Without Magda Sagarzazu, who has died after a long fight against cancer, I would not have become an author. Read more
Tag: The Man who Gave Away His Island (page 1 of 1)
‘Alone in his attic study John Lorne Campbell made an astonishing discovery. Painstakingly going through old papers, he uncovered the family secret which had caused an unbridgeable emotional gap with his father and burdened his early years with heavy debt.’ Read more
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.
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?