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These long interviews with very different Scottish writers do not aim at the topical, but to produce a thoughtful window on each writer's mind and work. Recorded at intervals over sixteen years, they go at the writer's chosen pace. Writers relish them.

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Few who have read Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped can resist its appeal. Ian Nimmo takes us on the very same journey of Stevenson's classic novel.
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Eminent poets and critics combine in unique tribute to a poet of whom even Robert Burns stood in awe.

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An anthology of early Scottish literature. It is suitable as a teaching text for school and university students.

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'Very engaging, highly intelligent … I loved this book and heartily recommend it,' - AN Wilson

'A lovely piece of work – the best book on Scott, indeed, since Edwin Muir’s Scott and Scotland,' - Andrew O'Hagan

'Kelly engagingly assesses Scott’s various works and insightfully sets Scott in his context' - The Independent

His name and image are everywhere – from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh’s city centre. Is Sir Walter Scott really the father of modern Scotland? Or should that be Scott-land?

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