Monthly Archives: May 2012

‘I learned to like a rapist and a traitor’

Come to a talk on The Last Highlander at Waterstones Aberdeen (Union Bridge branch) tomorrow, 23 May and hear how, according to The Inverness Courier ‘I learned to like a rapist and traitor’.

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charming old-fashioned virtue

The late Lady Lovat as a girl of perhaps 16, naturally modest, averts her eyes from a curious group of naked Papua New Guinea men. Cannibalism was still practised. He’s hard to pick out, but I like the man in the background, arms … Continue reading

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Fraser making

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/bookworm-if-you-want-to-write-books-why-not-marry-a-fraser-1-2233439 TO COIN A FRASER Also out next month is Sarah Fraser’s The Last Highlander (Harper Press, £20), her compelling biography of Lovat of the ‘45, the last Scottish nobleman to be executed for treason. Despite her surname, Fraser is … Continue reading

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