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    Hellenic Hush
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    Derived from an interview between Jennie Renton and Scottish crime writer PAUL JOHNSTON, he discusses his latest novel The Golden Silence, the third involving half-Greek half-Scot private eye Alex Mavros, and muses upon the contradictions of modern and ancient Greece. …

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    Aonghas Macneacail in Interview
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    AONGHAS MACNEACAIL was born in Uig in 1942 and currently lives in Edinburgh. Poet, journalist, researcher, broadcaster and scriptwriter, he writes both in English and Gaelic. Here, in conversation with Robert Mullally in May 1994, he talks mainly about the genesis of his identity as a Gaelic poet. He was later to win the Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year with Oideachadh Ceart (A Proper Schooling), his third poetry collection, in 1997. …

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    McNaughtan’s Bookshop
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    This 1986 interview with bookseller Marjorie McNaughtan – then retired – evokes a golden era in the book trade. Marjorie was a renowned expert in children’s books and the shop was a magnet for collectors. Its traditions have been continued by Elizabeth Strong, the current proprietor. Textualities editor Jennie Renton here also shares her own childhood memories of McNaughtan’s. …

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    West Port Bert
    Booksellers, Interviews

    From the Scottish Book Collector archives. A 1990 interview with BERT BARROTT, owner of Edinburgh’s West Port Books, in which he tells the tale of how he came into the second hand book trade. He specialises in art, photography and books on India. When interviewed in 1990, Bert had recently started publishing under the West Port Books imprint. …

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