BOOKS
Celebrating love and friendship in poetic verse
Alexander McCall devoted a recent column in Scottish Field to to the joys of poetry (especially Auden, who he reveres). This collection, which examines the...
The martyrs who brought Christianity to the Scots
The latest offering from national treasure Alistair Moffat is a deeply lovely account of the āwhite martyrsā, the Irish priests who, at huge risk to...
Boswell Book Festival announces online guests for 2021
This yearās Boswell Book Festival will be a virtual event with some of the most talked about biographers, diarists and writers of memoir appearing at...
A third celebration of powerful Scottish women
Mairi Kidd dedicates a third of her book to powerful Scottish women (the remainder to Irish and Welsh equivalents) whose tales have been overlooked or...
