So... what are you reading?

[Ron Abbott]

I have!

I've just re-read all Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons books within the last year.

The final book of the series Great Northern? is set in the Hebrides and features kilt wearers!

wow! That takes me back to school! You know what, I might just do the same as I recall liking the books.

(unlike many other books on the school reading list which I absolutely hated.....e.g. anything by Shakespeare, the Hobbit, Watership Down, Stig of the Dump, Toad of Toad Hole etc.etc.)

And there's a point......why at a Scottish school did we not get books by Sir Walter Scott, Robert L Stevenson, Muriel Spark, RM Ballantyne et. al. ?

I can't think of books by any Scottish authors that we were told to read. Even in January, not a word was spoken about Robert Burns.