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Book Review: The Love Songs of John Knox: The Next Big Thing (A Fable of Modern Scotland) The school of hard Knox
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The Love Songs of John Knox
BY Alistair Findlay
Luath Press, 93pp, GBP 7.99
The Next Big Thing (A Fable of Modern Scotland)
BY Michael Russell
Balnakeil Press, 168pp, GBP 6.99
Review by TOM ADAIR
HOW MODERN IS SCOTLAND? Michael Russell's debut novel, given its
subtitle, prompts the question, while Alistair Findlay's collection
of poems suggests a reply.
Take Russell's anti-heroic protagonist, the head of the Department
of Applied Tourism at Seafield University: Donald Keays. Donald is
little more than a bundle of characteristics, among them that of
restless inquirer. "What," he ...
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