The Scots

by Clifford Hanley

New York Times Books, 1980. Hardcover in VG+ condition, a very nice, tight square binding, clean copy w/no writing. Dust jacket w/very minor shelf wear, small well mended edge tear, not price clipped. $12.50 original price intact. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates. "Hanley's discussion of Scottish characters inevitably includes all manner of insights into history and customs be it Hogmanay, music, golf and whiskey drinking and distilling. This last is generally regarded today as Scotland's greatest export but, says Hanley, it is It is still Scots. This is an endearing book, written for the pleasure and pure fun it will give to all who are conscious of having Scottish blood in their veins or who do not spurn a glass of the national drink; and, quite incidentally, it is a most readable history of a nation as seen through its people. Clifford Hanley never covers up for them but the charm and sly humor of his book will give the lie to the pejorative, unspeakable Scot" -- From the dust jacket

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley was a Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He was educated at Eastbank Academy in Glasgow.

During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.

He wrote a number of books, including Dancing in the Street, an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled My Gay Glasgow), The Taste of Too Much (1960), a coming-of-age novel about a secondary schoolboy, and The Scots.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Cliff Hanley published several thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin.