Scottland: The Man Who Invented a Nation
No-one has been as famous as Sir Walter Scott and become as forgotten. He was so popular that, if you could read in the early 19th Century, you had read Scott. And yet nowadays nobody seems to read him. Literary editor and author Stuart Kelly investigates this literary riddle in his magnificent new book Scott-land. By parts witty, touching and effortlessly learned, Stuart Kelly will have you rushing out the door to brush up your Ivanhoe, revisit the classic Old Mortality or feel the impulse to run up the Scott Monument.