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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841585994

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 208

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 24, 2007

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Strathalder: A Highland Estate

Roderick Grant

A passionate evocation of a vanishing way of life in the Scottish Highlands, “Strathalder”, when first published in hardcover, achieved critical acclaim both in Britain and the USA. Based on hundreds of interviews with gardeners, gamekeepers, maids, governesses, lairds, chauffeurs, cooks, and housekeepers, it is a portrait of the Scottish country estate in its heyday in the 1920s and as it is today.

Reviews of Strathalder: A Highland Estate

'there is loving attention to detail and the underlying theme of a forgotten age' – The Times

Roderick Grant

Roderick Grant was born in Forres, Morayshire, in 1941, where he attended the local academy. He has worked as a forestry worker, a journalist, a newspaper editor, a television presenter, a radio broadcaster, a bookshop manager and a postman. He has been published in both Britain and the USA.

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