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#20thcentury

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – @sarahweinman on the fiction of Josephine Tey

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lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-lik

Literary Hub · “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of TimeI wish I could remember when I first read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time—I must have been around twenty—but I certainly remember how much I loved it, which has only grown with every reread. I…
#Scottish#literature#CrimeFiction
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Company One Keeps: Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Concrete Poets
14 May, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & online

Dr Greg Thomas explores Iain Hamilton Finlay’s aesthetic & cultural ties with the international concrete poetry movement, & to figures such as Edwin Morgan & Dom Sylvester Houédard

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Jerome Baur

Music composer, flashback suite
with this #soundtrack I composed for the extraordinary 6h #show created by Giacomo Ravicchio:
EARTH, AIR & WATER, FIRE
Incredible #lovestory between 2 lovers through #time #space and the great #events of the #20thcentury

More info: music-baur.com

Dir. #art Giacomo Ravicchio - giacomoravicchio.com
Prod, Meridiano #theater (DK): meridianotheatre.dk
#Images © Meridiano #Copenhagen

#music #sounddesign by Jérôme Baur: music-baur.com/fr/

Soundtrack of the theater show ”earth, air and water, fire” by Jerome Baur - poster description: a cosmonaute with angel's wings in the cosmic space
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“At a time of global ecological crisis, when the greed and short-sightedness of humans threatens an increasingly fragile environment, her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”

—Dr Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

theconversation.com/the-living

The ConversationThe Living Mountain: in an age of ecological crisis, Nan Shepherd’s nature writing is more relevant than ever
More from The Conversation UK
#Scottish#literature#nature
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

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Soillse air Alasdair MacIlleathain, ùghdar fìor shoirbheachail eadarnàiseanta le Gàidhlig

MacLean was a Gael who thought he could have written better in Gaelic than English. Currently available on the BBC iPlayer, “Alistair MacLean – An Sgeulaiche” celebrates his work & laments his loss to Gaelic literature

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bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012yfp

BBCBBC ALBA - Alistair MacLean: An SgeulaicheAlistair MacLean, the Gaelic-speaking international best-selling author, revealed.
#Scottish#literature#20thcentury
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“MacLean was interested in writing stories with unreliable narrators which could lead to double and triple-twists in the storyline […] From 1963–1971, Maclean wrote a series of near-perfect thrillers–Ice Station Zebra, When Eight Bells Toll, Where Eagles Dare, Force 10 From Navarone, Puppet on a Chain, Caravan to Vaccarès, and Bear Island–which established him as the most successful author on the planet.”

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flashbak.com/the-pioneering-no

Flashbak · The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean - FlashbakAlistair MacLean was working as a teacher when he won first prize in a short story competition. The competition was held by the Glasgow Herald newspaper in 1954. MacLean’s story was called ‘The Dileas‘ (‘The Faithful‘). It was the story of a boat shipwrecked on the west coast of Scotland. Maclean (1922-87) was a teacher … Continue reading "The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean"
#Scottish#literature#20thcentury
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“MacLean was Scottish and another thing I intuitively liked was that his heroes were mostly rough-hewed social nobodies formed by World War II and not on the playing fields of Eton like James Bond. I didn’t know much about British class snobbery then, but I sided with outsiders.”

—Alessandra Stanley, “In Praise of Alistair MacLean & the Male Romance”

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nytimes.com/2018/02/13/books/i

The author Alistair MacLean at his home in 1960.
The New York Times · In Praise of Alistair MacLean and the Male RomanceBy Alessandra Stanley
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native #Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life:

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pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-

Press and Journal · From Arctic convoys to Far East VJ Day missions, Alistair MacLean's life was a real-life thrillerHe was one of Scotland's most prolific and successful writers. But Alistair MacLean, the creator of such novels as HMS Ulysses, Where Eagles Dare, The
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1250994/19th-cent 19th Century Photos Showcase Japan’s Timeless Beauty #19thcentury #20thcentury #culture #history #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news A new video by VX52 Movies on YouTube showcases some of the oldest photos taken in Japan. Captured from 1857 through 1925, the old photos are a brilliant time capsule of Japan as it rapidly and dramatically changed during the 19th and early 20th centuries. As seen on Reddit’s r/photography subr…

19th Century Photos Showcase Japan's Timeless Beauty
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Worm Queen Turns: Helen Adam
From Dundee Manse to California Coven
23 April, Edinburgh University & online – free

The poet Helen Adam (1909-1993) had two careers on two continents: first as a child in post-WW1 Scotland, second in America as the “bardic matriarch” of the San Francisco Beats. Adam’s bipartite career explodes literary historical periodisation & tangles its sequential logic

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iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-corey-g

The poet Helen Adam (1909–1993) had two careers on two continents, the first as a child in Scotland, the second in middle age in America. A fey “child prodigy” and a daughter of the manse, Adam wrote fairy poetry for polite society and was celebrated by the great and the good. Thirty years later she would be ensconced in the San Francisco Renaissance, a “good witch” and “pagan maiden” to her poets in arms, whose violent and sexually explicit ballads thrilled and inspired, especially in live performance. Drawing from Adam’s personal archive this talk examines the relationship between Adam’s early and late careers as cultivated through her respective poetic personae: “The Elfin Pedlar” and “The Worm Queen”. It argues that, in understanding this dynamic, we unearth surprising connections between disparate literary genres, cultural movements, and modes of knowledge: from the Celtic Twilight to the Beat Generation. Adam’s bipartite career explodes literary historical periodisation and tangles its sequential logic. Hers are poetic personae always out of time, onto whom latent fears and desires are projected. These are shaped by her life stage and public image, and by the historical forces respectively at work in the literary cultures of interwar Britain and post-war USA.
#Scottish#literature#poetry
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Betsy Whyte’s autobiography – “a beautiful book, shining with honesty, a classic” – is a fascinating insight into the life & customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 1930s, & is available as an ebook from Birlinn

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birlinn.co.uk/product/the-yell

Birlinn LtdThe Yellow on the Broom | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online
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CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR
a play in one act
J.A. Ferguson

J.A. Ferguson’s CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR is set during the bloody aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Written on the eve of the First World War, CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR revolves around themes of loyalty, sacrifice, & betrayal, the power of the State & the potential for the corruption of that power

Free PDF download:
asls.org.uk/publications/books

Book cover. Against a dirty grey sky, a kilted Highlander trudges uphill away from the viewer. He has a flat bonnet on his head, a rifle held over his shoulder, a round targe shield and various items of gear slung across his back. He glances backwards over his shoulder. Text: CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR A Play in One Act by J. A. Ferguson
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Mick Garratt

The Shah of Thorgill and His £26 Rebellion

This is Thorgill: a tributary of the River Seven, the main drainage for Rosedale. While technically a watercourse, it is perhaps better known as a hamlet, once even managing to sustain a Methodist Chapel.

Thorgill briefly staggered into the national spotlight in the 1950s, not through any great achievement, b ...

fhithich.uk/2025/04/12/the-sha

#NorthYorkMoors#Rosedale#20thCentury
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