Notes on ‘Sugar Money’
The Background and True History behind ‘Sugar Money’ Warning – Spoilers! Please don’t read this if you haven’t read the novel. In the mid-18th century, a little-known story was unfolding […]
Notes on The Observations
‘The Observations‘ began life as a short story about a farmer poet and a girl from whom he ‘acquires’ songs but the narrative soon changed direction and then just expanded […]
Notes on Gillespie and I
Many years ago, I hatched a crafty plan for what I thought would be a ‘simple’ novel to write: a dozen or so linked short stories, all on a Scottish […]