"A Pint at Òran Mór co-production titled ""Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr"" in 2015. Whisky Galore (novel) Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. It was adapted for the cinema under the title ""Whisky Galore!"". During the Second World War, the cargo vessel ""S.S. Cabinet Minister"" is wrecked off a remote fictional Scottish island group — Great Todday and Little Todday — with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard. Due to wartime rationing, the thirsty islanders had nearly run out of the ""water of life"" and see this as an unexpected godsend. They manage to salvage several"
"Lady of the Glen Lady of the Glen: A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe is a 1996 historical fiction novel by American author Jennifer Roberson. It is a re-telling of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe, and focuses on the romance between Catriona of Clan Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald of Clan Donald, each from rival clans. Roberson was inspired to write the novel after learning of the massacre in a British history class, and waited 25 years until she felt ready to tell it. ""Lady of the Glen"" was published by Kensington Books in April 1996,"
"Duncan Glen Professor Duncan Munro Glen (11 January 1933 – 20 September 2008) was a Scottish poet, literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University. He became known to the literary world through his first full-length book, ""Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance"". He published many collections of poetry, from ""Kythings and other poems"" (1969), ""In Appearances"" (1971) and ""Realities Poems"" (1980) to ""Selected Poems 1965–1990"" (1991), ""Selected New Poems 1987–1996"" (1998) and ""Collected Poems 1965–2005"" (2006). His ""Autobiography of a Poet"" was published by Ramsay Head Press in 1986. He edited ""Akros"" magazine through 51"
"Another reviewer described ""Lady of the Glen"" as being ""a pleasure,"" and Kensington Publishing deemed the novel ""similar in theme to the recent films ""Rob Roy"" and ""Braveheart""."" ""Lady of the Glen"" was listed among author Willa Blair's favorite historical fiction novels set in Scotland. Lady of the Glen Lady of the Glen: A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe is a 1996 historical fiction novel by American author Jennifer Roberson. It is a re-telling of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe, and focuses on the romance between Catriona of Clan Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald of Clan"
"Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean (; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include ""The Guns of Navarone"", ""Ice Station Zebra"" and ""Where Eagles Dare"" – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Alistair Maclean was descended from Clan Maclean. MacLean was the son of a Church of Scotland minister and learned English as a second language after his mother tongue, Scottish Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow but spent much of his childhood and youth in"
"Minerva Press Minerva Press was a publishing house, noted for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction in the late 18th century and early 19th century. It was established by William Lane (1745?-1814) at No 33 Leadenhall Street, London, when he moved his circulating library there in about 1790. Among his stable of writers were many female authors including Regina Maria Roche (""The Maid of Hamlet"", 1793; ""Clermont"", 1798); Mrs. Eliza Parsons (""The Castle of Wolfenbach"", 1793; ""The Mysterious Warning"", 1796); and Eleanor Sleath (""The Orphan of the Rhine"", 1798) whose Gothic fiction is included in the list"
"Gregory Maguire Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954) is an American novelist. He is the author of """", ""Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"", and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories; ""Wicked"" transforms the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"" and its 1939 film adaptation into the misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba Thropp. The blockbuster Broadway musical ""Wicked"", at its height running nine companies simultaneously around the world, was inspired by Maguire's first grown-up novel. The musical is the ninth-longest-running play currently"
"Paths of Glory (Archer novel) Paths of Glory is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer based on the story of George Mallory who died attempting to climb Everest in the 1920s. It was published by St. Martin's Press on 3 March 2009. It fictionally supports the claims that George Mallory, an Englishman, was the first to conquer Mount Everest — before Sir Edmund Hillary. The novel caused a controversy in New Zealand, with major newspaper ""The Dominion Post"" calling it an insult to Sir Edmund Hillary. The novel contains several significant factual errors, one of the most obvious being"
"The Lady of Glenwith Grange ""The Lady of Glenwith Grange"" is a novella by the nineteenth-century English writer Wilkie Collins. The story was first published as one of six short stories by Collins in a collection entitled ""After Dark"", published in 1856; it was his first collection of short stories. In the story, a French aristocrat living a peaceful married life in the English countryside is revealed to be an imposter. The stories in ""After Dark"" are linked by a narrative framework. At the beginning and end of the book are ""Leaves from Leah's Diary"": William Kerby, a travelling portrait-painter,"
"Films with screenplay contribution Other films Allegedly written by Alistair MacLean Alistair MacLean Alistair Stuart MacLean (; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include ""The Guns of Navarone"", ""Ice Station Zebra"" and ""Where Eagles Dare"" – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. Alistair Maclean was descended from Clan Maclean. MacLean was the son of a Church of Scotland minister and learned English as a second language after his mother tongue, Scottish Gaelic. He was born"
"mental disabilities, and Rosamond dies. Ida remains to look after the child. The Lady of Glenwith Grange ""The Lady of Glenwith Grange"" is a novella by the nineteenth-century English writer Wilkie Collins. The story was first published as one of six short stories by Collins in a collection entitled ""After Dark"", published in 1856; it was his first collection of short stories. In the story, a French aristocrat living a peaceful married life in the English countryside is revealed to be an imposter. The stories in ""After Dark"" are linked by a narrative framework. At the beginning and end of"
"Thomas Mallon Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the ""bystanders"" to larger historical events. He is the author of nine books of fiction, including ""Henry and Clara"", ""Two Moons"", ""Dewey Defeats Truman"", ""Aurora 7"", ""Bandbox"", ""Fellow Travelers"", ""Watergate"", and most recently ""Finale"". He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (""Stolen Words""), diaries (""A Book of One's Own""), letters (""Yours Ever"") and the Kennedy assassination (""Mrs. Paine's Garage""), as well as two volumes"
"of English at The George Washington University. Thomas Mallon Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist, and critic. His novels are renowned for their attention to historical detail and context and for the author's crisp wit and interest in the ""bystanders"" to larger historical events. He is the author of nine books of fiction, including ""Henry and Clara"", ""Two Moons"", ""Dewey Defeats Truman"", ""Aurora 7"", ""Bandbox"", ""Fellow Travelers"", ""Watergate"", and most recently ""Finale"". He has also published nonfiction on plagiarism (""Stolen Words""), diaries (""A Book of One's Own""), letters (""Yours Ever"") and the Kennedy assassination (""Mrs."
"Forest of Dean on the borders of England and Wales. Andrew Taylor (author) Andrew Taylor (born 14 October 1951) is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and historical novels such as the best-selling ""The American Boy"" and ""The Ashes of London"". His accolades include the Diamond Dagger, Britain's top crime-writing award. Andrew Taylor grew up in East Anglia. He was educated at The King's School, Ely, and Woodbridge School. He read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and has an MA in Library, Archive and Information Science from University College"
"novelist George Meredith; he was followed by Thomas Hardy; who was in turn succeeded by JM Barrie. Subsequent presidents included the architectural historian Sir Banister Fletcher, the Anglo-Irish writer, dramatist and poet Lord Dunsany, Compton Mackenzie – author of ""Whisky Galore"" – and Laurence Meynell. The current president is the author and ""The Independent"" columnist John Walsh. The Club holds literary lunches and dinners. It hosts three literary awards each year: the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, and the Banister Fletcher Award for the best book on art or architecture. Authors' Club The Authors'"
"Gloria Naylor Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including ""The Women of Brewster Place"" (1982)"", Linden Hills"" (1985) and ""Mama Day"" (1988)""."" Naylor was born in New York on January 25, 1950, the oldest child of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. The Naylors, who had been sharecroppers in Robinsonville, Mississippi, had migrated to Harlem to escape life in the segregated South and seek new opportunities in New York City. Her father became a transit worker; her mother, a telephone operator. Even though Naylor's mother had little education, she loved to"
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"Helen of Troy, and Nero, has led to her speaking on the subject at various venues. Her favorite is discussing the chemistry of the fatal snakebite and Cleopatra, illustrating the erroneous depictions in film and paintings. Margaret George Margaret George is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies. She is known for her meticulous research and the large scale of her books. She is the author of the bestselling novels ""The Autobiography of Henry VIII"" (1986), ""Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles"" (1992), ""The Memoirs of Cleopatra"" (1997), ""Mary Called Magdalene"" (2002), ""Helen of Troy"" (2006), and"
"Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. He is perhaps best remembered for ""The Snow Goose"", his only real critical success, and for the novel ""The Poseidon Adventure"", primarily through the 1972 film adaptation. Gallico was born in New York City. His father was the Italian concert pianist, composer and music teacher Paolo Gallico (Trieste, May 13, 1868 – New York, July 6, 1950), and his mother, Hortense Erlich, came from Austria; they had emigrated to New"
"John Derhak John E. Derhak (born 1957) is a Canadian-born, American novelist, writer, and historian. His works of fiction include, ""Tales from the moe.Republic,"" ""Chill Your Cockles,"" ""The Bones of Lazarus,"" and ""The Guardian Angel of Death."" His first novel, ""Tales from the moe.Republic"" (2007), tells the story of a humble, yet bungling innkeeper, ""brother John,"" as he manages a small town inn, the moe.Republic Hotel, in a place called the Lost Kingdom of Moose Harbor, on the coast of rural Maine. The book is noted for its humor, character development, and storytelling. The book was optioned to Signet Entertainment,"
"Paisley University. Works and anthologies by Duncan Glen in the National Library of Scotland and the British Library. Duncan Glen Professor Duncan Munro Glen (11 January 1933 – 20 September 2008) was a Scottish poet, literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University. He became known to the literary world through his first full-length book, ""Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance"". He published many collections of poetry, from ""Kythings and other poems"" (1969), ""In Appearances"" (1971) and ""Realities Poems"" (1980) to ""Selected Poems 1965–1990"" (1991), ""Selected New Poems 1987–1996"" (1998) and ""Collected Poems 1965–2005"" (2006). His"
"Pauline Gedge Pauline Gedge (born December 11, 1945) is a Canadian novelist best known for her historical fiction novels, including the best-selling ""Child of the Morning"", ""The Eagle and the Raven"", her fantasy novel ""Stargate"", and her Egyptian trilogies, ""Lords of the Two Lands"" and ""The King’s Men"". She also writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her 13 novels have sold more than six million copies in 18 languages. Her first four novels were published with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. The Dillons almost never authorized their work for sale beyond that directly commissioned, but reproductions of their"
"Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale ""The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"" (1765). Goldsmith's birth date and year are not known with certainty. According to the Library of Congress authority file, he told a biographer that he was born on 10 November"
"Celia Thaxter Celia Laighton Thaxter (June 29, 1835 – August 25, 1894) was an American writer of poetry and stories. For most of her life, she resided with her father on the Isles of Shoals at his Appledore Hotel. How she grew up to become a writer is detailed in her early autobiography (published by ""St. Nicholas""), and her book entitled ""Among the Isles of Shoals"". Thaxter became one of America's favorite authors in the late 19th century. Among her best-known poems are ""The Burgomaster Gull"", ""Landlocked"", ""Milking"", ""The Great White Owl"", ""The Kingfisher"", and ""The Sandpiper"". Celia Laighton was"
"Maxwell Gray Mary Gleed Tuttiett (11 December 1846 – 21 September 1923), better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray, was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel ""The Silence of Dean Maitland"". Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport, Isle of Wight, the daughter of the surgeon Frank Bampfylde Tuttiett and his wife Elizabeth née Gleed. Largely self-educated, in early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland; but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism —reports described"
"Donald Wilson Stanley Ryan republished George Martin's ""The Legend of Marguerite"", over a century after its appearance, adding an explanatory introduction. Charles Goulet's 2000 novel was entitled ""The Isle of Demons"", and Joan Elizabeth Goodman wrote a novel for young adults in 2002, entitled ""Paradise"". In 2003, Douglas Glover published ""Elle: A Novel"", which won that year's Governor’s General book prize. Canadian playwright Robert Chafe wrote a bilingual play ""Isle of Demons"", first produced in 2004. Canadian poet bpNichol depicted her in his poem ""lament"". The British writer Sara Maitland discusses the story in ""A Book of Silence"" (2008) and"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"" (his most famous), and ""Tender Is the Night"". A fifth, unfinished novel, ""The Last Tycoon"", was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories"
"George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include ""The Finished Man"","" Double Vision"", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of ""Death of the Fox"", ""The Succession"", and ""Entered from the Sun"". He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin. George Palmer Garrett was born in"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"after having suffered from myasthenia gravis for some years. He was buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery. George Garrett's papers are housed in the Duke University Special Collections Library. George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include ""The Finished Man"","" Double Vision"", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of ""Death of the Fox"", ""The Succession"", and ""Entered from the Sun"". He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for"
"and banker John Attersoll (c. 1784–1822), who had briefly been a Whig MP for Wootton Bassett in 1812–13. By 1820, Ann Doherty was living under the name St Anne Holmes in France, where she remained. As an author, Ann Doherty published anonymously or as ""St Anne"". Her novels ""tended towards an Ossianic, flowery style"" with heroines of ""a high degree of feminine softness"". They included ""Ronaldsha"" (1808), ""The Castles of Wolfnorth and Mont Eagle"" (1812) and ""The Knight of the Glen. An Irish Romance"" (1815). While with Attersoll, she began corresponding with the Lake Poet Robert Southey. In 1818 she"
"Margaret George Margaret George is an American historical novelist specializing in epic fictional biographies. She is known for her meticulous research and the large scale of her books. She is the author of the bestselling novels ""The Autobiography of Henry VIII"" (1986), ""Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles"" (1992), ""The Memoirs of Cleopatra"" (1997), ""Mary Called Magdalene"" (2002), ""Helen of Troy"" (2006), and ""Elizabeth I"" (2011.) She is currently at work on a novel about the Emperor Nero. The last four of these novels were New York Times bestsellers and the Cleopatra novel was made into an Emmy-nominated ABC-TV"
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"