Cool Scots

by Greg Moodie

What do Kenny Dalglish and Robert Louis Stevenson have in common? Or Annie Lennox and Mary Barbour? They are but a few examples of Scots that have shaped the cool nation we see today.

In this wacky toon-fest of character sketches, Moodie presents 42 key figures in Scotland’s rich and varied history. The portraits range from potentially paranoid politicians to Jacobite heroines and promiscuous poets.

For once including those cool Scottish women so often ignored in history, Moodie presents his collection ‘in an order deliberately designed to jolt your little minds out of their preconceived ideas of time'. You’ll leap between modern day musicians and 18th century writers at the turn of each delighfully glossy page.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, Moodie celebrates Scotland’s achievements, revels in its victories, and occasionally blends fact and fiction.

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2017

About the author

Greg Moodie is a writer and graphic designer with an impressively ludicrous CV and a poor recollection of virtually everything on it. Technically Dundonian, he says he graduated from the city’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art ‘before the invention of fire’ but that, like Vegas, what happened there stayed there. He has two novels under his belt but has vowed to give up shoplifting from now on. You may regret this introduction.

Reviews

[Alec Downie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An extra star for the amazing portraits and sarcasms.