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Flight Patterns by Lorna J. Waite: An Appreciation by Janette Ayachi
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The Scottish Colourists: Art & Life by Alice Strang
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David Robinson Reviews: Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
‘As I suggested at the start, there’s a whole heap of plot in Our Noble Selves – spies, murders, and …
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‘They had spoken perhaps ten sentences each and it had already begun. Moira’s resentments, her preju …
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Ayont the Thistle by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach and James Robertson
‘Nane ae this then but – ma hert daen its hing/ an yon wee smile ae yours in the saft smir ae the ga …
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David Robinson Reviews: This Door of the Seas
‘He sees what he wants to. And it makes a kind of sense too – especially to colonists from Scotland, …
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