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The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish...
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A village on the edge… As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is...
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David McK (3649 KP) rated Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2) in Books
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As before, it's also very much a Scottish highlands / Rome type of deal, with Band initially driven out of his homeland and travelling to the city of Stone (very much 'our' Rome in its Julius Caesar heyday) where he becomes a Gladiator, all so he can get revenge on the man he believes has killed the love of his life (met after being driven out).
Of course, as a Gemmell work, it's not as simple as that, with the finale of this 'tying back' to the very beginning of the previous work.
As with pretty much all Gemmell, well worth a read.
If the Corncrake Calls
Ian Niall, Sheila Pehrson and Barbara Greg (Illustrator)
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When the Scottish writer John McNeillie died on the 24th June 2002 aged 85, he left behind a legacy...