HiLCLABONITI

I would recommend THE GUYND, A Scottish Journal by Belinda Rathbone. A true life story of a sophisticated New Yorker who marries a Scottish laird who is "married" to his ancestral estate, a bittersweet love story - and amusing.

You might also watch that old British series that went on for years MONARCH OF THE GLEN - gorgeous scenery of the HighlandS produced the Julian Fellows of Downton Abbey fame.

<<You meant whisky of course>>

Indeed I did.

I would thoroughly recommend The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May if you like a combination of murder mystery and life on Lewis

A Scot's Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

" A Scot's Quair" is excellent but, unfortunately, not well known outside of Scotland.

Alexander McCall Smith's character Isabel Dalhousie, go to the library and get the cds and listen in your car if you have a long ride. Love those books. You will feel like you are in Edinburgh.

historytraveler, I am familiar with it after having seen Sunset Song on Masterpiece Theater many years ago and purchasing the book (mine has all three books in one volume) online, probably used, from Amazon.com

Oh dear. How long have you got? This is my specialist subject, especially when it come to crime- probably not when it comes to romance and especially historical romance.

Is there a genre you prefer?

I mainly read non fiction these days but I absolutely loved the novel Gillespie and I by Jane Harris, much of which is set in Glasgow.

I posted an ENORMOUS answer to this, this morning. Where IS it?

It doesn't look as though anyone removed it, Sheila. I hope you made a copy. It's happened to me more than once. On many forums, if you accidentally go off the page (following a link, or doing a search, perhaps), when you click the "back" arrow everything you typed is still there. On the Fodor's forum, it's irretrievable. I now type longer posts in the Notes program, or in a word processor, and then copy it to the forum post.

And I just lost my post as well - craziness happening on Fodors today.

Anyway, I hope you can remember at least some of your list, sheila.

Of course, I sort of feel like I do when I'm in a library - so many books and not nearly enough time!

The Rhanna series (or the autobiographical series) is some of the best I have ever read. Can't recommend it highly enough. By Christine Marion Fraser, a Scottish author. About the lives of residents on a fictional Hebridean island. Read them years ago and still have fond memories of some of the characters. Will look up others suggested above. Thanks.

It took about an hour. I'll re-do it, but....

Josephine Tey--The Singing Sands
Muriel Spark--The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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I would second Go-Away's suggestion for a great overview of Scottish contributions to the world.

If you like mystery/crime novels, Peter May's Lewis Trilogy is one of the best. Also, A.D. Scott has written several books depicting Inverness in the 1950's.

If at all interested in non fiction, you can't really go wrong with anything by Alistair Moffat.