whose impact on Britain’s social and cultural scene was considerable. She is a striking example of the way an in …
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‘Hidden, stolen, mended, remade – these precious objects, along with the Stone of Destiny, now take pride of place in Edinburgh Castle.’
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Kristian Kerr Reviews: My Name...
‘After everyone else was dead, I sat by a window for three days watching the glacier creak and break.’
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‘Strange to contemplate this spot, gouged cleanly out, as going back millions of years’
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‘In the last three or four decades something remarkable has happened. There has been a widespread and striking revival of interest in the pr …
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An Illustrated Treasury of Sco...
‘Fear not the Dark Dragon of Dunvegan. If it should ever awake from sleep.’
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Rediscovering: Dorothy Dunnett
‘Her brilliance lies in her combining of literary skill with the integrity and passion that underlay her depictions of human lives, historie …
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Wild and Majestic: Romantic Vi...
‘From the late 18th century, visitors were drawn to Scotland in increasing numbers, attracted to locations depicted in romantic paintings, p …
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‘Scotland still has hundreds of miles of “dismantled railways” (so termed by the Ordnance Survey). Some track beds have been saved as Tarmac …
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‘Day faded into dusk. The river glittered red in the remnants of a sunset that, further to the west, silhouetted the dome of Dumbarton Rock …
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‘The excitement that each split may reveal beautiful shiny black scales and the first look at a curious ancient fish is rapidly lost. But wi …
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‘Go and hear the water in the wood as it splays downhill cold as Greenland.’
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‘Although the King James Pub (formerly Christie’s Bar) is modern, there is a possibility that the remains of the medieval Blackfriars Monast …
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‘‘I’d like to get out of this bog before I sink to my knees,’ said Merlissa Benck with some asperity.’
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‘No, it was nothing physical, it was the helplessness, the knowledge they could do what they liked w …
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Alistair Braidwood Reviews: Nina X by Ewan Morrison
Nina X has no idea what the outside world is like. Nina X has a lot to learn.
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‘The energy is rather explosive,’ he explained. ‘I can’t keep it here in case it gets hot. It could …
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Carrying Over: Translation as Conversation
‘As a reader, there is a feeling of trust and hope when you abandon yourself to translation. You are …
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How to get Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
‘I think it helped a lot that I was very unfamiliar with the Arab world in general and Oman in parti …
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Lee Randall Reviews: Spring by Ali Smith
‘Surprise. Happy new year. Everything impossible is possible.’
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