Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated Beside the Ocean of Time in Books
Jul 2, 2019
An Island Odyssey
Book
In An Island Odyssey Hamish Haswell-Smith casts off in his forty-one-foot sloop Jandara, armed with...
The BBC in Scotland: The First Fifty Years
Book
Since its establishment in 1922 the BBC has continually asserted itself as one of the great British...
Dundee FC on This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Book
Dundee FC On This Day is a journey, in diary form, through the history of the famous Dark Blues. All...
Tartans Map of Scotland
Book
Scotland's clans, tartans and family names shown on a large map - officially approved by the...
Contemporary Scottish Plays: Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin'
Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Pearson and Kieran Hurley
Book
To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have...
The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads
Book
In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped...
Celtic Sea Stories
Book
The Celtic belief that by recording a story the spirit of the story and its teller would die, has...
A Celebration of Endings by Biffy Clyro
Album
Ninth studio album by the Scottish rock group, featuring the singles 'Instant History' and 'End Of'....
David McK (3185 KP) rated A Clash of Lions (100 Years War, book 2) in Books
Mar 31, 2024
I'm also finding this a little bit hard to rate: whilst the *story* was interesting, as was the history, I found the prose itself to be a little bit too dry; never really grabbing me and sucking me in the way a, say, Bernard Cornwell might.
I'll still read the next in the series, though.