It has stretched the imagination for the past six months to envisage First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in a dog collar preaching from the pulpit at her daily briefings on how Scotland is coping with Covid-19.
Category: BOOK REVIEWS
BOOKS: Best-selling author was dismissed for years for writing the kind of books that sell by the lorry load and are loved by women
The grand design was paid for by the proceeds of over nine million books sold all over the world. Fellow northsider Dermot Bannon would approve of the fact that the back of the house is mostly floor-to-ceiling windows.
BOOKS: It reflects badly on the town when I go to book festivals and other Arts and Culture events to have to admit that of bookshops in Dumbarton we are completely bereft
It may be a joke to the Council, which is only now recognising the fact that AJ Cronin, one of world’s most successful authors of popular books, much of them about Dumbarton, by naming a few streets after him along the banks of the Leven. And not before time.
BOOKS: Survivor of a stroke, he taught literacy for a time to people in Glasgow housing schemes such as Drumchapel
Since so few people get out and about anymore, were the new generation of authors picking up ideas from what they read on Facebook in the same way their elders would have done from what they overheard on buses and trains?
BOOK REVIEW: Waiting for the Last Bus
That old cliché about “meeting his maker” is not appropriate in Richard’s case though. Because he is not sure the making of him applies beyond his parents, who brought him up in humble circumstances in a crumbling tenement in Random Street, Alexandria.
BOOK REVIEWS: The intrigue of Irish books
So I found myself playing that game beloved of weekend newspaper supplements. Best books of the Year. And I wasn’t surprised to find Irish books dominating the top ten.