Trespass by Rose Tremain is about two familes, in fact two sets of brothers and sisters whose lives become interlinked. Anthony Verey, renowned antiques expert fallen on hard times, takes himself off to visit his elder sister Veronica who has made her home in the Cevennes with her new partner Kitty. As Anthony reclaims his sister’s loyalty, Kitty’s fragile … Continue reading Trespass
Sir David Brewster photographed by Hill and Adamson Today the St. Andrews trip goes a long way back in time, in fact to 1838, when Sir David Brewster arrived to be Principal of St. Andrews University. By this time Brewster, originally trained in theology, was already an eminent man of science who had become famous chiefly … Continue reading B is for … Brewster
This week I stumbled on an interesting blog post from an Australian writer that proposes a new genre for novels that could fall into either the YA or general adult categories. The suggested name for this is New Adult (hopefully NA rather than NAF!) and was I think originally conceived to identify an alternative to chick … Continue reading A genre by any other name …
So here we go on the blog journey that’s going to retrace some of the steps I took in St. Andrews way back in the 1970s (there, that’s out of the way) and maybe adding a couple of more recent finds. A could be for so many things, Academic Dress, Academic families, or Aien (the … Continue reading A is for …
St. Andrews, clinging to the edge of the Fife coast, is an oddity in so many ways. With a skyline to die for and a wind you just want to avoid, it’s overrun for most of the year by students and for the rest of the time by those who come to worship at the mecca of golf. And yet despite … Continue reading An Alumnus Chronicle
