by cols61 | Sep 25, 2016 | Scottish Fiction
Even In The Warmest Glow, How Cold The Shadow…… The Illuminations Andrew O’Hagan ………………………………….. The dictionary gives six different meanings of the verb to illuminate: to... by cols61 | Sep 25, 2016 | Scottish Fiction
…………There’s a so-called award in Scotland for the most dismal town called the ‘Plook on a Plinth’ ( a ‘Plook’ is the delightful colloquial term we Scots give to a pimple!). The nominees for this award for... by cols61 | Sep 24, 2016 | Foreign Fiction
………..There is of course no shortage of books set during the Second World War and many focus on the Holocaust. Over the years I’ve read several and while the subject matter is always horrific, it seems to me that if new books about the Nazi... by cols61 | Sep 23, 2016 | Foreign Fiction, Reading
When it comes to the novels of Khaled Hosseini I am a very slow learner!!!…………… I read ‘The Kite Runner’ and wept a bucket-load at the...
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