We bring you part three of our short story Foxcastle

Today, we bring your part three of our exclusive online short story, Foxcastle. Foxcastle is part of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s last collection of short stories, Kingdoms of Elfin. These are glorious dark fantasies, of which five are set in Scotland, The Five Black Swans, The Climate of Exile, The Late Sir Glamie, The Occupation and…

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Part two of our online exclusive short story – Foxcastle

Scottish Field Online presents the second part of our exclusive short story. Kate Macdonald, who is originally from Aberdeen but recently moved to Bath, is behind Handheld Press, and has handpicked stories from the past and the present, and today, Halloween, she is Sylvia Townsend Warner’s last collection of short stories, Kingdoms of Elfin. Kate…

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An exclusive short story for Scottish Field readers

Scottish Field Online is this week proud to present an exclusive short story for our readers. Kate Macdonald, who is originally from Aberdeen but recently moved to Bath, is behind Handheld Press, and has handpicked stories from the past and the present. Kate’s company Handheld Classics offers reprints of excellent forgotten fiction, novels and stories…

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Growing up in Glasgow in Hometown Tales

The Glasgow edition of Hometown Tales includes two unique stories that document personal accounts of living in, or experiencing the Dear Green Place. The first tale by Kirsty Logan, The Old Asylum in the Woods, is the intensely moving and highly persdonal story of her life growing up in the shadow of Woodilee Hospital. The…

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Prepare for a scare at New Lanark ghost tour

Terrifying tours of a famous Scottish site are being held later this month. New Lanark’s Ghostly Guided Tours offers visitors the chance to be guided through the behind-the-scenes tour, exploring spooky, strange and unexplainable true stories of New Lanark from the history books, staff and visitor experiences. New Lanark’s Ghostly Guided Tours will run on…

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Book review – The Walrus Mutterer

Green activist Mandy Haggith marks the beginning of her new Stone Stories trilogy with an adventurous novel taking the reader back to the Iron Age. Set in 320BC in Northern Britain, the book follows Rian, a young woman who is enslaved by a deceptive trader and forced on a perilous sea voyage in search of…

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Ross finds Sanctuary with his third album

Sanctuary is Ross Ainslie’s third solo album in which he continues his quest to rationalize the direction his life has taken from the time he chose music over sport to removing alcohol from his life. Music is his sanctuary, the place in which he is safe; ruler of a familiar territory that wraps its warm…

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Age is no barrier as Scots OAP writes his first book – in his 90s

They say that everyone has a book in them – and for one Scot, it’s just taken that little bit longer to put pen to paper. A 96-year-old Glaswegian has just published his first novel – which centres on a fight between South American drug barons. William Glen, a tenant at Bield’s Carntyne Gardens retirement…

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