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