Questions from the floor at Glasgow’s Aye Write! book festival have become highly topical. Looking forward to an equally stirring discussion with Andy Wightman at Edinburgh Book Festival next month.
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Flashback to a sell-out show at Glasgow’s Aye Write! festival
The reference reading room of Edinburgh Central Library was an appropriate place to launch the Edinburgh International Book Festival programme – doubly appropriate for me since I spent a lot of time there when researching my book. Or rather, I spent quite a bit of time behind there. Read more
Friends have been very kind about the book – that is what friends are for – but I live in trepidation at the appearance of dispassionate reviews. According to Birlinn, the first is likely to come from the Daily Mail, followed soon afterwards by The Spectator. Since my politics are – like John Lorne Campbell’s – more left than right, these are not publications I see very often. I wonder what they will make of a man who was a radical land reformer and a Scottish nationalist who refused to fight for the British Empire?