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Jan 09, 2023 11:44AM
My Scottish reads this year.
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No Dominion by Louise Welsh.The final part of The Plague Times trilogy.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/01/22...
Hieroglyphics and Other Stories by Anne Donovan.A fine collection of short stories.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/01/24...
For the Good Times by David Keenan.Author from Airdrie with a book set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/02/06...
Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's WritingA collection of Shepherd's writing, fiction and non-fiction.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/02/22...
The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy.A poem about the 1914 Christmas Truce.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/03/04...
Something Like Happy by John Burnside.A collection of short stories by this excellent writer.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/04/01...
The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney nd Ian Rankin.My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/04/18...
Scotland’s Lost Clubs: Giving the Names You’ve Heard, the Story They Own by Jeff Webb.A brief history of defucnt Scottish Football Clubs. My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/04/26...
Vinland by George Mackay Brown.A story of Viking times in Orkney.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/06/07...
Beethoven's Assassins by Andrew Crumey.My review of this will appear in the online magazine ParSec's issue 8. In due course I will post it here.
Edited 6/3/24:- It's at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2024/02/18...
Chimera by Alice Thompson. My review of this book will also appear in ParSec issue 8 and be posted here later.Edited 6/3/24:- It's at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2024/02/29...
Antimacassar City by Guy McCrone. The first in the author's Wax Fruit trilogy. My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/07/12...
A Gift from Nessus by William McIlvanney.McIlvanney's second novel.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/08/14...
Sea-Green Ribbons by Naomi Mitchison. Almost the last novel Mitchison wrote.
My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/08/24...
Companion Piece by Ali Smith.A companion piece to the author's "Seasons" quartet. My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/09/03...
Murder in the Merchant City by Angus McAllister.My review is at https://jackdeighton.co.uk/2023/09/26...
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