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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Unseen in Books
Jul 24, 2017
The translation may have obscured some of the dialogue, which seemed like it was set in Scotland rather than Scandinavia but the writing is sharp and descriptive without over cluttering the main plot.
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The Old Grey Magician: A Scottish Fionn Cycle
Donald Smith and George MacPherson
Book
George Macpherson connects us with Scotland's oldest legends and traditions. His stories of Fionn...
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The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Movie
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility of the...
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Baedeker's Guide to Great Britain, 1937: Handbook for Travellers
Book
*Includes nearly a hundred map, many of them colour and fold-out!* A comprehensive travel guide to...
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Mayflies
Book
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and...
Scotland Literary Fiction Audiobook Music Coming Of Age
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The BOZZ Chronicles
David Michelinie, Bret Blevins
Book
The first single-volume collection of the six-part Epic Comics cult favorite, Michelinie and...
Graphic Novel
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Tell It to the Bees (2019)
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Period melodrama set in 1950s Scotland. A young mother whose husband has left her befriends the...
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ClareR (5642 KP) rated Once There Were Wolves in Books
Oct 24, 2023
The idea of reintroducing wolves to the Highlands of Scotland in order to enrich and preserve the ecosystems there, is fascinating and exciting as a reader - and as someone who doesn’t have to farm under those circumstances. The writing was sensitive to every side of the story, but as Inti was leading the project to reintroduce wild wolves, the novel leant more in her favour - and I enjoyed that.
Aggie, Inti’s twin, has had a very traumatic experience, and she has severe depression along with other mental health problems. Inti hopes that by living in the wilds of Scotland, the isolation and wild country will begin to heal her.
But when one of the townsfolk is hurt, it’s hard to know who is safe - not the wolves, that’s for sure.
There are some really deep, involved themes in this: climate change, ecology, domestic abuse, violence, relationships.
Incidentally, I went on holiday in the Cairngorms this summer. We stayed in a cottage, away from all the other cottages on the estate (we couldn’t even see them), surrounded by fields containing alpacas and deer, with the odd buzzard, peregrine and even an osprey! I half expected to see a wolf-pack!! Sadly, there aren’t any wild wolves in Scotland now, but that estate was a weeks worth of heaven for me and my family - and would have fed a wolf pack for about that long, too!
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Dork_knight74 (881 KP) rated Malevolent (2018) in Movies
Oct 7, 2018 (Updated Oct 7, 2018)
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Reconstructions: Recreating Science and Technology of the Past
Book
Historic reconstructions have become a decisive tool in the history of science and technology over...