Iain Crichton Smith is best remembered now as a poet, but he published a dozen novels over the space of 25 years, starting with Consider the Lillies (1968), a now-classic tale of the Clearances of the Scottish Highlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. Like his poems, Smith’s novels ar...
This was a paper copy fromPersephone Booksas part of their subscription service. This forms part of my#BeatTheBacklogreading challenge. It was read several months before this review, so I will admit that some details are a little fuzzy! As per may books from Persephone, this book was relat...
Monarch Mind Control is a form of mind control which creates a mind control slave by utilizing the human brain’s trauma response of dissociation to create a form of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) wherein various triggers can cause the slave persona
The year was almost over and after a really great month of hosting my mom and sister in LA, I decided that I would take advantage of the Christmas/New Year break by taking a trip out of the country and crossing off a major travel bucket-list item. I was finally going to make it to...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "Highland Hideaways; Fans of the BBC's Monarch of the Glen Can Now Stay on the Estate Where the Popular Scottish Drama Is Filmed" by Gomersall, Wendy - The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 11, 2003...
As Hume spent much of his life jousting with the conservative side of the Scottish Kirk (church), Greig takes care to help the reader understand the church, “its discipline, its forms of worship, and its doctrines” in a remarkable set-piece early in the book. He describes a typical ...
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