To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]
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An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
To celebrate Book Week Scotland this week, we are presenting another forgotten bestseller. “It was a dark and stormy night”.[…]
Read moreIn 1824, Edinburgh-born Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier published her second of three novels, titled The Inheritance. The Inheritance was preceded[…]
Read moreFrom the moment I began to seriously crunch the numbers on the borrowers’ records of the Royal High School, the[…]
Read moreOver the past few weeks, prompted by seeing a copy of it in Walter Scott’s library during our trip to[…]
Read moreIn her blog last week, Katie Halsey introduced the first of a new series within the Books and Borrowing blog:[…]
Read moreIn this blog, I am initiating a new thread in our blogposts, which we’re calling ‘Forgotten Best-Sellers’, in homage to[…]
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