Non Fiction Reviews – Textualities

Sacred Scotland

Non Fiction Reviews Marianna Lines, Picts, sacred Scotland, stone circles

Haggis Hunting

Non Fiction Reviews Actors, Edinburgh, Fiona Allen, haggis hunting conference, Scotland, scottish society of playwrights, Scottish theatre

Every so often, even a blasé Edinburgh audience is moved to utter that much-overused word ‘unique’. It happened with what became known as ‘the cherry blossom Macbeth‘, it happened with the premiere of Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off, and it happened on the second day of the Haggis Hunting conference. The Traverse Theatre presented an acted reading of a recreation of the 1522 (?) version of Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. This version is due

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The Edinburgh Companion to 20th Century British and American War Literature

Non Fiction Reviews 20th century war literature, EUP, Reviews, Richie McCaffery, Scotland

For such a substantial and outwardly formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible. Adam Piette reminds us twice that this volume is ‘exemplary rather than comprehensive’, aiming ‘to inspire new directions’ and ‘roads that might be taken in the future’. One of its strengths is this awareness that it is not the definitive

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