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Scottish Contemporary Authors Month ~ The Wrong Box by Andrew C Ferguson

12 December, 2017

The Wrong Box is the debut novel by a Fife author in his venture away from serious non fiction. It is produced by Thunderpoint, an Edinburgh based publishing company. Andrew got in touch with me himself through a mutual friend and I downloaded The Wrong Box on Kindle. Simon English, a visiting lawyer from London,…
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Celebrating Scottish Authors ~ Margaret Skea ~ The Turn of the Tide

8 December, 2017

My next Scottish writer ~ in no particular order I might add ~ is Margaret Skea who lives in the Scottish borders. I ‘met’ her on social media and hope our paths will meet in person in the not too distant future. Here is my review of ‘Turn of the Tide.‘ “After avidly reading some…
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Celebrating Scottish Authors ~ Mark Douglas Home ~ ‘The Woman who Walked into the Sea’

1 December, 2017

The first Scottish author I’ve chosen to review this December, Mark Douglas Home, had me spellbound with this novel ‘The Woman who Walked into the Sea‘, which I bought in Waterstones as a paperback. Here’s my review: “Violet Well’s travels to a small community near Ullapool in the Highlands of Scotland in search of her…
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Celebrating Contemporary Scottish Authors Month ~ December 2017

28 November, 2017

I’m celebrating Book Week Scotland with a whole month of Scottish book reviews. It was browsing the books in our local library that I noticed, not only the familiar authors who I am accustomed to finding down south, but also a plethora of unfamiliar names. Having moved to Scotland two years this December, I thought…
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Offer of 12 Book Reviews on Diana’s Book Review Spot

24 August, 2017

Would you like me to review your book on my blog and on Goodreads in the next twelve months? Are you a Scottish author in particular? I would like to focus my book reviews in the next year on good Scottish literature. Now, I am happy to choose famous, less well known or debut authors.…
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Walking over The Queensferry Crossing in aid of our new Kinghorn Community Library

21 August, 2017

In two weeks’ time, on Sunday 3rd September, we are lucky to have been allocated tickets to walk over the new bridge over the Forth, The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh, Scotland. It will be a motorway linking Edinburgh with Fife and the north, leaving the old road bridge initially to be repaired and then to…
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Crime author Laura Read’s review of ‘Murder Now and Then’

2 June, 2017

Laura Read and I have been following each other’s blogs for some time and so agreed to review each other’s novels with honest reviews. It is always refreshing as an author to read reviews like this and to learn from them. Here is an extract: ‘The novel reminds me of the TV series Midsomer Murders,…
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I was looking for some positive news about libraries, since we are still awaiting the go-ahead from Fife Council for our community run library in Kinghorn. Lo and Behold it came from my old haunting ground – Bedford!

28 March, 2017

The following guest post has been received from Bedford Creative Arts. The post highlights how libraries and arts can collaborate successfully and provide a powerful and positive experience for users. Library as Laboratory – How can Libraries exist in the future? Bedford Creative Arts has been exploring new ways that libraries can evolve for the…
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