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The Black Douglas

14/3/2018

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Don’t be fooled into thinking The Black Douglas is another historical romance of the kind churned out by contemporary Scottish writers.  It couldn’t be further from that description.  Yes, a romantic thread runs through the novel, but so also do political intrigue, bloody executions, terrifying witchcraft and paedocide most heinous.  Set in fifteenth century Scotland, with a foray into the darkest corners of France, this is the Scottish version of “Game of Thrones”.  Without the gratuitous sex, of course – it was written in the late nineteenth century, after all.  But it does have its own larger-than-life villain who easily out-villains Ramsay Bolton!
 
And if all of that isn’t enough, there’s the writing – the beautiful descriptive writing of Samuel Rutherford Crockett, one of the best novelists ever produced by Scotland, but sadly much-neglected these days.  I’m off now to read Maid Margaret, his sequel to this wonderful novel.


Review by Brendan Gisby ​
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