For November’s Book of the Month I have chosen The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The version I read was the English translation published by Penguin in 2004 in their book series Great Ideas. This seminal work was first published in London in 1848, having been commissioned by the Communist League, and …
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For October’s Book of the Month I have chosen Can These Dry Bones Live – The excitement of theological study by Dr Frances Young (1982, 1992 SCM Press Ltd). Rev Professor Frances Young was an ordained Methodist Minister who taught at the University of Birmingham from 1971, and was Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology there …
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For September’s Book of the Month I have chosen the Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales, published by The History Press in 2019, with a forward by Donald Smith, Director of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. This 176 page hardback was put together with the support of the Scottish Storytelling Centre and TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture …
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For August’s book of the Month I have chosen Coffin Road by Peter May, a mystery set in Scotland with an ecological theme.Peter May is an award winning Scottish television screenwriter, novelist and crime writer. His books have sold more than two million copies in the UK and several million internationally. Coffin Road is an …
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For July’s book of the Month I have chosen in:dispensable, a collection of poetry by Andy Hickmott (2015). Andy is a Manchester based poet and writer who originally came from rural Kent. He published this 40 page collection as poet-in-residence tin support of the recent campaign by the Ancoats Dispensary Trust to save the historical …
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For June’s Book of the Month I have chosen Yusuf Ibn-Tashfeen, book 1 of the four part series The Downfall of Muslim Spain by Naseem Hijazi (1914-1996), translated and published by Irum Sarfaraz (2017). Naseem Hijazi was the pen name of Urdu novelist Sharif Hussain, who was born in the Punjab, went through Partition, and …
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For May’s must read Book of the Month, I have chosen The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), first published in 1891. Doyle was a physician by profession, but will always be remembered for creating Sherlock Holmes, who character was based on his former university teacher Joseph Bell. Doyle killed Holmes off in …
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For April’s must read Book of the Month, I have chosen Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (2008, Picador). Dr Sacks was a British neurologist who was born in London in 1933 and died in New York in 2015. He received his medical degree in 1958 from Queen’s College, Oxford and …
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Hi, there. Maggie Shaw here, proud owner of Eregendal and author. As a lifelong lover of reading, each month I choose one of my favourite books – and tell you all about it. For March’s Book of the Month, I have chosen A Little Book of Unknowing by Jennifer Kavanagh (2015, Christian Alternative Books). Jennifer …
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Hi, there. Maggie Shaw here, proud owner of Eregendal and author. As a lifelong lover of reading, each month I choose one of my favourite books – and tell you all about it. For February’s Book of the Month I have chosen the poetry collection Salt and Metal by Sallyanne Rock, published by Fawn Press …
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