I’ve made a return to non-fiction for my next release- and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
And there’s no crime!
Well, maybe just a little bit.
AMAZING AND EXTRAORDINARY SCOTLAND is an ideal Christmas present, a primer for tourists heading to God’s Country or someone who wants bite-sized facts and stories about Caledonia.
It’s a fun-sized compendium of popular history, culture and bloody hell, I didn’t know that.
As the release says:
Who was the real Macbeth, when did clan tartans first appear, who were the powerful Scottish women, who invented the fried Mars Bar and why is one leg of the haggis shorter than the others?
Find the answers in this brilliant little book that is accessible to all ages and levels of interest and will give hours of pleasure.
I had a ball pulling this book together and I learned things about my own country.
For instance:
Robert the Bruce had to be crowned TWICE – and it was a woman who made it official.
Mary Queen of Scots was partial to football.
The Scots invented slogans.
The Grampians were so called because of a misprint.
AMAZING AND EXTRAORDINARY SCOTLAND will be published by Rydon Publishing at the end of October.
Davie McCall will return for a fifth time! I insist!
Would like to return to Davie’s world. No immediate plans but, as in the books, anything can happen! Glad you enjoyed them, Christopher.
And the deep-fried Mars Bar was not invented in the Carron chippie in Stonehaven. They were around long before that in state fairs in the US. Only the Americans don’t have Mars Bars, so they used some other kind of confection. But it was covered in batter and deep-fried.
And the Scots didn’t invent the deep-fried pizza. It’s an Italian invention, known there as a ‘pizza fritta’. It’s a common street food in Naples.
And that’s me thrown in my tuppence worth, for what it’s worth (which is tuppence).
So they DID invent the Deep Fried Mars Bar, then. Just not deep fried confectionery.