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My Heart Is In The Highlands
Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, £25) ALISTAIR MOFFAT’S many books on Scottish history are distinctive for the way he weaves poetry and literature, language and personal experience into broad sweeping studies of particular regions or themes. In his latest—a
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Joy Of The Mountain
WILD marjoram is not ‘marjoram’. Rather, it is a related, similar herb and is also known as oregano, a herb you can buy in the shops and serve in a pasta dish. Both plants are in the genus Origanum, the Italian favourite being O. vulgare, whereas mar
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The Rake’s Progress
ONE fine day at the end of 1759, Cupid swapped his arrow for a brush. When wealthy widow Penelope Dukinfield Daniell met painter John Astley at the Knutsford Assembly in Cheshire, she was so smitten that she asked him to paint her portrait. He turned