Lightly Peated

Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 1

A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they

The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,

Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,

“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)

I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have

The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions

The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the

On the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time

I thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as

You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise