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John Splendid
Neil Munro
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"Mar freagar sibh mise bithidh m'inthaidh aig an fhear as gile broilleach agaibh" ("My arrow's for the whitest breast, if ye make no answer "), said my man, and there was no answer.
The string twanged, the arrow sped, and the stranger with the white breast fell—shot through her kerchief. For she was a woman of the clan they name Macaulay, children of the mist, a luckless dame that, when we rushed out to face her company, they left dying on the field.
They were the robber widows of the clan, a gang then unknown to us, but namely now through the west for their depredations when the absence of their men in battles threw them upon their own resource.
And she was the oldest of her company, a half-witted creature we grieved at slaying, but reptile in her malice, for as she lay passing, with the blood oozing to her breast, she. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I have read the author's Para Handy tales many times over the last forty years but the only other stories I had come across by him were some short stories in an anthology so I was pleased to see this novel in the library.
It is set in the seventeenth century during the civil war and although it was f
Longwinded, but the story was enjoyable at the core, and was an interesting invocation of the highland culture in Argyle
An alternative romantic Highland tale from Scottish history
The story of two friends & cousins (& their love triangle), both proud Gaels & members of Clan Campbell in their desperate fight against the Catholic & Episcopalian MacDonalds as part of Scotland's mid 1600s civil war between Covenanters & R
I'm ashamed to admit that I'd only ever read Munro's Para Handy stories, but have now put that right by reading this his first novel.
It is a good yarn about a turbulent period of Scottish history. I like how he doesn't take sides, even though his heroes are Campbells. Munro shows himself to be both
D'une densité littéraire impressionnante. Parfois un peu trop, d'ailleurs. Les aventures d'Elrigmore et de Splendid ressemblent celles de Rob Roy, peut-être un soupçon d'Outlander, mais ce n'est que 1644, et les héros sont des Campbell. Leurs fameux heurts contre les MacDonald finiront à Glencoe de