'As I suggested at the start, there’s a whole heap of plot in Our Noble Selves - spies, murders, and an innocent man being framed all among the ingredients.'

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'Nane ae this then but – ma hert daen its hing/ an yon wee smile ae yours in the saft smir ae the gairden./ Aye, the haurdly nuhin ae wur tiny lives anaw,/ grandweans spinnin roon me, spinnin oot ae s...

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Harper considered Charles for a few moments, lit a cigarette, then said ‘we are treating it as murder, Mr Sinclair. So, yes, it is serious. Very serious.’

'Yet a great novel of historical fiction also has us escape the here and now by immersing us in the past. It turns the reader’s imagination into a time machine!'

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'‘That’s right, Bobby,’ he growled. ‘I haven’t seen you in – well, since you decided to kill me.’ '

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'We need to be better aware of that to understand the challenges and achievements of the past, and to use them to assess the present and be confident in addressing it.'

'It is their resistance to the intrusions of the outside world − culturally, economically, environmentally − that has powered the Yanomami’s survival, and with them their home territory and the ecosys...

'I enjoy stillness. It creeps up on you and becomes almost a force. I've had squirrels run over my feet. I've had deer come and look at me from six feet away, I've had a robin perch on my hat, all tho...

'The past’s current flows through the characters in his fiction so strongly that it almost becomes the story itself.'

'In earlier times it was a site where lovers came to relax and dream, hence the beautiful traditional song'.

'Discover Jansson's uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure.'

'This image of the great dark industrial city blazing with a source of simple widespread pleasure – something childlike in the enjoyment, yet something fitting in the extravagance of the display – is ...